I use to set up a scene, hit render, go to bed, and the next evening after getting home from work and having dinner I'd go take a look at where it was up to. If it was finished I'd move on. If not, I'd get a pen and paper and start designing my next CPU killer.

Now, with the multi core processor and enough memory to choke a large elephant ,I set up a scene, hit render and go to bed. The next night after............