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Re:What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinkin... by moultano on Saturday November 20, 2010 @09:35PM (#1926033)
Go backpacking. I go crazy without it too. It slowly creeps up on me over months. If you haven't done it before, I wrote this to help: http://knol.google.com/k/how-to-backpack
Re:What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinkin... by thingie on Saturday November 20, 2010 @09:50PM (#1926084)
I do that quite often, but never alone (I'd creep out while while staying in a tent at night alone with idea, that there might be bears nearby, even if it sounds funny). And it cannot be done frequently enough, over months... four or five days are already enough.