I had a talk with my girlfriend the other day; she asked me if I'm working more now (freelancing for 2 months now) than I was doing at my FT job with overtime. I reckoned i was more busy now, while I just always would tell here I was working.

I clearly am not making as many productive hours. This of course has to do a lot with all the things involving starting your own business. Also being mechanically confined to a 5 year old windows laptop, looking into buying new hardware, actually setting it up, and then setting up all your dev needs sure amounts to a lot of time. *I would definitely call it work, but not production. Your "reading HN" clause will absolutely hold.