Where do you go when the lights go out?

Non-Phish General
#1

So…I was thinking, I don’t know about you guys, but I’m mostly on here when I’m at work, and I’m sure a lot of you are too. So, what’s the routine when you go home from work? I’m just wondering what you all do on an average night after getting out of the office, or quarry or whereever you work.

Me…

I’ll head home. Crack a beer, smoke a big 'ol bowl and then sit on my ass and play video games until my girlfriend is like “Okay…are you going to turn this off”…and then I’ll reluctantly oblige. At this point, we’ll maybe watch some X-files or a movie that we downloaded, maybe drink a couple of beers…we usually don’t eat supper until like closer to 8 or 9 PM. Somewhere in there is the obligatory dog walk as well. I usually crash sometime between midnight and 1 AM.

You’re up.

#2

I really don’t think I have a routine… Probably have a general one I just don’t notice.

Today I got home from work, cleaned up the branch in the backyard finally that fell on Sunday during the storm.

Read a few pages of the book I am reading (redundant much?), and smoked a Acid Kuba Kuba.

Came inside, puffed a bowl and watching Bizarre Foods on Travel Channel.

Then got curious and checked the Pa (which happens to happen about 20 times a day).

#3

My old routine used to be drink heavily every night after work.

Now…not so much.

You’d be surprised how much better your life becomes when you’re not diluting it with a depressant.

In present terms, I just basically go for runs every night after work - anywhere from 4-7 miles. Then I eat dinner and watch TV. That’s about it, since I have no significant other.
(although I do actually have a girl I met at a wedding about 3 months ago coming over tonight)

#4

I’m on the Pa in the afternoons and evenings these days, have classes all day. I have a so much more free time this year than I did last year (for several different reasons) and I’m enjoying the free time. I dont have much of a routine though (it’s highly variable), after I’m done with class I’ll usually relax with the Pa and some other web surfing, then do some homework (could take 15 minutes, could take 5 hours), smoke a bowl, grab some food, and end the night hanging out with some friends.

But tonight was; relax on the internet, smoke, blind date (didn’t go too well, we just didn’t connect in any way at all), and now dinner and the Pa.

#5

who do I look like, Harry Hood??

edit: holy crap I just realized me and Harry have the same initials!!! :o

#6

I usually get out of class at 6 PM (not till 10 PM on mondays…a pain in the city at night) and walk back maybe 6 blocks to my apartment with a roommate who has a similar schedule. We’ll stop off and get a 12 pack of either PBR, Rolling Rock, or Newcastle if we have some money. We’ll kick back and, if we’re playing, wait for our piano and sax player to show up. 11 is the limit in RVA for playing late; the apartments are connected in the fan and our neighbor would raise holy hell if we played later. After 11 comes more drinking. I’ll hit the sack around 1 or earlier, depending on what the next day has for me.

#7

Most nights I’m home about five, Marie about 530 after stopping at Curves to work the day’s stress out of her body. We’ll hang together in the kitchen and discuss our day and any pressing issues with the kids and their families while she has a cup of tea.

On my early days, I’ll make dinner and we’ll eat sometime between 630 and 730 depending on how adventuresome I get with the meal, while Marie hangs out in the next room reading or playing her DS light. On the weekends, this will be the time I break out the wine, such that we’ll finish a bottle with dinner.

On my late nights at the store, Marie will cook dinner and I’ll get home around 830, and eat in front of the tube. Otherwise after dinner we’ll either hang together on the deck or take a walk when the weather’s nice and the days are long enough.

When it’s too dark to walk after dinner, Marie goes back to reading for a while and I’ll go on the computer or fiddle with things around the house that require fiddling. Lately, though, after dinner, we’ve been meeting in front of the TV to play Wii Sports.

Marie has been kicking my ass lately in tennis, but I’ve been dominating her in baseball, bowling, and golf. It’s amazing how her DS light experience has honed her video game skills.

Sometime around 830 or so, we’ll settle down in front of the tube, have a cup of coffee and a desert of some sort, and be asleep watching some lame show or another anytime before 10pm. We mosey up to bed at 11 to start the whole thing over again around 420am.

#8

Let’s seeeeeee,

Lately, it’s been like this:

-Get home around 5:30
-Work out a little and then hit the shower
-Then depending on if the girl comes over I start to get ready for dinner/if she doesn’t, then I will start deciding what I want to get for din din
-Eat the din din
-Then I either veg out in front of the boob tube or find something in the area thats going on, lately I’ve been taking a lot of bike rides to Downtown Ferndale and Royal Oak.
-Maybe meet up with some friends for a drink at one of the local watering holes
-Go back home, and veg out agian till 12 or so
-Repeat

#9

I’m pretty big on routine. Get up, feed cat, make coffee, take vitamins, eat breakfast, pour out rest of coffee, put on dress clothes, go to work.

After work, it’s feed cat then either smoke bowl then eat or eat then smoke bowl. Sometimes it’s smoke bowl, play video games THEN eat. Then the rest of the night is usually smoke second bowl and play more video games or listen to music or watch whatever random sporting event is on, then brush teeth and go to bed. I’m watching a LOT more sports now due to football being back…thank goodness.

On the weekend its more of the same except with more pot, more video games, more sports, and maybe some drinking thrown in for good measure. I’m going to die when I’m 55 but I’ll have fun on the way there. I’m a big believer in “can I live while I’m young”

Stevo

#10

I think my evenings must kinda suck, since I just typed out a typical night and decided to spare you all. Boring!

So here’s the made-up version:

I become a brand new rock star every evening, write, record, release and promote an incredible hit single, tour New England by midnight as a local sensation & get completely rich off ticket sales & merch, and then drift simultaneously into sleep and obscurity around 1AM, only to do it all over the next night.

#11

^You forgot about nailing ten groupies a night…

#12

Get off work at 5. Pick daughter up around 5:15. If I don’t have to hit the grocery store, we get home around 5:30. If we do (which happens more times than not) we’re home by 6. Eat dinner anytime between 6 and 7:30 depending on if I cook or not. Help Makenzie with her homework and sign all her papers. Wash dishes, by hand now because I’m not sure how to hook up the portable dishwasher my house came with. Do some laundry or other housework while Kenzie takes a bath and gets ready for bed. Put her to bed anywhere between 8 and 8:45 and wait eagerly for her to fall asleep so I can have my nightly cigarette! Finish any housework or now that I have internet again, check emails, and such. I’m texting with my ex-dude/dude (is gray area) who lives outta state for most of the night and then usually talk to him before heading off to bed anywhere between 9 and 11 depending on what all has to be done around the house. Lastnight I fell asleep in my daughter’s room at 7:30! Weekends we chill around the house while she watches movies and I work around the house or surf the web. We usually end up at Target or Walmart at least once during the weekend buying stuff for the house. Try to spend as little money as possible but that doesn’t always happen lol.