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Great cartoon!
Sometimes I feel like a junkie, too, but I do spend a lot of time multi-tasking - I am happily married, cycle 150-miles a week, run 20 miles a week, chef (day job) 50 hours a week....and walk the dogs, do some laundry, watch "West Wing," stand at my easel painting simple still lifes from life...
The computer is truly integrated into our lives. E-mail keeps me in touch with my brothers, parents and nieces, culinary friends who have moved on to other markets.
The forum is very interesting, but this site offers so much more - I spend a lot of time seeing what new portfolios are added, how existing SOG artists deal with particular issues in their work. I spend a lot of time looking up individual artists' sites on-line. I learn as much looking at their work as I do reading the posts.
The computer shrinks the world; you can question the nature of photography/painting with a Mike from Tulsa, a Steve in Taiwan, a Chris in Phoenix.
Bottom line, put the time in at your easel (and at other areas of responsibility/interest) and don't feel guilty. We're all here to learn.
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