[red-iron-pine]

you're not hacking remotely, you're standing watch staring at water for 12 hours and then sleeping in a closet.

source: brother did it for a while. good money but basically couldn't keep a relationship and found it was fairly joyless. he read a lot of books tho

[andrewrn]

Yeah I meant during shore leave. You have all your time to yourself, when you could hack on projects. That's pretty amazing.