Jay Honeck wrote:
That is true. I love to fly, ride motorcycles, shoot, and several other
things, but I am addicted to none of them. I can, and have, gone two or
more years without doing any one of them as circumstances of college or
work dictated. Being addicted to anything is a bad deal and causes poor
decision making. This is true whether the addiction is to your job,
your hobby or a drug.

Oh, I agree whole-heartedly. Being addicted to flying has caused me
to:

- Make strange career choices (Example: Giving up a 20+ year career in
newspapers)
- Induce my wife to give up her career as a Medical Technologist
- Fly every few days for almost 13 years
- Put away far less $$ for my future grandchildren's beer fund than I
otherwise would have
- Create a crazy, aviation-themed hotel in Iowa (of all places!), just
so I can hang out with pilots all day long
- Give up golf
- Spend my summers at a tin shack on a hot asphalt taxiway, rather
than fishing at a cabin on a cool lake

God help me, it's also made me the happiest guy alive. What can I
do?

Why do you want to do anything? :-) If it works for you...

For me, that would be the unhappiest of existences. I'm a "variety is
the spice of life" person. If I'm not involved in five things at any
given time I feel completely deprived, and I live to have a different
five every few years. Such a one dimensional life would drive me
absolutely nuts.


Matt