Hmm, this thread has taken quite an interesting turn.
Growing up in the late 60's and 70's as a complete addict of Tomorrows World (I used to trot up the road to watch it in colour at a neighbours house) I looked forward to a utopian future where the only problem would be how to fill the leisure time released when all the mundane tasks were taken over by technology. What went wrong - did Raymond Baxter et al lie?
I had a period of 'leisure' some years ago which was indeed pretty good while the redundancy money lasted, but once back in employment it seems that one has to work harder and under more stress than ever. As John Ambler indicated in the 'varied interests' thread, stress does take its toll, though not in my case on the heart. I sometimes think that finding the odd ten minutes for this NG really is one of the things which keeps me nominally sane - keep up the therapy lads!