Gee, I was just about to log off and go to lunch, when I just browsed back a page and notice a thread that reminded me of something. Someone asked about the possibility of most builders not actually being very involved with these websites. Which suggests they actually don't get counted very much.

Out of the 143 members of my R/C club, 40 members of the local CL club, and 30 some members of a local Flying Aces associated FF club, probably 20, myself included, admit to spending much time on the internet cruising these sites. In fact, I am sometimes their only source of some of the things going on between FAA and AMA.

Got me thinking. I get about 6 MA magazines and 2 or 3 Model Railroad magazines, as well as maybe 2 to 5 Woodworking magazines a month, and an occasional Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. I spend maybe 6 hours a month scanning the articles to spend maybe 3 hours worth of reading information I can or may be able to use. I spend maybe 8 or 9 hours a week on the web, about 10 sites, have some fun taking part in some of these on-line discussions, but may only spend an hour or so out of all that time getting the same kind and relative amount of information.

Maybe I have time for building because I am fortunate to usually only require between 5.5 and 6.5 hours of sleep a day, some of which comes from the meetings for meetings sake we get too much of.