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Do you ever code just for fun?

I've been working as a 'professional' coder for about 11 years. (I've just turned 33.)

When I talk to my collegues, I find that most of them actually don't program any more in their spare time - 8 (or 10 :)) hours a day at their job is enough for them. A difference between me and them might be that I was always programming for fun (demoscene stuff etc.) which is why I got into the field, while most of them picked up programming later on (at university or whatever).

When I get home my head is always full of ideas, so usually I have a hobby-project going on. Is it weird to spend 8 hours a day programming, and then get home, have dinner, and do some more ?

For me the reasons are just
- ideas : trying stuff
- wanting to develop something all by myself, so when it's finished I can claim it as my own victory

How about you ?
And if you do, do you have other reasons to do so ?

Edit:
And if you've got sparetime projects, it might be fun to tell us a bit about it :)
Spamming a link to your site/hobbyproject won't be frowned upon here !

Edit2:
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