Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.
Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself (ed. Penguin UK, 2011) - ISBN: 9780141952659