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I'm a cherry picker, and mostly only do 'events' these days - i do follow 'brighter than normal' comets more than anything - which isnt that often.
When i first started nearly 12 years ago - the first two years I was flushed with enthuisiasm and was underemployed/unemployed at the time and i did a massive amount of observing, it wasnt unusual for me to do as many as 5 nights (some allnighters) a week when conditions were good, while I learning the night sky and starhopping with dobs.
Then as I went to dark sky sites more and more I came to dislike and be dissappointed with deepsky observing from the city and virtually gave it up.
Its like those guys who say they will never go back to visual astronomy once they have a webcam, I feel the same about city vs darksky astronomy (except for planets of course)
now i am a pacer, and I like it that way - its easy for me to burn out if I do to much, and that would be a shame.
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