I'll start to include "being repurposed as a Bitcoin miner".

You're probably best off writing the awk script in its own file instead of straight on the command line. Then you can comment to your heart's content without shell limitations. If you really want to do it inline, you might be able to do a $(# comment in a subshell). I remember doing something like that in the past, but I'm not near a computer to check right now.

Sometimes I threaten microcontrollers instead of computers. Both at work and at home. Does that count?

I have the benefit (? depends on who you ask) of working from an office and I bike to work, so there's some nice physical activity separating work from home. I don't like going over 40 hours a week at work, I'm pretty good about that. More time to threaten computers at home instead of at work.

It's get home, make dinner for myself and my wife, watch an episode of Deep Space Nine and talk about our days, then I go upstairs to be a monkey at a typewriter.

I disassembled the interior of a linen closet on Sunday and fixed a closet door latch, already met my home improvement quota for the week. The pile of dishes in the sink is an important part of my kitchen decor, so it stays. I have nothing else to do 😅

This hobby is like work, so it's productive. Doing productive things is good!

It's all about the reward at the end of the tunnel. It's all about telling myself the result will make the process worth it. It's all about forgetting the pain so I'll repeat the cycle.