I'm a farm-lad, so no stranger to good old-fashioned work :) I was being flippant in my above comment, and more referring to the back-breaking, soul-devouring

I'm a farm-lad, so no stranger to good old-fashioned work :) I was being flippant in my above comment, and more referring to the back-breaking, soul-devouring variant of 'manual labor', the kind that drives people to drink and ruins the creative spirit. Otherwise, I do agree, sometimes it's good to do some manual work, put the body on auto-pilot and let the mind wander. Personally I seem to get most of my best thinking time when I'm either walking, scrubbing floors, loading a van, etc...