Consistency versus spinning for the moment

This weekend, I finished spinning the San Clemente roving (at least the first 2/3 of it) enough for a pair of socks. The colors look a little more orange than they are in real life. Its raining here this morning and its so dark inside that we had to turn on lights. I feel like I'm starting to get pretty consistent with my sock yarn spinning - I spun these singles at 24 wraps per inch and while I haven't checked the wraps per inch of the finished yarn, it looks like its the same size as the Manhattan yarn I spun last weekend. If I can learn to spin all my sock yarn a reasonably consistent size, then I will be able to mix and match yarns within a sock without changing the gauge or fit of the sock. I also think that staying consistent with sock yarn should help me stay more consistent with other yarns I spin which will make knitting them easier. I enjoy spinning just to spin, but this doesn't really help if I'm knitting a project that needs a consistent yarn. Because of this I'm really making an effort to spin more consistently, but if it becomes too obsessive, I won't enjoy the spinning. How do the rest of you balance the need for a fairly consistent yarn (not to be confused with a commercial consistency - if I want that kind of consistency, I'll buy it) with the need for just spinning for spinning's sake?

By the way, in writing this post, I consistently misspelled consistent. Kind of ironically impressive isn't it?