Same I refuse to not play games so as to not miss out on a couple hours of production. I still fire up battlefront 2 and play on the weekends for a while.
I am however trying to figure out a way to keep the secondary GPU running while I use the primary to game on.
Checking the payouts is a good way to verify production and I don't totally trust the calculators myself. They seem to over-estimate by 20-25% IME.
Calculators only do so much good on the fluctuating value of a commodity. Another thing to consider is say you stop mining because you're only making $70/month on whatever coin. Then a year from now that same coin flies up 400% in value. Such situations can happen.