In Winter, I hang up my fly fishing gear;
and do a fair amount of Nordic Skiing;
always with my Husky/Border Collie/Shepperd mix along for the romp.
Last year, my 8yr. old Son and I took up snowboarding.
At 40, I was definitely one of the oldest dudes on the mountain with a 'board.
Lately, I've engaged in a short-term obsession: building and overclocking a computer.
Treading all new ground, I've used various internet forums as an invaluble resourse;
and am just about finished with a computer that cost ~ 1/2 as much as buying one retail;
and will be ~2x faster. Although, once I complete this task, I plan to never revisit this "hobby"
again. It's very meticulous and maddening work - not the acutal building, but the overclocking process.
About a year ago, I decided to put my self-taught, novice computer programming skills to work,
and teamed-up with a forum acquantaince, to form our own company selling plug-in applets for
building design CAD software. With the economy the way it is now, business has been very slow,
but the process of starting a little internet company from the ground-up, has been both fun,
and also a good learning experience.
You can check us out here, if you care to:
www.cadaptation.comAside from that,
I'm a semi-regular runner, I play occasional Tennis, love to hike and camp with an old Coleman pop-up trailer,
and enjoy innovating and designing things. (I'm a registered Architect).
And, of course, playing with my two Kids.
(that's the most important "hobby" of all ... )
Posted: 17 Jul 2009, 08:34 • 
