When at home, I try and do some of these things ...
Since becoming a parent , I don't
have near the amount of free time that I used to have. I would
say that it is worth it for me though (I never had a life before
anyway). Still, in my precious minutes of freedom, I try and...
Watch lots of tv.
There are way too many shows that I watch. Watching TV is one thing
that I can generally do even while watching Amanda, though I try to
not do too much of it (I usually fail though). Since Amanda has
been born, we tape all of the shows that we want to watch, so we don't
miss any of the lines from her crying or otherwise needing attention.
If there are conflicts, the "lesser" shows are the ones that we
try and watch live. This is of course backwards from the way
most people do it. Last tv season, we taped about 7 hours of
programs a week. That at least is down from the year before
when we taped 10 hours! A couple of shows that I'll admit to
regularly watching are
Xena and
Buffy .
I also try and watch a lot of sporting events, especially games
where the
Seahawks , Sonics ,
Mariners , UW Huskies,
and other local Seattle teams/figures are involved.
Use our home computer
Our home computer system was recently (late 96/early 97) upgraded, but
of course as of 12/97 it's already obsolete again.
Our original poor 486/33 still has the same case, but we now have
a new motherboard, a new Cyrix P200 processor, and a moderate (but
way better than 8) 16 MB RAM. We still have both Linux (Debian) and
DOS (Just say No to Win95!) running on it, and it is able to run decent
enough games for us. We still play
Civ II . I also
really enjoy
playing Angband
on the Linux side, though my best character so far died at level 49
before finishing.
I haven't finished
any lengthy DOS computer games since
Xwing (and the Imp. Pursuit and B-wing additions.
Read
I used to read a lot. Sadly, I don't get nearly as much read these
days that isn't work related. I limit my leisure reading to primarily
fantasy
type books. My current favorite is a femaleauthor named
Melissa Rawn (She's
really cool! Buy and read her stuff!).
Socialize with Friends
We used to play lots of bridge, but we don't anymore. We still like
to gather with friends for the occasional strategy or
train game .
We have a monthly meeting for our investment club which was started by
some friends of ours. We're actually profitable now.
Sadly, we don't get out much for movies anymore, but this probably saves
us some money in the long run.
Go massively into debt!
We took on our first big debt/loan in the Summer of '96 when we
bought a car.
There may eventually be a link to what we got and did, including
some helpful web resources we used, but for now this link is not
written.
We are currently (12/97) looking to take on even more debt and get
into our own house. More details on that as it happens, and again,
if I get the time I'll make a(nother boring)
page to that,
including our mortgage lender, local real estate links, etc.
Take the special shuttle
back to the homepage, or become lost in
the underground tunnels.