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I have several varied hobbies, some of which I engage in quite often,
others of which I only rarely do these days.
- Coin Collecting - I've collected coins since high school, but other
than still having some of my collection, I no longer put much time or
effort into this hobby. Last year, I had to sell most of my collection to
help support myself and my (at the time) roommate, so my collection is
very thin these days.
- Aquariums - I have one aquarium, a 20 gallon (I gave a 30 gallon aquarium to Curt when he was living in the apartment behind me; when he moved out (and ended our friendship for a short time), I've no idea what happened to the 30 gallon. Whenever I
have free time, I'm usually too exhausted even to think about doing more
than feeding the fish, although my current tank needs some extreme upkeep.
- Digital Landscapes - Once upon a time, I was heavily into making
digital landscapes. However, Windows being as unreliable as it is, I've
lost all but 2 of my digital landscapes over the years. Click on the small
image for the larger ones.
- Photography - I've always liked photography, but rarely have a decent
camera with which to take good pictures. I have some pictures I especially
like; one of these is on Curt's page. For a short
time, Curt did some modelling for me, as did Greg, the jobless roommate I
had for a while. At some point, I'll include a page for my photography in
this site. I've also photographed a few other people, and have a website up for it,
which can be found at
http://www.malegravenimages.com - although it's named after Curt
(his last name inspired the name of the website), I still like the name and will keep it.
- Flying - I love to fly! I'm not sure that should be considered a
hobby, but it's something I love to do. I've flown only a few times;
my first flight was from Jackson to Detroit, via Cincinnati, where I ended
up stranded overnight, then back to Jackson again from Detroit via
Atlanta. My second flight was from Gulfport to Atlanta (and of course back
again). Third was from Jackson to Albany, via Cincinnati. My fourth
flight was from Hattiesburg to Detroit, via Memphis. In May of 2005, I flew to San Francisco for Windows Server 2003 training. I ended up stranded in Houston on the way up, extending my entire trip time to 14 hours (with no cigarette during that time! Damn Houston for being a smoke-free airport!); my luggage finally showed up 2 days after I arrived. Even though I can't smoke on flights, flying itself is just so much fun! My last trip was in January/February of this year (2006) when I flew to Austin, Texas. With my new position, I'll hopefully be going off to training again and will once more enjoy flight.
- Reading - I love to read. I mostly enjoy science fiction/fantasy, thrillers, and horror, although I do read a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. Favorite authors include Anne McCaffery, Stephen King, John Saul, Dean Koontz, Piers Anthony (only the Incarnations of Immortality series, can't stand any of the Xanth novels), and multitudes of others, mostly obscure authors no one's heard of.
- Planetside - Planetside is an MMOFPS
(Massively-Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter) that Curt and I
used to play. It's related to MMORPGs (Massively-Multiplayer Role
Playing Games), except that there's very little roleplaying or interacting
with the environment; it's completely PvP (Player versus Player). I stopped playing
for a long time, but recently did begin playing with Curt again, but now that he's
not having anything to do with me, obviously I don't now.
- Everquest - Everquest
was a long-time friend for Curt and myself, but Curt decided to leave the
game in June of 2004. I stuck it out for a while, but playing other
games with him left me little to no time for EQ, so I too left it. Other events, however,
transpired to remove Curt from the gaming world. I continued playing EQ for a while,
tried EQII but was bored with it, and went back to EQ until I discovered the World
of Warcraft.
- World of Warcraft - The World of
Warcraft, or WoW as it's commonly called, totally blows EQ out of the water. While EQII
is visually-stunning, WoW pretty much stomps all over it as well. WoW is a beautiful world,
and unlike EQ or EQII, doesn't require time-consuming loading between areas (aka, "zoning"). I played a wide variety of characters (race and class combinations) on WoW before settling on the ones I currently play. So, I pretty much have character debris scattered across quite a few servers on the game. In January of this year (2006), Curt started playing WoW, which
meant I had to start over on another server to play with him. However, we took our characters to the level cap of 60, then started new ones, which we have in the lower 20's, until Curt grew bored with WoW and we started playing PlanetSide once again. I still play WoW, of course, since it's my first love and I only play PS for Curt's sake. Update: Currently, I no longer play. After Curt's abandonment of me,
I no longer have the stomach for playing WoW.
- I'll list other hobbies as time goes on. I know anyone reading this
site is just dying to see more of the things I do. LOL
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