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Eating sandwiches.
Sex (when possible)
Masturbation.
Cycling.
Socialising.

I'm actually surprised it took so long before someone mentioned sex or masturbation.

Meditation

Meditation

Walking without transportation as an objective

This is what Thucy meant to say:

Picking oranges
Picking oranges
Picking oranges
Picking oranges without eating as an objective

Or "sauntering" as Thoreau describes it.

Others:

-Identifying plants
-watching sunsets
-imagining myself as another passerby
-writing short poems or vignettes
-having a cold or warm drink on the balcony/porch
-lifting light weights
-stretching
-reading in a non-electronic format and putting the phone and computer away
-taking care of a plant

Oh I almost forgot: thinkeing

Geocaching

@Thucy
It's odd, I get the impression that I'd actually get along with you pretty well if we met in real life...

@Steephie
I try to do at least one thing for my mental, physical, and spiritual well-being each day. Most days this means doing homework, working out, and having a quiet time. It's hard to have enough self-discipline to manage it all, but ultimately it makes me a happier person. In my free time, I try to waste time in a more productive manner. Instead of sinking hours and hours into a pointless video game, I write instead. It's not as fun but it's definitely more satisfying in the end.

Read books (paper, as Thucy says, and both fiction and nonfiction).

Read math or physics at a desk and work through the problems.

Take drives in the countryside.

Take photographs.

Think, often in detail about a single thing for a few hours (although by its nature this includes episodic mind-wandering and returning). Often combined with drives (see above).

Lie down and "take a nap," but use the time both while going to sleep and while waking up to think in very nondirected ways about life, people, etc. I have to give myself enough time for the thinking to actually be free to drift. An hour is usually plenty.

Troll the forum

Photography
Reading
Writing, been writing a novel loosely based on one of my favorite fictional characters for 6 years. I still have hope.

Making fun of maplepoo(mapleleaf)

Thucy--how many oranges did you gather, bring me some juice please

you are all of you ignorant loons its loquat season Lol

Cigars / pipe
MMORPGs (right now beta testing Wildstar)
Solving challenging software problems
Relaxing to jazz, classical, classic rock, folk/western (John Denver or James Taylor)
Driving
Working in the yard or garden
Working on the house (it's 50+ years old)
Woodworking

@ Draugnar: "Relaxing to jazz"

Yeah, masturbation has already been mentioned, Draug.

Fuckin bitches

After actually meeting Semck, I get that impression from him.

+1 to Jam99

Bird watching. When the honey suckle is in bloom, the hummingbird comes by every ten minutes to feed and hover to inspect the rest. I had some baby Gambel quails a few weeks ago walk past as I came home.

When one hand has a cigar and the other a scotch, it's hard to masturbate. No, the music of various sorts accompanies scotch and cigars sittinout back watching the deer wander out of the trees in the evening.

Since you're looking for ideas, I'll just list a lot.

Walking, walking the dog, solving obscure software, statistical, or other problems, working on the house (renos) and yard, playing board games with the kids, ballroom dancing, Argentinian tango, and reading.

Before I got married, I did a lot of hiking, canoeing, calligraphy, listening to blues at the bar, meditation, being involved in a few clubs, organizing things like potlucks, and working on the acreage.

I'm thinking of starting to tinker with electronics again, maybe take up drumming. The kids are old enough that canoeing/kayaking trips are possible.

Scotch is good. Oh yeah, I used to brew mead, beer, and root beer. The mead varied a lot in quality and the root beer had a tendency to explode and hit the ceiling but was very good.

@Draug is WIldstar any good? All of the commercials made it seem kinda crap.

how do i enjoy life? well, i just play Gran Turismo 6................and thts it

I'm enjoying Wildstar. I'm fact, I preordered it. It's in open beta from now until the 18th. The mechanics are a bit different, but more enjoyable if you ask me. Combat no longer requires tab targeting. Instead, you have a cone of damage and if you keep your enemies in it, you will hit them. Some things are run and gunbwhilenothers require you to stop. But the best thing is long cast spells will still go off even if interrupted, just for a reduced impact.

You pick the usual race and class, but then you also follow one of four paths: soldier, builder, explorer, and scientist. Oh, and you can build dwellings and things for yourself or your guild (preorders get a free spaceship house when they hit the level to buy one normally). So it combines aspects of WoW with Second Life (housing, clothes for off questing times, etc) but with a couple unique things like the path and the combat system.

Regularly:

Walking
Reading (Mostly science/engineering journals and world news)
Playing Chess
Playing LoL
Gardening and most forms of yardwork/landscaping

Occasionally:

Smoking Pipe/Cigars
Lamp Making

abge you are so gay

Is Thucy some kind of mentalist......
"taking care of a plant" FFS, how much care can you actually take of one plant?
Instructions: Water once daily, is there more?
"reading in a non-electronic format", where I come from we just call that reading
"lifting light weights" you're a f****** lightweight mate
"writing vignettes" - that is a dressing you put on your salad you ponce
"imagining myself as another passer by" I can totally understand why you could wish you were somebody else
Do you believe in reincarnation, if so then pray you come back as someone more interesting you boring twat. If I met you after 10 minutes I would have to extinguish you and I'd be doing the world a favour :-)

I'm starting to think it's time to mute Nigee.

if that's what abge likes, then who are we to judge. we all have different interests

And Nigee does personal attacks. Out of arm's reach, 'cause Thucy actually does manual labour and might be able to do something if he was closer.

You need to learn to relax a bit there, NigeeBaby.

Sounds to me like abge is a pretty relaxed guy at home.

Guys we have no emoticons here so I will explain this series of symbols for you old folks, :-) ..... this is a smiley face and is used to highlight the fact that my comments are somewhat tongue-in-cheek, not to be taking serious, to use the colloquial some may coin the phrase "he is joking" or "he is having a larf".
I'm pretty sure that when you guys haven't got your head stuck up your arse you may also indulge in some mild mirth, albeit of a more pleasant and tranquil nature.
I appreciate that the missing :-) on the 1st post may have caused a little consternation but to make up for I've added an extra one :-) :-) #getalifeyousaddos

Draug please don't think the irony in your comment was wasted on me

"I'm starting to think it's time to mute Nigee"

Comedy Gold mate, you are a very funny chap :-) #stilllaughingatDraug