My Interests and Likes...
I really
enjoy reading, most of it is Sci-Fi, especially time travel. I do like
some fantasy, as well as classics like "The Old Man and the Sea",
"Diary of Anne Frank", "Romeo and Juliet" and I recently purchased "The
Iliad & The Odyssey". I'll re-read books I've enjoyed over and over
again, it doesn't matter if I know the story already, or how it will
end. A good book is someone, somewhere, you want to visit again and
again.
Top favorite books are most likely "Logans Run", "Battlefield Earth",
"Number of the Beast", The Spellsinger Series, The M.Y.T.H. Series, The
Hitchhiker Series, The Amber Series, "To the Vanishing Point", The Ring
World Series, The Harry Potter Series, "Four Lords of the Diamond".
There are so many more I could list, by Heinlein, Foster, Asprin,
Addams, Zalazny, etc and so on. So many books, so
many titles, so many authors, so many read, and so many to read and
re-read.
I enjoy playing games, mainly computer games,
different types, adventure, simulation, shoot em up, but I do also
enjoy board games as well. I have played and finished (most several
times) almost all of the Sierra Quest games; Kings, Space, Glory,
Larry, Police, ect. The several Indiana
Jones games, Star Trek 25th and Judgment Rites, All the Monkey Islands,
on
and on. If you can think of it, I more then likely have played it.
While adventure games are very enjoyable, I've found I've developed a
taste for first person shoot em up type games. Started with Wolfenstine
3d, couldn't get enough of it. Then came Doom 1 and 2, played both to
death. Then new ones
came out Descent, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Half
Life, Aliens
vs Predator, ect and so on. Alone they are fun, but I'll also get
online
and do a little death matching now and again.
For four years I had played the Massively Multiplayer On Line Game
EverQuest, but got seriously burned out on that. Now however I run
around the virtual world of Second Life in one of my various avatars.
My recent games of choice have been The Sims 2 (got started with The
Sims), Doom 3, and Half Life 2.
I'll admit I'm also a movie or Tv show
collection junkie, other then a good book, I really enjoy watching a
good show. Like a good story in a book, I have no problem with
re-watching a good movie or Tv show over again, maybe this is why my
current movie/Tv collection is up to over 400. I've also got them
listed here on my web site, it pretty up to date, every time I acquire
a new one I update the movies page.
I also like swimming, I don't get to go as much as I use to. I live in a place that has both a pool and a jacuzzi, and I use both. The pool is heated, always a consistent 85 deg, all year round. I don't do much swimming in the winter months, but on those winter days that it does get warm enough, and in California it does happen, and I have time, I'll go.
I like spending time with my friends, either to game or to just hang out. Talk about important stuff, watch or go to a movie, dinner, or just shoot the bull about nothing special at all. We joke, we laugh, we get mad at each other. In the end it we are always friends, a true friend will always be there for you and you'll do the same in return. I'd like to think i'm loyal, dependable and value the friends I've got very highly.
