So, When You're Not Playing Roleplaying Games...

[Paganini]

So, I did this last year too, but I gotta weigh in with the other Forgites of Mass Destruction.

I practice a Yang sub-style of Taijiquan. I've completed the open hand set (by which I mean I've learned the movements and basic applications) and am learning a straight-sword set. I also throw knives. Big heavy mommas. They stick in things when I do.

I play Go (12k on KGS - http://www.kiseido.com) but I'm a little rusty cos I've been busy. I hope to start playing regularly again in the summer and break my losing streak.

I play and teach violin - that's my "job" although being a full time pro musician is a little way down the road. Just now I'm a freelancer. You can find the web page for my orchestra here: http://www.ilsymphony.org

All you Chicacgo, Champaign, and Peoria types come on down and listen sometime. We do concerts in Bloomington.

BTW Ralph, I think I walked by your car a couple of weeks ago in Bloomington. Is it white, with your last name and a number on the license plate? I was with friends, so I didn't have time to peer in the windows and look for copies of Universalis. :)

Other than that, I like to read and watch cable, sci-fi, fantasy, kung fu, gamer type stuff. I still play PC games, although my computer is getting a bit rickety and needs an upgrade. I like shooters and RTS. I sometimes like dungeon crawls, but I'm picky. I enjoy Dungeon Siege.

It goes without saying that I like food. Although not as much as Mike Holmes.

And, I moderate the indie-netgaming yahoo group, where we play all kinds of crazy Forge monkey games on the internet.

[Ron Edwards]

Hey,

Work - professor stuff, like a fiend. Too much grading (I favor bluebooks), too much prep, too much advising, too much freakin' work, not enough pay.

Homeowner - It's like having a car that appreciates in value only if you feed it blood, only bigger.

Martial arts - training all week in various ways, teaching two-plus classes, participating in self-defense workshops (wanna get certified). A serious matter.

Publishing - frantically trying to run Adept Press successfully, but missing about half the self-imposed organizational deadlines that keep later stuff from becoming train wrecks. Add Trollbabe too; one of my great pleasures.

Reading books, comics, etc; viewing movies - constantly. It's like breathing.

Role-playing - not as constantly as two years ago, but at least once a week and usually twice, these days. This factors into prof stuff too, due to the campus group.

Forge - too much damn time, interfering with all of the above.

Socializing - mostly integrated with all of the above, but I try to have friends who "just plain friends" too. That's harder when you're pushing 40. Having a downstairs bar in the house, on the other hand, makes for a whole new world of friendly entertainment.

Stuff that seems to have dried up in the last decade or so, for me, includes: dancing and hangin' out with live music; camping and backpacking; roaming, whether in the city or on the road or internationally; keeping up with rock-and-roll culture; and writing fiction for fun.

Best,
Ron

[Bankuei]

Yay.

School-  Studying acupressure, eats up about 4 days a week, 8 hours a day.

Exercise- Pentjak Silat(indonesian martial arts).  Time to start a new program to up my conditioning

Life-  Roomie and I just got a car!  He's supposed to teach me to drive soon here.

Mind- Books on sufism, physics, history, etc.  Just begun getting into Go and Chinese Chess

Music- Hiphop and soul primarily.  A little bit of freestyle and punk sliding in there as well.

Movies/TV- Anime, HK movies, starting to get more Japanese and Korean movies as well.

Social- Primarily my roommates, still building a new circle in Berkeley.  Funny enough, cutting out a lot of people at this time.  Exceedingly single and hoping to hop into some summer flings.

Chris

[Shreyas Sampat]

School - Studying linguistics and writing. Trying not to let them combine too easily - people who do that write novels that read like textbooks.

Exercise - Letting my taekwondo slide. It frustrates me; my style is strictly empty-hand, and I want weapon forms desperately.

Art - Lately, mostly tossing together costume concepts for Exalted characters...not good mental and creative exercise, but good technical practive which seems to be profiting me in that field.

Entertainment - Getting dragged to movies a lot. I hate watching movies in theatre; I want to eat while being entertained in the background.

Video games - FFX-2, awesome costumes in this one. A joy to play. Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2, makes D&D fun.

Creativity - My creation cycle seems to be turning around towards words rather than pictures again, which means more short stories and games, as well as little game-chunks like Exalted Charms (a joy for the sheer technicality) and reapplications of the Nobilis-style resource-spending system to other settings.

Music - Saw Phantom Planet recently. Wondering if Garmarna is coming out with a new album anytime soon.

Reading - Mircea Eliade on alchemy for Crucible, and (I hope) some China Mieville for fun, once I get to the bookstore.

[timfire]

When I'm not playing RPG's...

1) Spending time with my fiance, whether I like it or not.  ;)

2) Cycling. I use to work as a Bike messenger, but now I work for UPS. I still cycle a lot, though.

3) Fooling around with and tweaking my computer. I'm about to go back to school for computer science (never finished that BS).

4) Martial arts (another one!). In the past I've studied shotokan karate, Hombu Aikido, and Tenshin-ryu kenjutsu. At the moment I'm not studying anything (time and money) :( but hopefully in the next couple months I'll be able to start up Mugai-ryu iaido.

5) I also play the upright bass, but gawd... when was the last time I practiced?

[Chris Passeno]

Evening Parental Unit to my two sons, I've got a 4 month old and a 6 year old.

Stare at my sketchbook, hoping inspiration will hit me on the head with a skillet.

My day job, a sales-whore for a printing company.

I've recently been addicted to my XBox playing Metal of Honor: Frontline and Halo.

Try and get my studio http://www.studiopasseno.com off the ground.

[ScottM]

A mix of things, though few are really productive.

Pursuing a promising new relationship; fun, a good kind of time consuming.

Gaming- roleplaying a couple of times a week (though one group's going kerblooie, so that'll cut back a bit).  Board games, whenever possible, with a strong emphasis on those European style boardgames. Puerto Rico has become a serious obsession around these parts.

Maintaining friendships long distance-- it takes a lot of time to keep from falling down to "christmas card friends"; usually enjoyable, but time vanishes quick.

Reading-- I've managed to stay away from TV, so I compensate with a ton of schlock sci-fi and fantasy. Sometimes I read good and useful things, usually by accident.

These last few weeks have been busier; something about spring shakes stuff loose. Hit Sequoia N.P. and wandered all over, loving the experience. (The company was also good). Theatre attending again, ditto. Some vacations coming up-- Ironically, two trips to Nevada coming up this month; one to help friends move (and lots of board gaming), the other to visit a good friend and help him destress from excessive work (etc.)

[Umberhulk]

I have a 2 year old daughter, wife and a house.  I'm trying to start up a software company with a couple of partners.  The venture capital is out there!  I go to my day job and pretend to be interested.  I play with my high school buddies on Its Your Turn; mostly Go and Dark Chess (highly recommend Dark Chess .. fog of war totally changes the game of kings).  The weather is starting to get nicer in the Seattle area, so its time to BBQ and drink beer with friends.

[Emily Care]

Glad to hear 'bout y'all,

Work-Posting electronic readings in the book mines. No, I'm not a librarian, I just play one at work.

School--getting my masters in forestry by holding aforesaid job at the university library.

Spiritual--spending lots of time drumming, singing and dancing 'round all night fire circles.  Though the thought of spending another summer getting drowned in my tent while camping at festivals makes me shudder. Must be getting old.

Social--Not so much of that these days due to working full time and grad school schedule. Mostly spend time with my household and the good old friends/family of choice that is my gaming group.  Have been getting out to the movies more lately. A trend I plan to continued.

Exercise--damn little. Studied Tai Kwon Do for some years, but have moved away (literally and figuratively) from it.  Looking for something less linear, possibly internal arts like Tai Chi, etc.

Homesteading--Due to the good influences of my cooperative household, I've been seeds for the garden, tapping maple trees and other good stuff.  Nice to live in the country. But the mud!

[Mike Holmes]

So, When You're Not Playing Roleplaying Games...

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here...

Oh, wait, threre's posting to The Forge about playing RPGs. And then there's prep for RPGs. Oh, and my addition on my house will be finished soon, so I'll be reorganizing my RPG collection from the ground up. Hmmm, designing RPGs.

Oh, and I play boardgames, and computer games, too!

I have two children and I think that somewhere in there I do some parenting. Oh, and I have a job, that mostly involves me waiting for something to go wrong and running automated reports, which leaves me lots of time for posting to The Forge.

Oh, how could I forget organizing new RPG games for play. And discussing RPGs with my friends. And making RPG ....

Mike

[Clinton R. Nixon]

I've just become IT manager at my company, which is insane, so that's a majority of my time. I also manage to do housework, somehow - I'm a partner, or non-legal spouse, or boyfriend, or something like that. (The relationship has a mutable name, but a non-mutable link. I think I'm actually common-law married in Louisiana, which is awesome.)

I cram in some reading, when I find time. I'm about halfway through Daniel Dennett's Freedom Evolves, which just went from being really fucking boring to good. I'm a nutty free-information evangelist, and think that the only way we can manage to have a decent future is to share now.

Also, I have two cats. This is a tremendous amount of my time and energy, mostly comprised of laying on the floor and rolling around, with a slight mix of shoveling poop.

[Christopher Weeks]

I don't get it.  When you're rolling around with the shovelling-poop, what is it mixed with?

[Gordon C. Landis]

Work.  8-12 hours a day, sometimes on weekends, for the last 9ish years, trying to help build/keep alive a smallish software company.  That ends in May (what's left of the company will no longer be my concern).  Mixed feelings there.  Relief mingles with regret.  Next job - we'll see how that works out.

Horseback riding - lessons with the girlfriend so that when we take a vacation, we can ride horses in the wilderness rather than having to walk through it.  Not that walking is bad, but riding lets you get to some places that would be VERY tough otherwise, and has rewards of its' own.

Reading.  I haven't been able to shake the need for an hour or three with a book most evenings.  I try to be ecclectic, but do end up focusing on SF/Fantasy.

Time with the GF, two cats, a townhouse with good-sized patio/garden, cooking, the rare trip to the gym (it'd be nice to get back in rock-climbing shape) . . . I think that's most of it.  Oh, and I've been mucking with photography a bunch of late - the new digital cameras are just cool.

Gordon

[Muggins]

Let's take this slowly (i.e. don't make too many people jealous):

Day-to-day life: I am busy with a PhD in Geochemistry. Which may not sound too exciting until you realise I am on a paid trip to Oslo, Norway for 8 months this year. Doing stuff I really enjoy. With no strings attached. Since I "retired" 3 years ago, I now have an MSc and a BA(history and ancient history), and I don't mind the occassional  term paper or 80... Much!

Martial Arts: I normally run a group in South Africa that deal in western Martial Arts. I teach German Longsword, sword and shield, dagger work and wrestling. I have a black belt somewhere in my cupboard from Goju-ryu Karate, but the medieval stuff is much more fun. Oh,and I run a sword-selling business on the side (not terribly successfully but my collection runs to 12 blades now:))

Socialising: I am out most nights of the week. People complain when I am not around as they never get out. The female side of things waxes and wanes, but I always have a large group of female friends.

Internet: Swordforum, Forge, the newspapers in English while I am in Norway.

Movies: Violent=good, serious=good, not much else. Unless there is a woman to drag me a long.

Books: Between 5 and 10 a week, fiction and non-fiction. My biggest expense after beer.

Writing: If only I could ever finish... Very good at starting, very bad at finishing....

Roleplaying: Less, but I am trying to write a TRoS supplement, and hope to run a major campaign later this year.

James

[Matt Machell]

Work - Web design for a university three days a week, 2 days freelancing doing technical editing on web development books, writing tutorials for web design sites and occasionally some actual development.
Home - Just moved house, so lots of oddments that need doing.
Hobbies - Tai Chi of the Lee Family Style. Writing. Reading. Painting minatures and building scenery for my Pulp rules. Oh, and writing and reviewing for Realms
'Net - B3ta, Metafilter and many others.
Real life - Whatever time's left goes to my wonderful girlfriend, Frances.

-Matt