Me too! I got my license when I was in my early 30's, flew for about 3
years, stopped when it got too expensive. I haven't flown in probably 15
years now.

Dan

)

Dad never quite got me interested (not for lack of trying)
His call sign is KC1FB.  His parakeet's name is QRP :)

I'm late to this thread.

My priorities have shifted greatly since having a baby, so I am not able to
be as active in my interests as I used to be.

*Reading
*Cooking (am slowly able to do more)
*Loooove mountain biking
*Hiking
*Shopping (cosmetics, shoes, clothing) if anyone else out there is
interested in this there is an alt.fashion newsgroup that is great.
*Traveling
*English history
*Photography is a budding interest as I am taking so many pictures of my
human baby.

"Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@yahoo.com.au> had some very interesting
things to say about Re: OT Outside of Cats...:

If you should want more info on my faith, you know where my e-mail
in-box is. :-)

We have what I believe is supposed to be one of the best Renaissance
Faires in the U.S., right here where I live, in Pennsylvanis. Eighteen
years ago, I used to live really near it, & go frequently. (One year, I
gave them some costumes & got a free pass for the season!) But I've
only gone once since. Not sure why. It's gotten huge.

Katz

I forgot to add: music (listening only, I'm totally tone-deaf), science,
aquaria

I'm just getting into House. I'm liking it & him. I love Whose Line,
but it (the American version) doesn't play here any more. I saw Brad &
Colin play here at one of the colleges a few months ago. :)

Katz

Diane,
I loved Jennifer Roberson's Cheysuli and Sword-Dancer series! I hadn't
thought of her in ages and your post sent me to her web site, where I
found there will be more Cheysuli books coming out. Cool!

Julie

LOL. Someone here made a bumper sticker that's pretty popular locally,
except among the conservative majority--Fear No Art.

Katz

Tee hee! That's the thought that's been making me giggle all day, Helen. =o)
Kind of like the quote.  "Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Silliness aside and in no particular order,

Writing (it's amazing how many people on many of the electronic forums I've
posted to say this. =o) Nevertheless, I actually HAVE been working quite
hard at my writing for about 20 years now, and have received enough
encouragement from people whose opinions I trust to keep at it.  This leads
into my next interest which is reading some fantasy and sci-fi. I'm a LOTR
fan, and have been from the age of about 12.  My interest in writing AND
fantasy has got me involved in the projects listed on this link:
http://www.derynirealms.com/  I helped with the Deryni Adventure Game, and
am one of a team of contributing authors on the Deryni Atlas.

FudgeRPG is devising role playing games based on the Deryni Universe created
by Katherine Kurtz. I have been a fan of hers for 20 years and more, and I
can credit her with my early fascination with writing.  She is also a very
warm, nice person.
Other interests include:
Cooking
Needlepoint (This doesn't get a lot of attention, these days. But I find it
very soothing when I'm agitated.
Watercolor painting. (NIna is fascinated by this, and she always seems to
want to put her mark on my paintings, preferably in the form of a pawprint
on a not quite dry wash...Arrrrgh. I have done a few cat paintings, but I
have to work from photographs, as my models tend to be very uncooperative
about holding poses for very long.)
Travel (Although I don't have the budget for it, really)
But love of travel and painting lead me to take a two week painting trip to
Italy in September 2003, and it was FABULOUS. =o)
liberal/progressive politics
The TV program The West Wing
Dabbling my feet a little in photography, but mostly just in the form of
snapshots.
Singing (classical singing,  in days of yore.) Haven't done that for many
years, but enjoyed it while I did.
The most interested I get in sports is watching the Olympics whenever
they're on, but I am definitely ready for them to stop about 4 days before
the games are over.  I'm more of an O-lumpic sports person, as I'm a
sedentary person with a terrible sweet tooth.

Melissa

LOL. Took me a second...

Katz

decepticoncommand@hotmail.com (Enfilade) had some very interesting
things to say about OT Outside of Cats...:

reading - mysteries, science fiction/fantasy, historical fiction,
history, and whatever else catches my attention.
music - a little of most everything
singing - folk, mostly
needlework - cross-stitch, embroidery, nalbinding
SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism)
Researching SCA-related topics, primarily needlework, fashion history,
and personal-level history (for example, what would a person from 14th
century Scotland have known/done/worn/etc.)
learning how to do stuff around the house because Dad won't be able to
forever

Denise - frequently "helped" by Brenna

Sorry for answering my own post, but I thought of some more:
Music
Film
Art
I also collect earrings shaped like animals; most of them are shaped
like cats but there are some others: leopards, elephants, bears, and a
couple shaped like fishbones that my mother gave me this Yule.

Reading -- SF (Heinlein, McCaffrey, Robinson, Duane, Lackey, et al.);
mysteries (Lindsey Davis, J.D. Robb, Donna Andrews, etc.); fiction (too
many to list...)
Needlework -- cross-stitch, needlepoint, someday Hardanger
Horses -- we have two; Patches is a 23-year-old quarterhorse, and Scout
is her 4-year-old son, half QH and half Thoroughbred.  They're both
tr-color Paints.
TV
Friends -- both local and virtual

Nina in Texas

Wow!  That's cool.

I have a few knives, but when DH and I were dating and flying across the
country every two weeks, I got out of that habit.  I didn't want to
accidentally find myself at the airport with a favorite knife and have to give
it up.