I'm not typical. I hate sports - as they are given. I actually don't have any problem with most sports. But it's not about fun anymore. Or to put it another way, Peoples' idea of fun is not nice. Commercial sports, in my view, is about profits for a few and mindless distraction, and worse, for the regular sports fans.

But I like darts. I just can't have a dart board in my present dumpy bachelor apartment.

I live in Toronto. I'm unlucky in not having friends who I can call up and do things with. And I don't have wheels. Therefore, I have to get out and entertain myself. But I'm not a party person. I refuse to take up the sport of drunkness and drugs are for losers. Therefore, I like the simple things, like movies and coffee shops. But all of that is getting difficult to do. Movies are an arm and a leg.

So are some coffee shops, now that I think of it. However, I like Starbucks (the shops, not the corporation). They are the best at making a relaxing environment, which I, as a harried city person, appreciate. Find a smallish Starbucks shop, where the service is friendly and good and they don't crank up the tunes, and you've got yourself a nice oasis in the jungle city. Starbucks at least goes for the neutral tunage, and it's actually good background music.

Other than that, I enjoy stuff that I guess quite a few others would consider work. I like to know what's going on, and so I'm always reading. I also like to write, although my serious writing has stopped for the moment. And I like fooling around on my computer and stirring things up in discussion forums like this.

But the web's a great source of info, for sure. I just wish I had a buddy or three around who knew computers etc who could help me flatten out my learning curve. Everything computer related I know, I only know minimally.

I also wish they had more computer games that I could play. I won't play games where I'm required to shoot, shoot, shoot, kill, kill, kill. Those are my principles. And such games don't interest me anyway. I like adventure games like Zork Nemesis, which stir the imagination. But right now, I can't afford to explore what's out there, and there's too little information available on the kind of games I like for me to know what I might like to try. My kind of games don't get made, and when made, don't get reviewed or talked about much. My all time favorite game, for action, was Descent. But Descent's creators (probably not all) weren't in it for the love of it, and they've split up and won't talk to each other or carry on with the Descent vision, which was kind of going mainstream anyway.