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What are your interests outside of cats? I know that everyone here loves the feline masters, but I don’t know much about what other things you folks are into (though I would guess cooking as choice #2 My list of interests: Aviation and Air Cadets Military History/Royal United Services Institute Wicca/Natural Magic and the Unitarian Church Literature Comic Books and Manga Animation and Anime Toy Collecting: Transformers and My Little Pony Original Fiction; Drawing Comic Art; Newspaper Cartooning; (Kittyraps?) Roleplaying (Werewolf the Apocalypse and Transformers) Attempting to Knit –Fil

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – What are your interests outside of cats? I know that everyone here loves the feline masters, but I don’t know much about what other things you folks are into (though I would guess cooking as choice #2 My list of interests: Aviation and Air Cadets Military History/Royal United Services Institute Wicca/Natural Magic and the Unitarian Church Literature Comic Books and Manga Animation and Anime Toy Collecting: Transformers and My Little Pony Original Fiction; Drawing Comic Art; Newspaper Cartooning; (Kittyraps?) Roleplaying (Werewolf the Apocalypse and Transformers) Attempting to Knit –Fil

Science Fiction – books mostly, but also films and TV (favorite authors: Spider Robinson, Robert Heinlein, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Tanya Huff, Frank Hebert, Dean Ing, Ben Bova, Isaac Asimov, William C. Dietz, Larry Niven, and hundreds more I just can’t think of now) Ballet (I used to be a dancer when I was young – back in the stone age) Web Programming – I not only made a career of it, but I do it for fun and volunteer to do it for a NPO. Biking (not racing or mountain biking, just biking round the block) Hiking Camping Yoga (new one) Writing I’m sure I’ll think of more as others list theirs and make me go, "Oh yeah, me too!" ; Hugs, CatNipped

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On 2005-03-11, Enfilade penned: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – What are your interests outside of cats? I know that everyone here loves the feline masters, but I don’t know much about what other things you folks are into (though I would guess cooking as choice #2 My list of interests: Aviation and Air Cadets Military History/Royal United Services Institute Wicca/Natural Magic and the Unitarian Church Literature Comic Books and Manga Animation and Anime Toy Collecting: Transformers and My Little Pony Original Fiction; Drawing Comic Art; Newspaper Cartooning; (Kittyraps?) Roleplaying (Werewolf the Apocalypse and Transformers) Attempting to Knit –Fil

I’ll probably forget some, but … martial arts (specifically mostly taekwondo) downhill skiing (doing, not watching) mountain biking (doing, not watching) reading fiddling around with computers (especially open source stuff) driving my WRX riding my beemer motorcycle ice hockey (playing, not watching) sleeeep! (when I can get enough, which is rarely) DH and I watched all of the Buffy episodes on DVD and are now plowing our way through the Angel series, I think mostly because of Buffy withdrawal. When I was in high school and college I played the Rifts RPG, and I still like reading the source books, but I just haven’t gotten around to doing anything with it since then. — monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

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Wow! You sure have an exciting list of varied interests. Do you fly? I used to fly. I got my private pilot license when I was 45 and flew for about 5 years before money and other things forced me to give it up. Nowadays my interests, other than my cats are mostly: Toastmasters (I belong to three Toastmasters clubs and visit others) Travel, especially to Australia and Alaska Reading (especially mysteries, but including some sci fi, biography and other non-fiction) Games – Palabra, Taboo, Malarkey, Balderdash, Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit. I belong to a group that divides into two teams to play Trivial Pursuit once a month. Joy

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Horse racing Classical Guitar Star Trek

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – What are your interests outside of cats? I know that everyone here loves the feline masters, but I don’t know much about what other things you folks are into (though I would guess cooking as choice #2 My list of interests: Aviation and Air Cadets Military History/Royal United Services Institute Wicca/Natural Magic and the Unitarian Church Literature Comic Books and Manga Animation and Anime Toy Collecting: Transformers and My Little Pony Original Fiction; Drawing Comic Art; Newspaper Cartooning; (Kittyraps?) Roleplaying (Werewolf the Apocalypse and Transformers) Attempting to Knit –Fil

Cooking (of course!) Reading Writing Old movies Vintage costumes/clothing If you’re interested in aviation history, you should shoot me an email. I can share a few exciting document photos with you regarding the LZ-129 Jill

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Computers Reading (mystery, sci-fi, books featuring cats in important roles) Ham radio (my call sign is AA6GF) Travel (though preferably in something other than a semi) Trying to learn to draw Dan

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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

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Hey, I was in Air Cadets! From age 13-18, I belonged to 848 Royal Roads squadron in Victoria, BC. Got my glider pilots licence when I was 16 in Princeton and my private pilots licence the next summer in Victoria. Air cadets was great for me because before that I used to be very shy, now not shy at all anymore. And I got my pilots licence, which came in handy because I ended up going to Selkirk College and getting my commercial multi-IFR. Although I don’t fly anymore, I’m still interested in aviation, although being married to a helicopter pilot has convinced me that helicopters are vastly superiour to airplanes Other things that I’m into are: weightlifting and fitness travelling photography stained glass scuba diving photoshop reality TV (my guilty pleasure!) drinking really good Australian wine reading shopping (how could I not be, living in Thailand!) — Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." — Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

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What are your interests outside of cats?

Cary tends to fill most of the times I’d have otherwise spent on my "other interests" however, back before he came along: Food & drink. Eating out, especially with friends at the cheap eats type of restaurant. An apprentice wine snob Scifi & fantasy. I tend towards the Fantasy end, Joel tends towards the ‘hard’ sci-fi with military stuff end, but there’s enough of an overlap there that our book collection melded seamlessly. Pratchett & Douglas Adams are *major* influences, and my guilty secret is enjoying Stephen King on occasion. Roleplaying, especially dark gothic horror. The less dice, the better (says she with a huge dice collection). Before we became breeders, we went to roleplaying conventions and we’d win at least one "best player" trophy between us each con, often more. Geek stuff. I am a geek (see above for clues). I like science and maths and other geeky things. There’s . Gadgets and toys are cool. Silly putty fun, but glop is groovy…. I could waste the rest of my life surfing the internet…. Knitting & crochet…. its constructive fidgetting. I rarely if ever finish anything, but can follow the most amazingly intricate patterns in those "knitting bibles" even if I unravel it to do the next one. Drawing & painting. I’m grossly out of practice and don’t have the time for it anymore, but I *used* to be quite good at it. I still like going to art galleries though. Theology. For some reason I am fascinated with what people believe… and more interestingly *why*. And anything else that takes my fancy at the time…. Yowie

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Cary tends to fill most of the times I’d have otherwise spent on my "other interests" however, back before he came along: Food & drink. Eating out, especially with friends at the cheap eats type of restaurant. An apprentice wine snob Scifi & fantasy. I tend towards the Fantasy end, Joel tends towards the ‘hard’ sci-fi with military stuff end, but there’s enough of an overlap there that our book collection melded seamlessly. Pratchett & Douglas Adams are *major* influences, and my guilty secret is enjoying Stephen King on occasion. Roleplaying, especially dark gothic horror. The less dice, the better (says she with a huge dice collection). Before we became breeders, we went to roleplaying conventions and we’d win at least one "best player" trophy between us each con, often more. Geek stuff. I am a geek (see above for clues). I like science and maths and other geeky things. There’s . Gadgets and toys are cool. Silly putty is fun, but oobleck is awesome…. I could waste the rest of my life surfing the internet…. Knitting & crochet…. its constructive fidgetting. I rarely if ever finish anything, but can follow the most amazingly intricate patterns in those "knitting bibles" even if I unravel it to do the next one. Drawing & painting. I’m grossly out of practice and don’t have the time for it anymore, but I *used* to be quite good at it. I still like going to art galleries though. Theology. For some reason I am fascinated with what people believe… and more interestingly *why*. And anything else that takes my fancy at the time…. Yowie

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hooboy. ummm, in no particular order: books! mainly Sci-fi & fantasy cross stitch attempting to crochet (something other than a demented potholder) woodworking renaissance faires swords & daggers calligraphy sewing fabric painting video games (RPG’s, adventure, MMORGS, the occasional platform) D&D collecting: dragons, hedgehogs, Wee Forest Folk comics (some traditional , some web comics, a couple comic books) Godzilla movies Gossamer (Chuck Jones’ Bugs Bunny character, as well as my cat) I think that covers at least a large portion of my interests — Elise (supervised by Gossamer & Jeeves)

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) Ham radio (my call sign is AA6GF)

Dad never quite got me interested (not for lack of trying) His call sign is KC1FB. His parakeet’s name is QRP — Elise (supervised by Gossamer & Jeeves)

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What are your interests outside of cats?

Gardening Crafts (I discovered glass etching and love it) Movies and select TV shows and figuring out the TiVo Computers and learning whatever I can Walking Shopping Stuffed Bear and Cat collection Sleeping in on Sat morning Learning to decorate on a budget (single homeowner since 2000) What I hope to have time for some day: Traveling More crafts More gardening Reading other than technical docs and books

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What are your interests outside of cats?

Gourmet food, wine, travel, science fiction, politics, video games (rpg types)… — Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

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Reading – Favorite Fiction SF/Fantasy: Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien; Stephen R. Donaldson, George R. R. Martin; Jim Butcher; Glen Cook;Robin Hobbs; Also like the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum mysteries. Other reading interests: medical/nutritional/psychiatric Playing D & D – usually a chaotic good thief type Birdwatching Music – Listening to classical; play piano (but not recently); listening to oldies e.g., Alan Parsons Project, Moody Blues, Simon and Garfunkel, Tina Turner; et al Making greeting cards, dabbling in crafts with beads and wire; drawing Current Favorite TV shows: Lost; House; Whose Line Is It Anyway? How Do I Look? Net surfing Christine

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What are your interests outside of cats?

Reading especially Fantasy. Mercedes Lackey, Jennifer Roberson, Mary Stewart Music My Daughter and my Husband Star our Bassett Hound Irish Music Irish Festivals Celtic mythology and religions Theater Gnostic beliefs embroidery Genealogy budding interest in gems and minerals travel eating out reading recipes and convincing hubby to try them. Organizational Behavior and Team Building Astronomy Psychology Diane

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What are your interests outside of cats?

no specific order Primate conservation and activism (my advocation) knitting being a Mom (well, this is actually #1…) flower gardening birding snorkeling travel kites (making, flying) gourmet cooking animals in general spay/neuter education pottery (I used to own my own business) liberal politics animal rights and welfare (in general) art (It can’t hurt you!) antiques (mainly pottery) reading That’s about it, I think! -L.

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What are your interests outside of cats?

Outside of cats? Gardening, and a passing interest in botanical photography Cinema, with a possibly unhealthy fondness for movie musicals Sticking needles in stuff (oh all right, cross stitch) Classical music, preferably baroque or 20th century composers Inside of a cat, there’s not much room to do anything.

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I haven’t posted in ages (RL is a hinderance in my participation in this group!), but I couldn’t resist. In no particular order: Cooking gardening natural history entomology (the study of insects) sci fi and fantasy books (too many favourite authors to mention, but Ursula Le Guin is first in my list of favourites) travel (horribly addicted to travel, but current budget curtails *that* little hobby!) looking after myself (a recent hobby, but one I *slowly* getting better at) Tish – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – What are your interests outside of cats? I know that everyone here loves the feline masters, but I don’t know much about what other things you folks are into (though I would guess cooking as choice #2 My list of interests: Aviation and Air Cadets Military History/Royal United Services Institute Wicca/Natural Magic and the Unitarian Church Literature Comic Books and Manga Animation and Anime Toy Collecting: Transformers and My Little Pony Original Fiction; Drawing Comic Art; Newspaper Cartooning; (Kittyraps?) Roleplaying (Werewolf the Apocalypse and Transformers) Attempting to Knit –Fil

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What are your interests outside of cats? Outside of cats? Gardening, and a passing interest in botanical photography Cinema, with a possibly unhealthy fondness for movie musicals Sticking needles in stuff (oh all right, cross stitch) Classical music, preferably baroque or 20th century composers Inside of a cat, there’s not much room to do anything.

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

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Wow! You sure have an exciting list of varied interests. Do you fly? I used to fly. I got my private pilot license when I was 45 and flew for about 5 years before money and other things forced me to give it up. 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

Do you miss it? I do. I have some great memories, though, and I’m sure you do too. Joy

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What are your interests outside of cats?

Playing Ice-hockey Watching Ice-hockey Errmm, ice-hockey.. Horse-riding Hill Walking Reading Painting (not that I ever let anyone see them!) Photography Helen M — Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server – http://www.Mailgate.ORG

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Reading science fiction and fantasy Rock and indie music, especially Manic Street Preachers . Knitting Spending time with my witty and gorgeous husband Jeanette

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What are your interests outside of cats?

Role-playing I play ADnD once a week and a wide variety of games every week as part of my games club (just played Star Trek not bad and trying my hand at Exalted next)I am also storyteller for an incredibly long Vampire; The Masquerade chronicle which started in 1998 and may finish in my lifetime! Writing (and not just game stuff) Reading (I read anything except Westerns and soppy romantic novels and admit to a guilty enjoyment of no-brainer chick-lit)(and okay I’ll read anything and everything about cats) Music- Anything from classical to disgustingly loud rock Friends- Going for a beer with friends and having a good chat is one of the most relaxing things going Cartoons (I collect books of them) Restaurants- I am currently trying to try and go to a new restaurant at least once a month Cooking- when I have time i.e. at weekends, in the week after a hard day at work I’ll grab whatever’s fastest but at weekends I love to take my time over it. Quiz shows- I can’t resist "mastermind", "Brain of Britain" and I love "University Challenge" Films- most sorts, we’re in a DVD club and so I see a film every few days True crime- I enjoy reading books about true crime and tonight I believe our DVD club has sent a film about Bundy. Okay I’m a ghoul! Web design- I keep meaning to work on a website- but I need to get my PC networked to his yet! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs who take most of her time

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