{"id":984,"date":"2007-01-29T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/01\/29\/what-do-you-do-with-your-spare-time\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T23:46:11","slug":"what-do-you-do-with-your-spare-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/01\/29\/what-do-you-do-with-your-spare-time\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you do with your spare time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find that since we up and moved to Calgary, I have less and less spare time.  A typical day for me begins at 4:15.  I&#8217;m catching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgarytransit.com\/Routes\/lrt_stop.html\">C-Train <\/a>by 4:40 and get to work at 5:15.  I usually leave between 3:30 and 4:00 and get home between 4:15 and 4:45.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s are a real day of rest.  Other than my time at church, I&#8217;m usually sleeping or watching <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/americasfunniest\/index.html\">America&#8217;s Funniest Home Videos <\/a>with the Kids (although that is harder now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacecast.com\/bsg\/\">Battlestar Galactica <\/a>is on at the same time.  Thank goodness for the PVR).  Saturdays and a little bit of time during the evenings are my only free time.<\/p>\n<p>There are many things I&#8217;d like to do with my spare time but it&#8217;s hard to pick.  On Saturday&#8217;s, my girls have <a href=\"http:\/\/skibanff.com\/ski_board_school\/camps.php\">Snowboarding lessons at Sunshine<\/a>, so we&#8217;ll be doing that until mid March.  The time we get to spend together doing that is priceless.  During the week I have a couple of TV shows I like to watch (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/prisonbreak\/\">Prison Break<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Heroes\/\">Heroes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/lost\/index\">Lost<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_Apprentice_6\/\">The Apprentice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/survivor13\/\">Survivor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewb.com\/shows\/smallville\">Smallville<\/a>, and Battlestar).  Most of those usually end up on the PVR and I watch what I can on Saturday nights.  I&#8217;ll take my wife on a date once or twice a month.  I&#8217;d love to veg out in front of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/home\">Nintendo<\/a>, but time just doesn&#8217;t seem to allow it.  I might put in an hour or so of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/games\/flightsimulatorx\/\">Flight Simulator<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageofempires3.com\/\">Age of Empires<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/lucasarts.com\/games\/swempireatwar\/indexFlash.html\">StarWars Empire at War<\/a>.  My Son likes playing those with me so that&#8217;s usually a fun time with him.  Thursday nights are music night where I get together with an old friend and jam for a couple of hours (Rick, Dar &#8211; it would be sweet for all of us to get together like in the old days and have some musical fun).  Summers are spend on the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?near=blind+bay+BC&amp;q=shuswap+lake+blind+bay&amp;f=p&amp;rl=1&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;om=1&amp;z=13&amp;ll=50.894913,-119.388771&amp;spn=0.060092,0.117588\">Shuswap lake <\/a>wakeboarding and other water sports.<\/p>\n<p>You must have some free time.  What do you like to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find that since we up and moved to Calgary, I have less and less spare time. 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