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I usually have things with the kids - scouts, sports, church, First LEGO League, etc. but the summer is pretty quiet. There's also yard work. I get most of the other housework done during the week. Since I have a "day job", I usually spend part of the weekend lining up scheduled blog posts, tweets, etc. for my side things. I should spend more time coding for side projects but I don't. Before kids, I used to go hang out at a bookstore for a couple hours and read whatever I found interesting, go for long off-road bike rides, volunteer for fund-raising walks/bike rides, volunteer with the Red Cross, hang out with friends from a ham radio club or college, etc. If you can't reconnect with friends, just make new ones. Try meetup.com, look for tweetups or barcamps, go to user group meetings, join clubs (ham radio, model railroads / rockets, LEGO, cycling, etc.), take a class (cake decorating, painting, etc.), volunteer somewhere, go check out events at local bookstores / libraries, etc. |