sweating
I love ice hockey. I'm a 'keeper by trade, but I like to dabble in the offensive game from time to time. Ice often doesn't provide enough pain, though, so I fill my road rash quota by playing rollerhockey whenever I can. One sport I miss is volleyball--especially outdoor doubles--as I haven't played regularly in a couple of years. On the lighter side, I like to get down to the lanes now and then for a few games of tenpin. I don't much any more, but I got pretty good playing in leagues as a kid.

I'm also big on the outdoors. I go hiking and backpacking all of the time, and mountain biking as well when I get the chance. I'm always up for any kind of outdoor challenge, and occasionally do things like skiing & snowboarding, whitewater rafting, kayaking, and rock climbing.

concentrate
I'm intrigued by the peculiarities of the English language, and never can pass up a good word game. I'm a Boggle buff and have a penchant for cryptic crosswords. But mostly I just invent silly little games in my head, bastardizing perfectly respectable English words and proper names alike through anagrammatization and similar reckless transformations.

I never did like social studies class, but for years I've been hooked on hockey history and trivia. I love reading about the evolution of the game, the old days, and the legend and lore of the Stanley Cup and all those who seek it. I have a veritable library of books on the matter, and have even gone as far to make my own trivia challenge for others to attempt.

idolatry
Back in high school I took up the hobby of collecting hockey cards. The focus of my collection soon shifted to the infinitely talented yet incorrigibly humble man who sparked my initial interest in professional ice hockey--Wayne Gretzky. I was once fanatical about collecting, though I've since reduced my activities to an occasional trade or two. Between then and now, though, I managed to build up a pretty extensive assemblage of cards and memorabilia of The Great One, as well as an even more extensive catalog of such things.

wince
I have an insatiable appetite for bad humor. I guess that's how I managed to become the editor of the humor magazine at my alma mater. I'm no comedian, but I always could write pretty mean song parodies (yup, I'm a Weird Al fan) or conjure up twisted ad spoofs. Nowadays my humor sometimes takes on different forms. Like some of the disturbing images I created with a mesh warping program that I wrote for a graphics class.