With the limited personal time I get these days, I tend to choose activities that are both fun and useful to me. But maybe that's just me, admittedly. OP answe

With the limited personal time I get these days, I tend to choose activities that are both fun and useful to me. But maybe that's just me, admittedly. OP answered, and he was a teen back then, which may have played in the "too much time on my hands" part.