[rjray]

I build scale models (aircraft, military vehicles, etc.). Very relaxing and surprisingly social-- there are clubs all over the world. When I moved from Oklahoma to Colorado, and later Colorado to California, I got in with local modeling clubs first thing. Started my development of a new circle of friends right off the bat.

(My involvement in it started at age 4; I had a knack for taking things apart, so my dad bought me a model kit to encourage me to be more "constructive"...)