Whats your passion?

[diddi]

Just thought I'd get the lounge talking about something non-political and non-intellectual so i was wondering what fellow excellers use excel for to enhance their leisure time.

I don't mind a bit of genealogy so i find it quite rewarding to get excel working for me scaraping a few web pages and making nice lookups for mine (and others) family history research.

What's your 'bent'?

Cheers, and happy discussion...

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

Well I'm a complete nutter so my passion is snakes and gliding.

I also enjoy veggie gardening and hiking in the wildlife reserve behind my house.

Recently I got into geocaching!

 

[meldoc]

Field Archery, I've been practicing for over 50 years, and if I don't some improvement soon I'm going to give it up!
And no we don't wear green tights, well not all of us and definitely not in public.

 

[Domski]

Other than using it to keep track of what people owe me when I've booked holidays I don't use Excel for much outside work and if I'm honest most of that kind of thing goes on Google Docs these days to make it easier to share.

Dom

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

Ohhhhhh excel related. I missed that bit.

Well I work with Excel all day so these days I'm enjoying not being glued to it all days and every day. Still, being self-employed and using excel sure beats working a 'regular' job.

 

[justme]

Jon - geocaching is fun isn't it? Right now I have a travel bug that needs a new home. But it will have to wait until it gets a little warmer here.

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

Well I'm a geocaching noob but we travel about a fair amount, both locally and internationally, so it made sense to join the club. We really enjoy our outdoor walks/hikes and my daughter (3) also finds it fun.

You might be surprised how many caches are local to you. We live in the middle of nowhere and yet there is about a dozen around us, mostly up the hiking trails.

 

[justme]

It's amazing how many there are. I just checked the website and I have 44 caches within 10 miles of my zip code. 302 if I go out 25 miles! The kids lose interest if we don't find them really fast, but once found they are all over it. They loved the one that was a bug in the hole of a tree. You had to pull a string coming out of the abdomen of this huge plastic pincher bug and a little aluminum tube came out which you had to unscrew and sign your name.

 

[TinaP]

Geocaching sounds interesting. There are over 20 within a mile of where I'm sitting. I'll give it a go once Ma Nature allows outdoor activities. Except for the site that says the area abounds in poison ivy. Been there, done that, don't care for it.

 

[arkusM]

I have recently used it to drive TSD Rally computations, which will serve as the springboard for a VB Version with Odo/Speedometer inputs and a separate hardware stand alone unit. (Caution!!! steep learning curves ahead)