Just took up tennis last night

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It's such a neat, free game to play, as long as you can find a partner to play it with. My wife and I just bought a couple of the cheapest racquets and a can of balls, and both REALLY enjoyed just hitting the ball back and forth on the court last night for nearly 2 hours. (She'd never played before, but I had taken and completed "beginner" lessons as a kid.) I was amazed that the city (and I'm sure it's the same in other cities) freely provides lighted tennis courts to the public, along with a water fountain and restroom. And I was surprised how well my bottom-of-the-price-range ($19) racquet worked.

Just posting here to recommend it to anyone who is currently experiencing a period of boredom, as I was, and who has the option of taking up tennis. Even we Aspies need new hobbies, even if only once in a great while. Even without a partner, you can use one of those ball-pitching machines, or just hit a ball against a wall.

In my old AP complex, they had a racquet ball court, and I used to go there and screw around, 99% of the time by myself, if I was bored.

Yeah, everyone talks about how the government needs to give people more stuff, and for me I find it laughable. The govt. already provides awesome parks and stuff, and nobody uses them, it's such a shame.

But yeah, really, finding new hobbies like that is sweet. My latest obsession thing is ice skating, it's $27 for an entire gym membership with free public skating where I live, so I skate almost everyday. I try to find as many physical hobbies as I can. Frankly, they're very fun. Like, hiking for example, I tend to see like...playing an RPG in real life. Like one time I found this cool tree house in the woods and climbed the ladder and went inside. I crossed a railroad bridge, found trolley bridges, etc. I think sorta as adults, we regress in some ways, and we have to get back the same curiosity for stuff like that we had as kids, if we just did that, we'd probably have almost no obesity/whatever problems in this country.

This thread is making me want to dig out my racquet and start playing again. Too bad this time of the year isn't exactly great tennis weather where I live ...

I have been taking tennis lessons for just over a year now. I am surprised at how well I'm doing. I never thought I could do anything of an athletic nature (my inclination was always more academic), but I was really inspired by Denis Istomin. He overcame so much to succeed.