Burning Fossil Fuels (Score 1)

I love my job. I mean, I really love my job. Working in IT in the Healthcare industry is exactly where I wanted to be when I graduated from High School 14 years ago and my long arduous journey has finally landed me in the position that should take me all the way to retirement. With that being said, the stress from my position can sometimes be nearly overwhelming and my release from this aged-beast-with-many-heads can be found in motorized backcountry exploration. Most people think I'm strange since during the day I am fully in my nerd outfit, but on the weekends the greasy jeans and shop gloves come out as I break apart motorcycle engine cases and tear into clutches and lightweight dirt bike frames. Crossing creeks, climbing rock gnarled hills, breaking fingers and bruising hips... it's absolute heaven for me. And when the snow appears in the winter (I live in NW Montana), I tear off the wheels and put a ski and snowmobile track on my dirt bike and play for another six months. So every weekend I get out, with the blessing of my wife and child of course, and blow off steam in order to be fully charged for the week that lay ahead. IT staff and support that doesn't have a hobby are the worst people to work with come Monday morning. I come into the office reinvigorated, they come into the office ready for Friday already. And yes, I've felt reinvigorated in a cast before and probably will again sometime soon.