Relaxing with Bockmonides
In  my copious spare time, I enjoy:

Playing jazz trumpet at jam sessions

Planning and cooking gourmet meals

Taking pictures of family, landscapes, etc.

Reading, reading , reading!

Doing Jazzercise (and Israeli Folk Dancing)
Books I'd recommend:

The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the
Galaxy     by Douglas Adams

Strange Piece of Paradise
by Terri Jentz

Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal
Golden Braid , Metamagical
Themas or Le Ton Beau de Marot
by Douglas Hofstadter

Annals of the Former World by
John McPhee

Nine Talmudic Readings by
Emmanuel Levinas
Musical performers  I listen to:

Steely Dan
Take 6
Tower of Power
Miles Davis & Gil Evans
Tom Waits
Randy Newman
Dr. John
John Cleary & Absolute Monster         
        Gentlemen
Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians
Shlomo Gronich
Harry Connick, Jr.
They Might Be Giants
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Shmuel Nelson - Eden Mi-Qedem
Bossacucanova
Movies worth seeing: (off the top of my head)
Cinema Paradiso                   
The Illusionist
Shawshank Redemption       
Dr. Strangelove
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Lone Star                                   
The Tao of Steve
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Harold and Maude       
Little Miss Sunshine
Once Were Warriors
TV shows I currently enjoy:

The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart
    (comedy/ fake news)
Top Chef
    (competition in cooking)
Heroes
    (sci fi about super powers)
Prison Break
    (thriller about escaping jail)
House
    (curmudgeonly MD, genius)


Thank goodness for Tivo!