DarkCloud: Well, lets see.  I started at Sidgames, but I only spent about a month there... Then I moved to Apolyton and, ever since, Apolyton has been the board which I spend the most time on per day.
Although, at times in the past, I have had strings where I have spent more time at other forums, such as the old CGN around October 2000, December 2000 (when I was made an OT moderator), January 2001 and Feb 2001.
Then came the FreeFireZone period From Sept 2001 to Dec 2001 where I managed about 1000 posts between my main login and myriad DL's. Then in April 2002 I spent more time at Philosophyforums.com, where I am currently a moderator.
However, currently, and it seems, for a long time in the future, I will be spending the majority of my time at Apolyton, at least until I reach my current goal of having the highest post count of anyone registered after July 27, 2000. Thus, you can thank Solver and Chris62's large post counts for keeping me around.

DarkCloud: What hobbies do you enjoy (besides list creation)?

DarkCloud: On the internet, my favorite hobbies are Website Creation and Website Directory Arrangements.
For example, I have several websites dedicated to arranging websites in directory order. At all times I try to bring order to a disordered universe.
I have created several links sites and other sites dedicated to computer gaming and other things.

Some links are:

http://home.att.net/~sjcfg/main.html (Apolyton: The Book- The Website for the People of Apolyton)
http://home.att.net/~civgames/ (Civil Warring Civilizations II- A Civ Site)
http://home.att.net/~tivoligardens/ (Roller Coaster Tycoon United- Once THE site For RCT)
http://home.att.net/~tivoligardens/simwood.html (SimWood Mall- A link directory for Sims Sites)
http://home.att.net/~sjcfg/newnews.htm (New News- Satirical News)

And, in addition, I have several more sites hidden on my computer and have designed one professional corporation's website, as well as the website for a nonprofit organization.

On the old BBSes (Bulletin Board Systems) I used to play internet chess and LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon), a massively multiplayer RPG. Although now, due to the death of BBSes, I can no longer play those games anywhere. :(

But, as for real life hobbies, I still play RPG's in the form of Dungeons and Dragons and internet chess in the form of real chess. I also act, and have appeared in about three plays, in addition to working as light tech apprentice once, light tech assistance once, and light tech supervisor once. I also participate in a jeopardy-style community quiz game, that meets weekly and has competitions monthly.
In real life I also play tennis, watch baseball, read Science Fiction (Harry Harrison, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov) and Fantasy (Robert Jordan, JRR Tolkien, Robert Asprin, Piers Anthony, Terry Brooks, Weis and Hickman, David/Leigh Eddings, etc.) and I also read Harry Turtledove who can, sometimes be a genre into himself. When I find free time, I write, as previously stated.
Finally, I play the piano (Rock and Roll, etc) and listen to Rock and Roll on the radio (50's-75) Aerosmith being one of my favorite bands.

On computers, my hobbies include Heroes Chronicles, Hollywood Mogul, Baseball Mobul, Civilization II, Age of Empires, Afterlife, Railroad Tycoon II, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and (sometimes) The Sims.
 

DarkCloud: Do lists impinge on your non-'Poly life much?

DarkCloud: No. Not really. However, if they start to encroach on my non-Apolyton life, then they become no fun and I put an end to work on whatever list it was that I was working on. (example: The Apolyton 100)
Lists, even incomplete lists, take a long time to compile, especially something such as the Apolyton 100. For that list, I only did surface-work, looking at the most recent threads, and yet it took somewhere between ten and fifteen hours for version 1! And, if everyone can remember Version 1, version 1 was very buggy and incomplete.
However, I thank people for contribuiting so that I could fix and repair version 1 into version 1.5... And nowadays we sit stranded on Version 2.0 because I don't have the time to search the Off-Topic for the most recent happenings! Although, when I do, I'll probably release the new version!

DarkCloud: How do you manage to complete these massive lists without going insane or getting bored half-way through?
 

DarkCloud: Actually, that's happened before.

To ward against insanity, I have the following system: 1- Observe the site. 2- Write as many list ideas down as I possibly can. 3- Pick a likely list idea. 4- start work on it when I can. 5- assemble 6- rest 7- assemble 8- post. 9- update
I have many list ideas written down, but some wouldn't be considered interesting to others, such as the list of when people get onto apolyton (observed from the "Who's online feature" and thus, on second thought, never make it to step 8.)

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