Photography has neatly taken the place of work for me! As a self-employed architect I got into photography through the back door needing pictures of buildings to be altered then my own materials library to show clients photo-realistic images of what extensions and alterations would look like. Mixture of 3D modelling in Microstation and montage. That was the interesting bit. Shifting paper piles and fighting rear-guard actions against sloppy and illiterate tradesmen I am happy to lose. My little Nikon was also very good for pictures of the bits of buildings the said tradesmen hoped I wasn't going to see.

Photography goes very well with walking and outdoor stuff and allows lots of rests as I age. If you are calling your computer an 'infernal machine' you may be able to improve the set-up. On odd spells in other offices I was apalled at the lousy monitors, noisy boxes and lack of software one was expected to work with. Reading and listening to music is what I do instead of watching TV, having never had one or the least desire to have.