Agree about taking up knitting, I've been knitting like mad lately. I also like to sew random things and try to make something funky, i.e. my new SOCK GLOVES! Which are basically just different colored socks cut and sewn together. They look absolutely ridiculous but they were pretty fun to make.
Books, instruments, and writing are definitely good ways to keep entertained..anything, really, that makes you use your brain and/or your hands. Any kind of creation. Get a non-fiction book on something that interests you and learn some stuff. Ride ya bike.
Or, you know, Mr. Peanut Costumes. Hahah.
heh, i've spent a lot of time at the place in your picture.
Ahh the landfill is pretty sweet, only been there once, though. Some of those sculptures are amazing. You live in the Bay?
I feel bad for the complete off-topic nature of this post so I'll share another silly thing I've done when boredom has struck hard:
A few months ago I was insanely bored and, for whatever reason, completely unmotivated to do anything legitimately productive to cure the boredom. At that time I was into songs with rapid-fire lyrics so I decided I wanted to learn all of the words to some of these songs that everyone knows but sadly can't sing along to cuz the lyrics are too jumbled. And so. Listening to the songs over and over again, reading and rereading the lyrics, I memorized Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues and REM's End of the World As We Know It.
I was halfway through Johnny Cash's I've Been Everywhere when I said "What the fuck am I doing" and went out and socialized with normal people.
Sad thing is I keep waiting for the time when my lyrical talents will be of use. So far no dice.
My attempt at getting back on-topic digressed way more off. So, Mr. Peanut Costumes, yeah?