My name is Gareth Reynolds (you can now find me almost everywhere I've signed up online) and I like answering questions.

I don't go out much as crowds (especially of people I don't know) make me uneasy, what's worse is the fact that travelling tends to make me feel unwell. Related to that is my almost complete lack of desire to travel anywhere. I have left New Zealand only twice (for the Hillsong Conferences of 2007 and 2008) and that was largely because certain individuals put all the effort into making it possible for me to go. Apart from wanting to visit my sister in Melbourne and my paternal grandparents in the UK I don't think I'll be heading overseas at any other point.

I attend a Christian church service each Sunday morning and since the start of 2007 have been helping with the Children's Ministry. It took two years of regular attendance (from 2004) before I became a Christian.

My primary love-language is physical touch and as such I really like being hugged, but as I'm usually unwilling to initiate I get hugs from only a few special people.

A long time ago I read a lot of books, once I got access to 24/7 internet that changed although I have begun reading significant numbers of books again since 2007. I keep track of my reading (and other media consumption) on a few websites. Mainly LibraryThing for books.

Working a labouring job that deals mainly with the production of magazines and requires me to wake up at 5am. (Typically after staying up until about 11pm.)

Helping with the children's ministry at my church, both during the Sunday morning services and at the mid-week Mainly Music session.

Killing time until I finally realise what I want to do as far as a career is concerned.

I'm also playing strategy Board Games as often as I can. Games like Ticket to Ride, Power Grid, Stone Age and others you'll find ranked highly at BoardGameGeek (bgg.com).

Avoiding issues.
High School level mathematics.
Spending hours online without really achieving anything.

I've been told by a few women that I give good massages (neck and shoulders).

I used to be good at hanging upside down from my feet, lack of practice means I seem to have lost the ability.

I expect it would be one of the following...
1 - the orange colour of my hair
2 - my glasses
3 - the beard I seem to be growing most of the time.

Books: The Warriors Apprentice, The Call of the Sword, The Lord of the Rings

Movies: Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Princess Bride, Ever After
TV: Babylon 5, The Big Bang Theory, Farscape

Music: DC Talk, Chris Rice, The Lost Dogs, Brooke Fraser, Casting Crowns

Food: Chocolate, Pineapple, most sugary things.

1. Shelter (all the better to store my 'stuff')
2. My Computer (how else could I waste the hours I do online)
3. Strategy Board Games (the single most enjoyable way I can see myself spending time with multiple friends)
4. Books (I can think of nothing else so easily transported that can occupy me for so long)
5. DVDs (because sometimes simply watching is better than thinking for oneself)
6. Time at Church (even before making the big decision it was helping me become a better person)

Marriage & romantic relationships.

What I'm (not) doing with my life.

The mistakes I've made and how I'd avoid them if given a second chance. (But not enough time about how to avoid other similar mistakes in the future.)

Previously I've spent quite a bit of time wondering whether or not the problems I have relating to people could be the result of me having Asperger syndrome

Editing/adding to the Common Knowledge at LibraryThing.

If not that I may be reading a book or watching TV, but I'm probably at another website doing something else.

I think I'd be a nudist if I lived somewhere a lot warmer, and with more privacy.

You know me.

and/or

You are willing to deal with someone that doesn't interact with people in the normal manner. I have a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time through a lack of understanding. It's never my intention to hurt the feelings of others and I think I'm learning to avoid certain mistakes but there will likely be issues of some sort.