I've been blind for 8 years, the first 5 of which spent doing absolutely nothing and wanting to die due to boredom until 3 years ago I finally found something to do: coding, which incidentally was my main hobby and job back when I had sight.. The problem is that sometimes I just feel the need to procrastinate, and one can only sleep so much.

Back in the day I used to play games, mostly World of Warcraft, to which I've even started developing a screen-reader add-on a couple of months ago, so I know that it can be played totally blind to some extent now. However I don't have anyone close to me who could serve as an in-game guide, and on top of that playing blind does not satisfy my nostalgia, because that's not how I remember the game. I miss the colorful cartoony graphics, the environments, and most of all, I miss tanking, a role that is completely impossible to play blind. Another problem with games is that, in order to be enjoyable for me, they need to be immersive, and without the visual aspect I feel that they lack the required depth. Finally, I'm not a big fan of passive entertainment, so listening to audio-described movies or audiobooks does not entertain me.

When I was neither coding nor playing games I used to help people with technical questions on IRC, and have tried to do the same here on reddit, however due to my blindness I usually take too long to respond to questions, and when I do I'm always afraid that I'm missing something when people paste code so I don't even try to do it anymore. In addition I don't have any social networks, so the only site I visit regularly other than developer documentation sites is reddit.

I do not have any friends as the ones I had kind of abandoned me when I went blind, and the community of people around my age (late 30s and early 40s) is extremely underrepresented where I live, not to mention that most people at my age are usually busy with their marriage and children. I've also tried learning music at some point, mostly because I like digital instruments, but also in hopes to meet other people, however I felt frustrated for not being able to make full use of the aforementioned digital instruments due to lack of accessibility, and since the oldest people I met were in their early 20s and in completely different phases of life on top of not being interested in making friends with an older blind guy, I ended up quitting and giving away my digital piano.

Basically what I want are some ideas of what I can do to procrastinate a bit when I'm not in the mood to code, something that doesn't require much thinking that could replace the role that games had in my life prior to going blind. I know that I'm placing the goal posts too close to each other so I will likely not get any replies, but I'm really desperate for something else to do.