LOL... touche!
Truth be told, I have a number of things I'm doing. I have work, though it's only 3 hours at night, and I've been working on a few fanfiction stories and my latest chapter was 19k+ words so I'm taking a break for a bit, but the major time-eating part of my life are the video games I get.
I have Final Fantasy XIII-2, Soul Calibur 5, White Knight Chronicles 2, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Soul Nomad, and soon to have Tales of the Abyss 3DS, BlazBlue: CS Extended, Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom to play and finish some I'm very tied up.
Though during my spare time I like improving my drawing and spriting skills so I'll be prepare making artwork for my games. I do have a few documents written down on certain game projects I have in mind, to characters and their stats, equipment, gameplay styles, the enemies, some story plot ideas, etc... I just don't post them on the net because I'm a little paranoid someone might steal the idea from me.
I did make a simple Flash game a while back by following a tutorial.
Though I was wondering which tips to utilize to avoid making major headache when starting to make a platformer game, such as Mega Man X. Well I guess I'll write down some stuff... I already have the idea, but I tend to forget stuff.