Mostly use it to keep in contact with the little lady. She's usually at home working or otherwise and I'm at the shop or going about gathering materials or going to a jobsite. I'll let her know where I'm going so she's in the know. When I'm in the state above I can use a different repeater and there are many on that repeater that I know and talk with. Usually if I'm close by someone I'll tell them I'm in the area. Crapshoot if they'll be on at that time. On occasion you'll get into a chatfest where one or more are on the other side, usually later at night when nothing is going on.
The rest of the time the radio is pretty quiet. I usually run tones on the Rx so I'm only getting contact from the repeaters I select instead of random chatter from people talking to each other. On Wed we have a net where 30-40 people chime in. Always funny how the radio goes dead after that instead of people hanging around to chat afterwards. On occasion it does happen, but usually everyone is back to their own business.