Hobbies
jackslash
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My hobbies are:
1. Reading. I'm not happy unless I have a good book. I'm currently half-way through Tolstoy's classic "Anna Karenina," and I just started "A Game of Thrones" since I have heard so much about the HBO series.
2. Exercise. I try to exercise every day. Now that the weather's nice, I'm taking 30 mile bike rides through Hines Park near Detroit.
3. Travel. While reading and exercise are cheap, travel can be expensive and it competes with strip clubs for my dollars. So far this year I've visited Miami and Chicago.
What hobbies do you guys have?
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Who has time for hobbies? Between work, the market, strippers not much time left for anything else. Travel is something I definitely want to do more of. Love it. Will probably shifting some money from strippers to travelling. Photography is something I would also like to get into. Would go well with plans to do more travelling.
2. Working out
3. Photography, i'm still learning but I enjoy it. I mostly do pictures of cities, places, and random weird things i see. Maybe I can start photographing strippers.
4. Reading, mostly non-fiction at this point, but like Jackslash after the first season of Game of thrones i went and read all the books he's published in the fire and ice saga thousands and thousands of pages
Metal sculpture
Reading - fiction, biography, history
Bird watching
Cars - new, restoration projects
Wine and whisky (Scotch)
My dog
Cooking
Travel
WORK
I don't sleep much (4 hours per night for as long as I can remember).
2. Genealogy
3. Gynecology
4. Jack enthusiast
5. Brew master results investigation.
6. Local band talent evaluations.
Collections- What do I collect? C'mon, do you guys really need to ask? ;)
Playstation 3- I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I like my fair share of video games. I mainly like sports and action/adventure games.
2. Girls
3. Music
4. Sports (playing and watching especially basketball and football).
5. Girls
I sold my Harley when my little boy arrived. Now I spend the majority of my non-work time with him and working around my house. He helps as much as he can for a 2 year old.
Damn I have expensive hobbies...
I play XBOX when I have time.
I kayak on nice days when its not choppy.
I ride horses, though thats more of a job now than a hobby.
I ride my ATV.
I deep sea fish.
The rest of my time is spent on women and whiskey, everything else is just wasted.
2. Reading (history, political, travel topics)
3. Writing
4. Gardening (specialize in peppers, onions, cucumbers)
5. Fishing
6. EDM
I have two projects on the go currently. My grandfather's black beauty, a late 1940s Packard and an old Ford 1 ton box grain truck from WWII that my dad used on the farm for about 30 years. I always called that old truck the 'Reptile' when I drove it around the farm in the early 1960s.
The Packard was in storage for about 40 years after my grandpa's death in 1955. I have it in good mechanical order and the interior is in impeccable condition. Body needs a bit of work and paint, of course. Parts are a bitch to find.
The old grain truck was out in the weather for about 30 years and it is in very rough shape. I have it running but there is much work remaining to be done. I don't think I will ever finish that project but it is lots of fun to spend a mindless day tinkering with it in my shop. I have two hulks in my yard that I am stripping for parts and I always keep my eyes open during my travels for more hulks that I can scoop up.
- Flying Stunt Kites
- Coaching Soccer and Wrestling
- Amateur MMA competitor
- Writing Erotic fiction (recent hobby)
- Fly Fishing
2. Music - I play the French horn in two community concert bands. And I go to concerts of other similar groups and symphony orchestras in the area.
3. Model railroading - I've belonged to clubs before and built just one home layout. Presently I go to a friend's house twice a week for three hours each time to help him build his. I'm a scenery-builder. He takes care of the trackwork and maintaining the rolling stock.
4. Collecting produce crate labels - Prior to about 1950, produce came in wooden crates. They had elaborate, artistic, labels at the ends. The labels from that era are still around and collectors have made it a hobby. I mostly collect citrus labels from Southern California growers. Now that I live in Washington state, I suppose I should start collecting apple crate labels.
1. Brasilian Jiu Jitsu-Great way to exercise, learn how to defend yourself, and face your fears. It's like a physical chess match, setting your opponent up for a move 6 moves ahead.
2. Outdoor Activities- Whether it's hiking, swimming, fishing, horseback riding or surfing, I love the outdoors. I've been to many national parks, forests, and monuments. I don't get to surf that much anymore-the older you get, the colder the water gets, wetsuit be damned.
3. Gardening-I guess that can go with outdoor activities. Watching life sprout from seeds is an amazing occasion. I grew my first artichokes this year. My Nona Maria took them all. I love that old hag.
4. Music and Dancing-Live music is probably my favorite activity. A good band, a libation to quench the thirst, and a hot chick to groove with. Can't beat that.
5. Writing-Mostly songs and poems these days. It use to be short stories during high school and college.
6. Free styling-I eat sucka mc's. Nuff said.
7. Corrupting my nieces and nephews-Them kids kill me and I kill them back.
2) HO Gauge model railroading
3) Cooking
4) Flower gardening
5) Burning CDs/DVDs
6) Searching for treasures at garage/yard sales
7) Looking for 2AMers to report
Gardening
Reading - lots of fiction
Just got elected to my condo's Bd of Trustees and spend lots of time learning and doing on this
Medicine - sick wife - care taking and doctor's visits
I like to travel, international and domestic. Seen a lot of amazing places, still have a lot more too see. Main issue is finding the time though I'm fairly lucky in how much I get to go. I really want to see Asia next though I may go back to Australia.
I enjoy good cigars and many of my friends and neighbors know if they smell smoke they can probably come to my back deck and get some booze and conversation, and a smoke if they want.
Love history and enjoy museums and will even go to the occasional historical conference if there's enough interesting content.
Cook a fair bit but not real fancy, keep to mostly basic stuff with different twist on marinades and flavors.
I dabble in writing fiction but not a serious hobby.
Like chess but struggle to find opponents who aren't much better or much worse than I am.
I enjoy blackjack, even if there's no money involved.
Music-Play the trombone-jazz and classical
sports fan-Cubs, Cowboys
gambling- Video Poker-full pay machines in Vegas-few and far between, but can make money or at least break even with appropriate strategy.
exercise-nowhere near enough but like to jog and ride a bike.
Travel
Music (Classical, especially opera)
Reading (especially SF)
Comic books (much to wife's chagrin)
Collecting art (especially Southwestern - Pueblo, Navajo, modern works from the Southwest)
And being a major league hippy freak, freakin' at the freaker's ball! Freak out!
There is often TOO much being said here. Plus, as I said mine are listed in my profile. Any person interested can look.
Mine: Hike, bicycle, kayak. Follow sports, mostly football. Read (and collect books), write,"research" myriad topics on www. Music, both live and recorded. Some travel w/a bit of photography.
As I tell my faves, I'm very thrifty about everything except them.
Visit strip clubs didn't seem to go over that well as an answer.
At one time I thought photography was probably not a good answer to give because they might want me to take a bunch of pictures for them. With digital cameras and no expenses with film, that fear is unjustifiable now. I guess a few die hards may still use film. There are a number of dancers I wouldn't mind taking pictures of so maybe I should add that in.
Usually I just say surfing the Internet and sci fi.
As a teenager, I used to read a number of science fiction and fantasy books. One series that I believe could make an excellent movie series if done well was L R Hubbards Mission To Planet Earth Series of books. I believe 10 books are in the series and I believe no one made them into any movie that I know of.
I'm also an amateur astronomer. I have multiple hobbies that I haven't spent any time doing in years now.
-Working out, primarily resistance training and boxing
-My two doggies
-FPS video games
-building computers for friends
-surfing classy porn sites (ha!)
-tending to the many fruit trees in my backyard
-creating believable alibis for when my SO asks where I've been all day
Horseback trail riding.
Bicycling.
Tabletop RPGs.
PC RPGs, currently Skyrim.
Shooting.
Another hobby of mine is learning....such as math languages, computer science etc.