Your favorite non PL thing to do
skibum609
Massachusetts
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 5:12 PM
Disregarding sex, women and strip clubs for a second, what is your favorite thing to do. Just one, not a list. Mine, at least to me, seems obvious. I love skiing. I love it more than anything, including weed and sex, well, not when I was 37, but yup, at 67.
Why? I have no idea. I was a hockey player back in the day, pre youth hockey and arena access so we played pond hockey. Snow either had to be shoveled off the ice, or depending on temperature, ruined it completely, so I grew up anti-snow.
In January 1981 I went for the first time. Imagine rolling off the top bed in a bunk bed and hitting the floor 40 times and you get the idea of how beat to fuck I was after day 1, with shitty rental equipment, terrible snow cover and no lessons. By noon the next day I had purchased my first set of equipment and never looked back. Skiing touches my soul. It makes me get up at 3:00 a.m. on a -10 Sunday morning, drive 3 hours, ski 5 and drive 4 home. Yeah, excitement cuts an hour off the drive. Most people stop skiing moguls and jumping off things by age 35-40. I may not be as aggressive as 30 years ago, but I skied bumps in March and jumped a 22 foot ledge, sticking the landing. I think about skiing every day when its 93 and I am laying on a float in my pool. I love it.
What is your favorite thing to do?
Why? I have no idea. I was a hockey player back in the day, pre youth hockey and arena access so we played pond hockey. Snow either had to be shoveled off the ice, or depending on temperature, ruined it completely, so I grew up anti-snow.
In January 1981 I went for the first time. Imagine rolling off the top bed in a bunk bed and hitting the floor 40 times and you get the idea of how beat to fuck I was after day 1, with shitty rental equipment, terrible snow cover and no lessons. By noon the next day I had purchased my first set of equipment and never looked back. Skiing touches my soul. It makes me get up at 3:00 a.m. on a -10 Sunday morning, drive 3 hours, ski 5 and drive 4 home. Yeah, excitement cuts an hour off the drive. Most people stop skiing moguls and jumping off things by age 35-40. I may not be as aggressive as 30 years ago, but I skied bumps in March and jumped a 22 foot ledge, sticking the landing. I think about skiing every day when its 93 and I am laying on a float in my pool. I love it.
What is your favorite thing to do?
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Other favorite hobbies:
Writing (Finishing one fiction book with ideas for a sequel and a memoir. As far as time spent goes, this is by far my greatest.)
Investing (I'm a stock hound and it goes hand in hand with my day job. Also looking at rental properties.)
Jiu-Jitsu (Just restarted after a long time off and fixing some old injuries.)
Weightlifting (Nothing like some good tunes and a big old pile of iron.)
Volunteering (We all need to give back.)
Got out of traveling during COVID but that will return. Of course this provides PL opportunities too.
I'd say strip clubbing ranks below all of those in priority order.
Snorkeling, I have seen sharks and stingrays. I think of Steve Irwin and never swim over a stingray. One shark bumped me to check me out and swam off, in Hawaii. The dive master said it was a Tiger Shark and I was the luckiest man he ever met. I like to get over to John Pennekamp State Park for snorkeling at least once a year. If you cannot swim, they have a glass bottom boat for looking at the coral. I hear that a lot of people get seasick on it, though. My bucket list is to snorkel in the Indian Ocean, like Indonesia.
Primitive camping is exactly what you think it is - pack in and pack out. I'm not a survivalist. I learned how to start a fire with a bow drill, but I always carry a firestarter and kindling. One of the biggest reliefs of my camping career was about 15 years ago when the NPS began allowing you to carry firearms in all National Forests and Parks. I have seen bears, but I always afraid of having one come after me. About three days in, without a shower, you begin smelling less like a person and more like the environment. That's when more of the wildlife starts coming around in the early morning. I've woken to a herd of elk or wild horses next my tent. Unfortunately, there are more and more visitors to the National Parks and Forests each year, and I feel like we have to trek further and further each year to get away from them. One time, in Kentucky appalachia, we almost became lost. Our local friend who was pathfinding was convinced his compass was broken, claiming that he knew what the hill on our left was and the compass was wrong. He was the local talent, so we followed him. A day later we knew we were good and lost. My best friend, who had excelled in land navigation in airborne infantry, pulled the map away from him and used his own compass to figure out where we were. He worked it out, but took another day and a half to get us back to where we wanted to be the day before. The Kentucky native took off on his own, saying we were wrong and would be fucked, but he double-backed and tracked us to our camp without saying anything. The lesson is always trust your tools, not what you think you know.
This August and September we are going to Zion. Our plan is to see the college coeds wading the Virgin River before they head back to university, then take off in the mountains for four days or so.
Apart from the element of danger and environment outside of my control, I love snorkeling and backcountry camping because I should be able to do both for as long as I am able to swim and walk. My trips may become shorter, but I should never lose the ability to do either- barring some catastrophic injury. Either one makes it very easy to forget about politics, work, personal struggles and forces you to be present in the moment and inhabit yourself. That's hard to find.
horse racing at saratoga during the day followed by baseball at night. and nfl on sundays just 5-6 weeks away.
@Puddy
"Just one, not a list."
Also, it is a good form of exercise for an old man. I usually walk and very seldom ride in a cart.
It also affords an opportunity to enjoy nature. I prefer woodlands courses over residential development courses.
I also enjoy the competition and camaraderie with friends and a cold brew or two is a great way to top off a good day of golf.
I will play along and answer your question.
Q: What is your favorite thing to do? (Disregarding sex, women and strip clubs for a second)
A: Teaching Math, to show my students that math is in humans DNA for understanding the world around us.
Math is an important foundation for logical thinking and problem-solving.
I like to witness those a-ha moments when the light bulb comes on in my students eyes and they get some knowledge that nobody or nothing can take away from them.
RAT - Saratoga is incredible. My favorite racehorse is buried in the infield and on Travers Day I will pay homage to her, as I do pretty much every year.
CROSS - Any Saturday night, well 45 times a year a buddy has a game going. Tournament with a $60.00 buy in, followed by 1/2 no limit.
Befitting my s/n, it's swimming.
Three years in (thanks covid), I'm finally good enough to sorta, kinda play along with most easier songs.
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Have to say I love that comment. Nothing drives me more crazy than hearing “why do I have learn [algebra, geometry, Calculus] when I will never use that again in life. But then I can’t tell you the number of times people on the shop floor have asked me to calculate elementary things like how many gallons of water does my pool hold or how many bags of mulch do I need to cover an area.
And why do so many freshman business students complain about Finite? They are introduced some mathematical concepts they’ve never seen before and freak out
Of course CJ is a progressive so he must have some gaping chasms in his mathematical knowledge.
The other hobby is twofold. I've enjoyed target shooting my whole life, since joining rifle team in high school. Yeah, back then my urban NJ high school had a rifle team. Honed my skills throughout college ROTC and 8 years of National Guard Infantry training. As a civilian, I got more into handgun shooting and I'm pretty good at it, although I don't often compete except in casual non-sanctioned fun matches.
Well, the two-fold part is that about 10 years ago I got into hand loading. I've got a rather extensive set-up and I load 9mm, 38, 357 mag, 357 Sig, 40, 44 mag, 45, 50AE and for rifle I load 5.56 and 308 WIN. Being able to load my own ammo has come in very handy with the crazy shortages and outrageous pricing since Covid.
However, I get asked a lot, "How much can I save by reloading?" and I always say if you get into it ONLY to save money, you're making a mistake. It's a labor of love. It's a tremendous amount of work and requires incredible patience and attention to detail. The initial investment is large. You've got to enjoy doing it, and you've got to be very serious about it. It ain't the kind of thing you do with a buddy while bullshitting and drinking beer, unless you want to blow your face off, either at the bench or on the range.
Drinking goes hand in hand with clubbing, not so much with my other two hobbies. Lol
Of course this fucking state just outlawed new sake of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. More liberal democratic governors trying to out-stupid one another.
And he stopped off in Tushka at the Pop knife and gun place
Bought a SKS rifle and a couple full cases of that steel core ammo
With the Berdan primers from some East bloc nation
That no longer needs 'em
And a Desert Eagle, that's one great big old pistol
I mean, fifty caliber made by bad-ass Hebrews
And some surplus tracers for that old BAR
of Slaton's
As soon as it gets dark, we're gonna have us a time
We're gonna have us a time
Also, my eyesight underwent typical presbyopia since the time I was attending Uni. I have no idea how shooting with eyeglasses works.
i've seen paul mccartney, prince, metallica, roger waters from pink floyd, steely dan, the eagles, kanye west, lauryn hill, slick rick, big daddy kane, and others that i can't think of at the moment
Fredo often starts threads where he sounds like a reasonable ape. Talking about hobbies, food, music, etc.
This rick will even cut him slack on the obvious exaggerations like the stuff about meeting someone named “Bond James Bond” while skiing down K2. Yes, the part about Fredo and Bond defeating the Chinese Army strains credulity but…let’s just say that this rick understands that when your a divorce lawyer that fills out forms in crayon you gotta have a rich fantasy life or you go frickin’ insane.
But then he slips into the one-handed rage posts. Fredo…you are so close to being a good ape. All you have to do is avoid rage posts while jackin’ it. That isn’t a hard thing to do. Fredo…be the best Fredo you can be…be a Fredo that doesn’t jack off in rage. ROAR!!!
But stingrays aren’t that frightening. As a lion few things frighten me, but even normal apes shouldn’t be frightened. Some of my best buds are stingrays. I have it on good authority that the Croc Hunter Ape was seen putting his thumb up various animals buttholes in the area of the fatal sting. My theory is that the ray simply didn’t want a Croc Hunter thumb in the butthole.
Anyhoo…you wanna know a truly frighten creature to encounter while snorkeling? I’ll tell you. It’s the crown of thorns. First off, there are no echinoderms that can successfully wear a stylin’ suit. Think about it…have you ever seen a sea cucumber in suit? I don’t think so! How about a sea urchin? Nope! Trust this rick when he says no suits on echinoderms.
The inability to wear suits makes echinoderms surly. But you give a surly echinoderm some venomous spines and it turns into a true asshole. The Croc Hunter should have put his thumb up some echinoderm butthole except the crown of thorns would have killed him more painfully than the frickin’ stingray that just didn’t want to be molested.
Regardless, you get my point. Roar!
I also like muting retards on tuscl: based on antics in this thread I’ve added mate to the turd team of rickmacrodong, gammanu, and cjkent, all top 40 muted members. Banished to the phantom zone! You can keep talking but nobody hears you.
https://tuscl.net/top40?id=11
Video games
Riding my bike
Camping
I also like to solo hike (not climb) 14ers in the western states, but haven't had the chance to do that for many years