[akoch]

Used to be flying, dirt bike riding and windsurfing. Now it is trials riding and windsurfing.

 

[MarkM]

Hunting, handloading, competitive silhouette shooting.

It's the other side of the same addiction. If I am thinking about a new guitar, I don't think about it. If I am obsessing about something with it, I am happy with my guitars. We are a strange species!

I really got into 3 gun, IPSC and dabbled in PPC, which means I had too get into reloading, and maintaining firearms.

 

[morepowder]

I really got into 3 gun, IPSC and dabbled in PPC, which means I had too get into reloading, and maintaining firearms.

With handguns, I started in bullseye and PPC. This was 30+ years ago when I lived in NS. Grew up there.

I tried IPSC but being able to “miss fast enough to win” didn’t grab me. Fun though!

I have never tried 3 gun but see the appeal.

Where I live in BC has the best rifle silhouette club in Canada so it was an easy hobby to pick up.

 

[Paul M]

I MC the performances of my local community concert band. I consider myself a member of the band. I go to the rehearsals to absorb the music. I research the biography of the composers, the history of the music, and try to find a compelling story to the music.

At the performances I introduce the pieces in a way that, (I hope), invites the audience to listen to the music in way that they might not have, had I not given some background or perspective to the music they are about to hear.

 

[greco]

I like to repair/rewire basic guitar circuits.

I drink too much red wine.

These fellows (and others) keep me busy. I don't ride anymore, just exercise them and do basic training from the ground.

 

[Sneaky]

Wine. Drinking it, not making it. We have cellared a modest amount since 2008. There’s nothing like a 10+ year old good quality red.

I started cellaring back in the 80’s…

 

[Grab n Go]

I'm super impressed with everyone's hobbies/passions.

I picked the stupidest type of music to be interested in, so guitar it is.

(Yeah, I have kids.)

I don't consider lifting heavy things a hobby. It's just a form of self-medication.

I do some outdoorsy stuff once in a while, but not often enough to call it a hobby.

(I tried outdoor climbing earlier this month. Definitely a learning curve. I climb like a dumbass.)

When I want to escape, I game. I try to play the hard Souls-like stuff. Once it starts feeling like work, I just give up... and go back to playing guitar.

 

[elburnando]

Add collecting vinyl to my list. I usually buy a few or more every month. Ill be upgrading my setup next year, too.

 

[mhammer]

As a retiree, it's hard to differentiate "hobbies" from the workday. My time is spent building and repairing my own music gear and occasionally other people's. As the principal cook in the house, grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning up after occupies a lot of my time. Unfortunately, writing on forums does too. Then there's the yardwork.

I really need to take on Swedish Death Cleaning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_death_cleaning ) as a hobby. I have a couple of walls of reading material that probably needs to go, and way too many speaker cabs. I'd hate for my wife and kids to be saddled with the cleanup.

 

[Choo5440]

Board games/pc gaming inside
Hanging out with the dogs outside
Beer and whiskey in either place

 

[zontar]

Other than guitar my hobbies include: bass, mandolin, keyboards, listening to music…

and reading.

 

[MarkM]

I like to repair/rewire basic guitar circuits.

I drink too much red wine.

These fellows (and others) keep me busy. I don't ride anymore, just exercise them and do basic training from the ground.
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I was sitting in my front room a couple Sundays ago and caught some movement in my yard. Turns out it was a horse, three of them in fact. They were just grazing away. My bride got on the Bookface , turns out they were a friends horses from about 4 miles away that had escaped. I grew up around horses so I knew how to approach a horse and managed to slip a dog lease around two of them and hold them until the neighbour could get her horse trailer hooked up and hauled them home. My bride and I quite enjoyed our morning.

 

[Paul Running]

 

[cdntac]

I’ve gone through a number of hobbies over the years. Some I felt I reached a point where I sort of reached a peak and couldn’t do any better and then lost interest.

Some turned into money-makers. Lol.

I used to do a lot of astronomy but not too often anymore. I did go out to my observatory the other night though and had a look at some star clusters.

I also used to do a lot of photography. I’ve had pics used in many books and publications around the world. I suppose technically, considering what I achieved with some pics, I could have been called a pro photographer but to me it really was just a hobby.

This is the major one where I really felt I hit a plateau and eventually began to lose interest.

Plus nowadays everybody is a photographer. Lol.

I’ve had conversations with people who tell me they’re a photographer. Where have you been published? I have an Instagram page! I have a website! You can buy some of my photos there.

A friend and I were paired while golfing this summer with a nice couple and the husband mentioned he was a photographer who sells his pics at local events. After listening to him brag for a while about how good he was I eventually subtly dropped the names of a few publications and a world renowned institution where some of my pics currently hang.

It was a dick move but it had to be done. lol.

Golf is another major hobby. Health now prevents me from playing as often or as well but I can still play pretty decently.

Last year I started flying RC planes. They’re fun but expensive to fix.

I’d upload a vid if I could figure out how to. Lol.

 

[Paul Running]

Last year I started flying RC planes. They’re fun but expensive to fix.

I started with the powered planes and switched to the sailplanes; less crashes and you learn to fly by the wing instead of the motor. Some think of it as boring however, it can be quite a challenge if you are trying to stay aloft in thermals for more than an hour, especially if you've high-started at only 250 feet...you don't have much time to catch the first thermal at that altitude.

 

[Paul Running]

A friend and I were paired while golfing this summer with a nice couple and the husband mentioned he was a photographer who sells his pics at local events. After listening to him brag for a while about how good he was I eventually subtly dropped the names of a few publications and a world renowned institution where some of my pics currently hang.

This works instantly (the Matt Foley method):

 

[cdntac]

I started with the powered planes and switched to the sailplanes; less crashes and you learn to fly by the wing instead of the motor. Some think of it as boring however, it can be quite a challenge if you are trying to stay aloft in thermals for more than an hour, especially if you've high-started at only 250 feet...you don't have much time to catch the first thermal at that altitude.

I came to the conclusion that the less expensive $300-$400 planes that can be belly-landed are just as much fun for me.

Without an RC plane club nearby — and really flat, good landing areas — we take off and land on quiet roads but it’s tough to get proper visual perspective when making an approach and landing gear subsequently gets busted with hard landings.

Tossing and belly landing is easier on the wallet.

 

[GuitarT]

Anything outdoors, camping, hiking, hunting, fishing. I've been involved in various shooting sports on and off most of my life. Was an avid downhill skier for many years but that chapter seems to have come to an end, as has cycling. I've enjoyed playing weekly Pickleball for the last few years. I'm also a fan of Crosswords.

 

[oldjoat]

I'd hate for my wife and kids to be saddled with the cleanup.

painfully aware of this issue ... and also plan to make things easier when I snuff it ...

have been giving away boats/motors / fishing gear and other useful stuff that I seldom use these days.

 

[cdntac]

painfully aware of this issue ... and also plan to make things easier when I snuff it ...

have been giving away boats/motors / fishing gear and other useful stuff that I seldom use these days.

I’ve been doing the same thing lately.

About five years ago I found some forgotten military insignias from WW2 that a neighbour had given me in the early 80s. They had belonged to his brother who was a Lt. Colonel.

I contacted a military heritage organization who wanted them and rec’d some replies but nobody told me where to send them.

I subsequently forgot about them and recently re-discovered them again.

I’ve contacted the organization once again and I guess I’ll just wait and see what happens.

Otherwise, when I’m gone my wife will likely sadly just toss them.