Ot: HObbies

Whistle_along_Cassidy · Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:58 pm

Hi all
hows it going, well anyways i wanted to know what some of your hobies are, besides whistle and tutting on a flute. Mine are playing baritone, trumpet, slap style bass guitar, normal guitar, classic cars, running, swimming, soccer, i usually go through a ramdom set of hobbies as the year goes by such as potato guns(which unfortunatly burned my eyelash off), water bottle rockets, skateboarding, surfing, etc. I also like listining to Jazz and, classic rock and roll, and Emo. Just wondering what some of yours are.
-andrew cassidy

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 5:11 pm

Well, my biggest hobby outside of whistling is NASCAR - going to races, watching races and stuff on TV, etc. It's wonderful. (And I have played my whistle tailgaiting at the races, to combine the hobbies). I also like to read, do counted cross stitch from time to time, play with my cat, chat with my nieces online, and travel when I can (not nearly often enough). I am also very involved with my church, but that's not really a hobby in my opinion, but it does take up a lot of my spare time.

Guess that's about it!

Beth

Tyghress · Post by **Tyghress** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:59 pm

Currently, machine knitting, counted cross stitch, candy making and stamping (not the postage kind...the rubber kind). In winter there is cross country skiing, and during the odd warm-location vacation, there is scuba.

Musically, the whistle and IrTrad takes a major portion of my life, but I also spend time with hammered dulcimer and NA flute.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:02 pm

Lurking.

I used to read a LOT before I got a computer...just starting to get back into it again, and am at present forming an acquaintance with Nabokov.

I haven't painted or sculpted in quite a while; ITM takes up much of my time and energy.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:21 pm

It's easy to have too many hobbies. I have a series of vid lectures on particle physics which I'm halfway through...and astronomy to follow that.
Is not tickling my fancy as much as the quantum physics/relativity series did though. I'd also have to relegate writing my book (though I consider it my avocation,) to the realm of hobby, since I've netted no profit as a writer.

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:37 pm

My wife says that my hobby is hobbies. I spend a lot of time researching our geealogy. I have traced a number of lines into the 1500s. I enjoy painting and in the past did some lapidary work. I still have some gem materials that I haven't got around to yet. Right now the whistle, genealogy and my church work is about all I can handle.

BTW my wife is also a rubber stamper. I thought whistles could be expensive. There must be something called StOA.

Ron

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:09 pm

Reptiles and currently Leopard Geckos. My avatars have reflected that interest since I started posting them. I also have in interest (that is currently fading) in bonsai. Basically I like naturalistic type things, plants, insects, that sort of thing. Photographing them as well. I try to keep 3-4 things going so I can cycle them as interest wanes or I catch up on the hobby's tasks.

msheldon · Post by **msheldon** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:14 pm

My hobbies tend to become jobs...

I do leatherwork as a part-time business, primarily collars for sighthounds (greyhounds and such).

I also work for greyhound adoption/rescue groups, primarily by promoting adoption at renaissance faires.

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:21 pm

I'm working toward building a working fusion reactor. I don't expect to make it a practical energy source any time soon, but I hope to be making detectable levels of neutrons in less than 20 months. Here is the web site that has been helping me get there; http://www.fusor.net/

Rod

Cai · Post by **Cai** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:00 am

I spend a good deal of time with a medieval re-creation group, especially with dance (I'm the dancemaster for our local group). I also have a tendancy to pick up various hobbies, try them out for a few months, then get bored, and move on to something else. In the past year or so, this has included brewing, video games, guitar, writing interactive fiction, skiing, and web design. Whistle playing also started out that way for me, but it seems to be sticking around longer than the others.

JohnPalmer · Post by **JohnPalmer** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:17 am

Mine are displayed under my profile. (I'm probably the only one on the board who shows them there

) Now I can't remember what's there...I'd better check.

JP

Zubivka · Post by **Zubivka** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:33 am

Nanohedron wrote:am at present forming an acquaintance with Nabokov.

So you have an acquaintance and gave her Nabokov to read for her education?

Now I understand what's your real hobby...

rbm · Post by **rbm** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 3:09 am

Bees, sheep, clocks, mandolin (building and playing) building and racing old stuff (see left)

and recently dodging doctors/mothers/mother-in-laws

MarcusR · Post by **MarcusR** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 3:31 am

Non music related hobbies:
Our kids, road cycling, hangliding and running.

I also spend way too many hours on CS even though it truly
ruins my flute, UP and whistle playing. Online gaming is very
addictive and 5 am is not a good time to go to bed when you
have to be at work by 8:00.

Cheers!

/MarcusR

illuminatus99 · Post by **illuminatus99** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:25 am

lots of them, a little sewing, online gaming, computer animation/graphic art, competition shooting (long range rifle and defensive pistol). home brewing (mostly mead), flight simulators, RPGs, SCA (used to do light and heavy fighting but I'm focusing on my merchanting now), and flute making.