Does anyone have a hobby?

[thehotpepper.com]

Not professions that you do as a hobby, like music, or film, but actual hobbies... RC car racing, crochet, pottery... I don't know.

[DEFCON Creator]

Competition shooting (antique and modern arms), paintball, the perpetual quest to get the Mustang under 10 seconds, oh yeah, and future ruler of Earth.

[Cap'n Bones]

Surfing, skateboarding, and collecting Hot Wheels cars.

[JayT]

I like hot sauce. Oh and beer.:onfire:

[ross]

i like to shoot things. watch racing, golf, and drag racing. drink beer, scotch, and gatorade. play the guitar. assemble computers.....

[ross]

i like to shoot things. watch racing, golf, and drag racing. drink beer, scotch, and gatorade. play the guitar. assemble computers.....


by "things" i mean clay targets and sometimes ruffed grouse.

[bubbaschili]

cookin chili has engulfed my life

[Pam]

Not professions that you do as a hobby, like music, or film, but actual hobbies... RC car racing, crochet, pottery... I don't know.

Well, gardening is my hobby. I grow peppers because it's fun to try all the different varieties, sweet or mild as well as hot. And I plant butterfly gardens for myself and other people, plus I'm helping a local Revolutionary War park (Historic Camden) grow period appropriate flowers for the Cornwallis House.

Oh, and I like to track down and try quality dark beers, and I do some doggie rescue.

[ross]

Oh, and I like to track down and try quality dark beers

awesome!

[hector]

I like practical shooting... mmm... and I love camping too, I go camping every time I can.
I also help at a few community schools and farms in my area when I have time. Right now we're setting up a small farm for a community diner.

[Denio]

Hunting.. upland game.. shooting sports.. member of the Ca. SxS Society..
http://www.casidebysidesociety.com/index.html
Gardening and an occasional round of golf

[Shooty*]

I'm pretty much the same as Ross, actually. I'll shoot things when able (rifles, archery) but don't get much chance. Happy to watch sporting events with a beer. Computer assembly and gaming. Star Wars. Reading. Ski-ing. Guitar. Collect Smashing Pumpkins vinyl and rareties when I come across it.

[texas blues]

Does homewrecker/heartbreaker count? My gal says I should consider going pro.

[thehotpepper.com]

I'm trying to drink a beer in every state, made by that state... just kidding, but that's a good one!

[ross]

I'm trying to drink a beer in every state, made by that state... just kidding, but that's a good one!

north or south dakota (forgot which, maybe both) would require you to actually go there, as they have no bottling facilities.

[willard3]

Fly-fishing, fly-tying, skiing, road racing, chopping firewood, blues playing....

[dreamtheatervt]

I play a lot of poker and backgammon - would like to play backgammon for cash sometime - football wagering, football (used to be a coach, my former boss is the offensive coordinator for the SF 49ers), keyboards, and greyhound advocacy. Who'd guess I was a chemistry geek?

[Pam]

awesome!

Life is too short to drink cheap beer.

[xgrafcorex]

mine include keeping arachnids (mainly spiders), reptiles (just snakes at least for now), drinking beers (i try just about anything i can and try to keep one bottle of each type of beer i've had), photography, playing guitar and listening to music, cooking, graffiti and other art, some video games..though i haven't really played much at all the last month or two, watching movies, and i guess that's about it.

[Shooty*]

my former boss is the offensive coordinator for the SF 49ers


Can't they fire him if he's so offensive?

To add to the list: Photography. and, I suppose, cycling and walking as we do that a fair amount. you know, like, hiking, but on a UK scale (5 - 10 miles a day)

DreamTheater, you from SF originally?

[dreamtheatervt]

DreamTheater, you from SF originally?

Nope, Pennsylvania originally. I've never been near California.

[imaguitargod]

I'm going to have to post later...too many to type up right now.

[Shooty*]

Meh. Just wondered, when you refed the 49ers.

Someone in my office is from Oregon, I just found out today!

Which is where Oregano comes from, I am told...

[chuk hell]

Does drinking count?

I guess music is a hobby for me because we make almost no money at it....not in it for the money, really.

[DevilDuck]

I twist wrenches on my old Z for fun..and sometimes not for fun. Recently, my wife and I got into keeping a salt water fish tank (...and that's a lot of work in itself!). Of course, growing peppers and making sauce, although I hope to be able to go pro with the latter one of these days. Beer is a fun hobby, too!

[xgrafcorex]

any pics of the tank DD? i was going to set one up a few years ago and decided it was too much work and money so then i needed something to put in my tank...thats when i got my first tarantula. :)

[DevilDuck]

No pics of the tank, at the moment. It's an all-in-one (self contained) 26 gallon Eclipse tank. I just had to take my clown fish back to the fish store because he was stressed all to hell. Besides, not much going on in there... All that's left is a Yellow Tail Damsel and a Bi-Colored Blenny...who hides out on one of the rocks.

I have a Coral Beauty on hold......I can't wait to bring him home!

It's really not all that much work, but more so that a fresh water tank. Weekly water changes, water testing, watching the bio load on the tank...it can add up.

[DEFCON Creator]

Hmmmm, "Bio-Load"....Sounds like my morning constitutional. LOL!

[Dan@BLP Labels]

My hobby is boating, water skiing and sailing. We are on the water about 4-5 days a week in the summer. My wife and I race C-Scows on Wednesdays and Sundays with the local yacht club (technically it's a drinking club with a sailing problem) and the other days we are skiing or lounging in the MasterCraft. I did just start a new hobby of gardening. We will see how long that hobby lasts!

[Sickmont]

Hmmm...where to start....ok, how about anything involving Cars(except NASCAR), drinking(beer and gin), music, guitar playing, anything involving motorcycles(yes, Harleys and crotch rockets and dirt bikes) an occasional bar fight or two(they get tougher to bounce back from when you get older), knives, some guns(mostly pistols...i LOVE my Ruger P90), serious mountain biking, occasional stalking, self-loathing, and my all time favorite....i love to tape hamsters to my thighs and run naked through laundromats!

[Pam]

.i love to tape hamsters to my thighs and run naked through laundromats!


Film at eleven?





Please?

[Pam]

Recently, my wife and I got into keeping a salt water fish tank (...and that's a lot of work in itself!).

I do fresh water tanks, and I use the plural because I maintain the two at work, too. I thought about salt water, but I like the simplicity of fresh water. I just like sitting and watching the fish, I don't want anything fancy or expensive. Although I did get my hands on some Glo-fish awhile back, and they were fun.

[LUCKYDOG]

Were fun Pam ????

[Pam]

Were fun Pam ????

Sadly, yes. And I'm still bummed about it.

We have a pretty deluxe water filtration system here at work, but when it was serviced a few months back, they sorta forgot put the filter back or something. Anyway, I did the monthly water swap, and we discovered that no, it was *not* removing the chlorine from the water the hard way.

[DevilDuck]

Pam... Use Ro/Di water, or get a few gallon jugs of filtered drinking water at the store. It's a reverse osmosis filtration process used on the water to get rid of things like chlorine, and it keeps the bad algae to a minimum.

[Pam]

Pam... Use Ro/Di water, or get a few gallon jugs of filtered drinking water at the store. It's a reverse osmosis filtration process used on the water to get rid of things like chlorine, and it keeps the bad algae to a minimum.

Well, when the service technicians, the guys who are supposed to be the experts, actually put the filter in the unit instead of beside it, it worked beautifully. No chlorine or other nasties in our water. I even have a distilled water tap here in the lab, it's just that the other water was always safe.

I do let it set over night now, just in case...

[imaguitargod]

Ok, here's my list: Fencing, sword fighting, nun-chuks, gun handling/ marksmanship, western style gun spinning, magic, golf, hacky sack, impressions, pinball, airhockey, fooseball, street hockey, rollerblade, horseback riding, lock smithing, photo manipulation, comic book collecting, guitar, bass guitar, drums, hamonica, hordiculture, OBE and lucid dreaming field research, esoteric research, poetry, writing (scripts, reviews), professional drunkard, distiller....umm....that's all I can think of right now.

[Shooty*]

ooooh, fencing. Wanna try that.

"lucid dreaming field research". Translation: Getting stoned off your tits and seeing what fancy dreams you have?

[imaguitargod]

ooooh, fencing. Wanna try that.
It can be tough. I self taught, uh, myself about 6 years ago and it payed off. It got me some work in The Girl Next Door.

"lucid dreaming field research". Translation: Getting stoned off your tits and seeing what fancy dreams you have?
Sometimes it involves that. It's the ability to be awake during your dreams and controlling them.

[xgrafcorex]

Sometimes it involves that. It's the ability to be awake during your dreams and controlling them.

sounds interesting. i've had a number of dreams i was able to control or influence while they were happening..but sometimes things don't always work out as i had initially intended. :lol: a handful of times, it seems i can control some of what happens..then other things happen (i guess influences from things that really did happen, or that i saw/heard about.)

[texas blues]

Dreams while awake? Hmmmmm..I smell spliff.

[Shooty*]

Better description would probably be to be AWARE during your dreams.

Personally, I find that as soon as I think "Ah, I'm dreaming. Right, cool, bring on the dancing girls", the act of realising that I am dreaming is enough to wake me up :(