Hobbies (Other than this one)

Just curious if yall would share some of your hobbies. Clearly we all enjoy the wonders of wetshaving, but i am sure that there are other hobbies that are enjoyed here.

I'll start... My wife and I like to go geocaching, its an outdoor sport-ish activity. We have our two dogs, and we often take them to hiking trails and let them run, and we hike. In good weather I like to ride my bicycle (casually), otherwise I do a lot of tinkering with stuff. I like to work on old stuff that may or may not need fixing.

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Originally Posted by paulallen

Just curious if yall would share some of your hobbies. Clearly we all enjoy the wonders of wetshaving, but i am sure that there are other hobbies that are enjoyed here.

I'll start... My wife and I like to go geocaching, its an outdoor sport-ish activity. We have our two dogs, and we often take them to hiking trails and let them run, and we hike. In good weather I like to ride my bicycle (casually), otherwise I do a lot of tinkering with stuff. I like to work on old stuff that may or may not need fixing.

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Sounds a lot like me. I've always been interested in geocaching. I'm told that there are spots in DC. But lots and lots of hiking.

Also like tinkering. I find that if it didn't need fixing when I started, it usually does by the time I'm finished.

j

I enjoy shooting,

Book collecting,

Mostly though I spend my free time training and breeding Germsn shepherd dogs of European working lines.

Shooting and collecting guns
Collecting knives and swords
Building AR-15's
Working on cars
Hiking
Camping
Hunting
Gardening
Playing PS3
Collecting vintage tools
Collecting Guinness trinkets

Hobbies you ask, i sometimes think i have too many, but they are what really let me relax when i need it most (i started a small business 5 months ago so lately i have been needing them more often). here is my list:
1. custom motorcycle building, everything from ground up builds to full restoration i love it and have been doing it since i was a kid (my dad has been a bike mechanic and builder for about 30 years) i would also put amateur bike racer but time and money have been a fator as of late so i haven't been out on the track in a couple years.
2. playing guitar and writing music, i was the weird guy in high school who was always playing his guitar in the hallways, and loved it.
3. i played soccer and football and love all sports and outdoors and i know that isn't really a hobby but for me it seems to be.
4. i recently bought an 8 inch reflector telescope and have been reading a lot on astronomy and all that neat stuff, it is surprisingly relaxing and very calming to sit for a couple hours and stare into space, for me anyways.

thats all of them. straight shaving is my newest but i am positive it won't ever really go away (although when i turn 100 i maybe go back to the DE for safety sake).

magic and just starting to get into real cigars

1. Camping and fishing

2. Guitar and other misc stringed instruments

3. Disc golf

I don't have much time for other hobbies LOL. I have built a database to keep track of every str8 I have, it's condition, if it's been shave tested,etc. Between taking care of the blades and updating the database I don't have much time for anything else.

During college I was really into building PC's, overclocking, and gaming. These days, I still find time to game a bit, but my computers are pretty much all built and tweaked. It's finally cold enough outside (or, I'm used to the cold now), so I'm going to drop my room temp a bit and bump up the overclock on my main rig soon. I mostly play driving games (Logitec Momo wheel/pedals), but I enjoy a good first person shooter or RPG as well (not online).

I really like to read, but I don't have the time these days.

I download and watch TV shows. I don't start a show until I have a full season, and then I go straight through. I'm currently watching Season 1 of Bones, and I also watch the 2008 WRC.

I like a nice cigar or pipe, but I'm not really sure I'd consider that a hobby. Maybe it is...

When I was in high school, I used to mountain bike a lot, but the bike did not come to college with me and it is not at my apartment now. Used to hike a lot in the summers; I climbed 30 of the 46ers over the course of... three summers.

I enjoy driving, but I wouldn't consider it a hobby. If I still had my old Volvo, I'd probably be out in an empty, unplowed parking lot with some cones, but these days I'm driving a Civic, and FWD is no way to drive in the snow.

shooting my guns, cigars, rock climbing, golf, and chasing girls.

Hi all
Play guitar and write songs, and tinker on other instruments; concertina, mandolin, drums...
Tai chi
puppetry. I do a great Punch & Judy!
Dannyr

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Originally Posted by Doc

magic and just starting to get into real cigars

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I hear that they are much better than the fake ones. :rofl2:

paintball - specifically stockclass speedball but I'll play anything
reading - lately Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and a book about pre-Columbian America
making shaving cream - I'm trying to perfect my recipe

Off road bicycling, on road bicycling. Pipes, pocket knives and guns at various times and making noise with an acoustic guitar. (I wouldn't call it playing the instrument)

Collecting/Shooting Firearms,
Enjoying a good cigar & cognac,
Straight Razors, and
Tinkering in general…..

I'm into:
Pipes & tobacco (including making pipes)
Wood working
Book collecting
Book binding
Playing recreational men's hockey
Indoor rock climbing
Road cycling
Car repair / chainsaw repair / small engine repair
Guitar
Tractor restoration (want to get into this, been reading about it for years).

Mark

Hmm, let's see...

1. SCUBA diving - I'm heading to Cozumel for a week in February; Jaques Cousteau called it one of the best dive spots in the world.
2. Skydiving - just started a few months ago, absolutely awesome!
3. Hiking - I've really not been hiking much lately, sadly, but it'll always be on my list.
4. Computer programming - granted, it's a part-time job and I'm studying to be a software engineer, but it's a hobby, too!
5. Fountain pens - I have a tiny little collection, with more ink colors than pens. They got put on the backburner when I got into razors.
6. And, naturally, razors.

I think that's about it. A few years ago I was traveling in Germany right after graduating high school and the first thing a kindly man asked me when we met was "What are your hobbies?" and to my embarrassment I couldn't come up with a single one! I think I'm in somewhat better shape now.

Tractor restoration (want to get into this, been reading about it for years)

I've got a 1852 8N that you can practice your painting skills on. :tu

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Originally Posted by Wildtim

Tractor restoration (want to get into this, been reading about it for years)

I've got a 1852 8N that you can practice your painting skills on. :tu

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1852? I thought they used horses then? :rofl2:

(You mean 1952, Ford 8N, right?)

Mark

Those old Ford's are great. I used a 1940 Ford (no idea what model) for quite some time.

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Originally Posted by Milton Man

1852? I thought they used horses then? :rofl2:

(You mean 1952, Ford 8N, right?)

Mark

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Yes/ color me embarrassed:o

1940 would be a 9n

Rubik's cubes. I can't get enough of them. I carry one with my most places now, works great to pass the time when waiting in line and such. I also like other twisty/permutation puzzles. I can only speed solve the Rubik's cube though, any other puzzle I do pretty slowly by comparison.

I'm also a PC/Console gamer, and have been since I was 5. Always loved em.

Programming, I usually have some side project going. 3D programming is probably my favourite.

Photography, but it's not too often that I see a shot I like.

Quantum mechanics, though it's not as much of a hobby, as I don't know the math behind it.

Camping in the summer. Collecting and shooting guns. I don't have any guns I cannot shoot.

My hobbies (random order): working on my salt water fish tank, smoking cigars, playing golf.

Not to mention, spending time with my friends and family.

! play guitar (1972 Gibson SG, 2003 Blonde Fender Strat with Bill Callaham pickups and other bits, 1962 Hofner Verithin, Hohner Gruhn acoustic, Fender Tweed Deluxe Amp, Zvex Nano Amp)
I also make Fuzz Face pedals which work just like the good ones they made by accident!! Hendrix liked them!!
I enjoy local, social and my families history. One of my ancestors was a disadent of Cardinal Woolsey - my fella won! And never ever follow my folks into a war, we get into the worst conflicts.
Fishing,hunting shooting,walking, metal detecing, moaning about life, collecting Welsh and Chinese pottery, pre 1850 oak furnature, snuff, swearing (US= cursing) so my wife says and music.
M

I mess around with guitars; I have several but can't claim to "play" them, it's more like play with them. I also collect, and do some fountain pen repair. R/c modeling (airplanes) also takes up a bunch of my time.
Lots more interests, but those are the ones that get most of my time.
Ken.

- I'm pretty hardcore cyclist, I ride a recumbent bike, which is a whole other niche in cycling. I enjoy fixing and building up bikes, I used to race mountain bikes and built all my race bikes from scratch.
- I mess around with airguns, I have a Baikal IZH-46M target pistol and a Beeman rifle. Not really a good shot, but killing cans is always fun.
- Fish and soon to be boating, my Dad gave me his little rowboat, which will hit the water as soon as the ice melts.
- Most winters I like to do some cross-country skiing, the more challenging the trails the better.

That's about all I can think of right now.

I like walking a lot - not hardcore trekking but a 7/8 hour walk over the kind of peat moors you get along the Pennines in northern England suits me fine. I have a border-collie dog - not sure if you can count having a dog as a hobby as such but she's a massive part of my life and walking seems a bit pointless when there's no hound scouting out the path ahead. Apart from walking and hounds, I'm really into comics/graphic novels (but not really superhero stuff,anything from Krazy Kat to Lost Girls via Joe Sacco and Love & Rockets), folk/traditional music, twiddling the handlebars of my moustache, amateur theatre, art/illustration with dip pen and gouache. The two things I don't do but must do before I die are sailing (just something like a dinghy or laser would be fine) and bee keeping.

EDIT - oh and I'm an armchair fan of many sports but especially football (soccer) and cricket.

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Originally Posted by guildofghostwriters

EDIT - oh and I'm an armchair fan of many sports but especially football (soccer) and cricket.

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Did someone say football? I'm watching my favorite team right now!

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Originally Posted by bpave777

Did someone say football? I'm watching my favorite team right now!

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Aye - well I was watching them. I thought they played pretty well after conceding two early but it's not a good result! Not my team but I live here so I'm gonna be surrounded by miserable reds all Christmas (including my missus), especially if my team don't do you a highly unlikely favour tomorrow at the Bridge.

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Originally Posted by guildofghostwriters

Aye - well I was watching them. I thought they played pretty well after conceding two early but it's not a good result! Not my team but I live here so I'm gonna be surrounded by miserable reds all Christmas (including my missus), especially if my team don't do you a highly unlikely favour tomorrow at the Bridge.

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Yeah I'm not counting on any favors from the Blue's, especially against a 16th place team.