Thread: What Other Hobbies Do You Guys Have?

I've heard of their pies, but I didn't know Eskimo made rolls, too

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Good topic.
Lately for me its razors, creams soaps brushes hones and all that addictive stuff.
Besides this,
I like archery, especially traditional, although I am without a bow for the moment,
I am learning how to make cream soaps (I am a cheap bastard and Trumper cream is expensive....)
I like shooting , although the only thing I get to shoot much here in San Diego is a pellet gun; I have a No5 Mk 2 .303 collecting dust until I can take it out somewhere worthy of it, as well as various other firearms. String, what cartridge are you using for your 1000 yd meets? They just banned the .50 here in CA (communist bastards!) so that is not an option for me even if I were to find a range.
I used to smoke a pipe, and took one to Iraq. While there many of us bought hookahs from the Iraqis, along with the charcoal, and various flavored tobacco mush that one smokes in them (2 apple and strawberry were the most commonly available flavors) These things blow away any pipe or pipe tobacco I've ever owned, for smoothness(no its not THAT kindof tobacco!) although portability is a completely different issue.
I like camping, the more remote the better.
Barbecues
and Knives. I have so many knives it isn't funny, although I am slowly dwindling the collection; everything from cold steel Kukri's to keychain leatherman's. I'd love to try making them but lack both the knowledge and the equipment to do it right.
I am also a HUGE history buff.
I could type for an hour about this topic.
Guess I'm easily amused.
John P

Hobbies.

I collect children. Eight of them. Four by the usual method, four boys, four girls. Only one is still at home.

I like to solo jeep for long periods in the remote deserts and canyons. My friends think I have a death wish.

Languages; currently Greek (Attic and Koine) and French (fluent).

Classics (books written in Latin and Greek before about 400 AD)

Photography ( www.flickr.com/photos/utroorat )

Martial arts, fitness, biking, hiking, extended backpacking.

Doing my part to eliminate the world's beer surplus.

Durf

Not much time with school, but when I do have time I like working on my computer (hardware), pipes (collecting and smoking), reading about viruses, sampling/collecting scotches and wiskeys and sampling different cigars.

I am into coffee and music

I have been working for a coupl years to build myself a decent rig, focusing mostly on vinyl. Next I'm ordering a bottlehead DIY tube preamp, as I like the smoother sound of the valves.

And Ive recently started getting into coffee. I have 2 espresso machines (one fully automatic Capresso c1000 that I got for free on the side of the road.. it was missing an o-ring (thats a thousand dollar machine)), and some miscellanious equipment. I also home roast with a popcorn popper (don't laugh, it works well).

Now you bastards have me hooked on razors... Though atleast they can never be as expensive as my audio hobby.

I'm also into computers, run linux, build all my own stuff, etc. But that is a much more frustrating, and less rewarding task, so its barely a hobby

Ian

I am currently dating a girl right now that may be considered my high school sweetheart. Love animals, I currently have a stray mutt cat named Piasan. I also aspire to become a big game hunter, with my future Purdy's shotgun, and like my great uncle I would like to collect antique guns. I would also like to collect pre WWII officers uniforms, the traditional military aristocray ones, British, Spanish, French, Portugese, German, Austo-Hungarian, Italian, and Russian. Reading such classics from my book club, The Folio Soceity; The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, In Flanders Fields, and Heart of Darkness. I love enriching myself in the fields of American and European history (classical to modern), Astronomy, Algebra and Geometry, Politics (old and new), Economics, and Law until it became to dense. I also would like to travel widely, Europe, Africa, Asia. I am currently planning to learn to invest, as much as my meager salary. In the future I plan to attend a local college, and then attend graduate school at Yale, Harvard, Oxford.

If you could not tell, I enjoy living my life as an aristocrat of yesteryear.

Pat

Fly fishing in streams and tying flies. Backpacking. Hunting/shooting. Long range rifles. Reloading. Welding with stick and MIG. Classic Jazz

Monte

Hmm, not necessarily in order: Coffee, bbq, guns, reloading, cigars, metalworking (gotta build that forge one day), and sharp edged implements. If it weren't for those, I'd have money to burn.

Looks like some interesting people here.
As for me, its Shaving, Motorcycles, sporting clays, learning to play the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), photography, fly fishing (untill I learned it really hurts to get hooked in the mouth) , playing the guitar, and fixing things.