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I do a lot of writing, well, I used to. Ever since starting my current job I've been writing less and less. This job can be exhausting. Anyway, I still like to conceptualize stuff, develop rough stories or outlines, even if I never work on them.
I used to build and paint models, want to get back into it. I have a huge model of an AH-64 that I've never built. Had it for like 10 years now. Models can be a bit of a trial, though. I've moved a lot and the two models that I still had (An F-18 and a MiG-29) ended up slowly falling apart bit by bit each move. It was too much to keep them together, so now I have no finished models. I'm leery about starting it up again until I know I'm done moving for a long period of time.
I do a little photography with my friends. They are really into it, I tag along sometimes. The most fun is when we do high speed photography. Can end up with awesome stuff of glass exploding, water droplets, etc. Got some cool stuff I can't look up while at work.
Been skating for almost two years, and just recently got really into it, and anywhere near half-decent at it. Only downside to skating is, as a young kid on a skateboard, most people assume I've just commited a crime, am about to commit a crime, or am thinking really hard about doing so. It's normally more humorous than anything, although it does get a little annoying when people go out of their way to be arseholes for no good reason.
Most definitely still worth it though.
Also gonna start swimming here pretty soon so I can become a superhuman.
Other than that, I play games, listen to tons of music, watch movies and I also like to create pixel art when the mood strikes me.
Haha yeah I got a longboard in March. I suck at it and, since I had a nasty road rash about a month and a half ago, I can't help but pussy out every time I see a hill now. I've sworn to get better at it at some point, especially since I have pads now.
And when I'm not doing that, I'm playing my bass, hanging out with friends, working out, running, or reading interesting books. Oh, I also play some videya games.
Also working out and reading for other non-internet related activities. Video games used to top the list, but I've been playing them less and less for a while now.
Same, wrecked trying a bs disaster on a quarter a month or so ago, dislocated my thumb (hardly a injury, but still) and bruised my legs and whatnot, and I've only just started to get back on the ramps. Keeping at it just worked for me, eventually your body'll get the point that it's not gonna break into millions of tiny pieces if you try to skate tranny/bomb a hill, or whatever.
Yeah, plenty of 800 and 1000 yards with my friend's Remington 700 milspec .308. He's got some great consistency with it and we've hit head sized targets at 1000 yards pretty often. It's a little tougher at those ranges outside because at my uncle's farm where we usually shoot the wind is almost always gusting.
Used to do a lot of shooting. Nova, if you are worried about cost there is nothing better to practice with than a .22. Or an airrifle, that way you can train inside your house. I shot a lot of .22 year round in high school and college and competed in service rifle two or three times a year and did just fine because of all the .22 training. You will also learn a lot about reading the wind shooting a .22 at 100 yards.
I have a Ruger 10/22 with some mods:
As well as a Lakefield (Now Savage Arms I think) repeater .22. I want to do long range stuff, I'm great with the .22 and .204, but I can't do either at 1000 yards.
EDIT: The scope on that Ruger has been replaced by a better Weaver scope with lower scope rings. Just don't have a shot that shows off the entire rifle since putting the new scope on it.
Other than that, I run, play video games, read lots, and dabble in the growing carnivorous plants.
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I might be there with the "Glitter Fairy Army," running in the 9AM heat.
Read, play action games trying to capture and relive visceral moments because my shitty knees no longer let me do cool shit in real life, learn about random shit, spend time with my gf, play a fighting game at the local arcade.
That's about all the stuff I have time for right now what with all the studying I have to do.
I started doing jewelry about a year ago, and I am enjoying it immensely. Looking into buying some tools so I can work at home over the summer. Recently I crocheted copper wire and finished a fine silver ring casted from a wax master I carved. From doing this, I have declared it to be a Very expensive hobby if your're serious about it. Good tools are not cheap, nor is any material/metal worth wearing.
Now that have a motorcycle, I started riding that in the evenings after work and on the weekends just crusin' without a particular destination on the hills and freeways. It's also my daily commuter for work now.
Still playing video & board games with my friends when we can sync our schedules and meet for some rounds. I am bummed that a once weekly occurrence of drunken game night has become a bi-monthly thing at best.
I have been meaning to start drawing again regularly. I dropped $texas on a Cintiq 20WSX and a second machine to drive it years ago, but it just sits on my desk, begging to be used and sad from being ignored.
Thats how I spend my time outside of work.
Uh.
I write and paint; and I go sailing from time to time in the summer, although these days I'm at the mercy of friends-of-friends since my family no longer has a boat. I keep a heavily planted aquarium (more for the plants than the fish, really) and grow all kinds of plants in the house. I run. I drink a gallon of sugar free soda daily. I spend every extra cent on travel (actually I'm already in debt because of travel expenses), mostly within Europe. I did rock climbing when I was younger, and I've been thinking about taking it up again while I'm still in reasonably good shape, if I find someone to go with me, although I'm clumsy as hell nowadays so I'll probably die.
Also, I'm optimistic about having things to do at old age. I know when I'm like 100 and too old to do anything in real life, I can just transfer my entire life to the internet and online games.
If it leaves you happy and fulfilled, sure. If it doesn't, well, I think you know where this is going.
If I'm not out in the woods, I'm usually at the playgrounds. It's a lot more productive, money wise, than the campsites and farmsteads, because apparently kids these days just go to the playground to throw quarters at each other. It's also a bigger hassle, what with parents giving me the stink eye and kids wanting to know if I can metal detect them. By the way, monkeybars = goldmines.
Nope. Considering this is an internet forum based on video games, I don't think anybody here would find anything wrong with that.
When I was a young lad going outside was something we did all the time I don't know why you younguns sit around all day- BANG!
It is a really good card game, I could see why people would sit around and play it all day.
Yeah I'm thinking if this weekend's weather stays good, I might just take Yvv out for a spin. She's a custom LongboardLarry Komodo Dancer, so not the best for hills but damn she can do some tricks and hills can be carved pretty easily. My neighborhood is ridiculously hilly, so I pretty much have to learn to carve. The trucks are nice Holeys, but they're so wobbly that going above 15 is difficult without a buttload of tightening. I found this out the hard way. I also need to break the wheels in so I can bust slides out for easier carving. But yeah, i just need practice and free time. And balls.
(it took me like half an hour of googling to find a pic that represents BJJ to people who don't know what it is)
Other then that, I do gardening in my front lawn and I recently started to learn to fish. I like to draw and paint off and on. I also golf sometimes.
It is amazing though when you first jump out of the plane and don't immediately have a sense of direction for the first few seconds. I loved it and have been looking at getting my license recently, as I can do the rest of the steps all in one go over the course of a weekend. And once you've got that it becomes much cheaper.
I'm not so much for the pilot side of things though. I just like the jumping.
Edit: Sadly skiing is not for me, I have issues stopping and turning which the side of a mountain is a bad thing.
Snowboarding I like though.
We also own a telescope (a good 6" dobsonian), and any time there's a clear night that we don't work the next day, we head out and stay out until midnight (at least) looking at the stars/planets.
Yeah, I never meant it that way, sorry if the OP came off like that.
I went to that kite festival for a few hours yesterday. Apparently I have a new hobby of getting terribly sun burned on my arms.
I also enjoy getting high and watching David Attenborough-narrated nature videos.
In addition, I have taken at least 1,800 medium-to-high-quality photographs of my cat.
I don't play any videogames anymore, which makes me sad. I worry I've lost a part of myself that was capable of enjoying the medium.
I play board games (such as BANG!) but not as much as I used to.
I write comedy. I'm trying to get enough material to do a small standup act. I'm constantly on the prowl for things to turn into jokes.
I code. I'm a programmer and enjoy making websites.
I am saving up for a camera so I can get into photography. I always want a camera with me.
I also want to read more.
I am a pretty big nerd, actually.
[EDIT] I also love collecting. Everything. Right now I'm big on movies, music, books, Beatles, and games especially. And gaming memorabilia.