Nice. My wife and I did a lot of traveling pre-COVID, and have not yet gotten back into it.
In 2013, my college roommate and I did an “Old Guys’ European Tour” to celebrate our 60th birthdays. Much different than traveling with family. We are both history buffs, and I have a particular interest in WW2. Our first stop was Berlin, where we spent a few days exploring WW 2 museums, tours, and sites, followed by a focus on the Soviet era. Then we spent a day in Buchenwald touring the concentration camp, which also had a Soviet-era role that most people don’t know about. For the first time in my life, I overloaded on WW2 and post-WW2 history and started to mentally shut down. Our last stop was a couple of days in Prague. I told my friend, “We’re going to Prague and we are going to drink beer and we are not going to even think about WW2.” That’s what we did and I have very fond memories of Prague and its people.
I’ve had many over time; motorcycles, airplanes, offshore sailboats, music listening, shooting, straight-razor shaving, many more; however, my three main hobbies have always been playing and making music, writing software and videogaming, and I took a huge 30 year break from music, which I deeply regret.
My main hobbies are so time consuming that they kind of push everything else aside. Still licensed but haven’t flown a plane in decades. Not currently licensed to drive anywhere in the world, either. Don’t need it, never renewed my license.
hey y’all - i have been a bit quiet on here lately because as of this morning I have just finished my Furniture Design MFA at RIT - I have posted some work before but here are a few images from my show, (unfortunately a little bit of a tight space):
I enjoyed reading the thesis as well and found it very helpful in understanding the work more from your intended perspective. Very cool. I really like the ‘light as material’ vs. function, and, although the exposed cords make me anxious (vs. how much energy I spend hiding cords all over my house) I really like the originality of utilizing them as part of the art vs. as their simple function that is normally hidden. I have not seen something like this before.
I used to collect hobbies. After having kids, I had to put most of them on hold. The only two I continue to do are making music and collecting vinyl records.
Before kids, however, I was heavily into Warhammer. More so the painting aspect of it due to various time constraints and such but I was really proud of my painting skills. Even won some local painting competitions. Never won the Golden Demon award but still.
For those unfamiliar, you assemble and paint these tiny figurines (some larger than others. The first two are just under 3 inches but the Heldrake is quite large) and then there is a table-top game that goes along with them. Very deep strategies and very challenging to play. The game has actually been around since the early 80s and has developed an amazingly unique sci-fi universe around it. Heck, the games Warcraft and Starcraft were direct ripoffs of Warhammer’s designs and characters.
Very nice! I was in to 40k myself though I did have some from Fantasy Battles. Sadly, no pics, but I had a solid Grey Knights/Inquisition force, and a much larger Tau force, with a few Eldar thrown in too. Was considering a Slaanesh chaos force before bailing
Nice! I actually started with a Dwarf army in fantasy then did a Thousand Sons army for 40k. Then started building a Mechanicus army. Never got the chance to finish that one before my first kid was born. I fully intend on getting them into it once they’re a little older.
Like others here, I enjoy the very fun (and expensive) hobby of collecting vinyl. Also I enjoy gardening. Mainly for food though. Last year we had over 120 kg of tomatoes, so apart from eating everything we could, we processed tomato sauce for about a years use. Cooking and baking is also interests of f mine.
I also enjoy the WH40K universe a lot. Only books, not playing tabletop.
@John_E So rock climbing is usually done with a rope. The lead climber is tied off and climbs up the rock. He/She then places pieces of protection into the cliff as they climb and clips the rope through that piece of gear. If they fall the second (the person on the other end of the rope) uses a friction device to lock off the rope and stop the fall.
I grew up with traditional rock climbing where you placed gear as you went. Usually metal wedges that were placed in cracks in the rock. Most of my teenage years and twenties was all in on climbing. I lived next to the sea, so we would climb the limestone cliffs.
Sport climbing is the same but someone has drilled into the rock and placed a metal hanger which you can clip into much the same as traditional gear. It was done to try and protect routes which were hard to place traditional protection.
Bouldering is climbing but without ropes and generally closer to the ground. Climbing boulders. They usually involve a series of technically difficult moves.
Soloing is rock climbing but with no ropes, aka Alex Honnold.
