Other Hobbies

[Steve3730]

Home Brewing everyone's only hobby? What other obsessions do home-brewers have when they aren't brewing?

I train in Brazilian JiuJitsu, run and weight-lift.

Use to mess with fast cars too but got to expensive

 

[Skep18]

I mess with fast cars.

 

[Steve3730]

I mess with fast cars.

I had a 90 Mustang Notchback. nothing crazy 5 spd built motor around 400hp at the tires. Fun car to drive around

 

[Urban_Samurai]

I practice Kendo (japanese fencing), read, huge gamer. I also dabble in wood working.:fro:

 

[kombat]

• Running - I run 5 miles a day during lunch at work, plus occasional races during the summer.
• Squash - I play squash once a week
• Photography - I'm a part-time wedding photographer (to pay for all the fancy lenses), and I use the equipment and skills I've learned to take better vacation photos
• Star Wars Lego - Dunno why, I just love the stuff. I have a custom-built 8' long melamine workbench in my basement specifically for building Star Wars Lego sets. I've got a couple of the big ones, like the 5,000 piece Death Star, and the 3,000+ piece Super Star Destroyer that, when assembled, is over 4 feet long and weighs 8 pounds.
• Cake decorating - A few years ago, I was making a birthday cake for my wife, and realized I knew nothing about the different kinds of icing, or how to properly decorate a cake. So I took all 4 levels of the Wilton Cake Decorating course. Now I often make cakes for friends, relatives, and kids.
• Magic: The Gathering - I've got an extensive collection of Magic cards ($20k+) and travel to Gencon each year for 3 solid days of tournaments and geeking out. The rest of the year I participate in monthly tournaments, and the occasional casual game with friends.
• Flying - I got my private pilot's license through Air Cadets when I was a teenager, although admittedly I haven't been flying in a couple of years, due to the cost ($150+/hr wet to rent a little 1960's-era Cessna).
• Finance/investing - I'm interested in money topics, I've read several books on the subject, and I manage our investment portfolios.

Those are the main ones. I dabbled in woodworking, mat cutting, learning piano, circuitry design, and a few other things, but none of those really stuck. There's just not enough time/money to do it all. I'm a computer programmer as my day job, no kids (thankfully).

 

[bgm1961]

Radio Control Flying
Designer Board Games (NOT the kind you'll find at Walmart or Toys Are Us)
Sailing
Astronomy
Flying
SCUBA
Model Railroading
Woodworking
Photography
Cycling
Archery
Shooting

I think I may have adult ADHD!

 

[conneryis007]

rock climbing
skiing
motorcycles

 

[dstranger99]

I've had fish tanks since 1994.......Just 1 now with some African Cichlids in it.......

 

[insanim8er]

Drinking the beer after it's made

 

[50quidsoundboy]

modular synths

 

[Clarke]

I was big into Judo, now Brewing, calisthenics and bushcraft

 

[hunter_le five]

- Motorcycles
- Guns/target shooting/IDPA/skeet/etc
- outdoors (hunting/fishing/camping/hiking/etc)
- drinking
- video games
- curmudgeonship
- linking redundant threads to one another
- reading
- being antisocial (SWMBO made me add that one)

 

[j1n]

-Shooting
-Video Games
-Weight lifting
-Cooking
-Drinking

-Gave up motorcycles after my wife and mom begged me not to ride any more (had an accident).

 

[Gus_13]

- Golf
- Video Games
- Other sports
- Magic the Gathering TCG
- Movies
- Reading