Working in our big year in the summer.
Sitting on the beach in the winter.
Reading all year.
And my newest hobby is carving little people.

Shooting
Reloading
Fishing
Travelling and Camping
Backpacking
Mountain Biking
Photography
Building the occasional model airplane

I run, too, but I do it because I should (keeps my core and cardio in shape and sciatica in remission), not because I like it, lol.

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And my newest hobby is carving little people.

Those are awesome!

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Those are awesome

They really are. Very cool. I wish I had an ounce of some kind of talent.

Traveling, Photography, Backpacking/camping, cooking.

Metal detecting; poorly.
Hiking; somewhat poorly.
Fishing; terribly.

Classical music

Reading (promiscuous). Currently rereading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series in order.

Old movies

Math. I was a math minor in college. I've found that working my way through new (to me) parts of mathematics keeps my mind off of disturbing current events, because it requires all of my concentration. It's matrices right now.

Fucking around on SigForum when it's way after bedtime.

Photography
Archery
Shooting (when I can find ammo)
Exploring

Other than the obvious choice of "shooting", I also actively engage in photography, musician (play bass guitar), flying R/C model aircraft and helicopters, plus I build and fly small and medium model rockets. The medium-sized rockets (aka "mid-power") use reloadable rocket motor hardware, dual event altimeter for deployment of drogue and main parachutes via black powder ejection charges, etc. In other words, it ain't no toy!

Riding motorcycles.

Building models and dioramas.

Repairing old equipment, with or without wheels.

Boring people with pictures of my hobbies.

Shooting
Reloading
Racing RC cars (not as much now reflexes slow compared to younger racers)

I like to build/repair/modify effect pedals and guitar amplifiers.

Homespun Effects

Guns, shooting, reloading, photography, reading.

Guns, cooking, car stuff.

Well, kind of a hobby…

Several months ago I began relearning SNOBOL4, an ancient, but wonderfully useful, computer programming language that I used in my engineering career many years ago. It ran on mainframe computers. I now have it on my MacBook and spend an hour or so every day with it. I really enjoy those sessions.

I went through the tutorial (twice), completed one simple project, and I’m now working on a more complex project.

SNOBOL:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL

Guns, guitars, boating and playing in/on the lake

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Collect militaria
Driving & waxing the Corvette

Fly fishing... don't start it, it's addictive like guns on crack.

Number one hobby would be hiking in the mountains. There was never anything better. I've been fortunate enough to hike in the Smokies, Rockies(Colorado and Montana) and Sierras(Yosemite and Kings Canyon/Sequoia). If the computer company I worked for in the 80's didn't have a training center in California I never would have made it to Sierras. Haven't been to the mountains in over 8 years now.

Tennis. Virtually every weekend I'm at the playground practicing against the backboard and hitting serves.

Drums. Been playing off and on, mostly off for 40 years.

Shooting. Too expensive these days.

Obviously guns and shooting are in the mix. I also tinker with woodworking and just general tinkering. I have a nice shop that is in total disarray and in need of reorganization and some work to get things how I want them or else I would do even more there. I have some really nice tools but free time seems to be non existent. I also love scuba diving and am starting to get into technical diving so that I can explore some of the deeper wrecks and stay a little longer. I am most passionate about wreck diving.

I like watches but I’m not quite as broad of a collector as I once considered myself. I really love the newer sport models that Rolex has comes out with so my focus has been in acquiring more of those - $$$$ unfortunately. I also like good whiskey/ whisky and like to pick up new spirits and try more and more of the rare stuff.

A little over 2 months ago I also decided to take up the piano. I have always wanted to learn piano but never actually got into it for one reason or another. I really want my now 2 year old daughter to learn the piano and I was thinking that this could be a really good daddy/daughter activity so that was what finally convinced me to jump in. I bought a nice entry level keyboard (88 keys, weighted keys, sustain, sostenuto and damper pedals, etc) and hope to some day buy a really nice baby grand piano as long as I maintain my interest. I find myself spending the better part of an hour a day learning and practicing the piano and that has kind of become my new passion.

So basically, just like most of you I have too many hobbies and too little time. Working in LE this past year has not made free time easy at all, so I really am hoping for an overall improvement in the next year or so, although that seems increasingly unlikely.

Shooting,
Fly Fishing,
Motorcycling,
Hiking,
Photography,
... and annoying liberals

Interesting, but hardly surprising that most of us have the same interests!