May 18, 2008
list of my neglected and/or forgotten hobbies
Scuba Diving
Fencing
Beer Brewing
Record Collecting
Writing
Golf
Hiking
Playing Jazz Trumpet
Texas Hold’em
Fishing
Collecting Baseball Cards
RPGs (no, not the rocket launchers)
Chess
I couldn’t bring myself to get an estimate of total money spent, it’s just too depressing.
New possible time-sucks/money-siphons:
Typography
Genograms
Photography
Homemade Tea
Javascript
Rock Climbing
What are yours?
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Scuba Diving
Building PCs
Running
I didn’t ever travel enough to call it a hobby, but I certainly did more than I do now.
Incidentally did you mean tabletop, text, or graphical RPGs?
were you in Rushmore?
scuba diving
soccer
badminton
cross stitches
cycling
soldering
nintendo wii
rock climbing
perl
vinyl records
drawing
ping pong
flea markets
reading
fishing
chess
photografy
and my latest hobbies which i haven’t quit yet.. (but soon)
1970-1980s calculator watches
taking trips with my boat
stalking
(
…only thing I have time for)
I suspect it is why I love the film so much, Deron. I always identified with Max Fisher.
Harvard wasn’t my safety, however.
Andrew, eh — you’re talking about brewing tea at home as opposed to taking it at the cafe, yes? Or are you really and truly thinking of going in for cultivating camellia sinensis? There on the cool, misty terraces overlooking the Mississippi RIver.
I’d forgotten about the fencing.
My list is pathetically small:
Snowboarding.
Yes, that’s it.
golf
drawing
pretending to be a DJ in my room
Infocom text games for the Commodore 64
How infrequently does one have to re-indulge to count on this list?
Kayaking
Baseball
Fencing
Chess
Rock Climbing
Trumpt
Drumset
Backpacking
Biking
Martial Arts
how anyone could forget seeing simone hopping around in that fencing mask is beyond me.
my list:
drawing
tropical fish-keeping
swimming
sock monkey making
sculpting
irish step dancing
I am talking about cultivation and blending of herbs.
Andrew: I grow quite a number of different herbs each year–but I don’t use many of them for teas. I do use lemon verbena and various kinds of mint in teas–and once I even made a tea from scented geranium leaves that was very good. I mostly like to walk out and pinch a leaf from this or that to crush and smell. I love the smell of sage, for instance–and basil, and rosemary, and bay, and epazote….
[...] a potential hobby for Andrew I hope sticks. Making moonshine is making a come back, practiced by “whiskey geeks [...]
Daryl, I used to do that, crush and smell leaves, in my father’s herb garden as a kid and my recent fascination with beverages in flavors (hence the stint in wine and, now, coffee) makes me want to practice and apply some of my (meager) knowledge on the subject. Tea seemed like a good idea.
Neglected (only those activities dropped in the last fifteen years; I don’t want to overload the Internet)
• sewing – I own three sewing machines; I continue to buy patterns and fabric but haven’t finished a project since 2001
• knitting – still haven’t finished the stupid baby blanket I started in February
• drawing
• cooking – except for the occasional cake
• drinking – alcohol promptly puts me to sleep, so I avoid it except in lively environments
• reading – though I continue to acquire books at a rate far, far beyond my capacity for consumption
• writing letters
• windowsill gardening – my herbs always end up with bugs
• learning various languages – Dutch, German, Italian, ColdFusion, PHP
Current
• still flailing at learning French; intend to begin flailing at Norwegian and possibly Russian
• blogging, more or less
Forthcoming
• electronics
From the To Do List of India Amos: [insert date] — Begin flailing at Norwegian.