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Music-I've played bass for over 20 years and also do a bit of six string strumming as well.

Horror-Movies,books,toys,models,...everything about the horror genre interest me...particularly zombies (as if most of Dakka didn't already know that.)

Cooking-It's a tradition in my family for the men to be good cooks,we compete for bragging rights.

Target shooting- Same as above.

Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

FITZZ wrote: Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

Really? I've never seen your battle reports!

BloodQuest wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

Really? I've never seen your battle reports!

Any battle report I wrote would definitely qualify as a horror story...especially since I've lost my past six games...and two of those losses were to my nine year old son.

@Fitzz: I envy you having a son. My 3 year old daughter is fascinated by my RoB table and dice, but something tells me Barbie and the like will probably seduce her before too long.

One of the other things I'd love to do before I shuffle off this mortal coil is Falconry. I think that would be very cool.

FITZZ wrote: Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

Where? I want to read some of this stuff!

BloodQuest wrote:@Fitzz: I envy you having a son. My 3 year old daughter is fascinated by my RoB table and dice, but something tells me Barbie and the like will probably seduce her before too long.

One of the other things I'd love to do before I shuffle off this mortal coil is Falconry. I think that would be very cool.

I defiantly consider myself blessed when it comes to my son and am truly enjoying the time that he still thinks his old dad is "The coolest guy on earth",My Daughter (whom I adore),is 11 and well on her way to thinking everything me and her mother does is "embarrassing."


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Monster Rain wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

Where? I want to read some of this stuff!

Well...most of it is written down in various notebooks around my house.
However...if you'd care to get a bit of an idea of my writings (although greatly limited) you could check out the zombie RP threads here on Dakka.
I may just go ahead and drop one of my short stories in Dakka fiction though.

Watercolour and acrylic painting, running, motocycles, adult movies involving dwarfs, cycling and collecting spores moulds and fungus.

FITZZ wrote: Music-I've played bass for over 20 years and also do a bit of six string strumming as well.

Horror-Movies,books,toys,models,...everything about the horror genre interest me...particularly zombies (as if most of Dakka didn't already know that.)

Cooking-It's a tradition in my family for the men to be good cooks,we compete for bragging rights.

Target shooting- Same as above.

Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

Its amazing how you forget what you do Cooking, horror movies and writing is also on my list.

corpsesarefun wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Music-I've played bass for over 20 years and also do a bit of six string strumming as well.

Horror-Movies,books,toys,models,...everything about the horror genre interest me...particularly zombies (as if most of Dakka didn't already know that.)

Cooking-It's a tradition in my family for the men to be good cooks,we compete for bragging rights.

Target shooting- Same as above.

Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

Its amazing how you forget what you do Cooking, horror movies and writing is also on my list.

...And of course that would stand to reason.

FITZZ wrote: I may just go ahead and drop one of my short stories in Dakka fiction though.

I fully endorse this!

Nope, don't have any. I used to play yu-gi-oh, but it got rediculously expensive,so I stopped playing.

FITZZ wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Music-I've played bass for over 20 years and also do a bit of six string strumming as well.

Horror-Movies,books,toys,models,...everything about the horror genre interest me...particularly zombies (as if most of Dakka didn't already know that.)

Cooking-It's a tradition in my family for the men to be good cooks,we compete for bragging rights.

Target shooting- Same as above.

Writing--I spend a great deal of time writing short horror stories.

Its amazing how you forget what you do Cooking, horror movies and writing is also on my list.

...And of course that would stand to reason.

I need to pick up music and target shooting though dyspraxia makes both challenging

Reading
P&P RPGs
Reloading/restoring old rifles/shooting
Recently taken up running and working out in general ( I hated it at first but now, even in the snow and ice, I enjoy a good jog)

Model Rocketry. Fething awesome, especially when you remove a fin on purpose to see the thing go crazy all over the city park.

Pathfinder Role Playing game
Classic Battle Tech
Painting miniatures for the above.
Fishing
Various computer games (Usually turn-based strategy games)
Reading (Going through the Horus Heresy books, now)
Playing Wii with the wife
Chasing the cats around the house

I'm into music in a big way but I'm waiting til my mid-life crisis kicks in before i learn guitar.

I read and watch films. A lot of these 'films' and indeed mini series'ssss aren't chosen buy me and are usually set in the distant past and involve some long drawn out love interest or a boy who is in an orphanage. His struggle to find his way in the Victorian (?) times is usually epic to the point of farce. Personally i don't see why Blackadder series 2 isn't a good compromise.

I would probably still be mountainbiking but I have a daughter to burn all my disposable income off after buying plastic toys from GW. Mountainbiking is cheaper than having kids. Just. Racing? Forget it, kids are cheaper to run.

I also collect cars it would seem. I now own 1/3rd of my fiances as she hasn't worked for about 18 months which is a useful bargaining tool. I suppose that would make blackmail a concurrent hobby to car collection.

I go online to forums and blether nonsense when i should be painting.

I like to rant until everyone has left the room and I finally get peace.

Soladrin wrote:

Peter Wiggin wrote:

Soladrin wrote:No, that's just a waste of money

Oh and I forgot video gaming... though that's more of a lifestyle then a hobby XD

Hmm, what if I don't spend money on it and grow my own?

Waste of braincell's? I know what that stuff can do to people, I've had 2 friends in a clinic because they became addicted, and yes, it is an addictive substance, just not physically, mentally is another thing though most people leave that part out.

That said, I smoked the gak for 4 years, and then I became 18, so I could actually just legally buy it at a coffee shop, and I became bored of it (what a suprise there). Then I did shrooms for 2 years I think, same ending.

Now I don't touch anything except an occasional beer etc.

I do work with the stuff though lol, I work for the biggest herbal drug supplier in the country

I'm actually in the behavioral health care sector and spent quite a bit of time working with addicts. Also, I'm a trained addiction counselor. I've never seen someone sell their body for a joint. Just doesn't happen.

Mental/Physical addiction is an outdated term. Anything that has an effect on the mesolymbic pathway is habit forming because it gives you a dopamine surge. Thats everything from smiling to shooting heroin.

Physical dependance is a different bugger altogether. When you cross this line you are no longer "getting high", you are "not getting sick". Withdrawal is obscenely painful and in some cases (Alcohol and benzodiazepines) fatal.

That being said, just picked up 2 more free plants today! My garden is so pretty. Now I need neem oil though. :(

P.S. Legal ftw! Don't break the law kids.

Well point is, prostitution is also legal here, so yeah, you actually do see that happen here (horay for red light districts)

And I actually sent off about 500 seeds of white widow today :3

Astronomy, reading at the beach avec les bieres, thinking dirty thoughts about most of the women I see, exercising, cooking, rescuing kittens and sleeping.

Khornholio wrote:Astronomy, reading at the beach avec les bieres, thinking dirty thoughts about most of the women I see, exercising, cooking, rescuing kittens and sleeping.

Does thinking dirty thoughts qualify as a hobby?...I thought it was sort of like..well...breathing.

Painting, modifying my clothing, drawing, cleaning the paint off my pants, sculpting, music.

FITZZ wrote:

Khornholio wrote:Astronomy, reading at the beach avec les bieres, thinking dirty thoughts about most of the women I see, exercising, cooking, rescuing kittens and sleeping.

Does thinking dirty thoughts qualify as a hobby?...I thought it was sort of like..well...breathing.

Yeah, isn't that one of those primary brain functions?

Soladrin wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Khornholio wrote:Astronomy, reading at the beach avec les bieres, thinking dirty thoughts about most of the women I see, exercising, cooking, rescuing kittens and sleeping.

Does thinking dirty thoughts qualify as a hobby?...I thought it was sort of like..well...breathing.

Yeah, isn't that one of those primary brain functions?

I've taken it to the next level.

I believe that's called spanking the monkey.

hmmm... parkour, guitar, video games, tantalizing my brother, eating, thinking about eating, thinking about thinking about eating, remembering to breathe, and sports did I say eating...
hmm yeah that sums it up

I'm thinking about taking up aikido...

I always wanted to try scuba.

Scuba is awesome. I have made several dives in the lake near where I live, and 3 ocean dives.

EpicMoose wrote:tantalizing my brother

Ewww.

writing scripts and comedies just for the hell of it.
I am also a big map maker. And am going to release it soon.
Use to play mage knights.
Also Play Video Games Professionally
Also Love making new and interesting things,
Also Do Parkour, the usual for a teenage kid.
But I outright refuse to watch anything on the internet except youtube videos. I am fine with comedies.
I like messing with people, I call it a skill.

I spend some off time jumping rooftops in the nearby developement... It's easy once you get the hang of it, but you have to do a pull-up every now and then, and the kiddies in the backyard wonder why they see a 5'1" midget dangling from their shingles.

Anyway, it's fun when you don't slip and fall into the bushes.

That and Video Gaming. I'm ok, not great, but I can best the average gamer on a slightly off day. Though I'm pro casual gaming...