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Stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
Trying to find the perfect blend of rum and water. often this experiment involves queso or chocolate.
Threatening young punks who get near my lawn.
Constantly checking to see if this "fire" fad has passed yet.
Barking at squirrels who get in my trees.
Walking dogs.
Taking care of TBone the Magnificent. This involves occasional rescues from behind the sofa, the corner of the kitchen, carrying him to his favorite bushes, and lots and lots of snacks. You know what happens with a ravenous wiener dog with alzheimers? They "forget" you literally just gave them a snack, or just drank a gallon of water, or just sniffed a tree (the other day we did a tiny circle and sniffed the same plant three times...wow).
IDPA or occasionally USPSA
Annoying my wife and daughter. I am very good at this. I annoyed my boy so much he up and runt off to college on me. So now I harass him over the phone.
Annoying hippy tree huggers and fellow Dakkaites who don't understand my true greatness.





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 Ahtman wrote:
I follow Frazzled around whispering "remember though art mortal", and when he turns to see who said it I hid behind a bush. That keeps me fairly busy.

Watch when I'm walking the dogs. Being a bush at that time might be a very bad move...

I enjoy shooting, but it has become so expensive lately that I don't do it as often as I would like. I also used to play paintball all the time but I haven't played in a while... as I've gotten older, I'd rather go have a beer with my buddies instead of running around in the mud and grass all afternoon getting shot at.
I collect LEGOs, mainly Star Wars but but I also have a soft spot for construction equipment... it is just something I never fully grew out of. I enjoy playing video games (PC, Xbox, PS3), mainly RPG and FPS, but I have been know to get a game of Madden or NHL in too. I watch football (Redskins fan, born and raised) and hockey (I am a watch-every-game Capitals fan, unless they are on the west coast and it's a work night, and even then I try to watch a period or two).
I have my cats, too. Gimli (tuxedo cat, runt of the litter), Chet (huge grey tuxedo, probably about 15 lbs.), and the newest addition, our kitten Tinkerbell (my girls named her). We had Pippin, a solid black little guy, very much like his namesake, but he passed away last year at only 4 years old.
I also like to freshwater fish, and I live by a bunch of branches off the Potomac River so there are plenty of spots to choose from.
I am an avid amateur astronomer and I belong to my local astronomy club (Norther Virginia Astronomy Club) and even though I live in the light-polluted suburbs of Washington, D.C., I live on the outskirts and I am only about a 20 minute drive to some decently dark skies. It is by far my favorite thing to do in my free time, weather permitting of course.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
My Cats

Gadzooks!

This should have been in my list too.

Damn it.

That's actually why we started shooting shotguns. Muuuuuuch cheaper than going to the range with a pistol.

There's always rifle shooting, but its usually only "affordable" If you can find some 22LR.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

My Cats

Guess I'm guilty of this as well!
Mind you, Stitch & Loki are easily savage and angry enough that even Frazzled would be impressed by their ruthless disregard for any form of life beyond humans! That, and Stitch has proven that there is a direct link between watching TV violence turning into real life violence... (well, at least it true fro cats apparently)

-Shrike- wrote:

Experiment 626 wrote:
Lego army building (mainly Star Wars Imperials)

Another Lego Star Wars fan? Awesome! If you don't mind me asking, how big is your Imperial Army?

Sadly my army isn't too big (yet) as I've only come out of my dark age over the past year and a half...

Thus far I've got;
Emperor Palpatine
Anakin/Vader transformation
General Veirs
2x Imperial Officers
3x AT-AT Drivers
8x 2010 Snowtroopers
2x 2012 Snowtroopers
2x Sandtroopers
6x Stormies
6x Scout Troopers
2x Deathstar Troopers
2x TIE Fighter Pilots (plus their fighters - thank-you 55% off @ Target!)
2x V-Wing Pilots (plus v-wings)
2x AT-ST Drivers
4x Imperial Astrodroids

Also got a few odds and ends of the PT stuff, like the ARC-170 fighter, but the OT Imperials are the ones I like to focus on! Really need more Stormies though...
At least this winter it looks like I'll be able to get some Royal Guards + Deathstar Gunners with one of the new battlepacks coming out. 6 Royal Guards should suffice!

Playing drums in a band.

Computer gaming (albeit not as much as when younger).

Video Gaming
Tabletop gaming
Hunting
Fishing

Those would be the four big ones.

Experiment 626 wrote: ...

Damn. That is a pretty good army. I'll put mine down here, but bear in mind that I have yet to buy any individual minifigures, all of mine are from sets that I own (this is because it's hard to convince my parents to buy individual minifigures for the high price they normally go for - it's actually easier for me to ask for the set they come in), so there may be a few odd multiples here!

Emperor Palpatine.
Emperor Palpatine hologram.
Injured Anakin (original variant).
4 x Royal Guard.
4 x Darth Vader (with/without cloak, light up lightsaber, Death Star torso).
2 x Grand Moff Tarkin (one has now become a generic officer).
General Veers.
Imperial Officer (6211 variant).
3 x Death Star Troopers (all the original variant, before the custom 2012 helmets! )
AT-AT Driver.
2 x 2010 Snowtroopers.
6 x Scout Troopers.
4 x Sand Troopers.
Tie Fighter Pilot (again, before the 2010 helmet!).
2 x Imperial Astromechs.
Imperial Protocol Droid.
Assassin Droid.
AT-ST driver.
10 Stormtroopers (6 pre- 2012, 4 2012).

I'm with you on the Stormtroopers. I still feel like I need more, but they're scarily expensive wherever I look - probably a case of high demand. And although I desperately want the Death Star Gunners, I don't really need an army of Royal Guards! First world problems - that's my fault for owning both 10188 Death Star and 6211 Star Destroyer...

EDIT: Damnit, it looks so scary when i type up a list. 47 Imperial minifigures... okay, that's a few more than I thought I had! (And that's nowhere near my full collection...)

Video games, fishkeeping, and also fishing though I don't get to do the latter anywhere near as often as I'd like.

I'm not sure if going to the movies counts as a hobby, but I'll go as often as every weekend if there is something good playing.

Cycling's my biggee, though I find I don't actually have that much time outside my social life for any actual hobbies other than wargaming/video games for the most. Seeing as my computer's bunked and its getting into the raining season (ie not summer here) I'm really just down to drinking and wargaming. =)

 cincydooley wrote:
My buddy is trying to get me into air soft. Does it run that much to play? Can't be more than shooting trap or skeet can it ?

Airsoft isnt cheap at all, i played for six years loved it until i moved to CA. Nothing but hardcore cheating kids. The hobby is fun since the guns are 1:1 scale and reload with a clip. A basic one will run 200 and up for a good one shooting at 315-350 FPS. Its always fun to play if you played paint ball its about the same. But you do not have to wear mask and the pain is much less. I would check out EVIKE.com.

 SheSpits wrote:
...and the pain is much less.

Sorry, but why else would you be playing such a sport if not for that? Got to have an incentive to not get hit other than a wishy washy, "you lose the game".

But you do not have to wear mask and the pain is much less.

Airsoft in the eye is still an eye out though, no?
The velocity is still similar to PB, even if the projectiles are smaller? Thats more lethal right?

Tabletop Wargaming. Which equates to both systems of Warhammer.

Drinking beer and listening to music.

I wear protective glasses. The pain isnt that bad it still welts you up and breaks skin. The game is played on an honor system. I gave it up because there was just to much cheating. When i was in NM we had a good number of players something like 120. I never delt with so much cheating until i relocated to CA. I enjoyed the game for the thrill of the hunt. We played in the forest and river creeks. I played alot of MILSIM, the UK is known to have the best airsofting in the world. Look up scouthedogie videos on youtube.


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 Ratius wrote:

But you do not have to wear mask and the pain is much less.

Airsoft in the eye is still an eye out though, no?
The velocity is still similar to PB, even if the projectiles are smaller? Thats more lethal right?

Paintball keeps the FPS under 200 anythin higher then that is hot. I had a DMR shooting at 650 FPS on 35 gram bb's Hitting targets at 300 feet away.

 Ratius wrote:

But you do not have to wear mask and the pain is much less.

Airsoft in the eye is still an eye out though, no?
The velocity is still similar to PB, even if the projectiles are smaller? Thats more lethal right?

General rule is that you have to wear sealed eye protection at a minimum - I wear a full face mask like this, because getting hit in the face sucks. But, most fields allow you to wear goggles.

Being the paranoid feth I am, I've have to go with a full helmet; masks or goggles just won't do it for me.

Reading: Can get through the average HH novel in 1-2 days

Cars: Haven't been driving for long, but really interested in new car releases, mostly helped by Top Gear.

Fencing: Been doing that for about 4-5 years now, really enjoy it.

Gaming

Guitar: Have been learning for about 2 years now, got a Squire Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul, and my father has a 1974 Gibson L6-S Midnight Special

Sex

I haven't got the time for any other hobbies. So until the ps4 releases d3 with the expansion i'll be at work.

Ha ha kids are great

My hobbies?
Aside from wargaming,

Scuba diving,
Snowboarding,
Shotokan Karate,
Bushcraft,
Cooking,

Although in a few months my main hobby is going to be changing nappies....

Favorite hobby is building and shooting modern sporting rifles. Also have been wrenching on my 1985 s10 with a gm performance 350 for a while now. Had it running at the beginning of summer, but then the exhaust needed to be redone. Hope to start working on it next weekend. I've been doing 1/24 cars, 1/48 ww2 airplanes and 1/35 armor models for about 25 years.

Blacksmithing

Computer "Techie-knows-what" stuff

Walking

Historical models

In order of importance:
Drumming
Painting models
PC gaming
Tattooing
Arguing on the internet

Sadly the majority of my time is spent on the last one because it's easiest

Honestly, i don't have a lot of time for any hobby, including wargaming due to job and family.


Reading ... i try to play some videogames, though the time for that has become nearly zero ... light home repair / upgrading.

I used to be into personal fitness and Kenpo karate, but a spinal injury years ago makes that pretty difficult now.

My favorite hobby at the moment is hunting down the people who stole my miniatures. Everything else is just brooding.

 xole wrote:
My favorite hobby at the moment is hunting down the people who stole my miniatures. Everything else is just brooding.

You sound like batman.

Firearms, but there is never enough money for that. I want to get into reloading and shooting competitions.

Other than that, a lot of my free time has been spent preparing a business plan and getting ready to start my own business.