What other hobbies do you have?

Today's 65 degree weather has me counting down the days 'till my boating addiction gets a fix.

Alex

My new Black Kawasaki ZX6R is waiting at the dealership for me to pick up.

I'm a water junky too. I sold my boat just about a year ago, and while it was a good time for me to sell it, I am counting the days until I have another one.

My current hobbies pretty much revolve around the family. Heck, I went to an AKC dog show this past weekend, just cuz my girls wanted to 'watch the doggies run.'

When I do stuff for myself, I really enjoy golfing and guns (usually not together). I don't golf that well anymore, but I got down to an 8 in my prime. Guns. I love cleaning and shooting. I try to shoot once a week, but lately it's been like 2-3 times a month. Mostly like handguns, but picked up a long gun in the last few months too.
I recently got back involved with taekwondo again (took it on and off all through college), and do that 2-4 times a week.
I love scuba diving, but am pretty adamant about only going in warm water. I have a decent number of dives under my belt (just under 300), but don't go very often since kids.

There you go. Likely more than you wanted to know :)

What I do know is not to tresspass around your house.

I also still have my 23 foot Scarab which will also hit the water when the ice clears. Have to get my custom hitch made soon.

Autocrossing is about a 3-4 time a month hobby for me. That gets started in a couple of weeks. :)

Alex

Well, I'm totally comfortable using my guns, but I don't have them for protection nearly as much as I do for fun. I'd use one if need be, but I'd sick my wife on an intruder first. She can be really spicy for a little gal.

Electronics
Games / Video Games
Reading

Alex... tell me about autocrossing. I hear a lot of folks talk about it, but have no idea what it is.

Alex... tell me about autocrossing. I hear a lot of folks talk about it, but have no idea what it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocross

It's a friggin' blast.

Alex

I love our zoo, electronics, and my XBOX 360.

That Autocrossing looks cool.

Golf..live on a TPC @ Piper Glen. Only play once a week or so now but love the competitive Member Guest Tournaments here and in Scottsdale.

European travel..was married in Rome last year. Have to check out the European construction, kidding, most of those homes are built for centuries on a few decades like here. The construction repair deal here sure pays the bills though!

Food & wine..Cooking and drinking, some fun. Off to a wine dinner tonight! Redid the kitchen with the big Decor commercial unit to cook for our friends.

Gardening..you guys will get a few miles under you belt and begin to enjoy the strangest hobbies also!

Vehicles..fun stuff we can all relate to.

Business..On Wednesday evening the boys get together here and BS before going to dinner. Nice for a neighbor and I to try and help someone reach their potential business wise and not repeat some mistakes.

Bill

Sometimes I post on the Orange/Blue Site.

Boating, got a seadoo sportster last summer its a blast 215HP supercharged intercooled. bout 65mph on the water.
ATVing , honda 400ex, like racing and just trail riding
skeet shooting, travel

..you guys will get a few miles under you belt and begin to enjoy the strangest hobbies also!

Not sure if you have more miles on you than I do on me.

:p

Alex

Competitive Cheerleading (performing, as well as coaching and giving privates)

Web Programming (eh, always behind a screen, i know i know)

Soccer (used to be competitive..hardcore like)

Golf (pretty decent!)

Addicted to the gym (hopefully gaining about 25 lbs of sexiness before summer)

..and I just got an internship for the summer, so that will be fairly demanding, yet satisfying.


whew...how's that? :cool:

Ok, which one of you activated your AARP card first? LOL

Oh yeah, I forgot soccer too. I was an ultra competitive guy as well. Still play but purely for fun these days. Also an AVID college football fan.

Fight training (Muay Thai/Ju Jitsu/Russian Sambo)
Hookah (Its a middle easterners thing I guess)
HUNTING (i live for this)
Fly Fishing and Fine Cigars (great way to relax)
Women (hey I am not married)

Ok, which one of you activated your AARP card first?

Not there yet. If Bill's already getting discounted movie tickets, he wins.

Alex

Hookah, as in hookah pipe? We used to have a hookah bar here in Seattle and I loved that place. That is a very nice and relaxing thing.

That Autocrossing looks cool.

It redefines fun, for me.

Alex

Hookah, as in hookah pipe? We used to have a hookah bar here in Seattle and I loved that place. That is a very nice and relaxing thing.

What do you smoke in a hookah?

Alex

Nothing illegal. It's some sort of very mild flavored tobacco, smoked in a tall water pipe. And the autocross sounds totally amazing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah

Photography, hopefully some day after retiring from the service, I can turn it into a steady job...

Here is my website...

www.photoshelter.com/user/SFPHOTO

feel free to explore, over 3000 images...

:D Also, have to love the hubbly bubbly AKA HOOKAH pipe...it is flavored tobacco, apple, strawberry, raspberry, grape, etc..very smooth...spending over 2.5 years in Kuwait, UAE, Qatar among other countries, it is a custom you learn to participate in...while in Kuwait, I was given by a couple Kuwaiti Military officers a gold hookah pipe as a going away gift (I was returning to the states)...it is pretty cool

Other hobbies: Golf, the gym, driving, spending time with my wife...oooh...too mushy...:cool:

Play guitar, both acoustic and electric

Computers/internet, porn - just joking about the, umm, porn.

Good junk food

Beer

Avid body surfer, and professional bikini watcher (when I lived in Hawaii)

Used to be an obsessive gym rat about 3 years ago.. Now I am an obsessive speed freak

Used to read a lot, now I watch a lot of TV, and occasionally read

Gym - gym - gym!

Fast cars, Fast women... & 360.

alex: what do you drive when participating in autocross events?

Audiophile...More specifically I enjoy building and tuning 2 channel reference audio systems and rooms. When I'm not here, I spend a bunch of time on audiocircle.com.

Also, I make video games for a living, so that is more a hobby converted to a profession.

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alex: what do you drive when participating in autocross events?

My primary autox car for the past couple of years has been my e30, but this year it'll be used only in some secondary series' that I run in:

http://alextbaum.smugmug.com/photos/106065421-L.jpg


This year I'm co-driving this in the primary SCCA series I'll be running in:

http://teamwtf.smugmug.com/photos/134672126-L.jpg


Those are both pictures I took, which is my 3rd expensive hobby. :D

Alex

the jeep obviously
travel
partying
computers (not so much anymore though i do play an occasional game and will probably restart some of the ventures i had going soon)
guns (getting my ccw in about a week)
girls

used to backpack,play paintball, and ski but havent done them in a few years

Title II stuff, classic firearms, Trap & Skeet, Varmint hunting (PDs mostly), car shows, & digital photography

Alex... your C4 looks a lot like my '89 Coupe, same color. I was AutoXing with my '73 C3 vert. I was able to do well with a 350/4-speed against both the 454s and the little furrin cars due to the fact I had a wide ratio manual. On the short tracks (Seattle area) I could do it all in 1st gear. I had great acceleration out of the turns in 1st.:D

Speeding,Poker,basketball, switching cell phones & laptops every month.

Ahhhhh, another cell phone junky!! I love it. I do most of my buying through wirelessimports.com. Have a site to suggest for fresh looks at stuff?

I usually jump on gsmarena.com, check out the phones I like/want on there and buy them locally here in Chicago. There is a huge import market right here on Devon ave. Some of the stores are listed on that site. If you ever cant find something let me know, there are about 10 or 12 cell phone stores within a 2 block radius here.

Audiophile...More specifically I enjoy building and tuning 2 channel reference audio systems and rooms. When I'm not here, I spend a bunch of time on audiocircle.com.

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Se7en - Nice!

Have a site to suggest for fresh looks at stuff?

www.phoneyworld.com
www.mobileburn.com

r/c is a big hobbie for me, i have 1 nitro (hpi savage x) and 5 electrics (3 clodbusters and 2 stampedes) and im prolly going to get an on road car. i also like to go off roading, im currently rebuilding my 88 chevy pickup from last seasons damage and beefing the axles up to 3/4 tons instead of the half tons.

condom tester

Ahhhhh, another cell phone junky!! I love it. I do most of my buying through wirelessimports.com. Have a site to suggest for fresh looks at stuff?
Ready to trash the junk Treo 700w!
Anyone have a Moto Q?
Bill

Ready to trash the junk Treo 700w!
Anyone have a Moto Q?
Bill


Yup ... there is some weirdness with the blue tooth connection; a couple of seconds delay whenever receiving or placing a call (this could be a carrier issue but I suspect it is in the profile settings on the Q)

#1 Hobby: Running/weight training/fitness

#2 Hobby: Tournament Paintball -
Been playing for over 15 years, played Professionally for 2 years until real life kicked in and I started my career.

Here are some videos my team and I are in. It's awesome, I'll be able to show my kids someday what their Dad did when he was young. haha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-zUsQ-zxrE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOSr1j8wlM

#3 Hobby - Computers
I run a dual radiator, water cooled and overclocked setup with dual loops. Pretty extreme haha.

#4 Hobby - Cars!! =)

#1 Hobby: Running/weight training/fitness

#2 Hobby: Tournament Paintball -
Been playing for over 15 years, played Professionally for 2 years until real life kicked in and I started my career.

Here are some videos my team and I are in. It's awesome, I'll be able to show my kids someday what their Dad did when he was young. haha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-zUsQ-zxrE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOSr1j8wlM

#3 Hobby - Computers
I run a dual radiator, water cooled and overclocked setup with dual loops. Pretty extreme haha.

#4 Hobby - Cars!! =)
Nasty vids mango!!! Besides Cars, its Guns. Love goin to the range and cleaning them. I'm into alot of weapons. Knives, stun guns, etc. Also my dog!!!

Love goin to the range and cleaning them. I'm into alot of weapons.
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c314/Z06M16A1/LAGE3.jpg
These are fun!

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c314/Z06M16A1/LAGE3.jpg
These are fun!
I'm jealous!!! I want one!!!

AZ is machinegun, suppressor, switchblade, no-front-plate, no M/C helmet, no humidity*, no gators-in-the-pool*, no hurricanes*, no tornadoes*, and no snow HEAVEN!

*these only apply to FL folks!

Nasty vids mango!!! Besides Cars, its Guns. Love goin to the range and cleaning them. I'm into alot of weapons. Knives, stun guns, etc. Also my dog!!!


Thanks! btw that gun is SICK!