Hello, I was curious as to what other Hobbies or Interests do you have that also take up much of your time, energy and money or is Audio the only one for you? Being a car enthusiast is definitely my first passion. Always reading about new cars and lusting after some classics.
For me, besides my interest in building a Audio System in the past few years, I am also a Car Enthusiast and Amateur Photographer (actually I hate using that term, more like a photo enthusiast because I consider myself a novice). All 3 Hobbies have taken much of my time, energy and money. Sometimes I look back and think, wow, what have I done? Could have saved all that money and time. So I guess I should list my gear if I am talking about other hobbies: Cars:
2016 Mustang GT 6 Speed (weekend car, a few modifications) and 2018 Subaru Forester XT (Daily Driver). Obviously both are performance oriented.
Camera Gear: Nikon D750 with Kit Lense, Nikon 50mm 1.8 Lense, Tamron 14-24MM 2.8G Thnx
@mijostyn No need for anti-depressants. It's not chemical. Thanks for your note. Yeah, I like working on the house. Fed up with how our country is headed. I hate property tax. How do you ever retire? 20 years would equal over $200,000. Where do you get that? No wonder the elderly are bagging groceries. Friends in Europe don't pay property tax and with free healthcare have no worries. US has got to change.
cars, a long. trail of Porsche iron culminating in an X-50 running 1.4 bar. Miss the 993 the most, shopping for a 356 for beach running and as a portable hedge fund.
boats are just tools for killing fish. Welded aluminum, even the beach is afraid of it. I fish remote places between WA and AK but love Northern BC. The goal is fish 40-50 days a year.
We eat good. We drink well. Patrons of the arts, we invest in young artists. We sponsor films ( see Maury Island Incident for grins ), pro bono consulting for a few small manufacturing co. Capital / VC funding advice for a micro brewery, standup paddle board co.
I read, nothing Neo RepubliKLAN. I make time for work mentees, meeting with a solid core of ten each quarter. They are the future.
Dad to an ancient Labrador
investor in a recording studio
I shoot my german air pistol now and then, nothing like a falling Phesant from a fine double, or a very very long elk shot with a fifty cal blackpowder rifle you built with your dad..
I like to teach classes for FEMA. I use to be a professional bowler, but a car accident change that. Love my two dogs. I also play the highland bag pipes.
I do track events in my 944Turbo S track car I've always been into sporty cars over the years Just sold my 96 Porsche 993 Turbo, but still have a 78 911 SC for Sunday drives. The 993 turbo was insane!! I think track cars are like high end stereo equipment. If you can't walk up to your track car, throw a match on it, set it on fire and walk way, you shouldn't be in the hobby
Books Comics Records, CD's and stereo equipment Home Building, and Maintenance to include related stuff like plumbing, HVAC, and electric, and alternate energy Woodworking, including tools and acquiring and restoring vintage woodworking machines Travel Antiques Art Visiting museums Natural History Might take up gardening again
'What does jerryasv do when he's not pestering Us?!"
Primary activity: Co-owner with spouse of our business, designing/building/installing custom wood play structures for mostly commercial clients, and residential ones for those who can afford us.*S* The latter start at around 5K$ IF you're in the local area. They're unique. We have a commercial project pending later this year at 450ishK$ 1 hour away....we don't commute when it's that size....
Hobbies: Well, my DIY audio stuff and periodically annoying y'all....and others 'elsewhere'. A certain amount of time is spent 'lurking', learning when y'all get technical, having a good chuckle at y'alls' expense at other times....;)
I used to bicycle a lot, later onto motorcycles. Since I'm 'of an age' where I've become a tad 'friable', I drive a Focus SEL like the refugee from LA, SF, and Houston that I is.... In an era of 'combat traffic'...I play 'high-speed chess'. But I refrain from pushing my limits and that of the car. And I'm wary of you. 'Nuff said.
Always been a fan of cars, growing up in the muscle car era. Personal tastes in the genre' is F1, GP, rallies (EU and such)....NASCAR and Indy is boring.....sorry...but not much...
I enjoy tinkering/building things outside of the business' scope. Speakers vs. wood makes for a nice Ying/Yang balance... Grew up around tools; parents and older brother (all deceased) all worked at one time or another at Douglas/McDonnel-Douglas/Boeing. "Watchin' them planes....wish I was on one...." *S* I have aluminum in my blood, along with plastics and other exotics. Would like to investigate 3D printing metal....but have worked with a rather varied range of tools, machines, and such. Have a background in commercial graphics...signage, ID graphics, print medias....
Art, good food, reading, home and garden this 'n that, the occasional movie, live music if something compelling hits in the area, pestering the dog, annoying the 'red-headed dream' spouse for 40+ years (yes, she retaliates) all in good fun....
We're not much to look at...but likely, you aren't either. So there. *L* ;)
When we're off on an 'out of area' install, we take a break and 'speed tour' wherever we are. Sample the local foods, public arboretums, museums....
Not much of a 'conventional' sports fan....great for selling beer, cars, and whatever gets hawked in the midst of it.....
...and you're likely bored to tears....so go have a beer..*G*😆
Golf - trying to get more distance and hit it straight
Landscaping - trying to keep up
Boating - I have a boat
Cycling, walking, core excercise
Audio - trying to stop the bleeding
I am 4 years retired so I consider those activities to be my job and some my passion....if the market doesn’t bottom out soon working might top that list!
To begin, I should state that I am a retired 70 year old. Living on 40 acres in a home I built. Much of my time these days is in property maintenance/improvement and keeping the trails open.
I work out 3 days a week and take a distance walk when time allows. I own a motorcycle, don't ride it as often I once did. Love microbrewerys.
In the past I was a runner, a target archer, and backpacker. Still participate in these activities somewhat, however not often.
Have been enjoying audio as a hobby more since retirement. Have two systems, one in my small dedicated room and one that gets rolled out on the back deck.
Jay, go out and get yourself a Honda CB1100 and stop worrying about it. You'll be fine. Get to the gym. The Turbo S is faster than anyone needs in a street car. The PDK transmission is sort of bland in street use. The C4S is more fun on the street. On track it is the other way around and I am toying with the idea of turning it into a track car. All it needs is a roll bar, track tires and a re tune. Mc, I stuff it last night. Tying up a stuffed pork belly is quite a chore I always swear I'll never do it again. It has been sitting all night in the fridge. The skin is salted and in the fridge it dries out which helps get it real crispy. It also picks up the flavors in the stuffing. Onion, Apricots, Parsely, Tyme, Sage, Bread Crumbs, Honey and Salt. Corelli, Google the Stelvio Pass and look at a picture. There are 48 switch backs and each one is numbered. Going up is easy and the people cheer you on as they drive by. Going down is scary. You pick up speed fast then you have to brake hard for the turn. If you see a bus coming you have to stop or you will get squished against the inside rail. By the time you get to the bottom your hands hurt from all the braking. It is a 12 mile descent. God bless Campy disc brakes.
(1) Cruising in my JAGUAR XK8 ragtop with my fave tunes on .... so I can “boogie while I buggy “..
Great relaxer for me with the top down, the sun on my face, the wind in my hair, (... bugs in my teeth ?) (2) GOLF .... a hobby name that is an acronym for Game Of Lifetime Frustration... ( sigh)
A few hours of music listening everyday. Each day looks like this: 2-4 hours of pickleball everyday 2 hours of tennis 3 times a week couple hours of ping ping 2 times a week bowling (league/practice) remote control sail boating card/dominoes play 2.5 hours each day, weekends are up to 5 hours of play. I used to waterski the slalom course 5 days a week up until I got 2 new knees, so we moved to a 55+ community that has all of these sports/activities everyday Sports car enthusiast
reading - mostly non-fiction skiing - even in NC lol riding hiking photography - lots of photographers here - interesting walking my crazy 3 year old lab helping my wife when she is trying yet another wild recipe that turns out great going to live music/theatre volunteering at local theatre as an usher
Collecting porcelain insulators (yeah, the doo-dads on the electric pole)
Locomotive airhorns (yeah, got a compressor and air bench for testing and repair, neighbors love me, my wife sometimes not so much, cat has gotten used to it)
Care to guess what that is in my avatar? (hint: 110db@100’)
California has lots of rifle ranges, at one of which I not too long ago did some shooting, both rifles and handguns. If you've never held or even seen a 45, they are bigger and heavier than you think! Wore ear protection, of course ;-) .
zardoz, it is a fact that married men live longer. Something about being hen pecked I believe. Vegas, why would you want to live in California or NY. Puff, locomotive airhorns? Must have a gas problem. Toot Toot. Geoffkait, I just knew it. The little reels go round and round, round and round. Easy rider.
I play with toy trains (scale MTH and Lionel), old cars ('66 Corvette right now), some music (guitar, drums, bass, etc.--horrible on all of them), and dream of having a Hammond B3 and 2 147 Leslie's (that I can't play either).
Hmm, interests come and go. I am in a period where some old hobbies have come back into view after benign neglect, and other beloved activities have been set aside for child-rearing duties. I have a 2006 Ural Retro in jet black with pin-striping. No imagined vehicle handles worse...no rolling vehicle is more fun. I threw pottery for 7 years, but nothing in the last four. Too busy to finish converting a shed. I did the wiring for my kiln, but plumbing the outdoor line is insane and still need to weatherize the space as well, ugh. But our table ware is all by yours truly, from plates to pitchers. Voice lessons once a week. Mostly show tunes, but some opera and musical miscellanies with occasional pop or rock. Interesting wine, by which I mean juice with some barn yard funk, minerality or maybe some transverse winds working their magic on a pinot.
Cooking whatever moves slower than me, especially a lot of fresh produce from our garden., where the artichokes happily over-wintered and look large and threatening—in the good sense of the word. The Traeger is well-loved, as is my high-powered range. Speaking of which—antique copper vessels, retinned and returned to service. It’s a kick to cook out of 200 year old pots, knowing some future soul will use these when I’ve gone back to dust. I can rip through an antique store in about 5 minutes, looking only for some exceptional piece, planished, perhaps by an illiterate master craftsman from Norway or a wine-sotted Norman. Poetry—reading and writing. Peet-laden single malts. Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Talisker, arranged here alphabetically and not according to preference. Rummaging through record bins and discovering another gem of a vinyl shop in my town. Museums, concerts, travel. An occasional trip to the Sea of Cortez where an old Mexican captain knows just where the yellow tail hunker down. His wife filets out the white meat and vacuum packs it for me. Got a freezer full of hamachi to last me till the next trip. Some prayers to my Maker, and chatting up the neighbors.
Bedding down my wife, who a couple decades in can still bear me in the bare. Movies and Netflix. I hop on the treadmill and watch till my legs say no. And music, glorious music, salve of life, balm of existence, pouring magically out of a few capacitors, voice coils, and spinning black wax. Because the world remains a place of mystery.
Awesome thread, good window into folks. For me, now living in AK it's all about fly fishing for monster trout, epic hunts and backpacking. Just upgraded powder snowmobile to one with 167 hp and weighs 415 pounds. XC skate skiing. Always been avid cyclist, roadie in the old days owning a custom 753 CrMoly and first Dura Ace, built in UK, now mainly mtb both here and in AZ where we keep our truck camper for boondocking and riding my Ibis. Competed and won at photography club in major US city. 37 years a geophysicist (lots of wave theory and digital processing). Always trying to improve my brisket. Homebrewer. Oh, and listening to music...winter is the listening season.
Nice to hear about everyone’s lovely bicycles- mine was recently stolen. I used it for getting around NYC and had it highly tricked out including a cirrus bodyfloat seat suspension. My new new hobby should be planting a decoy bike to catch the MF’ers.
And since there are Porsche fans and owners here, I’ll tell you about my odd choice of car. Since I live in the city and am lucky to be able to have a car at all, I needed something somewhat practical. I discovered the Targa 4S model (now a previous generation) that actually had a usable hatchback. It’s such a rarely purchased model it took me 6 months of extensive searching to find the right very low mileage one (11500 miles), and had to buy it without seeing it in person and shipped from Wisconsin to NY.
Having a hatchback, I’ve gotten a bike in the car with the wheel off, air conditioners, a 49”LCD tv in the box, and used it to haul equipment for smaller film shoots.
After a recent scrape up and and then having several panels repainted, I’m planning on wrapping the entire car in 3M paint protection film. Still trying to decide if I should learn to do it myself as it’s quite costly.
Incidentally, I found the car listed for sale on Craigslist.... but in Dubai! The second owner had it a few months but didn’t want to pay to register the car and was attempting to sell it outside the country. Took me months to get it registered.
And my most expensive “hobby” of all..... Filmaking. Makes audio look like a bargain.
Hobbies! I love hobbies. I’m into Hams, aged American and Spanish acorn fed hams Vintage European sports Cars, I have 1970 911s, 1974 BMW 2002turbo, and a 1963 Abarth Monomille. Records, mostly African and gospel these days but could be anything you wouldn’t hear on the radio. Making pizza. Probably could go on but I’ll stop here.
Akgwhiz, you have to trust me on this. In order to make the absolutely most unbelievable brisket you have to do it Sous Vide. 72 hours at 130-135 degrees. Same for Corned Beef Brisket or bottom round except a little hotter 140 degrees. Once you get into this you will never look back:) Emailists, as you have noticed the 911 is the original sport utility vehicle. Wrapping a car is not easy and it takes a while to learn. The biggest panel I have ever done is a hood and hoods are relatively easy because they are flat. Once you start getting into curves, nooks and crannies it gets much tougher. Xpel is the best film and you can buy kits specifically for your car but I would just buy some sheet film and have at your hood a few times. You will ruin most of it. I did and I'm a pretty capable guy. I only do little things now like stone guards and still guards. I prefer to let the pros do the big stuff. I hate my cars looking like they have acne.
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yaluaka Love hams as well. Was in NYC a few months ago and had a Berkshire ham sandwich at an outpost of Zabar's near the museum.
Looked into it and they are available from Heritage. A bit expensive for me, but a unique flavor that stuck out immediately. My former MIL used to keep a country ham hanging in her kitchen in NC. We would cut off the moldy parts and enjoy it for breakfast when I visited...it was local to central NC, I believe, on the cure (late 1960's).
Also remember like yesterday eating at the Williamsburg Inn Sunday Buffet in the late 1950's, early 1960's and enjoying REAL Smithfield Ham there. Never forget the taste of it, and have not been able to find anything the same since then...but I enjoy looking!
In my spare time I sculpt art pieces from belly button fuzz. My "BB" seems to generate an endless supply so I never have to go out to art supply stores to purchase materials. I prefer to work with organic, home grown fuzz over synthetic anyway. Hey, fun fact: B.B. King was known not only for his superb guitar playing, but he too was a BB fuzz artist. In fact, that's where his moniker came from. Don't believe me? Check it out!
In approximate order of time investment: Beekeeping Gardening (mostly vegetable) Cooking indoor and outdoors on my Big Green Egg Home / yard maintenance Ice Skating Fermenting things (Beer, Wine, Mead, Kombucha) Distilling Golf Listening to live music
Once upon a time my hobby was fixing and repairing Alfa Romeos. I had five count ‘em in a row. The most fun of any car to have in the shop. I took my car once to an Alfa dealer and asked for a rough estimate so they beat the crap out of me.
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