Your hobbies/hobby ideas

[Jello]

I make Airfix/whatever brand models like this one:



I also play lots and lots of video games.

[Edwardo Piet]

Another thing I love to do is play my favorite game of all time... Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings.

I sometimes play it with Emjay and Shadow here from AF.

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I dunno why I forgot to share this one... I woke up with it stuck in my head lol. I totally should have shared this one:

This is my second newest track.

My newest one is the 3rd track on my new album. Not uploading any of that until it's done.

[Shell B]

Pyrography
Music theory/playing classical piano
Drawing
Painting
Body art/face paint
Video games
Yoga

[Whateverist]

You play?  I'm on PokerStars, is there another you think is better?

I quit, when they got rid of the cash games in the U.S.    Well actually quit when I lost like $500 in one hand (luckily was having a pretty good night at the time), but when I came back they closed down the cash games.   Always had trouble playing the non-pay games, seemed like not too many took it seriously.

I consider that (my bolded) a challenge.  For me I just want to win and I don't care whether there is any money riding on it or not.  Of course, from time to time I might call out someone playing recklessly just because it isn't real money.  But usually I play legit.  I've been playing 100 grand games for quite a while.  I've had to buy chips only a few times in the last few years.  When I get low I just downsize the buy in size of the table until I make it back.  Got to say, I really don't like playing those really low stake games.  But that's what makes me keep it together playing funny money, the desire to avoid low stake games.

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You play?  I'm on PokerStars, is there another you think is better?

I usually play live for actual $.  I used to play online for real $ before Black Friday.  I haven't played live in awhile, longer for online.  I get bored really fast online and do stupid shit I would never do in a live game.

I played on PokerStars, Full Tilt, Party Poker and a few others.  PokerStars was my favorite.

PokerStars has become worse.  You can only play 6 person tables now, no full tables.  Also the randomizer will now set you anywhere on the table, not necessarily center front.  Really that is just a minor annoyance.

We three and maybe a few others here should play a game there some time just for bragging rights.

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I actually am into baking myself, I've tried different cakes and stuff, I tried 8 times, vanilla cake was easy I got it right 2 times out of the four I tried ,chocolate cake was super hard got it right just once out of 4, I was thinking about opening a topic for some advice to get it just right.. 😊

Start that thread.

I don't remember ever messing up a recipe I had on paper.... it's when I try to do things from memory that I forget half the stuff
Except for Bolo de Bolacha (biscuit cake) - Whateverist knows what I'm talking about! Super easy, no baking required!

Super easy and also very popular even with my wife's foodie friends.  To ramp it up just a bit I shred an expresso bean dark chocolate bar over the top.  Mmmm.   Want to make one right now.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Have you tried plein air painting? Creative and gets you outside.

[Catholic_Lady]

Never heard of it, but I'm extremely left brained and suck at anything artsy lol.

[Seraphina]

Never heard of it, but I'm extremely left brained and suck at anything artsy lol.

Well, there go my suggestions. lol
I picked up the violin on a whim awhile back and took private lessons for 3 years. Most of my interests lean towards art and creativity.
Before my kid was born, when I had more spare time, I started taking Spanish classes (another whim) at a local college. In the end I took 2 years of classes.
I also did a lot of volunteer work. My favorite job was working in a Gold Rush era cemetery in downtown Sacramento. I learned a lot about plants and now I know how to prune roses.

-Teresa

[Cod]

Never heard of it, but I'm extremely left brained and suck at anything artsy lol.

Cods art school is now up and running, looking for new recruits for 2018

[Brian37]

I make Airfix/whatever brand models like this one:



I also play lots and lots of video games.

Speaking of war models. For a while back when I was in my early teens I was into putting them together. Got the "Excato Knife" bought the glue and paint.

My BACK THEN, two favorite war machines were the Pacific Corsair which I never built. BUT I also liked the F-14 Tomcat because of it's retractable wings. I did go to the local toy store, bought a model, paint.  Took days for me to complete it, BUT I painted it camouflage, only to have someone tell me while the detail was great, those fighter Jets were Marine and Navy use and would not have been painted that way. 

I loved the shape of the Corsair with the blue and white and bent wings. But again, looking back at it now, for both, I see no art in our species ability to create machines designed to murder other human beings.

[Jello]

I make Airfix/whatever brand models like this one:



I also play lots and lots of video games.

Speaking of war models. For a while back when I was in my early teens I was into putting them together. Got the "Excato Knife" bought the glue and paint.

My BACK THEN, two favorite war machines were the Pacific Corsair which I never built. BUT I also liked the F-14 Tomcat because of it's retractable wings. I did go to the local toy store, bought a model, paint.  Took days for me to complete it, BUT I painted it camouflage, only to have someone tell me while the detail was great, those fighter Jets were Marine and Navy use and would not have been painted that way. 

I loved the shape of the Corsair with the blue and white and bent wings. But again, looking back at it now, for both, I see no art in our species ability to create machines designed to murder other human beings.

Somewhere in my house, is a F4U-5 Corsair which i built, many years ago. I have that, the 1936-class Zerstorer in the picture, the Tirpitz, a Panther Tank, The cruisers SMS Dresden and SMS Emden, and a BV-222 flying boat. I have yet to get into painting, due to a large fear of ruining said models. 

War machines have their own, strange kind of beauty to them.