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Do you want ALL or just a short list? If you want all then I might slow the server down by using to much space. ;^D

Hazz

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The short list it is,

Sports: currently playing ice and roller hockey, mountain biking, road racing (motorcycles) martial arts, power lifting and surfing.

Computers: Gaming although I try not to because a 20min game will turn into a 10hr game before ya know it.

Other: Hunting/shooting, wood working (do not ask for help here, I have no idea what I am doing but I can do a good job ;D ), riding/training horses and finally hiking/camping.

There is the short list and the things I do most often.

Hazz

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Let's see...

- Playing the bass
- Playing the cello
- Drawing (sometimes)
- Origami
- Cross-stitch (although I haven't done it in a year or so...does it still count?)
- Bird watching
- Cooking tasty food
- Horseback riding/training (although I haven't done it in several years...not from lack of interest; more like lack of funds)
- Aquiring different stringed instruments and attempting to play them (next one on the list is a flying V uke)
- Reading (Mostly fiction...I'm running out of books so it's anything I can get my hands on at this point)
- Exploring public transportation methods
- Perfecting the "snub" when random men on said public transportation (or driving past me in their cars) start trying to talk to me (why these fellas would even think that I'd be interested, I don't know)
- Astrology & Palmistry
- Beer drinking (I've almost got it down...practice makes perfect)
- Flirting with the boys (always a fun and rewarding experience)
- Watching live music at my two second homes (Oasis and Rebar) whilst perfecting the fine art of beer drinking
- ...and, we must not forget, wearing stripper boots!

-Ann-

Right now I don't even have enough time for the bass.....but I love the water, sailing (not in Thompson though), canoeing. Hopefully I'll be getting a quad or a sled by the end of next year.

Is sex a hobby.....LOL!

I like to invent things, build things. Like right now.... I have this coin-operated basket ball game I came up with called "Hood Hoops". I was going to build it for an amusement park I had but it closed. Now I just got a location in the hood so it's back on list of things to do. But, I have all kinds of stuff.... solar heating panels, wind energy idea's, so many things so little time. I'm real big on Earth friendly ideas.... so when I'm dead my kid can say "My Dad tried to do something about it, but he just kept saying people are idiots".....LOL!

Dave

Reading is pretty high on the list. I mostly lean toward classics and literary fiction, but I also enjoy philosophy, history, and just various other genres once in a while. I watch quite a lot of films and TV on DVD (thank you, Netflix). Like you, Paul, I enjoy computer programming (mostly PHP, but I've vowed to learn Ruby and the Rails framework before the summer is out).

I like hiking and camping, but I haven't done much of either in a while.

Does admining this site count as a hobby? Or is that more a chore? :)

Wheat

Past:
Motorcycling
diving
sky diving
competition swimming
water polo
boat building
sailing

Present:
Bass, guitar, banjo, even though I teach them I still consider them a hobby as I do same in spare time for enjoyment.
learning ukelele
very occasional scuba
making model ships in bottles and light bulbs
repairing clapped out guitars
woodwork
sailing
gardening
being a grandfather
rum, beer, and trying to remember what the hell sex was like

dags

Here goes:

Reading
Scuba Diving
Motorcycles
Water skiing
Home Repair
Travel
Lupus Foundation Volunteering

Due to Lupus and chronic pain issues the following hobbies are long gone:

Jogging
Walking
Weight Lifting
Swimming (50 miles per summer)
Climbing
Ski Diving
Boxing
almost all serious physical activity.

According to my old log, the top one was 1500lb explosive - It reads

Type: German LMB [RN designation GC type]
Known Info: Magnetic/acoustic mine. After 1944 some were fitted with pressure/acoustic triggers as well. They weighed just over 2100 lbs with a 1,554 lbs. charge of S16.

My memory can't remember percentages but S16 was a German explosive consisting of a mixture of ammonium nitrate, ethylene diamine dinitrate, cyclonite, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, less than 1% of TNT plus aluminum and some other things. It made TNT seem like play dough. We used mainly Torpex and Amatol

Situation: It was situated in the Solent, off the Isle of White.
Lat Long: unreadable -its faded
Dive details:
Date: 7th March 1973
Max depth: 80ft
Dive time: 37 mins.
Bottom time 19 mins.
Other: UXO reached at 1324hrs. 4lbs PX laid adjacent Magnetic primer. 4.5 minute fuse.
Rendered safe.

The bottom pic: a bit bigger -2000lb.

TMC type [RN designation GN] which was/is a ground mine with influence fuzing introduced in 1940. They were a bigger variety of a TMB. Available fuzes included acoustic and acoustic/magnetic after 1942. Charge was 1,896-2,050 lbs. and could be laid in waters up to 20 fathoms (37 m) deep.

They have been known to blow hole through 4" armour plate 150ft above it, big enough to drive a double decker bus through, so you normally manage to catch a few fish.

dags

but have not been out yet this year.

Other hobbies:
- Ships, and everything that makes them tick. My job as a marine engineer demands that I know a little bit about a lot of things (we are generalists, not specialists). :-)

- This might sound strange, but CAD (Computer Aided Design) is somewhat of a hobby for me. I used various CAD programs during my college years, and I have recently picked up SolidWorks again (it was always my favorite). It's a great help at work to be able to draw up some parts if we need to make or modify something. Pretty rewarding as well.

- Skiing, mainly Telemark (a.k.a. Free Heel Skiing). Look it up at wikipedia if you don't know what I'm talking about. LOL!

- Working on my car. It's an old Nissan Primera (Infiniti G20 for you yanks), and there's always something that can be fixed/tweaked/improved on it.

That's about it...