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I like reading books, I'm mostly vegetarian.

My other hobbies include video games-I love to put in a good driving simulator(Test Drive Unlimited 2) into my PlayStation 3 and pretend I'm drivin' a '57 Chevrolet Corvette through Ibiza, Spain and Oahu, Hawaii, and I love to play a few rounds of Wheel of Fortune on my Nintendo Wii. In Pickens, SC, we got classic car cruise-ins and I love goin to a cruise-in to see my favorite classic cars up close. I also love golf carts too, and I love being near the beach, going to Dollywood-my favorite themepark and just ridin' in a car. I like to watch Wheel of Fortune and CMT Insider too and although I'm a country steel player, I love '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s music.

Brett

I'm a politics junkie used to be extremely active in my local Democratic club. These days I'm too busy. I was actually asked once to run for office, but I declined. (I don't want all my youthful indiscretions made public.)

Ultimately music is more important. Politicians come and go, but music lasts forever.

I've been getting back into drawing - architecture and cartooning, mostly. I used to buy, repair, sell and trade fountain pens... they're awfully little for working on anymore with my 53 year-old eyes, even with the Optivisors. I've built, assembled & modified my own six-strings and basses for a few decades now. I used to write a lot, but now that I have to for money, the recreational fiction is tapering off... everything's better as a cartoon anyway!

On May 3 2011 I took a leisurly trip down the Englishtown drag strip. It was a reenactment of July 4th 1965 when I actually raced in a similar car. My friend and I were the first two cars to go down the track on their grand opening day. Things sure have changed since then. Now I sit in a lawn chair behind my car at cruise nights.

I fly dual line stunt/sport kites. It's thrilling to feel the kite pull as it performs its aerial ballet (or its nose dive into the ground). A kite with a 7 or 8 foot wingspan is quite an attention getter too. I also like to read and guzzle cheap wine.

<--- and play with my girlfriend over here.

Shooting,
handloading,
celestial navigation,
optical astronomy,
flying,
video editing,
writing,
marine chronometers,
Hewlett-Packard calculators,
amateur radio,
photography (film & digital),
audio engineering.

I play in pit orchestras for local musical theatre (guitar, banjo, whatever) and sometimes act on stage.

I officiate high school sports: Football, wrestling, lacrosse.

I repair and/or build guitars and other fretted instruments. My avatar is my "headstock decal".

Model and full scale aviation have been a lifelong hobby interest. I'm currently working on a WW2 Fiesler Storch 3/4 size homebuilt. I also enjoy fly fishing, especially for lunker trout.

My favorite thing is flying. I currently own a Yak 52. If you want to do something that is absolutely the ultimate hobbie, buy and learn to fly an airplane. Remember what I am fixing to say......"He who dies with the most toys wins!"

Mark Greenway wrote:My favorite thing is flying. I currently own a Yak 52. If you want to do something that is absolutely the ultimate hobbie, buy and learn to fly an airplane. Remember what I am fixing to say......"He who dies with the most toys wins!"

Yes, and if the toy doesn't get you, the wife surely will! I feel a new song coming on.

Same as Joachim. In addition, railroad history (the era of steam and early electric locomotives). I'd love to build me a model train layout but don't have enough room. My place is too cluttered with musical instruments...

I have 160 acres of great farm land to hunt and I use a Stryker 405 fps cross bow and rifle for deer hunting. I also hunt predators to keep the wildlife balance in good order. Have lot of turkey also. Like to fish and ride my Kawasaki mule thru the timber and ravines on my land. Lift weights 3 times a week a good hour and walk 30 minutes a day to keep this nearly 78 yr old body in shape. Have a cold beer or shot of bourbon occasionally to stay healthy. Jack

Joerg,
I can't believe you don't have room for an "N" gauge layout. The engines and cars are only 10 cm long.

All you guys out there with all those different hobbies and such...... I love all kinds of instruments, I pick some guitar and the ol' five straaaang.

I also have a collection of old Brit' bikes which include:-
1930 600 c.c Douglas S6 flat twin,
1957 Douglas 350 c.c.Dragonfly,
1948/9 Sunbeam S7,
1952 Ariel 350 c.c. Red Hunter with a spare 500 c.c. engine....plus most bits and pieces of a single H.R.D./Vincent, possibly enough to build a Meteor/Comet and most bits to build a 197c.c Triumph Tiger Cub.

All Z.B.est.

Bob.

Hey Mike (Archer), I see you like to build and fly RC airplanes. That is neat! I used to try to fly them, 3 axis, never got too good at 4 axis (ailerons). My hobbies are my latest muscle car, a 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger with a heck of a built 340 (matching numbers) and coin collecting. But I have to admit, I am addicted to that wonderful instrument called a pedal steel guitar. And yes, I play a Rittenberry, and have since 2007. There are many wonderful guitars out there today, but I just fell in love with the Rittenberry.

Glenn Uhler wrote:Joerg,
I can't believe you don't have room for an "N" gauge layout. The engines and cars are only 10 cm long.

That's also true. But N scale engines always looked somewhat too tiny for me, not as impressive to look at as H0... and then I already have a collection of H0 scale engines and cars, some of them quite rare, that I like a lot. I just consider it a project for the future, I will move to a bigger place sooner or later.

I'm into photography in a big way. Sometimes I think I should have chosen less expensive hobbies.

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/gall ... erID=64746

Fly fishing. The rhythm of casting is a wonderful adjunct to playing the steel.

My other addiction, Mopar muscle.



Rick

I collect interesting six-strings (a few four-strings,too) and have a couple of old cars.Here are a few pics.



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After 35 yrs giggin I like to load up this ole classic and go sit by the campfire with the woman that made it all possible. Dont know if the pic made over

I also am an admirer of classic cars and belong to a classic car club and own a real nice 1953 Buick Roadmaster two door hard top. I am fascinated with astronomy and own a 12 1/2 inch reflector telescope and enjoy star gazing. Also fascinated with the scriptures. Steel Guitar rounds things out very nicely.

As I look back, I guess I have done some unusual things? Started stock car racing in 1948, [first year of NASCAR]also bought the very first George
Barris custom car, A 36 ford Convertible, Moved to California in 52 Saw Speedy West at the ElMonte Legion Stadium, {Must have got the steel bug from him? In 57 I went to Shot Jacksons garage & ordered the 3rd Sho-Bud D-8, [Now a D-9 & owned by Chris Lucker]Moved to Tucson in 59, Worked with Buck Owens & Wynn Stewart, Back to Mn in 61, Played the Flame Cafe, Lived in a new apartment building, across the hall from Hal Rugg at the time,[Both Hal & Terry Bethel were working the Flame at the same time I was, Moved to Nashville in 69, Shot Jackson got me the gig with Connie Smith,Played that for 6mo, Then back to Mn. Been playing here since, My son CJ plays for Gary Allan & Mr. Seymour calls him a world class player,Naturally I'd have to agree, I never thought I'd still be playing weekends at 81. God Bless! Al Udeen

First and foremost being a good husband and father and home schooling my son. Other than that, electronics (solid state),robotics, general tinkering and puttering, gardening, chickens, healthy eating, bike riding, ham radio,and trying to stretch a dollar.