What Else Do You All Get Up To?

Obvisouly everyone here is a musician so that's a given but what else do you do for fun? What keeps you going when you're not playing music?

For me it's paramotoring (PPG) or, in simple terms, flying around the place strapped to a kite with a lawnmower on my back. Been obssessed with flying since I was a kid but only been able to afford to start doing it much later on in life! One thing's for sure, I seem to only pick antisocial things for my enjoyment!

What do you all get up to in your spare time?

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I walk along the canal or over the hills every day. Even in bad weather, nature always gives me a big lift, but I prefer warm sunny days :) So I'm antisocial in a different way ;)

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Biking for me... mostly road but do also mountain and off road

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A variety of things. Kind of like my music I like to do different things golf, biking, walks, occasional desert hikes....

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Photos, sometimes (rarely) videos.

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Here I was checking the (slow) video autofocus of my camera, using a phone as the remote. No words tho:

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Oh, and I like black & white for lots of stuff as you can see...

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I cook, bake, paint and play poker.:)

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I like gardening (mostly veg), which I find therapeutic. Country running, walking/hiking and the gym keep the physical side of me maintained. Also part of a team of volunteers at a local bird reserve .

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canoeing , fishing and time at the Lake and occasionally a trip to the casino :W

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axenvocs adjuntó la siguiente imagen:

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Editado por axenvocs el 4 de marzo de 2023, 21:58

I'm a genealogy nut. I spend hours almost daily researching my family history and have done so for more than thirty years.
Aside from that, I spend too much time playing Modern Warfare on the Xbox.

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I'm a kayak nerd. I make kayaks and paddles, teach kayaking, and paddle a lot. I like other boating too. I have a couple of small sailboats, one of which I made.

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I have had expenisve hobbies...golf, boating, trap/skeet... you name it.

Im now down to just home recording, fishing and using technology to peep inside my neighbors windows.

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Before internet my father traced us back to the 1600s.He did it at the Chciago Library which had one of the best geneology resource buildings in the nation, at that time.

He was able after a year or two of dead end, find we had an ancestor...an Italian Baroness, who had some kind of sex scandal and she had to flee the country and change her name in Poland. We became Sea Merchants. Our family crest includes a boat due to this. Business savvy and wheeling and dealing is a prominant trait in my family.

The old man was so proud he actually called a "Special Family Meeting" and we had a family geneology party where he had the coat of arms, a picture of the hussy baroness , and not only a complete family tree...but a complete family CORPORATE tree showing our businesses from the 1600s. Rock on Dad. Great job!

Regardless, my father did all this at the Chicago library which for some reason was THE place to trace geneology.

Im not sure if that is the case anymore but he spent years on it and LOVED the Chicago Library Geneology building. You may want to see if they still are a major geneology source. I remember him going thru very old and smelly books that detailed countries and family names.

Dont know too much about it or even start with it as the few times I went with him I discovered I could sign out original copies of Mad Magazine or Rolling Stone magazine complete with the original bong and marijuana ads from the 60's, so I would be immersed in those while he was working.

Since my father found everything we could possibly want to know prior to the internet, it never caught my interest once online geneology became popular.
I also have a problem sending my DNA to somebody I dont know ,so thats never happening on my end.

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For me it’s Fallout 4. I have hundreds of hours racked up on that. My other time-eating game is No Man’s Sky. I tend to go for games that I can just jump in and out of as I can’t be bothered to spend all the time needed to get good!

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I am a shadow priest, also shaman, drood and rogue in world of Warcraft. Hardcore before meeting Wikiloops then smooth casual now :)
I do like cooking as well

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That's a great question Martin asks.
Making music is vital and it's hard to live without it. But sometimes it's also boring...
Personally, I do a lot of sport, I run 10 km every two days and lift a few cast iron pancakes... A lot of cycling, in the forest with my friends the birds, and at home I prepare good meals (and the people say that I am an excellent cook) to please those I love.
But the most important thing of all... is that I also like to do nothing :D

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Current hobby is learning Reaper and discovering plugins :) just recently made the switch from Audacity.

I tend to be a bit compulsive with hobbies and then I dump them after awhile. Before I needed glasses, I really loved doing photography, specifically wedding photography. I went through a phase of collecting leather bound books (Easton Press and Franklin Library), based on the 100 greatest novels lists you can find on the web. I still grab a few here and there. I'll periodically collect a few Funko Pop toys. I also used to grab/collect some short-run or limited print screenprint posters, typically movie-based. I really enjoy the artwork and follow certain artists on Twitter. I went through a quick phase of learning about designer handbags and purchased quite of few them. My g/f is into them and wants to resale "preloved" items so I took an interest in the leather of the bags, cleaning them, etc. Very interesting stuff, and the prices, OMG...Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Prada, Chanel...and I thought my guitars were expensive :) I also do a little indoor "medicinal" gardening and have a large seed collection :) The expressions/color and terpenes are so fascinating.

Photo below was a wedding shot (many years ago), wireless trigger on the hot shoe to fire the background light (the globe glow is not photoshop, it's the actual light source). Was an idea I wanted to create and was able to get a good moody moment of the "1st dance". As luck would have it, someone overseas saw it and wanted to use it in a publication so I sold them a one-time use, and the pic below is of that publication. I think it was an event in Germany. Who knows, maybe someone here attended it :) :o

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Editado por rootshell el 7 de marzo de 2023, 1:02

Walking around my subdivision off and on with field recording gear or not. Indie board games and card games after a long hiatus. Listening to the 'radio' at night: this is either a payed or donation streaming site (di.fm, soma.fm) or youtube channels.

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I've managed to trace my surname (my father's side of the family) back to 1670 in Tyrol, Austria. They migrated to Frauenberg, France in the 18th century and then to Glogovatz, Hungary in the 19th century before migrating to America in 1908.

Mothers side of the family has been more difficult to trace as most are American Indian (Cherokee) from Kentucky in late 18th century. Family folklore indicates some migrated from England and Scotland. I have been unsuccessful proving that currently.

Popular genealogy sites:

https://www.familysearch.org/
https://www.ancestry.com/
https://www.findagrave.com/

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Thats a pretty large scope..Native American Indian to England and Scotland. I can see how that would be a large project tracing both sides of the Atlantic.

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Spare time is pretty limited, so it`s kids, music and reading and of course supporting any home renovation project that "she who must be obeyed" comes up with.

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