Hobby Collecting
2024-04-29Hello, blog. Long time no see.1
I meant to make my next post about our cat Ginger2 who passed away recently at the age of 203, but we haven’t been able to do that yet. Wanted to put up some photos and stories.
ANYWAY, today, we’re going to do a list of all my hobbies, and their current status. It should be pretty entertaining. I jumped back in on a couple of things lately, and it’s caused some people to make note of my ability to be a Renaissance man.
I’ll be coming back to this list to update it from time to time. Or maybe I’ll just duplicate it so I have a record of my adventures.
| Hobby | Frequency / Recency | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 3d printing | weekly | worked on freebies for cons, still selling stuff on etsy. Printed some cool terrain. Learned I should print resin at 10 microns. |
| Astronomy | infrequent | got to do some great observing of the solar eclipse and taught a ton of astrononmy facts to folks in the field. |
| Board Games | bimonthly | Stellar was good, Ecologies is great, could go back to Civ sometime |
| Camping | upcomming | excited. New fast setup tent, new fast setup screen tent, new beds, whee. |
| Cosplay | infrequent | Dark Dragon costume looks cool, lots of bits. Star Wars sith costume is OK, but low saber practice |
| Dice Making | weekly | going well, several sets to paint pips on. Need to do a blog post to show off. |
| Guitar | weekly | mostly just tooling around, no real progress |
| Hunting | seasonal | bagged a deer this year, broke it down, processed it, and butchered it ourselves. Warm enough to go to the range for practice again now. |
| Kayaking | whenever it’s 70+ | FIRST KAYAK OF THE SEASON DONE YEAHHHH |
| Leatherworking | recentish | trying to get back on the horse, spin up some leather carving, but lots of other stuff to do. Todo: Sporran, multitool pouch, leather armor |
| Lightsaber | stalled | haven’t practiced choreography since last year, sad. Hard to practice in the winter. |
| Mini Painting | daily | lots to do, learnging and practicing regularly, streaming is pretty good |
| Music Production | infrequent | no recent projects, but many ideas |
| Photography | weekly | does this even count? I take photos wherever we go. We did do a real photo trip to the arboretum the other week though. |
| Sewing | recent | sewed a bag, two cloaks, and dyed them, working on a hat and another cloak. Repaired and learned to use a serger we got 10 years ago. |
| Sketching | infrequent | hard to get back into the habit, need a schedule, have a new ipad to use as a sketchbook |
| Tabletop RPGs | weekly | Playing in 1, running 1, setting to run 1 |
| Video Games | biweeklyish | Playing Nier Automata, Diablo 4 slowly, and Call of the Sea |
| Wargaming | few months ago | haven’t played for fun in a few months, but still taking Eradicus to cons |
| Woodworking | monthly | just turned some toggles for my bag and costume on the lathe, worked great! |