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What are your other obsessions?

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Yeah, same here. Wingspan, Takenoko, Catan, Carcassone, Arkham Horror, Dead of Winter, Nemesis...

I played a lot of computer RPGs/games, but gave up on them not to be tied to the computer so much.
I get not wanting to be on the computer all day AND a big chunk of the night.

That’s why I have a PlayStation. :-)

I just could not get into Dead of Winter. I am also over Carcasonne, although I realize it’s a great game.
 
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Mine are Lego and video games. I also enjoy getting outdoors, but I don't really have gear for that.

That's the frame for the Lego UCS Millenium Falcon that I built up in December. It took the entirety of the movie saga (prequels, Solo, Rogue one, original trilogy, and sequels) and then some to build over a week. I honestly don't know why I don't have a picture of the completed build.
 
Tennis - partially as I own a Tennis Business so being involved is important to generate income

Football - 11v11 roundball. Despite the game now being throughly entrenched in finance I still watch 4-6 matches each week (Bayern v Arsenal presently)

American Comics - specifically African-American writers and characters. T’Challa, Luke Cage, James Rhodes...I have the Milestone / DC run from the 1990’s.
 
I work in geography, so there's a decent chunk of remote sensing that I do in my off-time for my own projects (though financially I can't even come close to doing any large scale project).
but my latest hobby/passion has been building models, particularly Gunpla. :) it's been therapeutic while I've been undergoing various treatments with the VA. My wife and I also watch a lot of anime (a lot of Gundam, hence the gunpla...) and take care of our two retired racing greyhounds. It's a good, quiet life.
 
Social justice, economic justice, environmental justice, racial justice, land justice.

Oh, you maybe meant hobbies with physical bits. Umm...I like Filofax personal organizers and fountain pens. Also, hiking/backpacking/camping. I used to do skiing and inline skating, but I messed up my knee 11 years ago, so I can't do that anymore. I really love my ebike, I've been car-free for over 2.5 years now. And travel, though I don't get to do enough of it. Cooking, I like to cook from cuisines from all over the world, since I can't afford to travel so much.
 
I'm raising twins, they turn 14 in June.
My hobbies are sleeping, fantasizing about sleep, fantasizing about retirement (when I can sleep), taking naps, making dad jokes, and pausing Netflix so I can respond to the twins questions..."who? Probably. It's a pachyderm. Psychosis. Demagogue. You're interrupting my show!!!?".
I used to surf kayak, but now I live 166 miles inland.
I'm raising twins.

What was the question?
 
This pic sums up a couple:
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That is two simultaneous time-lapses of some cacti I have been breeding and propagating for quite some time. The camera stuff is recent. Cacti don't grow fast enough to be recent.

I go all-in on hobbies, so I tend to have just a few. Don't like to spread myself thin. Or don't have the bandwidth. Reason. Excuse. Potato. Potatoe. Happy obsessing y'allz!
 
This pic sums up a couple:
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That is two simultaneous time-lapses of some cacti I have been breeding and propagating for quite some time. The camera stuff is recent. Cacti don't grow fast enough to be recent.

I go all-in on hobbies, so I tend to have just a few. Don't like to spread myself thin. Or don't have the bandwidth. Reason. Excuse. Potato. Potatoe. Happy obsessing y'allz!
Be sure to put some tape marks on the floor to mark the tripod legs. That way when you kick it over you’ll know where it goes.
 
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