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What are your other obsessions?
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I'm not sure I'd call them "obsessions", but my wife does.
Mountain biking, gravel biking, trail running, endurance racing (cycle/running), western big game hunting (I do live in New Mexico...), traditional archery, firearms. To some extent, bikepacking and backpacking (definitely less obsession and more just enjoyable hobby). I'm getting more into rucking as another form of strength training for backcountry big game hunts and endurance racing.
Let's just say scheduling life is hard.
Mountain biking, gravel biking, trail running, endurance racing (cycle/running), western big game hunting (I do live in New Mexico...), traditional archery, firearms. To some extent, bikepacking and backpacking (definitely less obsession and more just enjoyable hobby). I'm getting more into rucking as another form of strength training for backcountry big game hunts and endurance racing.
Let's just say scheduling life is hard.
Man!
The Air Force should hire you as a contractor overseeing and designing the building of our drones. We would be the envy of the world as having the coolest looking ones!
music related: bass, guitar, writing/recording original music, audio engineering
not music related: Dogs, D&D, Swords & Sorcery literature, kung fu movies, epic Wuxia series, video construction, graphic design
Cheap women, expensive whiskey and large caliber handguns...
I have collected 121 t-shirts from other peoples' family reunions.
I have phases, but I parlayed a life of music into a love of repairing and building, from instruments to pedals to gear to amps to hacks, which bled over into general woodworking, furniture building, and DIY otherwise.
One day I had to replace a bad pot on a bass.. After some googling and diagrams, etc., I decided I wanted to be able to read schematics to try out some of the mods I came across. To years and years of spending every free moment drawing and designing circuits. Somewhere along the way, I picked up some of the woodworking side, not sure if it was a repair or what… I have now built a few instruments, dozens of pedals, And countless other accessories, from preamps to whatever else. I’ve also built what is approaching the majority of the furniture in my house, as well as several remodeling projects.
despite over two decades in music, I didn’t feel like I really understood what creativity meant to me until I started this kind of pursuit, as well as doing some trade jobs along the way.
One day I had to replace a bad pot on a bass.. After some googling and diagrams, etc., I decided I wanted to be able to read schematics to try out some of the mods I came across. To years and years of spending every free moment drawing and designing circuits. Somewhere along the way, I picked up some of the woodworking side, not sure if it was a repair or what… I have now built a few instruments, dozens of pedals, And countless other accessories, from preamps to whatever else. I’ve also built what is approaching the majority of the furniture in my house, as well as several remodeling projects.
despite over two decades in music, I didn’t feel like I really understood what creativity meant to me until I started this kind of pursuit, as well as doing some trade jobs along the way.
This too! But I haven't bought a hifi thing since I got back into playing in a band three years ago. I can only afford one GAS problem at a time.
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Ditto (re: mtn bikes...not the murdercycles): View attachment 5420322
which brings up another obsession: S.E. Utah
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Used to be in that camp, but had to close our Dojo due to financial realities
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sorry to hear that ..... It's hard slog keeping one alive.
Those two are Shaeffer. right?
I have a simple one by them, which I really like!
Do you do custom orders? Are these with FX boards inside or just hilts? Nice work!
I disc golf quite a bit. I recently got into scratch cooking as well. I like the majority of sports, podcast junkie, and I might take a fancy level collecting hobby now.
My non-musical obsessions:
- cities / urbanism / architecture
- improv / acting / writing (I'm studying at Second City right now)
- Star Trek (so many miniature ships, so little time) and
- UX design (my day job)
- overusing parentheses (really)
Velvia really was good! My friend used to get the best color-saturated photos with it.
