What do you do besides playing music?

[mcnach]

View attachment 2932204 I sail my catamaran or ride my Elephant (its a motorbike).
I can sail and play bass, but not ride and play ;-)

Sounds nice

 

[Old Blastard]

I teach a motorcycle class for folks to get a license and teach tai chi at a senior center.

Those are also my hobbies, along with bass/gigging.

My day job is with the fourth estate.

 

[Blake Bass]

drink beer and sleep..

 

[bassman1820]

I'm talking hobbies, pastimes... extra-curricular activities of whatever sort. What is your NOT-JOB? How do you spend your "free" time?

Myself, i love languages so I've been teaching myself Japanese over the last three months. It's been a hard journey but now I can read most of the average Japanese you might see on a restaurant menu and much of what you'd see in the subtitles in an anime, and I can understand about 30-40% of what someone says in a television show or in real life. Of course, I still need to work hard on my grammar and vocabulary.

So what about you? Do you whittle wood? Race Formula 1 cars? Do you Figure Skate? Or maybe you chew tobacco and practice for the Guiness World record in spitting distance! Let us know!















[Guiness world records doesn't have a listing for actual saliva spitting but there's some interesting stuff to be found here all the same: guinness world record spitting distance - Google Search ]

1998 Harley Heritage. A free weekend. A good ride with my brother and wife. This takes away the stress of corporate America. That and TB friends and associates!!

 

[Drucifer]

Right now I'm playing in seven gigging bands. I am grateful my social and romantic life allows me to play as much music as I would like.

 

[Zooberwerx]

*Aggravating my wife and anybody else in proximity.
*Keep the house from falling down around our ears.
*Growing a lawn where there has been none for years.

*Most importantly: managing finances / resources so that in 5 years (when I retire), we're not living in the gutter.

Riis

 

[TL23NC]

I sell software for a living, which allows me to travel to some fairly interesting places around the country. My favorite hobby (other than playing music) would be cycling, on the road or occasionally on the trail. I just bought a new road bike with electronic shifting and it's almost as cool as a new bass. But still a NBD!

 

[BassJuju]

Why would I do anything with my free time other than music? It’s the most wonderful thing in the world.

 

[Tim Skaggs]

Hunting, camping, speaker cabinet construction / modification, off road vehicle minor mods / repairs, bluegrass festival camping / jamming. Always slips back toward music in some way....

 

[ab2112]

Hang in there, it'll get better. When I was in grad school my doctoral mentor's son played guitar and we'd jam occasionally.

Thanks or the support-it helps more than you know. I shouldn’t complain so much. Lol. The last few nights I got in some deep play-along-with-records sessions and the craziness just melted away.

 

[canuckshort]

Lately, I've been building Cigar Box...Guitars.

 

[LowDownHawkeye]

I'm talking hobbies, pastimes... extra-curricular activities of whatever sort. What is your NOT-JOB? How do you spend your "free" time?

Myself, i love languages so I've been teaching myself Japanese over the last three months. It's been a hard journey but now I can read most of the average Japanese you might see on a restaurant menu and much of what you'd see in the subtitles in an anime, and I can understand about 30-40% of what someone says in a television show or in real life. Of course, I still need to work hard on my grammar and vocabulary.

Your post reminded me of a Trevor Noah stand up video I recently watched on Netflix. It has a bit about him learning to speak Japanese. Very funny stuff.

My non-work activities include: coaching and refereeing youth soccer, teaching referee courses, and running a web site for our local soccer organization; helping to organize a large international computer science conference; decorating my kids’ birthday cakes; sometimes trying to learn to play bridge; and playing drums at church. I’m including the latter despite OP’s constraint that it be non-music activities, because I’m not sure what I can do on drums can be called “music.”

 

[Eric Swaim]

I am a String Orchestra Teacher and outside of music, I do the following:
1. Play games with my 3 kids
2. Listen to talk radio really loud.
3. teach private music lessons
4. do a lot of praying

 

[bikeplate]

Golf

 

[Cyril_23]

Gaming

 

[Usidore T Blue]

M-F: Sleep--Eat--Work--Eat (talk w family)--Lift (walk w family)--Bass--Sleep in strict order
S-S: Mess around, garden, bass, eat or not, sleep or not, talk w family, lift, walk, bass, watch movie w family (Samurai Cop this week) no order many repetitions
Holidays: Endure extended family, eat, bass, sleep

 

[Slevage]

Downhill ski

These days my knees dictate how hard I push it---- but it's still fun.

 

[fretlessguy]

Spend time with family. Camp, hike, and target shoot. Serve in church including playing bass, working security, and youth department. Teach 5th grade. Maintain and play my basses, hand drums, and giant mandolins. Travel here in the states and world.

I once thought about juggling porcupines in the nude at the circus but the idea was rejected because the sight of me nude could traumatize the porcupines.

 

[LowDownHawkeye]

Free time? Rebuild and restore rare old sports cars, occasionally fly aircraft, RC and real ones, build/assemble instruments, not a luthier though. Ride old British dirt bikes.

When first married I built a Kadet LT40 RC plane. Skinned it to look exactly like the one on the box, pinstripes and all. I flew it once in a Wisconsin October under the watchful eye of the guy who owned the hobby shop, with promises of more lessons in the spring. He died over the winter, and I never found someone else to teach me to fly. I still have it hanging from my garage ceiling, and wonder whether to sell it or keep it and use the funds toward a Stingray or Line 6 Helix pedal.

 

[skwee]

My life is centered around music. It's how I pay the rent (three music director positions alongside freelance singing and composing), but also what I do for fun. Since most of my work is classical/choral, I have been working on material for a solo folk rock album.