What do you do besides playing music?

[phillybass101]

I'm getting older. Retiring from my day job in May. I like to take Naps. One of my favorite past times. You have no idea how good it feels at any time of day or night when you can say at the slightest whim...oh I need a Nap.

 

[BooDoggie]

Currently:
Photography - Member of the Shreveport Photographic Society - Best color image of the year 2016.
Build and repair PC's - Windows 8 really sucks !!!
Total body and interior restoration on a 1986 Toyota 4Runner - As soon as winter goes away...
Taking care of and cleaning up after a litter of 7 mixed mutt puppies - Mom snuck off and was a bad girl!!!
Looking for homes for 6 mixed mutt puppies. - I can't let go of the solid white female with blue eyes...
Hanging out with old guys at lunch a few days a week - Funny, I don't think like an old guy, but I sure do feel it...

In the past:
Award winning artist - Drawing, painting, pottery and sculpture
Published writer
Published Illustrator - Scientific journal 1998
Big time computer gamer until about 6 years ago.
Custom car designer and builder - Won best paint in the World of Wheels custom auto show in Shreveport LA. and in Houston TX. in 1980 or 81... My memory is a bit fuzzy about some events from those years...

EDIT:
Smoked a lot of cigarettes - My doctor gave me a choice to quit smoking or quit breathing - I chose the one with continued breathing!!!

 

[southpaw723]

I love pickup roller hockey and baseball. Also interested in architecture

 

[P-oddz]

• Craft beer. Mostly purchasing and drinking it.
• Small electronics in the form of DIY pedal clones.
• Camping/outdoors/BBQ (mostly anything that wraps all of these activities together)

 

[smogg]

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

When I'm not playing music I like to listen to music. I also like to watch music videos & occasionally catch a good live band. I also drool over music gear I don't really need. I also drool over gear I don't really need while listening to music. Oh ya, I also spend time with my lovely wife and our dogs. Did I mention I also like to listen to music?

 

[cchorney]

Professionally I am software application development project manager.

Hey, someone from my world! My day job title is Senior Software Engineer. No, if didn't come with a cool hat and whistle. Sadly.

Anyway, what I do when not gigging, jamming, woodshedding, or working is the following:

Spend time with my wife
(no picture for you!)

Spend time with my 3 dogs

Spend time maintaining my house and yard
(no picture for you!)

Camping (with my wife and dogs)

K-9 Search and Rescue (with DAWGS)

 

[caledoneus83]

Like to go shooting, do a little hunting and fishing, spend time with my kids and family.

 

[DirtDog]

I'm getting older. Retiring from my day job in May. I like to take Naps. One of my favorite past times. You have no idea how good it feels at any time of day or night when you can say at the slightest whim...oh I need a Nap.

I was going to say reading - and I have pretty eclectic reading tastes - but give me a book and a nice comfy chair, and I'm napping within a half hour. I can nap while in full battle rattle in the back of a fully loaded C130 so napping in quiet room is nothing!

@phillybass101 - have you ever taken a "night nap". Like in winter in early evening - then wake up for a few more hours of activity before hitting the sack. I love afternoon naps, but I'm really starting to like night naps if I've had a busy day!

 

[the general]

Anything outdoors; hunt, fish, hike, ride my bike, camping. I also enjoy cooking, particularly what other countries would consider "home cooking". I'm also a gun collector, mostly WW1-WW2 stuff.

 

[Rip Van Dan]

A couple of things for me. First of all, I'm a dyed in the wool fly-fisher. I Coordinated and taught the Orvis West Coast Fly-Fishing Schools for 10-years ('87 thorugh '97) and worked for Orvis a total of 27-years before I retired. I also tie flies. I've been a "contributing author" (means I wrote a chapter) for a fly-fishing book and have had a couple of articles published - one on fly-tying "Dan's Hopper" for California Fly-Fisher, and another on a particular fly-fishing technique I call "Close Enough to a Dead-Drift" for American Angler. Both of those articles were back in 1998 when I lived in California...long ago. Still, I am an avid practitioner of the sport and I still offer various presentations for Seattle area Fly-Fishing Clubs.

I'm also a Revolutionary War Reenactor, though I was much more active in that when I lived in Vermont and Virginia. Yes there is a group here in Washington state, where I live now, but events are few and far between. I have all the clothing, gear, tent, and longrifle that I also use for deer hunting. I enjoy re-creating the circumstances of daily life in the 1700's and was pleasantly surprised how comfortable I could be on a thick stack of straw wrapped in a wool blanket (OK...2 wool blankets in freezing weather). So I am more than a bit of a History buff.

Outside of that, when I'm stuck inside and not playing music, I do end up playing a few video games - Skyrim (about 6 times through now), Xcom2, Dragon Age, Dragon's Dogma, Assasin's Creed III. Most of these were gifts.

That's about it for me.

 

[phillybass101]

I was going to say reading - and I have pretty eclectic reading tastes - but give me a book and a nice comfy chair, and I'm napping within a half hour. I can nap while in full battle rattle in the back of a fully loaded C130 so napping in quiet room is nothing!

@phillybass101 - have you ever taken a "night nap". Like in winter in early evening - then wake up for a few more hours of activity before hitting the sack. I love afternoon naps, but I'm really starting to like night naps if I've had a busy day!

Yes whenever it hits me LOL!!!

 

[Rip Van Dan]

I was going to say reading - and I have pretty eclectic reading tastes - but give me a book and a nice comfy chair, and I'm napping within a half hour. I can nap while in full battle rattle in the back of a fully loaded C130 so napping in quiet room is nothing!

@phillybass101 - have you ever taken a "night nap". Like in winter in early evening - then wake up for a few more hours of activity before hitting the sack. I love afternoon naps, but I'm really starting to like night naps if I've had a busy day!

An interesting note about "night naps". Prior to the invention of electric lights, your "night naps" were known as first and second sleeps. Folks would go take their "first sleep" soon after dark; wake up in the middle of the night and be active for 2 or 3 hours; and then go back to bed for their "second sleep"; and get up again at the crack of dawn. You'll find references to that in various books where they talk about completing some particular activity "before my second sleep".

Electric lights changed all that as it became easy to stay awake later with the bright illumination and do all your sleeping in one go instead of two.

 

[Mata Leao]

Jiu Jitsu. Have to be careful not to hurt my fingers.

 

[Kmonk]

I've been playing ice hockey most of my life. I've played in several leagues including pro-am and travel teams. I stopped playing for a while but recently started again. I'm also into classic cars and motorcycles.

 

[beatlebass64]

Try my best to stay active and keep my mind and body healthy; walking, bike rides, meditation.

On and off relationship with video games (Nintendo Switch) and sports (Boston Celtics).

Not much else to my life. I'm simple and it makes me happy!

 

[beatlebass64]

Outside of paying for life and playing for life I'm an avid concert goer and videographer.

I am a life long Deadhead and fan of Bluegrass, Americana, Classic Rock, Blues, Reggae and Funk.
I live in SF and have literally too many opportunities to see live music between all the clubs around here (Fillmore, Great American Music Hall, Slims, Masonic Hall, Independent, Jazz Center, Fox Theater, UC Theater, Freight & Salvage, etc...) and festivals, (Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Outside Lands, High Sierra, Strawberry, etc..).

I have an extensive Youtube channel with more than 800+ Subscribers and 1300+
video caps covering literally dozens of concerts.
Ted Silverman

I have been playing with a Dead tribute band here in New Hampshire. LOVE IT!

 

[Farseer]

Weightlifting. Specifically powerlifting. I also like gaming. I collect nintendo consoles and handhelds.

 

[edencab]

jeez....other than work and bass....I don't do squat compared to everyone
(too much TV and youtube and talkbass though)

 

[Pedullist]

I sell my body but nobody's buying. Glad I have my basses.

 

[JC266]

I like to roller blade and go to the boxing gym!

Between working full time and playing in 2 bands (love it) I dont have a lot of time, but when i do I try to be physically active! Healthy body healthy mind!

 

[Holdsg]

this thread is fun, such a diverse group of humans, we be