what are your other hobbies?

[sidriptide]

i know recently i've seen threads in here for "what is your occupation?" and "how did you get into XJ's?" but here my question....
aside from Jeepin' and everything that goes with it, what other hobbies, past-times, or addictions does everyone spend time on?
ok.. i'll start... i dont really have time for much else, being a single dad of two girls, 7 and 8 1/2, we do outtings with the girl scout troops, soccer league, family stuff.... keeps me busy.. making the Jeep thing fit in my schedule is like putting a square peg in a hegagonal hole... but thats why i carry my B.F.H. at all times..
how about you guys?
mike

[Beezil]

painting/printmaking/photography, woodworking, beermaking, gardening, cooking, wine, making fun of trekkies, taunting suburbanites, bubble baths and killing squirrels.

[Lupine]

Fishing, drinking wine, hunting, drinking margaritas, camping, drinking rum & Coke, shooting, drinking, and popping newbies cherries. Oh, and talking smack.

[Flowers]

Women

[Rev Den]

Cigars, cooking, wine, firearms, fishing, and keeping the "city folk" out of the 'burbs.

Rev

[Beezil]

keeping the "city folk" out of the 'burbs

everyone needs an inexpensive hobby.

[Kejtar]

well... lets see:
women :) (that is the most expensive one!), sailing, scuba diving, books, movies (sci fi), books, photography, fish (freshwater tropical, primarily cichlids), my dog, model airplanes (WWII vintage), my XJ and all related (probably second most expensive after women), computers (being a software developer I do have to maintain a certain level of geekiness), backpacking, hiking, fishing (on a rare occasion) and music (I play guitar and keyboard).... ok... I think that about covers it then :)

oops... I forgot to add skiing!!!! and along with that... ski bunnies ;)

Kejtar

[Crunch]

Motorcycling, ATVs, SCUBA diving, traveling, cooking and eating it, ultimate frisbee, muai Thai, hiking, and snowboarding. Maybe this winter I'll even try Tele-marking.

I also want to learn BASE jumping and jump Angel Falls, Venezuela :)

Probably more, but its late.

Crunch

[Moto]

Beer Making/ Dirtbikes/Watching Rally Racing/ Books/History (its my major)/ BBQ/ Touring Brewerys/ Learning more Russian/ Small engines/camping/ Hiking and consuming every kind of beer that I can find to try

[PhatXJ]

Mountain Biking, Skiing (Lev 1 Instructor), Computer stuff, Reading to learn, Camping, White water rafting, and of course, Women.

Now that I think about it, Jeepin' and work keep me pretty busy.

[Kejtar]

Originally posted by Moto
Learning more Russian

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Kejtar

[Kejtar]

damn the fonts didn't carry over

[GSequoia]

My girlfriend...or wait, I guess I'm her hobby!

Photography, music (strictly from the listening side), going out to shows (I know a few local bands), having a drink now and again, making videos (no, not XXX videos, nobody wants to see that!)

[JJ13]

spending time with my 2 year old daughter, Fabricating stuff, recently retired from mountain bike racing (downhill), building custom cars (building a 1950 Cheverolet coupe right now), golf (6 handicap), lots of home remodeling, play quite a bit of Americas Army (computer game), oh yeah I am also a full time student (industrial maintenace major), and I work for Weyerhaueser in a lumber processing facility (just started). woops that wasn't a hobby (sorry).


:D

[woody]

Other hobbies aside from NAXJA? LOL not much time for that...

I like to hunt & fish some (not real seriously, but enough to stay close to the top of the food chain)

I like to read (military & political history) & watch documentaries on PBS.

Also am a NASCAR fan...go #8 Dale Jr!

[Hunter-Lynchburg,Va]

traveling, staying out of trouble, some pedaling, some paddling, hiking/packing, photography, ceramic tile/ poreclain/ natural stone, passing out bars of soap to dirty hippies, education, sanford & son and leave it to beaver, and listening to music to name a few.

Hunter

[KY Chris]

Originally posted by Hunter-Lynchburg,Va
traveling, staying out of trouble, some pedaling, some paddling, hiking/packing, photography, ceramic tile/ poreclain/ natural stone, passing out bars of soap to dirty hippies, education, sanford & son and leave it to beaver, and listening to music to name a few.

Hunter
You often hand yourself a bar of soap, eh dirty hippy? You forgot M*A*S*H and Jack Van Impe.

[KY Chris]

Mine are woodworking, maintaining/improving my house, music (listening and trying to play banjo and guitar), studying entheogenic plants and their uses in societies, gardening, following life sciences and a bunch of other things that i don't really do enough to consider hobbies.

[Beezil]

Tim flowers has a wierd assortment of soap brands.....

now i know why

[Kejtar]

Originally posted by GSequoia
My girlfriend...or wait, I guess I'm her hobby!


hobby or hubby? :roflmao:

[Centrevillemx]

Motocrosss, Girls, Welding, and hunting, I've killed Bucks 3 years in a row!

[JeeperJeff]

Looking for an XJ (I miss my old '90! :tear: ), hunting, target shooting, music (listening mostly :guitar: ), dabbling in percussion, reading, fine wine, good beer (guinness! :cheers: ), rally racing, history, cooking, eating, biking, but mostly trying to squeak in quality time with my lovely wife :kissyou: :smootch: and great 3.5 year old son, Sean. :loveu:

[2offroad]

my 2 girls, motorcycles, shooting, and WRC

[Champy]

i get some fund drinking tequila!!!!!! here en gdl jal. you can get tequila even in the drugstore jajajaja (just kiding)...camping, hunting, bbq, anddd.....

girls, girls, girls, girls, girls..

[Tucker]

Bluegrass pickin', woodworking, and fishing.

[Georgia Mike]

I'm a porn star by day....... :smootch:
And a web-wheeler at night..... :geek:

and these are "my favorite things...." :D

[CRASH]

Reading to learn

Dave, don't you mean "learning to read"?:D

CRASH......"hunting, fishing, politics, keeping Lupi under control."

[Kejtar]

Originally posted by CRASH
keeping Lupi under control

Sounds like you got your work cutout for you LOL

[CRASH]

Let me tell you, it's a 24 hour a day job.

CRASH

[Scott Mac.]

Other hobbies that I've been known to participate in: Sailing, skiing. RC models, aviation & racing.

[Lupine]

HEY. I didn't threaten to cut off anyone's water during the last trip, did I? :rolleyes:

[Yellow XJNJ]

Snowboarding, Playing and watching Ice Hockey, Mucho Beer Consumption, Checking out local bands, concerts, more beer, females, females that have been drinking beer, the beach, music (Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Piano, Mandolin), and preparing my first solo album. (Album set to come out in Oct.)

[RichP]

Helping people, hunting, camping,shooting from .22's to 155mm howitzers direct fire, fishing from ultra light tackle for trout to 1200lb tuna off boston in the ny canyon on a boat out of Rock harbor Ma where we use live 20Lb blues for bait :D , working on my jeep and my sons, building things that need to built even if I don't know how, learning new technology is my passion, my family is my life. Turning down job offers in california :D

[XJguy]

Primary objective: Jeep Cherokee XJ

First tier: Women, cars

Second tier: cigars, Belgian beer, skiing, fine dining, and packing on muscle, cars

Third tier: sketching, painting sculpting, home improvement, horse back riding, museums, travel, electronic gadgets and audio-visual, more cars.

XJguy

[a-mechanic]

xtra hobbies include:family, '47 ford pick-up, scotch, skiing, golf(i stink)there's other stuff i don't have time to do anymore.so i try to stick to the above.

[bgcntry72]

Skinny-skiing, bullfights on acid, the outdoors, sports, my girl, my kids, my rig, my boat, doing as the Romans do when possible, all things booze, helping out, technology, anti-technology, doing my best to lock down a place in the foodchain.

[seanR]

I am passionate about Jeeps, The only thing I love more are my fiance and my two teenage boys. I have owned over 25 jeeps in every state imaginable, from 25,000 miles to 'does the junk yard even want this'. I also enjoy cooking, remodeling any house as long as I don't have to live in the mess, and Jack Daniels.

[Bent]

Woodworking, "O" Gauge trains, Coffee:eyes: Live Theatre

[Glenn B]

Sadly enough.... THIS is my hobby.

[Beezil]

yeah, but have you tried running with the bulls on acid?

I did that once....at least it seemed like i did.

[Beezil]

come awn glenn!

I can't believe you didn't mention tug boat racing!

that like the coolest of the more obscure hobbies out there!

[woody]

"yeah, but have you tried running with the bulls on acid?

I did that once....at least it seemed like i did."

I really did try to feed myself to the sharks once...7-4-1995 and a month after my dad's funeral A taste of acid and a case of Molson Golden and a non-staying-inflated inflatable canoe took me deeper into the North Atlantic food chain than most folks ever dare go.

[ZPD]

Lets see for me I think that it is (in no particular order) wood working, fabrication, machining, working on my 67 mustang, working on the house, wrestling with my 20 month old son, and web wheeling. :)

[Vug]

Visting microbreweries and collecting growlers
Traveling the US without using the Interstates
Four wheeling
Sand drag racing

[Fore Wheeler]

Originally posted by Vug

Traveling the US without using the Interstates



This would include the visitation of industrial parks in Chicago.

Don't let Vug lead, he's a much better follower.

[4ward]

Underwater basketweaving ranks amongst the top of my list.

Sean

[Hunter-Lynchburg,Va]

Originally posted by OneTonXJ
Underwater basketweaving ranks amongst the top of my list.

Sean

freshwater or saltwater? and do you take breaks to have tea parties?

Hunter

[Vug]

Originally posted by Fore Wheeler
This would include the visitation of industrial parks in Chicago.

Don't let Vug lead, he's a much better follower.

Bite me No Wheeler
If you could actually drive in the dark without nodding off we could have taken the backroads and avoided the evil city completey.

[Beezil]

bomb all tourists!

[4ward]

Saltwater??? Are you nuts, too much flotation in the crazy oceans for a good weave to go down.

[Lincoln]

What are hobbies? It all seems like work to me.

Leaving town today. party1:

http://home.rmci.net/lincoln/camper_boat_small.jpg

Upland and waterfowl hunting, fishing (the fish are same with me operating the pole), running small river rapids in the boat, trying to run large river rapids and making good use of the bilge pump, picking up side jobs (crap I like to do, but won't pay the bills on it's own), getting bit** at by the wife over my expesive toys and bad habbits.

Later,
Lincoln

[Georgia Mike]

Hey Lincoln! Nice rig setup ya got there :thumbup: !

[Flowers]

Originally posted by Beezil
Tim flowers has a wierd assortment of soap brands.....

now i know why

The Oil of Olay is my fave. Thanks Hunter!

[Rev Den]

Originally posted by Beezil
bomb all tourists!

Might as well....most city folk are already bombed.

Rev

[CheapXJ]

Dumpster Diving...

and I'm not joking either!

[Bent]

Originally posted by CheapXJ
Dumpster Diving...

and I'm not joking either!

The only thing more amazing than the sh!t that some peoples children throw away, is the sh!t that some peoples children will drag home!

:anon:

But I wouldn't know these things.

[Kejtar]

OK.... what did Ethan bring home? LOL

Kejtar

[BrettM]

SNOWBOARDING!
http://pics.montypics.com/brettm/2003-08-09/1060478979_snowboarding_cropped_1.jpg
that's me at Horstman Glacier, Blackcomb mountain, in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada about 2 weeks ago. It was awesome!


and another big vote for girls!!!:D

[xjjunkie]

collect PEZ, yeah i know why would some one spend $500.00 on a single little plastic candy dispencer.. also, paintball (nothing like layin 18 balls per second into the enemy), cars, wife, son,

scot

[Jeep1XJ]

DJ, Production Manager for Nation wide Special Event Company, restoring a 67 VW bug, and slightly modifing it, shooting at the range, chilling with my friends and family, tinkering......

[Centrevillemx]

Paintballs fun: about 36 bps with the speed angel and halo b

[drkstrurethane]

music is a must Iron Maiden In Flames Sentenced Children Of Bodom Helloween Iced Earth Slayer ect. working women i used to be all about skateboarding then my friends took me mobbing and i think we all know what happened after that

[BrianJr]

My other hobby is building remote control battleships - completely with working cannons. Yes - they do sink each other in competitions!

Link to some great pictures of R/C warships in action (http://www.ausbg.org/best_photos.html)

The homepage of the club I am in (out-of-date) (http://mabg.ninthwonder.com/)

Un-official Homepage for the Hobby (http://www.rcwarships.com/rcwarships/)

-Brian
Captain, Battleship HMS Lion
Founder, Mid-Atlantic Battle Group
1999 XJ

[xjjunkie]

if your gun shoots 36 bps you are GOD, since a warp drive will only feed 20/21 bps. and that is the fastest hopper on the market. trust me my autococker with the RACE gun set up on full auto will only shoot 20 bps and still brakes paint now & then. and i hope your on compressed air in order to recover that quick..
i'd have to see it to beleve it..... sorry

[bgcntry72]

36?!!?!!??!
:bs:

[xjjunkie]

36 balls per second, kinda hard to beleive seeing as how the pro guys, best of the best, have all the latest & greatest stuff are only at 15 to 20 bps......


scot

[mark]

my other hobbies are duck hunting sleeping drinking thinking about what im gonna fab for the jeep next and MY BAND (http://www.flojo.net)

[Ghost]

Mine are photography, art, beer, looking at woman (that are not my wife! lol j/k), History Channel, my local jeep club, my twinn boys (now 5), movies, music, Spike TV on the weekends, helping my step daughter enjoy the college life, and models R/C and others.

BrianJr. that looks liek fun! I'll have to look into that.

[Markm80521]

I would like to build up fabrication as a hobby for sure. If I could only get a welder I think the amount of damage that I could accomplish would be astounding!!!!

Other than that, my Jeep, computers (hooked since my Apple IIe when I was a kid), food (cooking and eating), Beer (Fort Collins has some of the Best), Wheeling everywhere I can in Colorado before I move back to the South, Music (Playing, composing, soundtracking).

[BrianJr]

Ghost,

R/C warships are a blast (no pun intended). The best thing is that the R/C warships are designed to be reused for years. So once you have a boat you can battle it dozens of times for very little money (balsa and paint are cheap!)

Oh course, some people are always building their next boat - its amazing how some patterns are common to all hobbies. LOL

-Brian

Originally posted by Ghost
BrianJr. that looks liek fun! I'll have to look into that. [/B]

[XJClassic]

mountain biking, road biking, home projects, volkswagens (water-cooled), backpacking.... I really want to build a hot rod sometime in the next 3-5 years.

[DrMoab]

mountain biking, road biking, home projects, volkswagens (water-cooled), backpacking.... I really want to build a hot rod sometime in the next 3-5 years.
boy talk about dragging one up from the cellar.

[bshaw]

boy talk about dragging one up from the cellar.
I was waiting on someone to say something :laugh2:

[Boatwrench]

My Hobby...

Reading old posts

Slow day huh?

[azxjman]

Now that I really think about it it kind of scares me that I dont do anything but work. Work on my jeep work on other peoples jeeps and webwheel.

[XJJPR]

Now that I really think about it it kind of scares me that I dont do anything but work. Work on my jeep work on other peoples jeeps and webwheel.


Yes you do another thing: Spew how bada$$ of a wheeler you are and then don't show! :D

Oh yea that is much worst than a webwheeler!


hinkley

[Lore5]

playing the drums (future music/business major), working/thinking about my Jeep and what I want to do next, watching Sienfeld (Just got them on DVD), playing Baseball, my band, reading and watching documentaries on old war stuff and politics, snowboarding...

and ohh...... women.

[bchulett]

I don't do shit anymore. Probably should call me a hasbeen because I can't do anything fast, extreme or physically demanding---getting too old and broken.

Life after forty ...
- Maintaining employment... retirement planning
- Finish house remodel/rennovation ... major project
- Showing my old Plymouth ... here's a pic (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bchulett/detail?.dir=81ed&.dnm=fc58.jpg)
- Keeping my girlfriend on a string ... drafting a prenuptial
- LM Bass fishing ...
- Alaskan Halibut fishing ...
- Golf... only when I'm forced

[Lore5]

Dude, That plymoth is sick. Got any more pics

[XJClassic]

boy talk about dragging one up from the cellar.


I know, I know...must have been that after Thanksgiving boredom or something. Sorry... :speepin:

[EricT]

let see
lurking, racing (vws), snowboarding, women, drinking,

not necessarily in that order

[Geepfreak]

I can"t believe you guys are keeping this thread going...


let it DIE :hang: