OT: What are your other interests?

Poker, amusement parks, movies, and concerts.

but just don't have the time to get out very often. Have coached a lot, but now enjoy watching my daughter play softball, since she does it in college now I realize her career is drawing to an end, so try to spend as much time as I can watching her play.

Motorcycles. Dirtbike, dual sport, and road.

Waverunners, Wine/Scotch/Bourbon, Hunting/Fishing, Travel (need 3 more states, SD, ND, MT, to complete the 50) and only one more continent to go.

... sadly, most my interests are deferred as we have 3 little ones that take up most my time.  Hope to pick them up again in a couple years. They include:

1) Climbing rocks.  

2) Backcountry camping.

3) Reading. (I know lame, but I love it).  

4) Writing short stories that will never be good enough to publish.

Playing in both a basketball and indoor soccer league.

Trying to write a book.

And here's the big secret: still a huge nerd at heart. Run a youtube channel that I just started putting effort into a couple months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChvI68sYJot5Vtw2Bgucx4Q

That's me :/ If you feel so inclined, sub :) I need the fans :/

I like to screenprint on textiles (I'm obsessed with patterns), read cookbooks and cook, tackle the New York Times crossword puzzle, and talk politics, but not here. 

In no particular order:

golf, beer, hockey, lacrosse, history, science (of all kinds eg. biology, chemistry, toxicology, physics, astronomy, geology etc.), marijuana and psychedelic compounds.

The humblebragging and richguying are pretty minimal in this thread.

I'm just now getting back into some hobbies. I moved across the country for a girl and put everything to the side to work and build the relationship, but now that she booted me after 18 months to focus on her career, it's time to get back to my roots. Lifting, music, and now surfing are helping me find my way back.

day when i still lived in Windsor sports were my life... watched sports all of the time (even curling), worked at a sports bar/sports complex (for the windsorites on here, yes it was the ice park), and played basketball and slo-pitch softball...

and out of all of that slo-pitch was the 1 thing that i did almost everyday... i played in leagues 6 nights a week, 2 coed teams, 3 mens teams, subbed for a couple of other teams and was playing in tourneys almost every weekend... i kept my gear in the trunk of my car at all times because if i was at a park where my buddies were playing on a night i wasn't playing and they were going to be short i could play... i was rated a B or C player depending on the association the league or turney was affliliated with...

when i moved to Michigan that all came to an end pretty quick, i was able to play on a mens team for 2 years but they took mens REC ball way to seriously so i got far away from that... i was able to play on a couple of coed teams after that but then the wife got pregnant with our twins and that was the end of my playing days for the time being...

My other interests are:

- watching and coaching my boys as they play baseball and football

- smoking some type of animal carcas on my Big Green Egg 

- Bigfoot (a new addiction after visiting the Bigfoot Museum up in the Blue Ridge Mountains)

I spend a great deal of the summer sailing.  Racing, actually.  As many as three days a week.  There's three different boats I race on, not counting when I fly to Connecticut to race out there,  generally once a year, which I'll be doing again on Labor Day weekend.

Recently as my job has sucked more and more, I've begun to wonder if mid-Michigan could support a badminton-specific club. UofM and MSU both have "badminton clubs" that use general purpose facilities. They get 2-3 hours 2-3 days a week. Would an actual club halfway between EL and A2 be able to make a go of it? As A2 and EL continue to get more of an international flavor, the demographics are trending the right way. Would I be better off starting a club in one of those two cities? Land is cheap, at least relative to where I currently reside. I could supplement my income selling birdies, shoes, and  energy drinks.

The fact that I'm the first person to mention badminton in this thread suggests to me that the answer to my question is no so I'd better get back to my lousy job sacrificing for the country by making money for me. (Hey, no politics!)

I like piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain, and the feel of the ocean and the taste of champagne, and making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape.

because Brian will beat me. Probably. No Brian, you've got it all wrong, that wasn't me at the Philatelic Society meeting, I totally hate stamps. Stamps? Who mails stuff? 

I have developed an immunity to Iocane powder.

I used to be pretty heavily involved in music.  Early 90's grew up in LA and worked with CVE at the good life cafe in South Central.  Basically making beats for guys like Freestyle Fellowship, Ras Kass, Jurassic 5.  Probably one of the most fun times I have had in life, great vibe at the cafe, and probably why I dispise most rappers of today.  Working with guys who may not have mainstream appeal, but could rap circles around any rapper today and most back then.  I was in the building when Fat Joe got booed out of there because he was beyond wack.  Moved to the midwest in 94 and the music had to take a back seat to real life, but I still enjoy making music.

Weightlifting

Home theater

Reading

Dreaming about starting a business

Computers

Recently I realized I was playing computer solitair on my downtime. Not that theres anything wrong with that, but I just bought a ukulele to curb that. Haven't played an instrument since clarinet growing up. I've only had it for 2 days and am learning strumming and just a few chords. If anyone has pointers I'm open. 

Anyone else roast their own?

I've been at it for about 15 years or so. I never come up with anything to the standards of the best commercial roasters (Intelligentsia, Peets before they went public, Tribal Grounds before she went bankrupt) but it's usually passable and it's a lot of fun. Sort of like homebrewing except it doesn't take nearly as long.