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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: IceFire on January 08, 2011, 11:54:34 pm
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I've hit another low point I think... I'm bored pretty much all of the time. I feel this way every so often and so I start something new. And I totally consume whatever that is and then I'm bored again... sometimes it takes months or years but it happens. And I do these things concurrently with other interests.
So right now... I work, I eat, I sleep, I go for a run and when friends have time we hang out. Friends are all busy being married, getting married, or hanging out with their significant other. They are great at being inclusive... but they just don't have the time to hang out anymore. Me on the other hand have tons of time so I've tried to fill it with whatever I can but the fact remains that I'm still bored. I used to belong to a couple of casual sports teams but people are unreliable and don't show up to the games. To the point that all of the teams I belong to have folded.
So... any good tools out there to find people to hang out with for activities... events... whatever? How do others fill their time? I assume most are like my many friends who are really quite busy. Me... not so much.
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I seem to spend my days refreshing Firefox.
I really need to get a life...
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Tried picking up a musical instrument? Piano is pretty kick ass if you have access to one (or the desire to spend lots of money), if not there are plenty of cheap other instruments you can find online.
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i fill up my spare time with studying since i don't get to hang out with anyone i used to
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During the semester: What free time?
During my off-weeks: hang with any friends in town, do projects I can't do during the semester, see my family, do lots of nothing
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I dance. I fence. I FRED. I write.
Aside from the odd hanging out with friends, that's about it.
Oh, and I march.
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Games, movies, work and porn.
Same old, same old.
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Discounting actual work activities...webcomics, reading, games, girl I'm married to.
Reading should not be taken to mean books. I do most of my reading online, either fiction there or, of later, going to Kugu and browsing threads there for the glorious uncontrolled flamewars and crap posting about EVE.
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I've hit another low point I think... I'm bored pretty much all of the time. I feel this way every so often and so I start something new. And I totally consume whatever that is and then I'm bored again... sometimes it takes months or years but it happens. And I do these things concurrently with other interests.
So right now... I work, I eat, I sleep, I go for a run and when friends have time we hang out. Friends are all busy being married, getting married, or hanging out with their significant other. They are great at being inclusive... but they just don't have the time to hang out anymore. Me on the other hand have tons of time so I've tried to fill it with whatever I can but the fact remains that I'm still bored. I used to belong to a couple of casual sports teams but people are unreliable and don't show up to the games. To the point that all of the teams I belong to have folded.
So... any good tools out there to find people to hang out with for activities... events... whatever? How do others fill their time? I assume most are like my many friends who are really quite busy. Me... not so much.
There's probably more than a few projects that could really use your Ancient Wisdom and 1337 skills. Machina Terra was looking for help about a year ago, but I dont know if they still are.
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i stare at the ceiling a lot.
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i stare at the ceiling a lot.
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I've hit another low point I think... I'm bored pretty much all of the time. I feel this way every so often and so I start something new. And I totally consume whatever that is and then I'm bored again... sometimes it takes months or years but it happens. And I do these things concurrently with other interests.
So right now... I work, I eat, I sleep, I go for a run and when friends have time we hang out. Friends are all busy being married, getting married, or hanging out with their significant other. They are great at being inclusive... but they just don't have the time to hang out anymore. Me on the other hand have tons of time so I've tried to fill it with whatever I can but the fact remains that I'm still bored. I used to belong to a couple of casual sports teams but people are unreliable and don't show up to the games. To the point that all of the teams I belong to have folded.
So... any good tools out there to find people to hang out with for activities... events... whatever? How do others fill their time? I assume most are like my many friends who are really quite busy. Me... not so much.
Finish BWO! BlackDove is in dire need of assistance, and you have both the knowledge and the time to bring to the table. :nod:
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I'm always drawn back to HLP when I'm on break from university. Other than that: Books, beer, TV, violin, weed, Freespace. . .Sometimes I'll pick out a random Linux distro to install to my other partition, just to play with a different one.
If you're fairly bored but still working a decent amount, you could try cooking. Something you have to do anyway, but if you've got the time you can try to make some good stuff.
And yes,
i stare at the ceiling a lot.
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This may sound odd, but have you ever tried sitting down with a stack of paint, glue, and a plastic aircraft/car/tank/ship model kit? I find turning a stack of plastic into a perfect looking vehicle of some sort quietly fulfilling, if I'm not in the mood to do something with people (which is rare anyway :P ) and I need a little pickmeup.
I'm not sure how it works over there, but perhaps if you had the time you could enrol at the local Community College to do some short course or whatever to kill some time? I envisage that it'd also be a good opportunity to 'meet new people'.
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i spend much of last year messing around with my arduino.
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In the first fight in the video, that's me in the red and black. You'll see me kill my oponent at the end of a very long fight, then he kills me...our third fight, which he won, isn't on the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0i_GX-R2I8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0i_GX-R2I8)
for more info ona group near you, go tohttp://sca.org/ (http://sca.org/)
beyond that, I have kids. Need I say more?
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That's actually something that bears mentioning, come to think of it. Easily one of the largest time-sinks in my life, and generally something I do if I have time to fill, or even when I have no time at all. Reading and posting on HLP.
Damn, I've been browsing for years. It really staggers me to think how long I've had HLP forums in my favourites, or had the url damn near the top of the list. All the time I've spent on this little forum, must be weeks if you put it all together. Maybe months. Admittedly, I don't spend much time posting. But if I'm bored for even a second and I'm on a PC, then HLP is my next stop. And I get bored a lot.
Man, I love this place.
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Oh that's my other thing... I'm finding online stuff not as fulfilling as it used to be. So I've so of hit my limit there. I'm talking real life stuff :) Apparently all of you are in the same boat as me :)
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look at my post ice. It is real life stuff.
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Oh that's my other thing... I'm finding online stuff not as fulfilling as it used to be. So I've so of hit my limit there. I'm talking real life stuff :) Apparently all of you are in the same boat as me :)
So does BWO qualify as "online"? :nervous:
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Sounds like he's ruling out more computer time?
That's actually something that bears mentioning, come to think of it. Easily one of the largest time-sinks in my life, and generally something I do if I have time to fill, or even when I have no time at all. Reading and posting on HLP.
Damn, I've been browsing for years. It really staggers me to think how long I've had HLP forums in my favourites, or had the url damn near the top of the list. All the time I've spent on this little forum, must be weeks if you put it all together. Maybe months. Admittedly, I don't spend much time posting. But if I'm bored for even a second and I'm on a PC, then HLP is my next stop. And I get bored a lot.
Man, I love this place.
Same here. :yes: Just not as long...
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Sounds like he's ruling out more computer time?
Dang. Guess we'll have to wait another 10 years for BWO. ;)
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...if I'm bored for even a second and I'm on a PC, then HLP is my next stop. And I get bored a lot.
Man, I love this place.
Exactly the same. :yes:
Apparently all of you are in the same boat as me :)
;7
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I try to do projects, work on art, homework. I've got like 6 projects going right now all at once that I dabble in from time to time, in addition to schoolwork. When I don't want to do anything, I usually hop on HLP or the web to surf.
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I just screw around on the Internets and/or play TF2. I'm not exactly a stellar example. :p
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Mostly I browse and waste time on IRC.
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Seriously, guys, do you have any real life hobbies? I can't remember the last time I was bored with anything. Here is what I like to do when I'm not doing FreeSpace, in no particular order...
1) Legos
2) Model trains
3) Model airplanes
4) Model rocketry
5) Amateur electronics
6) Reading
7) Puzzles (the kind you spread out on a table, not stuff like Sudoku)
8) Other computer games
9) Marble tracks
10) Watching movies
Honestly, I'd love to have extra free time. I'd get to do more stuff.
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Hey, someone else into model planes! :D
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4) Model rocketry
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Everything else is small time. I did this since middle school, but recently had to stop due to lack of money to buy engines.
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I guess i'm just boring, i just climb into armor and fight
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I wish people did that around where I live. That video looked pretty interesting, but I'll admit when I did expect to see two blokes going at it when I first started watching. :P The looked like an almost methodical and measured nature of the activity was what made it seem appealing to me, reminiscent of fencing as well.
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It was a chess match. WHere do you live?
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2) Model trains
3) Model airplanes
I really ought to get into these again. Especially as I've recently finished watching the James May's Toy Stories DVD I got for Christmas. There's an old Life Like train set under my bed that I haven't played with for years. :p
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Depends on what you're interested in. I took up a martial art and its quite fun. Sparring is great even though i sorta suck
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It was a chess match. WHere do you live?
Australia, and I've never seen anything like that happen.
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I've been asked to do Larping a few times, because the group was desperately short of ranged troops and I'm a trained Archer, but it never seemed to happen :(
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SCA is based solely in history, there are no elves wizards or vampires. It's what appealed to me. I didn't want dungeons and dragons on a field.
But we do have a group in australia.
http://lochac.sca.org/lochac/
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My brother used to take part in historical re-enactments, but gave up after someone threw a tantrum because they redid the Battle of Hastings, my brother was the General of the English, and he figured out how to win ;) Too many years playing Warhammer I think ;)
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that's funny. we don't do reenactments but i can apreciate the amount of work involved.
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Seriously, guys, do you have any real life hobbies? I can't remember the last time I was bored with anything. Here is what I like to do when I'm not doing FreeSpace, in no particular order...
1) Legos
2) Model trains
3) Model airplanes
4) Model rocketry
5) Amateur electronics
6) Reading
7) Puzzles (the kind you spread out on a table, not stuff like Sudoku)
8) Other computer games
9) Marble tracks
10) Watching movies
Honestly, I'd love to have extra free time. I'd get to do more stuff.
Some good stuff in there :) Rocketry... I'd love to try that. Maybe I'll do some research. That or RC airplane stuff... I had looked into that a long time ago but forgot all about it. Good ideas!
Good stuff from other people too.
I'm no longer working on BWO and that's been the case for years. I left it with BlackDove who has carried on the noble tradition (it's been 10 years it can be a tradition :)) of trying to finish it. You know it was originally a 10 mission mini campaign.... *sigh*
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Learn to shoot.
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Seriously, guys, do you have any real life hobbies? I can't remember the last time I was bored with anything. Here is what I like to do when I'm not doing FreeSpace, in no particular order...
1) Legos
2) Model trains
3) Model airplanes
4) Model rocketry
5) Amateur electronics
6) Reading
7) Puzzles (the kind you spread out on a table, not stuff like Sudoku)
8) Other computer games
9) Marble tracks
10) Watching movies
Honestly, I'd love to have extra free time. I'd get to do more stuff.
1, 3, 5, and 10
id do 4 but you cant get model rocket motors here.
really i have too many ****ing hobbies. i have 3 large containers full of legos, mostly technic. my closet is a hanger for my r/c heli and my r/c plane. though something gets broke every time i fly, and its usually a $20+ fix, so that is ****ing expensive. amateur electronics is something im getting better at (thanks to arduino). i built an r/c receiver board from scratch, it uses an arduino programmed mcu to receive data from a cheap wireless module, does some packet decoding and then powers an h-bridge and up to 6 servos. i mostly use it in my lego projects. the transmitter is just my arduino board with a joystick shield and a transmitter module that matches the receiver. i watch movies, but since we dont have a decent theater here, im stuck with what comes on basic cable.
aside from those ive been doing lots of hunting and fishing in the summer months.
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I list "doing nothing" as my hobby. It's more time-consuming than writing or playing computer games.
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of course staring at the ceiling always takes precedence these days
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I'm no longer working on BWO and that's been the case for years. I left it with BlackDove who has carried on the noble tradition (it's been 10 years it can be a tradition :)) of trying to finish it.
Doesn't mean you can't resume some duties, even if not in a leadership capacity. :)
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i play video games WAY too goddamn much. my RL friends suck and hardly ever do anything. for a couple years as school i played soccer almost daily. these days it's pretty much just PC and watching hockey/movies on TV.
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Well, as long as you're content...
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Well since I just got back from it:
Horseback Riding (English Saddle)
Also:
Kendo
A mixed historical melee class (ranges around European systems like German longsword, sword and buckler and Eastern traditions such as Chinese Staff and Broadsword, Eskrima)
running
scale models
miniatures (I've got some 40K stuff kicking round, but I'm angling towards Napoleonics)
cooking
drawing (Diaspora stuff plus my own personal stuff)
reading (I can rip through books if I get a good series)
quality time with the dogs
video games
I'm looking to fit indoor rock climbing and a hand to hand combat system in the near future when I can get the time. In the spring I'm considering taking some classes then springing for a motorcycle; it would be a fun, cheaper supplement for the truck. In the long term I'd like to go through some firearms training but thats farther down the line.
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I also do a lot of walking and a bit of jogging. I can spend hours walking along the beach. Twice, I covered 12 km in about 6 hours.
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If you've got cash to kill, and I mean serious cash to kill, you could try learning to fly.
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I also do a lot of walking and a bit of jogging. I can spend hours walking along the beach. Twice, I covered 12 km in about 6 hours.
i'll probably end up doing a lot of that once i move to VA beach.
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If you've got cash to kill, and I mean serious cash to kill, you could try learning to fly.
Seconded. My licence is one of my proudest achievements. It does cost a lot of money though. If you want to go up a few times, make friends with a pilot or go to the airfield and ask for an intro flight - it's usually around $50 and depending on the place will last from 30 minutes to an hour. Or you can split the plane rental with a pilot buddy and go up (I do that a lot with friends).
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Yeah, I have a few family friends who are pilots, and when I was younger I used to be able to right seat for free. I'm still to get my license as my logged hours are under the required minimum (if I'd logged all of my hours, I'd probably be more experienced than my instructor, who looks not a day older than I :P ) and working a fair bit like I had to to pay for it earlier isn't as viable as I thought it would be in my final years of school.
As an alternative to powered flying, gliding is also very, very good. I've been recommended it by all the ex-Air Force blokes I've talked to, as it's a cheaper and easier way of getting really good stick/rudder coordination, good lookout, and attitude flying ability in a few hours. And on top of that, it's one of the simpler and cheaper ways to unwind.
But yeah, I agree, a nice trial intro flight is a good use of your time, if anyone's interested.
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Definitely interested, will be getting to that in a year or so.
Also played soccer a lot a year ago... but now there are too many damned school restrictions.
I've a huge box of lego that haven't in a long long while... maybe I should get back into it.
I also play cello... music is a good stress reliever.
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I want to build and maintain a massive Pla-rail toy train network, but I don't have the money or space to allow for it. Something like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUNJAppqa4), or maybe something more complex.
I used to have a small, two-train network when I was younger, but that was when I lived in a larger house, and because I was still very young, I couldn't manage the upkeep of it and broke a few connections. It was fun to see the trains run around as a pastime, though.
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Legos. Seriously.
I broke out some legos for the first time in years and just started building for about a week straight. Few things get my creative juices flowing as much as building with legos. I'm trying to teach my daughter the basics, but she's still a bit young for it (just turned 4). I cannot begin to describe how good it felt to build again after so long. I was hunched up in a ball on the floor with various wings and panels organized by color in a pinwheel around me. I ached for days afterwards. It was beautiful. Life-affirming. I highly recommend it.
That and music. I'm pretty bad at taking my own advice here, but pick up and instrument and learn to play. Anything that gives you a space to create in. I like legos and music specifically because there is so much room to be creative. Unlike plastic models and such where there is a definite end-result you are aiming for, with music and legos you never know where you are going to end up. My last lego ship had an original idea, but the final result was as much due to me running out of certain pieces as anything else!
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Yup, that does it... I'm definitely going back to lego.
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I must do something with that big container full... :p
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Lego? Now that's a good hobby...
Admittedly, I've not played with it for about ten years.
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I know a guy who collects new Lego and he's my age. Apparently it's still a blast to put together. I should go see if my old Lego pieces are still around.
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Mummy and daddy threw away my legos.
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Mummy and daddy threw away my legos.
I always knew Batts would be a bad parent.
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he just kept EATING them
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Hahahahaha....
time.
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he just kept EATING them
it was way better than anything you served up :ick:
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I take my Lego seriously (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=CP5670). Between that and PC gaming, I never get bored. :yes:
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Mummy and daddy threw away my legos.
WHAT YOU SAY !!
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Mummy and daddy threw away my legos.
WHAT YOU SAY !!
All my blocks are belong to them
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I still have a box of Lego in the loft, some of the bricks are about 40 years old (They were originally bought for my older brother who's now 44).
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Man I bet some people around here have socks that are older than me...
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I would have, if they:
1) didn't become too small; or
2) grew holes.
:p
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I probably have socks older than you but they weren't originally mine.
I also have a big box of lego brimming to the top with lego bricks and all kinds of assorted toys.
I do not look forward to cleaning out all the unnecessary crap. :blah:
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Lately, other than working my job, due to being sick of video games and having little and lame friends,I pretty much did nothing.
So, recently, I've picked back up modeling, learning to draw, and have begun violin lessons. I highly recommend trying an instrument if you haven't.
And I'm frakking jealous of all you out there with Lego.
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If you live near the ocean surfing and kiteboardding are a blast. If not, you could always learn to jump out of perfectly good airplanes instead of fly them.
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1) Working on my truck
2) Working on my friends' cars
3) Attending open court sessions at the local courthouse
4) Watching Law and Order
5) Volunteering at the local Humane Society shelter
6) Assisting at Red Cross blood drives
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Mummy and daddy threw away my legos.
WHAT YOU SAY !!
All my blocks are belong to them
Yeah but... that's awful. :( They didn't even try to sell them?
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Skiing! If you're in the right place and time...
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Chuck Norris was so awesome he once skied in the Sahara. In July.
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Nice...
BTW, I'm going skiing in South Korea in a few weeks. If war actually breaks out, Hard-Light will have front line coverage.
Probably shouldn't be saying things like that. :nervous:
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1. Working repairing broken water lines.
2. Spending time with my wife.
3.Working around the house(redoing the bathroom and shower right now.
4. If all my house projects are finished, I blacksmith. :cool:
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How do I fill my time?
Let's see:
- stretching thrice a week, one hour each time (including splits and middle splits, exercises for planche push-ups)
- kung fu once or twice a week, 2.5 hours each time
- breakdancing, gymnastics, 2 hours each week
- wall climbing twice a week, 1.5 hours each time
- running or cross country skiing, once a week, 1.5 hours
~15 hours in total there. Not listed there is the occasional furniture construction project, I still have speaker supports, sofa and a chair to do. And of course, I need to cook every day at least one meal, this will quickly become a drawback when you are eating in a restaurant and realize that you could have done it better!
If you are looking for a physical sport, I heartily recommend wall climbing to anyone who is working a lot with computer. It reverses the direction of stress in your spine when you are hanging, and should help in avoiding a lot of stiff shoulder problems.
Glider flying is fun, I should take a look at the license at some point. Last flights occurred ~ 14 years ago for me, I might be looking in to start that again when I have time. :lol:
Shadowwolf - you're from Sweden are you? I would have a couple of questions about the sword usage in medieval times that came to mind from that video clip.