Honestly, I'm a dabbler. I don't think I've ever really stuck with a hobby consistently for any length of time, but I do come back to certain things:
AD&D, and a lot of wargaming in general when I was a kid. Still play D&D once or twice a year. Painting miniatures, although I haven't done that in quite a while. Still have some paint and a box of bare metal miniatures. Bicycling - probably the one constant in my life, although the only cycling I've done recently has been commuting. Kinda doesn't strike me as a hobby. Camping, hiking, fishing. When I lived in a climate with, you know, actual lakes and bodies of water, I fished pretty regularly. Living in SoCal ... no so much. Driving an hour to get to a fishing spot at 4:30 in the morning just puts a whole damper on the process. I'd probably go camping every weekend if I could (probably going tomorrow, in fact). Stick-fighting, although I don't have the physical build for it. I started fighting in SCA (the days of carpet-armor!) in high school, moved, picked it up again in college, moved, started doing foam-weapon LARPing, moved, got back into SCA again, then moved and petered out on it. Took a year of fencing in college, would like to get back into it. History of most sorts, especially military. Travel, from 2-week family vacations to driving around aimlessly on backroads to see what I can discover. Baseball Gardening Collecting Good lord, the collections I have: Matches, my grandma's stamps, rocks and fossils of all sorts, comic books, baseball (and other) cards, regimental badges, postcards, old photos (I guess photography is something of a hobby for me, come to think of it; I have the first pictures I took as a kid back in the 60s).
I have a feeling I'm forgetting a bunch of things, but, that's all for now.
_________________ This cold and dark tormented hell Is all I`ll ever know So when you get to heaven May the devil be the judge
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