Exactly. It's a matter of choosing something that fits your time schedule and the amount of involvement you want. Something like camping for instance, I can't see somebody doing every night, so that may not fulfill your need to constantly fiddle with something.
Pets on the other hand, dogs come to mind, can change your lifestyle in a dramatic (usually unforeseen) way. No more weekend ski jaunts to Colorado if you can't find someone to take the dog for a crap. This is why I chose fishies - I actually like being involved in knowing what's in the water and why it's being affected the way it is. Having cool fish and plants is just the perk, not the actual hobby. It's involving if I want it to be, but I have room to let it chill for a week without attention. I'll just drop some vacation feeders in there to keep the fish held over. I've got the lights on a timer, so I don't need to be around for that. One thing I'd like to get into when I'm older and have more time is natural water remediation. Collect water from the roof, running it through a series of natural filters (peat moss, carbon, etc), creating pure water. Laugh if you will, but you'll be the first at my door when them damm terrorists get to our water supply that we take for granted ;) If I didn't rent an apartment and actually owned some land, I would build a greenhouse to grow my own food in. I might even sell some of the excess organic produce to some of the yuppie restaurants around here - they freak on that crap. That would be a valuable hobby to teach your children. Raising children to take the grocery store for granted, like I was, probably isn't the best idea. There I go thinking high-level again :( sorry to sound like a nut, I'm really not, hehe. Adam. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:20 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Hobbies > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Timothy Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:16 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: Hobbies > > > > > > Used to do some Brazilian Ju Jitsu. Have been considering going > > back into that. Also I found a new National Guard Light Infantry > > unit now, so I am really looking forward to doing some demo work > > or shooting some. > > > > Tim > > Shooting was actually going to be my suggestion. > > Most of the activities people have listed seem like they > could lead to a lot > of frustration. Planting an aquarium? Ugh, too much fiddling > with Ph and > such. Writing? To much frustration when the words don't come. > > The trick is to find the hobby that never turns into work. > Heck, my hobby is > building computers and some days I just dread the troubleshooting. > > That brings up another thought. Why is it that we always pick > expensive > hobbies? Sure reading a book isn't that expensive, but > building computers > is. Or balsa RC planes. > > But I figure you've got a gun or two and I know when I used > to shoot that it > always put me into a "zone" where nothing else existed. It > was much more > effective for that than various martial arts. Those take a > lot more work to > become good at and there's that frustration again when you > just can't get > that third kick in during the jump. > > -Kevin > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
