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   politicalmonster
   

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   Writing (working on a SF novel, about 3 months from publishing on Amazon)
   Racquetball
   Weightlifting
   Just started some woodworking projects (pipe rack and tamper, of course)
   Scotch/Bourbon "collecting"
   Just doin stuff with my wife and two daughters, while the two teens still want to do stuff with us.
   Makin the most of this life, I hope.
   -PM

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   Mountain biking
   Backpacking/camping
   I have played the piano almost my entire life, teaching myself guitar now
   Woodworking
   I also run my own business and awesomely enough I enjoy it so much I consider it a hobby
   Also a huge music listener (of many genres) and a film buff

   Mark

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   austinxpipe
   

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   I'm really into watches and have a modest collection of Swiss, Japanese, and American timepieces.

   I also enjoy weightlifting!

   I like to smoke pipes

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   - I teach orchestra and music history in a public high school, and it's hard to tell where the job ends and the hobby starts. Since I can't sing or dance but love opera and ballet, I guess those are my musical spectator sports.

   - Playing cello is still a hobby because I keep getting calls for horn gigs (my major instrument in college).

   - Baseball. My wife likes baseball in theory, but isn't too thrilled about it in real life.

   - Long walks with the wife to make up for the baseball.

   - Old-time radio.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   I own a nice mineral collection and try to go dig or mine for them whenever I can. We also try to see as many concerts as possible, was once a tour kid that travelled from state to state show to show seeing what would be the remaineds of the Grateful Dead. Big on hiking and camping... but now my biggest hobby is workin on the home before the little one is born.

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   Robotics, Archaeology, and anything Sherlockian.

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   Went to a model rocket launch last weekend, and have now joined the High Power Association..yep, got the bug again after 25 years from being away from it. Ordered my first rocket this week and will do my Level 1 Certification flight at the December launch and take the Level 2 written test at the same time. This is what I'm going to do for those not familiar with it.
   

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   Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   There are tons of Youtube videos on this stuff. 1200 pound rockets that fail to deploy the recovery chute and dive into the desert in a thousand pieces

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   Well, here are the things I am into other than pipes:

   - Amateur Astronomy and Telescope Making
   - Amateur Radio (callsign N8XE), morse code, old radios
   - Woodworking (mostly telescope making stuff)
   - Music (play piano/keyboards, bass guitar).. also write music
   - Collecting Antiquated books (Especially old German Astronomy Books)
   - The German language
   - Collecting old insulators
   - History (especially German and Civil War history)

   I am a hobbie hoarder!!

   Jason

   "The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan

   Posted 5 months ago #
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    I hike, fish and camp. I love boating, especially sailing.

    “Apples for walking, and a pipe for sitting.”
    ― Samwise Gamgee

    Posted 5 months ago #
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    Amateur Astronomy
    Tie-Dyeing
    Airbrushing
    Drawing
    Writing
    Fishing
    Camping
    Pipe and baccy
    Would like to learn how to home brew one of these days...
    Rockets are cool too...hmmm...
    (Can you tell I don't have kids?)

    "Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?"

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    Bump for all the new members to respond.

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    Canoeing, any chance I can get
    Hiking
    Camping
    Collecting antiques
    Canoeing
    Spending time with my son
    Did I say canoeing?
    

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    -Anything involving horses and outdoors: mountain riding, training horses, cowboy challenge competitions, spending weeks in the backcountry with nothing but what I hauled in on the horses.
    - Hunting, playing guitar, photography, writing, currently restoring an old barn.

    Posted 3 months ago #
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    Pictures of the barn for us?

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    Music, mostly jazz. Good scotch. Nice cars. Guitars that tune good and firm feeling women (thanks Waylon).

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    [quote]Music, mostly jazz. Good scotch. Nice cars. Guitars that tune good and firm feeling women (thanks Waylon).

    Favorite artist?

    Posted 3 months ago #
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    Computer-everything, Gaming, Classic Heavy Metal, Reading, Writing, Swimming, Sunbathing, Movies and TV. I have progressing arthritis from a car crash in '79 including broken back and spine, so I can't do all the cool outdoors things I used to love.

    “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” Patrick Henry

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    Love seeing everyone's posts in this thread!

    For me, it's reading, movies and TV, music, and writing/recording songs in my home studio. (Two CDs available, so far, on iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby.)

    Posted 3 months ago #
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    -Paintball
    -Pistol Target Shooting(IPSC)
    -Hunting
    -Gaming(PS3)
    -The Walking Dead Graphic Novels
    -Collecting lots of things(i just enjoy collecting in general)
    -Poetry
    -Movies and TV series i love
    -Camping
    -I try anything and everything at least twice.

    Edit: i can just add and add and add to this the more i think about it.

    Pack and lite, hope for no bite. Tamp and Dottle, Pour from the Bottle. Sit back and smell, Ah..All is well"

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    As requested here are the 'barn restoration' pics. I've just bought the property. The barn is getting re-roofed, but the structure is in great shape. The ground floor will be typical barn: stalls, tack room, utility room, but the top will be a 2 story living area, with the west side having lots of glass. I'm contracting out the roofing, but will do all the interior myself. Included a picture of the view I'll have from the top part of the barn, sitting on my balcony with a good pipe watching the sun go down!
    
    
    

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    Great photos Hunter185, Really enjoy old barns.

    "You have to be a man first before you're a gentleman. "
    
    John Wayne

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    Great photos and what a fantastic project. Do you know how much that wood alone is worth? A lot!

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    What an Amazing looking Barn wow

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    Ok...rmbittner, can you provide us with info on how to get or listen to your CD's?

    Hunter, that is one of the most awesome barns ever, would be killer to have living quarters in the top.

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    I do like a good hobby!
    Carp fishing
    Wells catfish fishing
    Camping
    Backpacking
    Playing/teaching brass instruments
    Marching bands/drum corps
    Clay pigeon shooting
    Vermin control
    Air riffle hunting
    Cooking ( I'm a chef)
    Motor bikes. I'm disabled so as a spectator now
    Xbox360
    Facebook!
    Breeding/rearing/loving bulldogs. I have 3 bitches.
    Quad bike off roading
    Reading
    Carpentry ( very new)

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    music - my first love, I like it all and play almost all: classical, jazz, hip hop, singer songwriter/folk, reggae, ska, salsa, metal, etc. etc., I'm a trumpet and bass player (see below)
    composing music - something i hope to do more of once i finish school for the second time
    writing fiction - i wrote a novel for national novel writing month last year and I'm pretty proud of it. it comedic, but I'd like to write a sprawling epic like LOTR/The Dark Tower/His Dark Materials for my next attempt.
    making art miscellaneously - I have lots of artists friends and sometimes I get the bug to do it myself. mostly painting and papier mache
    learning Spanish and German - my wife is fluent/near fluent in the latter
    more video games than I'd like to admit

    it should be noted that all of these are on hold while I work towards a master's ...

    -dug
    
    dugsummerfest by Nonsense-Art, on Flickr

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    Ok you last two... What trumpet and mouthpiece do you play on?

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    Oh blimey. At the moment I'm more into my baritone which is a forward facing Degg (a discontinued marching instrument) with a mouthpiece that I've had for 25 years. It has no markings but I "borrowed" it from music class when I was at school and never returned it! It's slightly smaller than standard bar/euphonium mouthpieces which makes higher notes easier.

    My personal instrument, finance nearly paid lol is a Bach New York extra large bore cos I'm a noisy bugger! I have a bob reeves cj2 mouthpiece for nice soft jazz ballads and a schilke 6a4z for when I'm dreaming that I can play like Maynard ferguson!

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    I really want a new trumpet ... saving up. I play a Bach Stradivarius Model 37, but my mouthpiece is exciting: Asymmetric Lead 342. It has really increased my range w/o significant sacrifice to endurance.

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    Seamusjft......good choice, I've played on a 6a4 the past 18 years or so.

    Dizzy....I've never tried one of those.

    Posted 3 months ago #

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