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Topic: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?

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Hawkinole

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I will get this started.
I love college football. A few other things I do include:

  • I grow roses. I have approximately 38 rose bushes. I am pretty good at it, but not so good at controlling Japanese beetles.
  • I have a vegetable garden. It is only 10' x 20', but my wife gets on me because we always have too much of everything.
  • Photography. I am not that good at it but occasionally something clicks.

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2023, 12:02:52 AM »
You guys already know, I operate a college football card & dice game, thanks to Drew doing my website.
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Additionally, I'm a pretty good artist.  Not a painter, but sketching or prismacolor/oil pastels.  You could give me a subject to draw, and I can knock out a quick 30-45 second sketch that will look better than most people with no time constraint.
I only took art classes for an easy A, I honestly just doodled as far back as I can remember. 
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Before the game took over my free time, I read a lot more and had a deep, ongoing knowledge of MLB.  My original game idea was a mish-mash of a few existing baseball card & dice games.  But there's a hundred baseball games like that, not so many college football games.
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2023, 12:17:00 AM »
Additionally, I'm a pretty good artist.  Not a painter, but sketching or prismacolor/oil pastels.  You could give me a subject to draw, and I can knock out a quick 30-45 second sketch that will look better than most people with no time constraint.
This website does not easily handle photos. After all it is a college football website. Nevertheless, can you try posting a photo of one of your sketches? I find that intriguing. People who can draw have a different brain than most of us, see things differently, and can translate it onto paper.
I know you are a teacher. What do you teach?

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2023, 08:03:29 AM »
This website does not easily handle photos. After all it is a college football website. Nevertheless, can you try posting a photo of one of your sketches? I find that intriguing. People who can draw have a different brain than most of us, see things differently, and can translate it onto paper.
I know you are a teacher. What do you teach?
Actually, it does. Use the Windows snipping tool, and just copy/paste. See below.


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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2023, 08:18:38 AM »
Fro used to be hilariously incapable of posting a pic. I'm not sure if he's ever figured it out. 
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2023, 09:13:49 AM »
my hobby is golf

I'm not good at it, but I enjoy it.

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2023, 09:25:08 AM »
I think y'all know most of my hobbies/passions-- camping, woodworking,  boating, waterskiing, DIY projects, enjoying live music especially outdoors, cooking (especially BBQ), and spending as much time with my kids as possible before they get too old to want to spend any time with their old man.

I also like drinking beer and wine and good liquor, and being really snobby about all three. :)



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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2023, 12:22:14 PM »
My hobby is also Golf and I am very bad at it.

Also like going out and seeing a live local band and awkwardly move my arms & legs and call it dancing.

Almost forgot, I've been officiating HS football for over a couple of decades.  Use to also officiate Wrestling, but it takes up too much time on the weekends and would interfere with me playing golf. 

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2023, 04:28:15 PM »
Well, one of my passions has always been my business, but that passion is waning as I get older. It still takes up the majority of my time though.

I really enjoy boating and don't get to do enough of it.

Cooking is a whole lot of fun for me. I get to try new things and also apply science in a different way than work. Physics and chemistry are a thing when cooking. As are your taste buds and sense of smell.

Love getting together with friends and family. The latter doesn't happen as much as I'd like since we live pretty far away from everyone.
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2023, 06:27:08 PM »
I'm a jack of all trades, master of none.

I'm a sports guy (participating more than watching). My favorite is ice hockey, though through a turn of events it's been a while since I've regularly played. I'm also a tennis player and a recreational cyclist (road and some gravel). I coach my kids recreational sports teams (now more than 30 teams), which has mostly been soccer, but included baseball and softball back in the day. I'm a soccer referee with more than 250 games under my belt and I will continue doing that after my kids are out of the house. I like playing basketball and soccer, but I mostly gave up the former because it wasn't worth it to me to blow out a tendon playing the game, and the latter is just low enough on the list that I haven't made time for it (and hockey, tennis, and cycling will come first).

I play World of Tanks on the XBox. As I've played it a decent amount for more than five years, that has to be considered a hobby, though I'm a little embarrassed to admit it. Used to be mostly with my son, but he's moved on and I haven't. He still plays with me a bit, which is pretty awesome (because it's nice to spend time with my teenagers when they actually like having me around).

I love movies and thinking about movies, but I'm not going out of my way to go to new releases and I'm routinely behind on what the pop culture is talking about (and I'm just worn out by the Marvel and Star Wars universes). 

I enjoy music, but I don't make it especially well--fortunately my wife and daughter do.

I enjoy wine and whisk(e)y enough to have opinions, but not enough to think I know a lot about them. And I just don't drink that much whisk(e)y, but it's mostly Scotch or Bourbon when I do.

I love to travel (and the outdoors), but like most of us, don't have enough money or vacation time to really go crazy. I hope that in retirement, I'll be able to do more.

I have more than a passing interest in politics, history, and the cultures of the U.S., but like everything else on this list, I haven't taken a deep dive into them (and like with music, SFIrish96 is actually a [so far] local politician, which has convinced me that I wouldn't like actually being a politician).

I love most food, especially dessert (and most especially ice cream), and I can cook reasonably well, but I've been accused of not having very high standards for food. Don't rely on me for Michelin ratings, but I can point you in the direction of some decent grub. I'm just as happy with tasty street food as with high-end cuisine--and enjoy both in the right setting.

Like most lawyers, I fancy writing, but don't make enough time for it.

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2023, 07:30:05 PM »
Reading (emphasis on 19th C baseball-1940, and then a Russian history fetish).   Cooking, but not baking (that's the wife and girls' thing), also a bit of lawn/garden caretaker.   Can blame Covid for that.  I still outsource a few yard tasks, but keep after most of it.

Fishing, freshwater, pan, bass, walleye, muskie, northern, trout).   I do love bait casting but will certainly jig, troll, sight, feel, whatever.

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2023, 07:50:59 PM »
I like to run naked through the streets at a regular interval the police may never figure out while wearing a gorilla mask.  Nobody has ever got a description except for that monstrous thing flopping about.... akin to the Yankees, they can't keep their eyes off the pinstripes.  

When it's cold, I'll wear a hat.  

Wish me luck! It's coming up quick.  

Other than making smart ass comments, I work... thats what I do.  But... ive carefully chosen the working i do to make it seem like something else- both to myself and others.  So far so good.. wish me luck! 

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2023, 08:11:47 PM »
Fishing, boating, golf, cooking, cars- that go fast and steer incredibly well, my kids, dogs ( over the top dog lover). 

PS.  Bourbon when I am with friends 
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2023, 10:51:27 PM »

Almost forgot, I've been officiating HS football for over a couple of decades.  Use to also officiate Wrestling, but it takes up too much time on the weekends and would interfere with me playing golf.
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