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

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2023, 10:52:58 PM »
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?
What should I draw?  I need direction!

I teach kindergarten.
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« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2023, 01:21:30 AM »
I had no idea you taught kindergarten. I have always assumed you are male based on your posts (I was a fan of the Strato-Matic dice MLB game of the 1960s, and you developed a similar game for football). Somehow, that involves male thinking in my mind. That said, I have never known a male K-teacher. That takes a lot of patience many of us do not possess.
Regarding art, I suggest you post something you like, that you already sketched. Otherwise, if you need direction, on sketching something new I can provide it by PM with a photo -- but 
do you sketch people - or things?


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« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2023, 01:59:54 AM »
I don't save sketches.  They're nothing, throwaway things to me, because they're quick and easy.  Other people sometimes want to keep them, but they're a dime a dozen to me.

Anything you'd like.  I'll take a picture of it, and won't take more than 2 min on it.
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2023, 08:04:21 AM »
Draw a picture of OrangeAfroMan.
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2023, 08:17:01 AM »
We love to go on cruises, especially Trans-Atlantic on our way back from Europe. Travel is great. My wife is retired, and I get 7 weeks of vacation, so we get a lot of opportunities.

This year is gonna be a lot of back and forth up North. Granddaughter is gonna be 2 in May, and we have grand-twins coming in late July. 

If they are boys, I'm hoping one of them will be James, and the other one Jim.
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2023, 08:41:43 AM »
Thanks to Hawkinole for starting this off-season thread

I'd like to see it pinned so I/we can continue to add to it and refer back to it in the future.

my memory has never been good and it's not getting better

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2023, 08:51:08 AM »
I love playing golf, but as others have said I am not very good at it. One of my favorite experiences is a crisp, cool summer morning on the first tee box with 3 friends enjoying their company. 

Outside of that, I enjoy shooting. Rifle, pistol, shotgun, I love it all. I have a friend about 2 miles away that has rifle and pistol ranges, skeet houses and trap shoots. During the spring, summer and fall, I am usually there at least 1 night a week.

I too was a HS Football official for almost 30 years. I enjoyed seeing different teams every week and spending Friday evenings with our crew. We would try to schedule games according to places with good restaurants for after the games. We mainly tried to work  small school games but did work some of the bigger schools in Northwest Ohio which meant a lot of travel to and from the games. But it was a fun activity and I got to see a lot of good football and some great players. (Orlando Pace, Charles Woodson, Tim Anderson, etc.)

I also coached a lot of youth sports when my kids were playing, and some when they were not. I coached all levels of baseball and softball, volleyball, basketball and football. I didn't know a lot about volleyball and basketball, but I learned from the other coaches and was able to contribute. 

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2023, 09:07:22 AM »
very few people think they are good at golf

we shall see if Tiger thinks he's good after today's round
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« Reply #22 on: February 16, 2023, 10:03:57 AM »
A thankless job, but essential.  Awesome!
Even with the occasional Idiot coach or enraged fans, I still love doing it.  It is more about the comradory with crew members these days.  

Not sure how much longer I am going to do it, still enjoy it, but the old knees tell me about it the next day. Also thinking about become a snow bird which would mean being one part of the country the beginning of the football season and another part in the later half. 

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« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2023, 10:07:42 AM »
We love to go on cruises, especially Trans-Atlantic on our way back from Europe. Travel is great. My wife is retired, and I get 7 weeks of vacation, so we get a lot of opportunities.

This year is gonna be a lot of back and forth up North. Granddaughter is gonna be 2 in May, and we have grand-twins coming in late July.

If they are boys, I'm hoping one of them will be James, and the other one Jim.

We like to cruise also,  Been on 2 cruises since December and have 2 more schedule in the next 3 months.  Wife gets plenty of time off and I just take time off with no pay if I don't have any PTO accrued (nice to not have to worry about being paid).  We are looking to do a trans-Atlantic cruise, wife hates the flight length over to Europe, but still have places we want to see over there. 

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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2023, 10:43:15 AM »
We like to cruise also,  Been on 2 cruises since December and have 2 more schedule in the next 3 months.  Wife gets plenty of time off and I just take time off with no pay if I don't have any PTO accrued (nice to not have to worry about being paid).  We are looking to do a trans-Atlantic cruise, wife hates the flight length over to Europe, but still have places we want to see over there.
Flight to Europe isn't bad. It's far easier to fly East than it is to fly West, at least for us. On the cruise home, they change the clocks every-other-day so by the time you get back, you're all good. Check out Azamara. Small ships (700 people) and large crew of 450. Mostly 55+ years old on board.
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #25 on: February 16, 2023, 11:00:30 AM »
Carnival & Disney for kids

all others for Blue Hairs
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #26 on: February 16, 2023, 12:03:01 PM »
Lots of kids on the last Celebrity we did. Not using them again.
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Re: OT: What are your other hobbies/passions, aside from college football?
« Reply #27 on: February 16, 2023, 12:43:43 PM »
very few people think they are good at golf

we shall see if Tiger thinks he's good after today's round
Agree.   Define “ good”.  Lol
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