Shoe restoration.
That's nice!
Thanks! Took a lot of practice to get good at saving shoes.
Dude!! That's amazing!!
Gardening - growing chiles, squash, cucumber, tomatoes, eggplant, blackberries, blueberries (not many this year), persimmons, figs, nectarines, Korean pears, and plums.
Related to gardening, I recently purchased some stuff to put together a new raised bed, and I think I want to get into woodworking.
D&D - I've been running a D&D game for the last 5 years or so that just concluded a major arc.
Lifting weights - I recently purchased a Titan power rack, so that's been great for squats, overhead press, and pullups. I'm trying to get back into Olympic style weightlifting, but it's been slow going.
Travel - we just got back from Santa Fe, NM. It's beautiful there, and the food is fantastic.
Also a gardener. Currently waiting for my tomatoes to start producing, we have too much rain and too little sun at the moment. Zucchini and cukes have started producing which is nice.
In terms of fruit trees, my cherry is packed this year. I can take the kids there every day for a feast 😊
My citrus collection is also doing rather well.
You guys have hobbies?
I'm running multiple d&d games for both friends and family. My friends are currently playing The Curse of Strahd and loving it but it's just by the book.
My family just finished The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, which I had heavily modified and plan to release a boom detailing what I did and how it went. After that this group returns to my homebrew game, so...
I need to revive a third game, also with friends, which is their heroes in the same homebrew world as I plan to bring the two groups together for a level 20 finale.
Two different groups coming together in the same campaign sounds so cool! Are they aware of each other?
They are, vaguely. The situation is that two worlds from parallel timelines almost collided and we're sealed into a bubble plane to keep the catastrophe contained.
One party from each world is unraveling the how and why. At the center is a pair of liches - the same individual from each world - whose phylacteries are each other. If you dint defeat them both in the alloted time, the other lich rises again.
None of the players know about the liches yet, but they do know their name, Zeitounessian.
Crafting, since I'm traveling again
Huarachas - traveling again, and huarachas are my most comfortable shoes
Stuff sacks - for cramming bulky items like jackets/sleeping bags into to maximize storage space.
I really like making stuff, and these items are so useful and so simple to make that I make them whenever I need them
Oh shirts. Usually the best design only comes in extra large, so I buy the style I like in any size larger than I am, then lay a shirt I know is the right size on top, cut it to size and make a bespoke t-shirt.
Wow, you people actually have interesting hobbies. The most interesting thing I did last week, was repair a shitty Huawei p10 (which I hate, because you can't unlock the bootloader). I'll give it to my mom for her birthday. I know, it's a shitty gift, but could be worse.
Practicing soldering on cheap Chinese kits. Put together a good sized LED music visualizer kit Saturday. Works good!
Soldering some new cables for my sound system, got a big party coming up and trying to make it easier to use. Haven't done it in a while and enjoying it!
Finished up my last hand wired keyboard the other day, and also the RPi powered Pokédex my daughter had wanted me to finish for her for quite a while.
It’s a crude little thing, especially the 3D printing — it was this project that convinced me I had to move on from TinkerCAD — but the software (not mine) works perfectly, the battery is big enough to power the Pi and she’s fond of it.
Uchi mata, uchi mata, and more uchi mata
Hoping to drop a weight class by the end of the year.
A part on my mountain bike (freehub) broke and I was going to replace it but I couldn't get the old one out without damaging the wheel so instead I moved all the new parts from the replacement into the body of the old one which itself was in good-enough condition. Now it works again and I didn't need to spend and extra money.
learned psychotic reaction on drums
