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Posted 5/9/2018 4:41 AM (GMT 0)
This was a thought provoking question for me. For several years, I was having a lot of fund with 3D printing. But I realized lately that I stopped, and I'm not sure why.

Prior to that, I used to enjoy running. I keep thinking I will again, "once my body heals". So many aches and pains as the years pile up. Took a few hang gliding lessons, and it's great fun, but never developed a passion for it.

I used to think I would take up oil painting when I retire. Then my wife took up oil painting, and was getting pretty good at it, when she passed on. I still might do it if I can find a teacher as good as hers was.
Posted 5/9/2018 5:20 AM (GMT 0)
Pratoman got a laugh out of your reference to The Eagles and Winslow, AZ. My wife and I just returned from a cross country trip and passed Winslow, AZ. I was going to stop and take a picture but I didn't know which corner to stand on.
Recently retired and my passion right now is just to enjoy life.
Posted 5/9/2018 6:16 AM (GMT 0)
Love to read and go to movies. Now considerably easy with MoviePass.
Posted 5/9/2018 6:43 AM (GMT 0)
bassoon
looking for a pre-owned reconditioned fox 240 with left-hand whisper key lock
and a spare $8,000
passions have no whys
Posted 5/9/2018 7:46 AM (GMT 0)
My current passion is the Russian novelist Bulgakov's satiric novel, The Master and Margarita. It is a madcap comedy where the devil visits Moscow in 1930 during the Stalinist era and all hell breaks loose. Bulgakov, a physician by training, died in 1940, but the book was not permitted to be published until 1967.

Why am I passionate about it: it attempts to answer many questions, indirectly as novelists are wont to do. What is freedom? What is truth? Is the spiritual life an adequate answer to life in the face of the juggernaut of science? What does it mean to life an honorable life?

Also, his novella, Heart of a Dog, is a hilarious satire on Soviet mores.

Master and Margarita is a difficult novel to read due to obscure references that would be unfamiliar to modern western readers so version with annotations is helpful. And there are three intertwined stories going on at the same time
Posted 5/9/2018 11:05 AM (GMT 0)
Passions? well for starters the mornings I wake up with no or little pain. Lol no really Life, family, walking, jogging, biking, fat tire riding, snowshoeing, flying my little champ, cross country skiing, camping, spending time with friends, and when I have a little time left getting on this crazy forum! ha ha

Larry
Posted 5/9/2018 12:22 PM (GMT 0)

tdnjam said...
Pratoman got a laugh out of your reference to The Eagles and Winslow, AZ. My wife and I just returned from a cross country trip and passed Winslow, AZ. I was going to stop and take a picture but I didn't know which corner to stand on.
Recently retired and my passion right now is just to enjoy life.

Lol td, there is an actual corner in the town with a statue of a man with a guitar. Behind the statue there’s a building with a mural, of the Eagles.

Crazy I know, but it’s a bucket list item for me.
Posted 5/9/2018 12:35 PM (GMT 0)

Pratoman said...


...Crazy I know, but it’s a bucket list item for me.

Outstanding.... cool
Posted 5/9/2018 12:40 PM (GMT 0)

island time said...
Flying....

Me too, IT after a lifetime of flying, starting in the Air Force, them commercial, finally GA. Curtailed now do to PCa, but I'm finally OK with it.

So my current passion is getting back in the saddle, after the effects of 2ADT wear off. smilewinkgrin
Posted 5/9/2018 2:19 PM (GMT 0)
This took a little while because I never think about something being a passion of mine.

But, yesterday as I'm taking a walk around campus to "my lilly pond" to count turtles, there was a mama Mallard duck with her babies. I took several pictures with my iphone.

So, I really love getting out in nature and if possible taking pictures of moments in nature.

But after hearing about the statue in Winslow, AZ. I have a new desire, to go there and check it out.
Been by there once with a bunch of kids on a church bus once.
But we didn't stop, as the kids didn't know why all the adults started singing about this little town.
Posted 5/9/2018 3:28 PM (GMT 0)
Funny, even though I'm sure I heard Take It Easy many more times, the first song that came to mind for me was Route 66. Also a classic.

I used to tinker with playing the piano, recently I started the ukulele. Why? Why not?
Posted 5/9/2018 3:39 PM (GMT 0)
Pratoman, Wish I had known that bit of information before our trip because we definitely would have stopped for a photo op.
And I don't think anybody's bucket list is crazy. That's what our recent trip was all about.
Jim
Posted 5/9/2018 4:25 PM (GMT 0)
Passions have no why!...Why??....just being a lil kid...kidding!
Reminds me of a saying...again...from hawaii...When someone asks you why about something that really has no answer...you say " because the chicken has two eye why...and you got none " I have no idea what that means...but the rhythm of the its flow...speaks...our first born when about 3-4 bulrted that out one day when we ...as parents...asked something parents are wont to ask lil tykes....................................again...again...that feeling....What is that....???

To all the aviators out there...thanks...you folks made me look good...many...many times
I have to "sell" this book...ive done it before here...Fate is the Hunter..Ernest K Gann a pioneer of early aviation...ya know range stations...amber...blue...etc..no radar...sif friend or foe...no jets...seat of the pants flying...you will love it...
Gann also wrote the novel The High and the Mighty which was made into a movie staring John Wayne and Robert Stack...accompanied by the music...of the same name...winning an Oscar {the music}...

Off to the gym...another passion of mine...I know such a lil piggy...

DJBear...get back at it...out the door into the wild...you will find somthing to do...start with a smile smile
Posted 5/9/2018 4:31 PM (GMT 0)
Sailing and mountain biking. I have a 17 ft sailboat, a Thistle, that I like to race some. There are some mountain-bike trails near my house and I like to get out a few times a week.
Posted 5/9/2018 5:10 PM (GMT 0)
Essentially same question raised 5 years ago. This was before I created my account and started posting, but I lurked here for quite a while before then and I remember this thread. (Notably, it went 8 pages long.)

An easy, non-confrontational subject: Hobbies are GFMPH, what is yours?

Bozo, you have taken over being the HW/PC site gadfly—chief initiator of meaningless threads—from Purgatory since that time; the designation went to InTheShop for a while, but you've emerged recently.

It seems like you've "simplified" your life's hobbies in 5 years, narrowing down to "words and surfing." Here was your (Bozo/Logo) response back then (I'll do everyone a favor and add some much needed line-returns in there for improved readability):

Somebody said...

Gahhllyy , this is the goodest memorial day I ever had. I claim rights to the term, cause I was born in Newport News Va. Not far east from the John Howard Kerr,{ i go by Jack but its John,} reservoir on the border of VA and North Carolina. No relation fur, or is that fire, as I know. Great thread.

My hobbies include writing, here and other venues, reading, autobiographies, Scifi, Asimoff, Greg Bear, history, , big movie buff, recent and past, travel, fitness, All kine of cardio, running less, enjoying it more, big time into core fitness, weights for toning, not body building and my goodest of all which I started at 67, after living in hawaii for close to 30 years, Standup paddleboard[ SUP] cruising and surfing. It is totally addicting. Its great exercise, that doesn't ever feel like exercise. I mean who sweats in water. I am truly fortunate in that I started distance running@ 25 and have never stopped, tho, being phased out by less jarring activities.This has enabled me to stay fit in these later years.

Big Mac, I got one 10'6' L 30" wide for paddle cruising and one 9'3"L 29"W for SUP surfing. Try it you'll like it , good way to spend a morning in flat water or da kine, waves, lidat.

Ahh. Little Orphan Annie was right.

The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar…….

Post Edited (NKinney) : 5/9/2018 11:19:54 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/9/2018 5:17 PM (GMT 0)
creating meaningless threads has lost its meaning.
Posted 5/9/2018 8:15 PM (GMT 0)
Don’t know what to do with myself these days!….. Played just about every sport with golf and skating lasting the longest. I tend to pull muscles and ligaments easy making sports almost undoable anymore. Going to a Doctor to discuss PRP Prolotherapy where they take your blood, spin/pull out the plasma, and shoot it back into the weak area to help its regeneration. It’s a step down from stem cell therapy. I’ll try anything, even snake oil supplements if it glues me back together.

Hmmmm… Maui surfboarding???, now this is an idea… would be lower impact, and unlike snow skiing, where I tend to go way too fast, surfing would have some speed limits built into the wave. It’s a thought, but not sure if my Speedo still fits. Did some snorkeling at Hulopoe Beach, its steep incline into the water made it one of the hardest beaches to get back onto shore. One big Plus is it’s much warmer than Western Pennsylvania…. surfing may just be an option after I win the lotto next week.

Flying…. my dad was a lifelong private pilot with a few twins we flew around in. Some great memories but I never got into it as a hobby.

Reading some of these posts is giving me some new ideas.
Posted 5/9/2018 8:58 PM (GMT 0)
One of the things I hate about modernity is when my online connections require me to choose security questions based on my preferences. "What is your favorite food?" they ask. How the he|| am I supposed to remember tomorrow what I said today? "What is your favorite pet you have ever owned?" Gee, let's see. Nutmeg was a a good dog. She kept my wife company while she drove back and forth between North Carolina and Florida when her dad was dying and the kids were small. But Jaxon was a good friend before he died. And now there's Gypsy who's a nut. Or Poppy... or Cello... or Diamond the ferret my wife owned when we were dating. How can I know what mood I'll be in next time I see that question?

I have a similar problem picking out anything to call a passion. When I was younger I was bookish but the responsibilities of adulthood made me worry about the commitment of time that picking up a book represented. I don't think I read less but my reading shifted to shorter works, essays and short fiction, that could be accommodated with a few minutes grabbed here or there. The last few years I have gotten into audiobooks that allow me to multiprocess -- grab a chapter from one of Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books while walking Gypsy, or revisiting Barsoom while cooking breakfast. So I could say reading (mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy but other genres too) but then what about photography? I've taken hundreds of thousands of photos and I am a decent photographer. Photography comes and goes with me but it never goes far. I enjoy tinkering with computers but the new wears off when someone pays me to do it and it becomes "work". I also obsess about minutiae such as whether the period in the preceding sentence should have been inside the quote. (It looks wrong to me both ways.)

So, my "passions"? I have no clue.

But I do have to second Tim G's mention of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita which might be my favorite book ever... if you catch me in the right mood. Audible.com has an excellent audiobook version. (Get the unabridged version -- 16 hours and 51 minutes).
Posted 5/9/2018 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
PDA, Tim G—
Вы должны учиться русскому языку чтобы читать Булгакова по-русски!
Posted 5/9/2018 9:20 PM (GMT 0)
SP: Сложный язык, я думаю. Скорее всего, не.
Posted 5/9/2018 9:43 PM (GMT 0)
I have lots:
Cooking - kind of a professional side effect from working in the food / restaurant industry for 33 years
Music - I play lots of classical piano: Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven - all the greatest hits
Furniture building - it's fun to live with things you made with your hands
Road cycling - eastern MA is one of the best places to ride and Skiing - a couple hours from great skiing in NH and VT.

Rob
Posted 5/9/2018 10:35 PM (GMT 0)
Tennis keeps me going
Posted 5/10/2018 9:01 PM (GMT 0)
I have three, but am only able to exercise two of them at present. I grew up on the water, and my father taught me to fish starting at age 4. I have been a fisherman ever since. Unfortunately, about 4 years ago, my spouse's health issues, along with other life problems, caused me to stop fishing almost completely. I miss it terribly, but sometimes you have no choice.

Another passion which I have enjoyed to this day is shooting. I was also taught to shoot by my father (quail hunter) and after college and law school I joined the FBI as a Special Agent. They taught me how to REALLY shoot, particularly handguns, which I have enjoyed doing ever since. I still go to my local range 2-3 times a month and enjoy the shooting and the satisfaction of knowing I can still do something quite well.

Finally, yoga. I started practicing yoga 13 years ago at age 55. I had always stayed in good shape, running and lifting weights, but I knew I needed something else. Yoga has provided that something else, and it has become an extremely important part of my life. Now, I don't know what I would do without it. Inner peace and core physical fitness have been tremendous benefits. Yoga is something I highly recommend to everyone.
Posted 5/10/2018 10:18 PM (GMT 0)
Sons, grandkids, golf, Philadelphia Eagles, music, reading , watching Trump kick ass, staying out of my wife’s hair.
Bob
Posted 5/10/2018 10:54 PM (GMT 0)
Passion is a strong word but my interests are: Stoic philosophy, investing, travel, physical fitness, kayaking, French language study, Spanish language study and cycling.

As there is a "why" I will just answer for Stoic philosophy. Stoic philosophy was developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans and is about: accepting what you cannot control, accepting death as a natural process, living with integrity and having a sense of gratitude. It has helped me quite a bit in dealing with prostate cancer.
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