My Stressful Hobbies: Breadmaking and More

[AJKing]

What do you do for relaxation?

I don't relax. I'm stressed all the time.
(I also make bread.)

 

[Evo]

What do you do for relaxation?

I don't relax. I'm stressed all the time.
(I also make bread.)

What is this thing you call "relaxation"?

I watch food tv, but I spend most of my time screaming at the poor tv set because the idiots are clueless, yet they're on tv getting paid to give out misinformation. AAAAARRGGGHH

I guess that's my relaxation.

 

[dustbin]

Running, chess, music (playing and listening), and spending time with my wife.

 

[wolram]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellie_wanging

very good for relaxation and you meet so many nice people.

 

[lisab]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellie_wanging

very good for relaxation and you meet so many nice people.

According to the link, Wellie wanging originated in a place called Upperthong.



<insert your own inappropriate comment here>

 

[Ken Natton]

In case anyone doubts its existence.

 

[jtbell]

I see there's also a Netherthong and a Thongsbridge.

 

[cobalt124]

Family time, learning stuff and reading stuff. Don't get enough.

I thought it was called Wellie Hoying.

For relaxation (not a hobby), I find physical labour (where you are given some work, left alone to do it, and have the satisfaction of completing it) relaxing e.g. dry stone walling.

 

[Ken Natton]

I thought it was called Wellie Hoying.

My understanding of the verb 'to wang' implies divesting yourself of the wanged item on a permanent basis. But I claim no expertise in Yorkshire dialect. I live on the West side of the Pennines.

 

[turbo]

My main hobby is taking care of my dog. When my wife leaves in the morning, Duke comes into the bedroom and checks on me. Sometimes, he is quiet, but often he is noisy enough to wake me again, and I feel like I have to get out of bed. Then he heads out to his other bed in the living room and passes out, as quiet as a mouse.

Then it is walks so he can "do his business". He is quite particular about where he might defecate, so the walks are longer than one might expect.

 

[Andre]

My current hobby is building a house :P really time consuming.

 

[cobalt124]

My understanding of the verb 'to wang' implies divesting yourself of the wanged item on a permanent basis. But I claim no expertise in Yorkshire dialect. I live on the West side of the Pennines.

Yep, wang seems to be Yorkshire for "throw" (never heard of it), and hoy seems to be Geordie for "throw".

 

[Chi Meson]

Hobbies are for relaxing?


jQFMdIN-sBY[/youtube]

 

[Drakkith]

Astronomy, Astrophotography, video games.

 

[dcassell]

Fine dining, TV, and reading are my main hobbies outside of school.

 

[Andre]

My current hobby is building a house :P really time consuming.

My hobby week:

 

[Yayfordoritos]

For the past couple months my main hobby has been studying and working Math problems, but I also enjoy crocheting. I'm actually pretty good at it.

 

[George Jones]

To have fun, I:

do things with my family (wife and six-year-old daughter) (e.g., my daughter and I are going skating on Friday);

read/work on physics;

observational amateur astronomy;

surf the internet, mainly for local, national, and international news, and for sports;

watch DVD movies with my wife (we don't have a TV; mainly, but not exclusively, mystery movies)

read novels (mainly, but not exclusively, mystery novels).

My priorities with respect to this list change, depending on my mood, on my energy level, and on what my wife and daughter want to do.

 

[seaofghosts]

Sophomore physics student here... I play video games when I can't handle studying anymore. Right now it's all about Skyrim; I like open RPGs usually.

I also have a few blogs that I keep track of (Wordpress and tumblr), and when I have time I like to program, though that's part of my school right now so I've been programming as LITTLE as possible. :p I'm usually a big reader when I have time but I haven't been able to since summer break ended.

 

[Jim Kata]

I play Go.

 

[lisab]

I play Go.

I go play.

 

[jtbell]

I guess we're too old to go-go.

I've been a big classical-music fan since high school. Never learned to play an instrument, though, except for a semester of piano class when I was in college.

I'm also a train buff (hence my avatar).

 

[WannabeNewton]

Sophomore physics student here... I play video games when I can't handle studying anymore. Right now it's all about Skyrim; I like open RPGs usually.

Skyrim for the win

 

[SunnyBoyNY]

Writing articles for my engineering blog, studying for grad courses, amusing my wife, playing with our cat, taking care of the house, rock-climbing once a week, and unfortunately playing the goddamn DIABLO 3.

 

[seaofghosts]

I'm glad I'm not a PC gamer, SunnyBoyNY, because I wouldn't get anything done with Diablo 3 existing. At some point I want to try it, but I REALLY want it on XBox (and that's never going to happen).

 

[seaofghosts]

Skyrim for the win

I'm so addicted it's not even funny. For a while there the music soundtrack haunted my dreams.

 

[seaofghosts]

I play Go.

I bought a Go board and a couple of books to learn over the summer, but it just never happened! My physics dept has chess and Go boards between classrooms, though, so I'm hoping that next semester I'll find someone to play with.

 

[jtbell]

I'm glad I'm not a PC gamer, SunnyBoyNY, because I wouldn't get anything done with Diablo 3 existing.

I went through my PC game phase before PC's existed.

For a couple of years in grad school, I spent a lot of time on the Colossal Cave Adventure game on the physics department's PDP-10 and the VAX 11/780 which replaced it:

 

[AlephZero]

I bought a Go board and a couple of books to learn over the summer, but it just never happened! My physics dept has chess and Go boards between classrooms, though, so I'm hoping that next semester I'll find someone to play with.

Learning the rules of Go takes all of 5 minutes. Learning "all" the implications of the rules might take the next 50 years though.

I got quite addicted to Go at univserity, but I haven't played since then.

If you want to learn, start by playing on a 13x13 board not 19x19. On the full board, by the time game gets to the stage where a beginner can figure out what's going on, he/she will already be hopelessly defeated (unless playing another beginner, but that isn't the best way to learn except for the absolute basics).

 

[Jack21222]

Board games are becoming my main hobby. Video games are my entertainment, like how others would watch television, but board gaming is a hobby.

The game I play most is Arkham Horror; I run a weekly game at a local gaming store. Other games I enjoy include puerto rico and ticket to ride.

 

[Averagesupernova]

Some home improvement stuff, cutting/splitting firewood, sawing lumber (portable sawmill). The not-having-to-think so much activities are great stress relievers.

 

[grantwilliams]

I went through my PC game phase before PC's existed.

For a couple of years in grad school, I spent a lot of time on the Colossal Cave Adventure game on the physics department's PDP-10 and the VAX 11/780 which replaced it:

I am personally playing through planet fall right now! Its quite frustrating, but text based rpg's are the best!

I also longboard and ski whenever i can mooch a trip off one of my friends going.

 

[SHISHKABOB]

I like playing Dungeons and Dragons every weekend. Well, technically it's Pathfinder, but Pathfinder is basically DnD3.5e+ or whatever. My group plays it as sort of a tactical minis game, in that we focus more on the combat rather than the roleplaying. Not to say we don't RP whatsoever, but we have a lot more fun with the fights.

The game has a lot of rules and there are *a lot* of monster out there, so things can get pretty complicated. It's challenging for me, especially, because I play a wizard so I have to come up with a finite list of spells each time we play. Can only cast each spell once, though I can make copies of a spell. So I have to pick and choose. Hmm fireball or see invisibility? It's enjoyable.

 

[turbo]

It's not a hobby, but an avocation. I am avoiding a pushy neighbor.

He said that he wanted to borrow my tractor/tiller combination to till his garlic bed, but it became painfully obvious that he wanted to use my equipment to till poorly-cleared former forest-land near the back of his property. I'm not going to let someone trash my Kubota that way, and told him that. Since then, his stories about how well-prepared that lot is have gotten more and more elaborate. I will never hand him the key to my tractor. If he smokes the clutch on the tiller-shaft, that is repairable. If he smokes the internal clutch, I will be buying the grand-daughter of the owner of that dealership a nice used car to take to college.