My Stressful Hobbies: Breadmaking and More

[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.