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Play guitar, or sew. Guitar because I play woodwinds, so when I’m sick, I’m pretty useless. At least with a guitar, I can cough my lungs out and still somewhat play guitar if I’m not heaving for air. Or someone else can sing for me.
Sewing because then I wouldn’t have to resort to a single needle and thread and have no idea what I’m doing when patching something up. If I could remember how to use a sewing machine from home economics class in highschool, then I could start a little hobby business on the side, and I wouldn’t have to give up my favourite pair of jeans. :(
sewing is a fun hobby. I started when the world was shut down. watched a bunch of youtube to learn how. Sewing machines are intimidating but really not that hard once you get into it.
I do remember using a pedal, and I don’t remember it being too hard. I do recall, however, one of the troublemakers in class would put the pedal to the metal and the teacher would give him an earful.
What are some of the things that you’ve sewn? I need a little inspiration, maybe it’s time I pick it up as a hobby and not just for school.
as I lost weight, I tailored all of my clothes. I do some wood working too so I’ve made bags, tool rolls, etc… I just bought a pattern for a blue jean jacket and I’m going to use my old fat pants to make a jacket. Blue jean jackets are very expensive right now for some reason, even used. The pattern was $15 on ebay, and the material I already have.
That’s awesome. I’m going to have to look in to this more seriously. Thank you for adding more fuel to a tiny little flame. 😊
I think about going back to paragliding from time to time but it’s just too expensive to do casually, requires time I’m no longer willing to dedicate to it and is a bit too dangerous for me now. But if I had a lot of money, didn’t have to work and had unbreakable bones…
Every 5 years go so I think about getting into powered paragliding. It looks amazing! Inevitably each time I find youtube videos talking about how much progress has occurred in the industry…and a heartfelt eulogy about a wildly experienced paraglider pilot that died recently while paragliding. I always turn away with the same thought: “If the very experienced people are dying like this, it is far riskier form me to try.”
Those wildly experienced paraglider pilots are usually getting killed doing advanced acro or flying in sketchy conditions though.
Yes and no. Definitely acro is way more deadly than casual flying but I’ve seen and heard about weird accidents happening to people without doing anything crazy. A friend of mine wanted to do a tandem flight. She took off with very experienced pilot on a very calm day and some totally random downdraft suddenly pulled them down and they landed hard in the middle of the mountain. By some miracle both were fine. A lot that happened in my area were foreign tourist not familiar with the terrain and not having enough experience trying to fly on normal days and simply making stupid mistakes.
I would say that casual flying can be pretty much as safe as skiing or rock climbing. It’s an extreme sport and accidents happen but most of them are minor. The risk of something serious happening on a beginners wing and on a calm day is rather low. The problem is that flying on a calm day gets boring (you’re zig-zagging close to the mountain all the time) and to keep learning and advancing you have to do more and more dangerous things. It’s typical for people to push until they get out of their comfort zone and hit a limit. I knew people that did one or two solo flights and were done. Others pushed until first minor injury. I tried cross country flying and it was too much for me. Others are fearless and become real pilots. Each step means new dangers and higher risk.
I appreciate the reply with your experience and the context. Can I ask what your opinion is on electric paramotors? Do you think they are mature enought yet?
No idea, I never touched paramotors. From what I know it just lets you fly without wind so it should be safer than paragliding because you can fly when it’s really calm. I would say it’s as approachable as paragliding. Find a good instructor and you can dip your toes, see if you like it.
I so wanna get back to making gamejam games but with a full time job in programming my body can’t bear more screentime
I’ve dabbled in so many that I wish I could choose a couple and ditch the rest. Just don’t know which ones to pick.
Don’t you have a recurrent one? For me was origami, I tried dozens of hobbies over the years but origami was one that got my attention every few years and never disappeared entirely.
Now that I think about it, origami for me, too. Sometimes, I’ll have a cough candy and then I’m left with a wrapper. I stick it in my pocket when there’s no bin nearby, and it always somehow ends up as a crane, turtle, or fortune teller.
Artisinal napping
Bespoke meandering
Daydream stylist
I LOVE counting money
Unca Scrooge?
Cobbling and machining. Basically, I would do these things if I had the start up funds and time and space.
because lack of time or money or talent?
Not go to work and not die.
Singing, it’s not a matter of money or time but talent and I don’t have it
I would really like to learn to snowboard/ski. I’m learning to drive soon and I’m hoping I’ll be able to take some time to go to the mountains in the winter. That costs money though.
Honestly I just wish i had the energy to take up learning another instrument. Like I could start taking violin lessons again, or I could seriously devote some more time to the guitar, and that would be really awesome. As is I barely have the energy to drum daily and I average only 1-2 sessions a week at best. Music is hella rewarding though, so the more ways I have of making it the better in my book.
I do whatever the fuck I want
Probably be a recreational pilot, like one of my friends did training for. Like sure, I love my deep interests in tech, psychology and gaming, but damn I wanna fly a light aircraft.
The new sport pilot rules may be for you then. There’s also Ultralight aviation or powered paragliding.
It’s not as hard to get into as you’d expect. Right now** is a great time to get into it. There are a lot of instructors right now trying to build hours waiting for the airlines to hire again. You can find higher quality instructors for cheaper than normal
My instructor works for free. He’s just glad to be getting free flight hours. I wouldn’t recommend doing a formal flight school unless you have money to burn. If you’re good at self-study, get Sporty’s or another online course. Few hundred dollars for the ground school. Then rent a plane to do your hours in
**Huge asterisk here due to gas prices being elevated. It’s not too hard to find cheap 100LL/UL, but that window is closing. As long as the war in Iran is ongoing, higher fuel prices will be a concern. That being said, my Cherokee gets 16-20 MPG equivalent
Good info!!!
Building PCs.
I’m perfectly capable of it, I built the PC I’m typing this on. It’s just…the world’s gone to hell in a Depends Adult Diaper.
Horseback riding. It can be expensive and I can’t risk injuring myself, if I don’t work I don’t eat.
