Social What’s your coolest hobby ?

[GSP_37]

I don't have enough self esteem to think anything I do is cool, but re: baseball cards, I bought 3x hangers, 4x blasters, 6x retail packs, 1x super box (10 packs) of 2024 Topps Update Baseball and did NOT get a base Wyatt Langford RC, but did get an insert '89 design Wyatt Langford RC. Probably done buying '24 Topps Update. Did get maybe 4x Paul Skenes RC, 4x Jackson Holliday RC, 1 regular and 1 colored parallel Jackson Chourio RC. No autos or jersey patch cards.

Bought 2x blasters of '24 Allen Ginter for TTM fuel and mostly junk except for mini SP Wyatt Langford RC. I like the cardstock, but the '24 design uses more color in the backgrounds. The '22 design was nice for autographs.

Saw a rare opportunity to buy single pack of '24 Stadium Club, but when I rung it up it was $8 and should have aborted. The 15 card pack was pure garbage. It was like the Orioles and Dodgers pack and no RC's, no autos, nothing worthwhile. I suspect it was available loose since it may have been leftovers after the seller rep ripped packs until finding the hits.

This year, I discovered the Super boxes come with one oversized maybe 5 3/4" x 8" sized card and one "companion" card maybe not in the regular set. First Super box I bought was from random visit to Costco, and supply wiped out fast. Tried to use my ki to get a good card as the oversized card and ended up with Elly De La Cruz RC and regular sized companion card Shohei Ohtani. The '24 Topps Update Super box had what I wanted: Wyatt Langford RC oversized, but corner dinged. They fit inside BCW 6" x 9" sleeves and then into the Ultra Pro 8" x 10" magnetic One Touch which has a hole to hang it and it's supposed to have some UV protection. Didn't use my ki to pick that Super box as it was the first box on top of a short stack of two boxes. So now I have a thing for these oversized cards and have a grand total of two. As a kid, the closest thing was school supply folders of '89 Topps that printed the baseball card front and back on the folders front and back.

 

[chill doggie]

I play live poker 5 days a week on average.
On my time off I investigate the nature of reality, post-materialism, UFOs, parapsychology, metaphysics, etc...

 

[koquerelle]

Knife making/sword making and cooking

You should post videos. I'm fascinated by this craft.

 

[mb23100]

Astronomy. Bought a telescope during COVID and still use it all the time.

 

[subtlySteve]

It’s a little-known secret that I don’t share much, but one of my main hobbies is performing close-up magic and gambling demonstrations.

I even post videos on certain forums (which shall remain nameless, of course) because, well, I’m the shy type.

 

[wendelbudwhite]

You should post videos. I'm fascinated by this craft.

Just had some surgery homie I'll post some stuff tomorrow if ya want?

 

[Gigacardio]

Just thought I'd mention bird watching as well which is quite a wiedespread hobby here in the UK . Doing it with binoculars is particularly fun.

 

[Phlog]

This is tough, because what I think is cool is not the same as what everyone else thinks is cool.

I like longsword fencing, playing American football is pretty cool, also sailing is pretty rad. I was 200 miles from shore on Friday, no other human in sight with the stars bright above me and sparkling constellations of phosphorescent micro organisms in the sea below. That was pretty cool, felt like I was in Avatar. And the 1-200 dolphins playing in the bow wave while I had my coffee for an hour or so in the morning was dope. We were all enjoying that.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Ever get into Allen & Ginter baseball cards?

No, I only collect Football and Basketball

 

[MichiganMMA1978]

pyramids in belize,

Did you fly there? Or stop at the cruise port?


Wife picked up some rocks in Alabama, on our way to a cruise. We went through security At a few ports, and she got flagged at the port in Costa maya for the rock lol. Told us we can't take rocks out of the country, we assured them we weren't and they were from Alabama. They apparently did not believe us because they still confiscated them.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I was 200 miles from shore on Friday, no other human in sight with the stars bright above me and sparkling constellations of phosphorescent micro organisms in the sea below. That was pretty cool, felt like I was in Avatar. And the 1-200 dolphins playing in the bow wave while I had my coffee for an hour or so in the morning was dope. We were all enjoying that.

You win this thread.

 

[mb23100]

This is tough, because what I think is cool is not the same as what everyone else thinks is cool.

I like longsword fencing, playing American football is pretty cool, also sailing is pretty rad. I was 200 miles from shore on Friday, no other human in sight with the stars bright above me and sparkling constellations of phosphorescent micro organisms in the sea below. That was pretty cool, felt like I was in Avatar. And the 1-200 dolphins playing in the bow wave while I had my coffee for an hour or so in the morning was dope. We were all enjoying that.

What boat do you have?

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

You can pick which is coolest:

-Guitar/bass
-Skateboarding
-Lifting/strength training
-Running
-Watching mma
-Coaching youth sports

The last one really has ate up most of my free time.

I do all of these, and agreed the last one is quite time consuming. I coach 9 year olds in cricket, the kids are fine, some of their parents are fucking painful though.

I do boxing training as well, some people think that's cool I guess. I should add that my son doesn't think any of my hobbies are cool by definition.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Making movies and comedy I guess

 

[Cajun]

Did you fly there? Or stop at the cruise port?


Wife picked up some rocks in Alabama, on our way to a cruise. We went through security At a few ports, and she got flagged at the port in Costa maya for the rock lol. Told us we can't take rocks out of the country, we assured them we weren't and they were from Alabama. They apparently did not believe us because they still confiscated them.

Took my parents for their first trip out of the country by flight. Never had an issue. Never been on a cruise though. Not sure the system. With peeps bringing lots of luggage by plane at once that's likely the reason.

 

[DanSavage]

I rebuild/restore old Ovation guitars. I also build new custom Ovation guitars.

The custom guitars go from this:



And, this:



To this:

 

[heavy_hands]

cooking (I’m pretty damn good at it)
Lifting weights/hitting the heavy bag
used to play a bit of guitar, want to get back into it
used to write/draw a fair bit, haven’t for some years now

 

[GSP_37]

Allen Ginter checklists include random celebs or basketball players or even maybe four major characters from Rocky franchise one year. One year had Petr Yan. In the two blaster boxes of 2024, I got two x-ray cards of some lizard and maybe bobcat, in addition to several dog show contestants. Kind of a waste of checklist space.

 

[Phlog]

What boat do you have?

A Lagoon 450 like this one:



Can recommend, loads of space, can be sailed by one person although sometimes you wish you had 3 hands. Solar panels, water purifier and one's basically self sufficient as one can be. As long as parts are available!