what do you do after work? hobbies?

Retired once and working on the next pension. Anymore I clear my head and get a lot of life-balance from gardening and raising chickens & meat rabbits. The next thing will be bees. I’ve enjoy learning about hobby farming topics and fresh food is always a plus.

 

Some days I just get on tractor and mow and mow and mow some more

 

At least a couple days out of the week I do more work after work. But when I'm not, I build all sorts of electronics projects with arduinos and raspberry pi's, wood work, RC toys (cars, boats, airplanes and helicopters), fishing (salt and freshwater) / crabbing / clam digging, love camping in the RV and visiting national parks. I built a CNC router, learning EDA. Whatever to keep my mind sharp. House hold, yard, garden projects. Sometimes time off looks too much like time at work (computers, networks, writing code). Only problem is not enough time to get to all my hobbies - I'm exhausted after any weekend trying to get to at least some of my hobbies.

 

Lift weights or do yoga
Often used to rip down a Forest Service road when i lived closer to the woods

 

My wife and I ran a small internet based side business until recently. That took up a lot of time by itself. Now my goal is to get back to hobbies that I haven’t had time to pursue. I buy/sell/ride motorcycles, hike, shoot guns, add movies to my Plex server, fly my drone, light off-road stuff and work on the house.

Some of the bikes I’ve bought, detailed and sold:

 

Lot of the same. Home Improvement projects/repairs, tinkering in the garage on the hot rod, playing guitar, listening to music, car detailing, watching way too much YouTube (obsessed garage, Ben Mallah) Team Associated/Tekno RC cars and learning a couple of new programming languages SQL/Python.

 

I go to the gym. I box, and then I do workout classes. If I'm not home, I'm probably there. It's a kick ass place, lots of pro and ranked amateur fighters, fantastic coaches, lots of great workout equipment, knowledgeable trainers.

 

These two are all consuming. Thankfully they like fishing, trails and random Easter egg hunts in the mountains!

 

yeah. love cameras. learning as much as i can. its fun. but winter sucked. would get dark quick.




@Twizted

 

Nice, and great photos.

 

I'm retired 4 yrs (at 55).
I took up beekeeping, taking lessons learning acoustic guitar.
BTW there's nothing wrong with chillin' and doing nothing. There's no rule in life that says you always need to be doing something.

 

Two kids... 'nuff said.

 

I go to the gym after work lol

 

Currently for this project,



I like to watercolor,





... haven't in a while. I'm up at 3 AM and work 4 da./wk. 5 - 10 AM or so, I thought I would hate partial retirement because I wouldn't know what to do with myself. I have so many home DIY projects it's hard to find time to do the fun stuff LOL . . . so I guess wrenching on the truck and wife's Rav 4 + home DIY takes up most of the time. This weekend: finish up wife's run-in with the gas pump pole (down to paint & clearcoat) and refurbish our washer, got new bearings, tub gasket and belt.

But first, bacon.

 

been into scale modeling for a bit.

 

Video edit until my eyes bleed

 

These are amazing.

 

Is this on 3d printer?

 

thanks

no, plastic model.
it is a line called Maschinen Krieger.
started by Japanese designer in the 80's

 

Awesome enough as static sculpture, imagine getting an Arduino Nano or Teensy board involved!