I need a hobby

[Speedskater 167]

Alright so I currently have over a month of freetime on my hands. This sort of thing usually happens around this time of year and I usually try and find something to pass time. I've done a few things like ceramics, welding, "magic" tricks that sucked, creative writing, or some O.Y.O studying.

 

Anyway I need a hobby to pass the time. besides the stupid collection of stamps or coins, or 24/7 porn (because I know someone would of said it). Any suggestions?

[Gloopie 70]

When I have free time... One of my hobbies is pyrotechnics.. Really fun to get into... Maybe you should try it? Not hard and extremely satisfying. A new hobby I plan on doing is making these keychains that involve clear resin casting and tritium... You can actually make some really good cash off this, a keychain usually runs for about 25-200$? Depending on size etc... (tritium is rather expensive for a vile though :/). Give them a shot, if you would like.

 

Here are some examples I found on the internet... (ALSO TRITIUM AKA H^3, is a radioactive element, which makes it even COOOLER!!!! Harmless though. xD)

 

Few other hobbies I do is modding and fixing xbox 360s.

 

TL;DR

So here are some choices, I SUGGEST you doing!

-Pyrotechnics

-Creating Tritium keychains

-Programming....?

-Photoshop!!!!

-Starcraft 2 8)

ALSO, this place... http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/

[ViperSRT3g 224]

On a side note, we use tritium in our ACOGs to light up the reticle when there's not much available light around. I just might try this keychain thing... Looks pretty interesting. Also:

 

1. Find something you like to do.

2. Get really really good at whatever it is.

3. Teach others about your hobby.

4. ???

5. Profit.

[GhoztMan 219]

Gaming! Hot new-ish games: StarCraft 2, Magicka, MineCraft, Super Meat Boy, Bulletstorm, Civilization 5, [soon: Portal 2, Crysis 2]

 

Origami! Very good to pass time, can show off to friends and make cool stuff - the Internets have awesome guides

 

Painting! If you like arts and stuff

 

Hiking! If you have good nature spots

 

Watching videos! Some of my favorite subscriptions on the youtubes: Toboscus (gaming + funniest home videos-esque show + LITERAL trailers), HuskyStarCraft (high level sc2 commentary, entertaining), Day9 (high level sc2 commentary, in depth), davidr64yt (let's play), KurtHugoSchneider (moosic), Total Halibut (gaming + british accent), remembertomorrow0 (clips from Destiny's SC2 stream). Also, streaming: Justin.tv is probably the best, but Ustream works too. I mainly watch Destiny because he has a hilarious voice and personality + plays with top level players and streams all the time. Day9 streams daily at 7 PST, tune in on mondays for a usually hilarious episode. Usually lasts an hour~.

[Speedskater 167]

I've done to much of art to try and get good at it ha it always fails, hiking...well I do something along those lines for training, and oragami is a good suggestion because all you need is paper I suppose thanks ghoztman. and I want to lay off videogames for this "hobby". Thanks gloopie for your suggestions I think the keychain thing is really cool.

 

I have a guitar and a piano. Only problem with the guitar is I'd need to buy new strings, learn how to tune and maybe some lessons (which I'm not sure I want to do).

[JoshJayK 16,648]

Piano's always fun. Improvising can really lead to cool results, and it's a good way to vent. :P

[Speedskater 167]

Do you think that the piano could be self taught?

[Gloopie 70]

Most definitely.

[Speedskater 167]

Actually I might get into knife making which would be pretty cool and I can always sell them.

[neoliu918 0]

If you have lot of free time, why not try to read some books? I think this will help to play your time.

[Speedskater 167]

Well yes I could read books however something new and beneficial seems entertaining and well beneficial. even though an argument saying that reading is useful I don't want to really read ha.

[ViperSRT3g 224]

Goopy, do you know where I could purchase a couple of these tritium keychains? Google turned up a lot of private sellers from off the wall forums, and that's it. :[

 

Or places that sell the tritium vials/capsules separately. Then I could make plastic ones from scratch myself.

[Gloopie 70]

The only place I know that sells tritium keychains or seperate vials, is probably that forums you were referring to. xD

 

 

Heres the guy that sells them seperately...

http://www.cpfmarketplace.com/mp/showthread.php?242634-B-rt-s-Tritium-Thread-Part-Deux

 

 

And look around here, if you want to see if anybody is selling...

 

http://www.cpfmarketplace.com/mp/forumdisplay.php?108-WTS-Other-Personal

[Cripp 167]

Wait i got the best hobby.... Get a job :).

[Speedskater 167]

been looking for a while so far not much luck

[GhoztMan 219]

Wait i got the best hobby.... Get a job :).

 

Hobby != Job

[ViperSRT3g 224]

But the best hobbies do equal jobs

[GhoztMan 219]

But the best hobbies do equal jobs

 

Or is it the best jobs equal hoobies?

[Monki 478]

tl;dr thread:

 

Someone posted a cute smiley

[ViperSRT3g 224]

Yes you love my smilies...

[Speedskater 167]

HA those are impressive smileys