anyone have other addictions

i am addicted to fish keeping,music,diving

Music -- mostly extreme-type metal like black metal, death metal, blackened death, doom, etc. And good old classic heavy metal. (But not any nu-metal or anything that ends in -core!)

woohoo too real rock i like 80's bands alot i cant listen to anything made within the past 10 yrs or so

Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, and good beer. (but only have one , once in a while)

Im a movie buff. I love watching a good movie at home. Its a shame when my set up at home is more fun than a movie theater!

I also am a big music buff. I listen to all types of music. I am hard core in the sense I do not believe in compressed music. I listen to CD's only and also have a few SACD and DVD-A formats also. I would probably be a vinyl person but dont want to spend money for a record player at this point. Would love a tube amp.

Those are my vices!

I like movies too! I think I should have been born in my mothers generation though. I like older movies like "weekend at Bernies", "The Long Kiss good Night", "Stake Out", "Caddy Shack". The array of Arnold movies and Steven Segal movies are also fun to watch. I watch the older TV shows and listen to the oldies, "Love potion #9" is one of my favorite songs. I also really enjoy my disco music. Definitely have fallen behind in my generation but it's what I love.

DMD123 wrote:Im a movie buff. I love watching a good movie at home. Its a shame when my set up at home is more fun than a movie theater!
Those are my vices!

That's not a shame, that means you've done it right! I don't go out to movies anymore... watching at home I get picture that's just as good (if not better), with cheaper (and better) food, zero rude noises, better seats, and a pause button.

pbmax wrote:That's not a shame, that means you've done it right! I don't go out to movies anymore... watching at home I get picture that's just as good (if not better), with cheaper (and better) food, zero rude noises, better seats, and a pause button.

I only have a 61" TV, but I sit 9 ft away so the effect is cool. I run a 7.1 system with a sub that blends in very nicely to the mix. With music being my other passion, I find if you are set up well in a two speaker stereo system, adding the surround is simple. And I agree about the benefits esp. the pause to go get more snacks!

GOLF. For those that play you know what I mean.

Golf? Thats not an addiction its a disease...

ive played a few rounds myself.. but never found it entertaining.. always seemed like something u do when retired while u wait to die... rofl. maybe its the age gap, which btw im kinda surprised to hear betty likes metal.. idk why but i just dont picture that.. lol.

Firearms, brewing beer. Collecting strange shaped containers.

strange shaped container collecting ive never heard of that i collect batman everything the real bat man tv series and movies

DMD123 wrote:
I only have a 61" TV, but I sit 9 ft away so the effect is cool. I run a 7.1 system with a sub that blends in very nicely to the mix. With music being my other passion, I find if you are set up well in a two speaker stereo system, adding the surround is simple. And I agree about the benefits esp. the pause to go get more snacks!

I upgraded from a 50" to a LCD front projector last year. I bought my house for 2 reasons: It has a good-sized fenced yard (gotta have a good amount of room for the dogs to reach top speed!) and a 16'x16' addition designed to be a media room. I'd wanted a projector for years so I wasn't terribly disappointed when my tv went south.

What size screen are you doing for the projector?

I have been on the fence about a projector because the room would present a challenging install.

DMD123 wrote:What size screen are you doing for the projector?

I have been on the fence about a projector because the room would present a challenging install.

With the couch reclined, we sit about 9' from the screen. We tried 100"+, but it was too big - we kept having to turn our heads. The sweet spot turned out to be 92"; we bought a cheapie elite screens screen and blackout curtains for the windows and the french doors that open into the room. The projector is an Epson 8350 LCD (fairly cheap as projectors go); thus far I've been very happy with it. The picture is better than my old Sony SXRD 50" rear projection TV (purchased in 2006) and of course there's the whole size thing. Lens shift is really handy too... you don't have to worry about precise placement that way. I just put it on top of a 5' rack I already had in the room to hold network equipment and a printer. Just don't look into the beam!

LOL, I had the same SXRD! Great picture but what a piece of junk, had the green blob issue covered under warranty and other issues. Got it all covered under the extended warranty. In fact the first time an extended warranty paid for itself!

Right now Im using a Samsung LED rear projection. Very nice picture, it was the last model Samsung had made of them. I run a Sony 470 blu ray player with it. For sound I have a Marantz receiver, Revel loudspeakers and HSU Sub. For music I have a Lexicon universal player I use.

Hehe, yeah, I had bleeding yellow from the right side. And it happened well after the warranty (and extended) was up, so I figure I got my money's worth. The projector setup was way cheaper than that TV... I have a cheapie onkyo 5.1 receiver and a decent panasonic blu-ray player with definitive technologies speakers. Marantz is ritzy My stuff isn't high end, but it's easily good enough for me.

I would say other than fish it would be Firearms, Hunting, and Cars..

Anthraxx wrote:ive played a few rounds myself.. but never found it entertaining.. always seemed like something u do when retired while u wait to die... rofl. maybe its the age gap, which btw im kinda surprised to hear betty likes metal.. idk why but i just dont picture that.. lol.

I play golf now so that when I am OLD I can actually enjoy the game, seems that it would be way to frustrating of game to try to pickup at that stage of your life AND actually enjoy it, lets face it golfs only fun if you know what you are doing

golf for sure. im about an 9 handicap but recently shot a legit 75 so im more addicted than ever. also working out for sure is another pasion iof mine. working on getting my peronal training certification.

Anthraxx wrote:... maybe its the age gap, which btw im kinda surprised to hear betty likes metal.. idk why but i just dont picture that.. lol.

Haha, I get that a lot. But I have always loved it. My daughter and I go to almost all of the black and death metal shows up in Seattle when the bands we like come here (most of them are from Norway, Poland, and other European countries).

I used to love my '68 Camaro that I had when I was much younger. I spent so much time and money working on it. I was devastated when it was stolen.

Besides keeping fish, I fly sport kites. I also like wood working. but don't have access to a shop anymore. Addicted to ink too. Keep getting more and more. lol..

censeoflife wrote:I fly sport kites

Me too! Have not bought a new one in years, but I have a Flexi foil, a Hawaiian, a turbo Jet, and a few others. All are two line kites. I want to learn a four line one of these days. Cool to see another kite flier here!

I just picked up a four liner. Have yet to hit wind though.
I have several too. lol..

Where do you fly?


I love my 6 footer. so easy to fly and pulls on me hard in good wind.

My Hawaiian has a ton of pull and extremely easy to fly. The most fun is my turbojet.

I will go up to Ocean Shores to fly.

Cool, I go there every year too. Been trying to get air time local though. And only the big ones go up local. lol. Just not enough wind to fly my smaller ones.
My 10 yo daughter started flying with me. We recenlty went to Magnuson, had a good day of it.

Going to 24 Hour Fitness is a passion of mine. I don't go to workout. I just like to look at the hotties.

Jantilla wrote:Going to 24 Hour Fitness is a passion of mine. I don't go to workout. I just like to look at the hotties.

You Perv!

censeoflife wrote:Cool, I go there every year too. Been trying to get air time local though. And only the big ones go up local. lol. Just not enough wind to fly my smaller ones.
My 10 yo daughter started flying with me. We recenlty went to Magnuson, had a good day of it.

Good to get your daughter involved in the hobby. Not enough of us fliers out there! People stop and stare when I would go to the park and fly. Been a while since Ive been out, usually good wind here is gusty and lots of times with rain.

DMD123 wrote:

Jantilla wrote:Going to 24 Hour Fitness is a passion of mine. I don't go to workout. I just like to look at the hotties.

You Perv!

Just a joke but the women do look good. I can't wait to go at 3:30 today.

Enjoy yourself..... on second thought dont.

haha and i go to funerals for widows jk

You both are evil!

haha but back to addictions i just googled kites defiantly something i could get into if we had the right weaather

Yeah the two line stunt kites are a blast.

i am going to ocean shore next month so i am buying one for the trip see how many places to fly on the way.dang it now i wanna go do it now ive been watching videos all day

Here's a fun deadly hobby of mine.

I did RC cars for a while. A money pit of a hobby, but it was fun!

They have a track and lil' store for RC cars, races every weekend out here in marysville.... looks super fun, and thoughs lil cars freakin fly!

You know, I wish I had more hobbys.... besides fish, I pretty much just read random crap on the net, and play video games on my PS3... well, I guess hanging with the my 8 yr old daughter and wife is kinda a hobby.... not really cause you dont choose to keep them around, lol.... even though I totally would choose to keep em around.... maybe, sometimes, lol

not really cause you dont choose to keep them around, lol.... even though I totally would choose to keep em around.... maybe, sometimes, lol

i can choose to make my gf leave but i like having her around.i also wish i could find something else to waste my life on besides forums and working

Yeah, RC is a huge money pit. I have tons of cars, a couple airplanes, and one decent (but tiny) heli. My wife much prefers the fish

Gardening!! I love growing a salad garden. I also love love love reading. That is one of the nice things about being done with school is that reading can be a fun thing again lol.

kitchen expirements! and reading, gardening, general craftiness

VsKitchen wrote:kitchen expirements! and reading, gardening, general craftiness

expirements? Is that like making stuff with expired foods?

hehe oopsie experiments! that's what happens when my hands go on auto-pilot

Me too, my brain goes too fast and my typing does not keep up.

I have RC's too. A Nice boat and some lil heli's. They collect dust mostly though. MONEY MONEY MONEY... lol. I would love to get the boat running again. Scares the crap outta ducks.

i like the RC's but realized they were a money pit early on. after i trashed a bunch of those go anywhere battery RC's of course . fun every once and awhile tho. those planes and helis must be fun but man gotta suck when u mess up lol..