According to my ex, I’m pretty good at defending the horrible actions of others in a conversation

I fix my own cars and do my own house maintenance.

cycling and drumming (in a band), not easy to find the time with all the other stuff (chores etc.) that has to be done

Welding! Just personal projects

I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).

I have a bunch of hobbies but the two that I’m currently concentrating on are building guitars and working on motorcycles.

There are plenty of people who build or customize guitars for a living. I have sold exactly one that I built from scratch and that was probably 15 years ago.

I’m resurrecting a barn find motorcycle that I’ll sell (or I’ll sell one of mine to keep this, I haven’t decided), but I’m not going to make any money on it because it’s not sought after. I’m doing it for love. I’ll break even.

Gaming.

I bake fancy sourdough, grow vegetables, do landscaping (but not mowing) make great cocktails for people, ferment foods and drinks. Occasionally draw things for decorations.

On the other hand, we pay someone to mow, and also to clean the house every other week.

Apparently I study timekeeping so much that I can program a clock on a graphing calculator without using any timer function.

It takes a fixed amount of time to alter a pixel on the screen, and when carefully crafted, the pixel clock itself serves as a timer.

I’m actually currently testing such a clock demo on my Casio right now.

I play golf, some days I wouldn’t even call it a hobby more like penance and a walk in the trees and sticks

I try playing the guitar and taking photos.

I enjoy learning vfx through houdini, id be doing it still if it wasnt so annoying to get on linux (im not paying for it, that 260$ a year cost is for me ppl making money and id do it if I was)

Blender is hella fun, like the ultimate sandbox game, cities skylines with no constraints (except much harder) I think with more and more addons it’ll be the perfect sandbox creative city builder. Like procedural roads, cities, procedural terrain, buildings, etc. When the laxk of freedom in those games dissapoint you just make animations, the end goal in some of these games like planet coaster is to have something cool to look at and modify freely, the economy means nothing, might as well make it in blender.

Gardening or more specifically raising fruit trees. Right now I got about 50 citrus trees growing from trifoliate orange seeds. Once they’re ready I am going to graft lemons and satsumas onto them. I’m not planning to sell the trees, rather I’ll gift them to friends and family.

I also propagate houseplants and gift them to friends, family and colleagues. Since they’re so easy to propagate it’s almost no effort.

Photography. I got back into it last year and have really enjoyed the process. I’ve learned a lot in a really short time.

I make and publish music but not popular enough to live off of it.