Hobbies Other than cars

The Ideal TCR cars are "slotless", they can switch lanes.


The jam car forces passing. I have tractor trailers and some rare track pieces that make it really fun- jumps and bridges and 4 lane wide track pieces. Also have the electronic super booster which is a total game changer makes the cars much faster.
 
I had a set in the 60's, but there wasn't the options there are today.
 
Finally got my better radio installed in the Edge. This one was in our Land Cruiser until I sold it last year. It has mapping and SMS capabilities. As long as I'm in range of an APRS digipeater (which is rare not to be), I can send SMS messages to cell phones and other radios. I can also use it to beacon out my location and navigate to other beacons. TL,DR: it's wonderful for emergencies when cell phones don't work.

I can also hook it to a Windows tablet and the car's hotspot to use EchoLink wherever I want. EchoLink is a digipeater that allows me to talk to other 2m/70cm users across the world. If I'm in range of an EchoLink-equipped repeater, I can dial up the node of the tower I want to connect to. If not, I can dial up the destination through the internet.

The actual radio box is under the driver's seat with the control head mounted on the top of the windshield. Microphone connects to the main box and is sitting in the cupholder for now. Perfect placement to operate it while in the car and not obstruct the GPS antenna in it. Antenna is still mounted to the plastic spoiler and grounded to the body at the liftgate strut.

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I always liked the ham guys that came into the shop; dealing with the cb crowd was tough, lol.
I'd see the fcc guys regularly; The truckstops in knox sold mexican 1000W linears for cb band. :roll:
a 1000w linear on a fiberglass antenna at 20:1 swr will burn the end off the antenna off, lol.
They would notice after it was burnt, and want a new one under warranty. :) I'd say, "No, and you are an idiot.) :)
Give me $20 and I won't tell the fcc what you're doing"...
 
CB guys can't read well enough to know the rules so they just assume the rules don't apply to them. Useless cowboys.

These days, Ch.19 is just a bunch of rednecks parroting whatever Alex Jones said that day.
 
Funny you mention pinball machines... the mother-in-law recently picked up a pair of machines from Stern. Pricey, but well made.
 
My first job was repairing stuff for an amusement co. Pinball machines, video games, pool tables, gambling machines. It was cool, $20 an hour, under the table, illegal for a 14yo. :) I played tempest and digdug to where I can't stand them now. I had to play them until they errored out, then me and the old guy would figure out what the deal is. I have the winning sequence figured out for some of the gambling machines. I can beat the hell out of them, if they have the original roms. :) I found a transistor to fix the tempest monitors, and we sold the fix to other gaming companies, I got $500 cash for that.
 
Bringing this one back from the dead. :bdh:

We installed a Little Free Library on our street corner. The part of town we live in is full of families and kids, many of which are immigrants or first-generation Americans. We also live two blocks from the city's public housing authority. The public library is a two minute drive from us but over a 30 minute walk each way down and up a 200' ridge.

We applied for a grant from the LFL organization and were awarded one earlier this month. Finally got it up and running this past weekend.
If you want to follow along, here's all of our social media pages: https://linktr.ee/sixthavenuelibrary

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That's a beautiful initiative, especially for younger folks.

I have to admit though, given the religious content that I can make out from the photo, first thing I would add is some Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, or Stephen Fry.
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
That's a beautiful initiative, especially for younger folks.

I have to admit though, given the religious content that I can make out from the photo, first thing I would add is some Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, or Stephen Fry.
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About 25% ish of the total books. I've got a ton of those thin paperback kids books in there that are harder to see in the photo.

Lot of Hispanic Catholics with kids here. Gotta know your base.
 
Vicinity said:
Round Trip was my favorite book from childhood. After youve read through it, you turn it upside down to read the second half

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I read that one too. It was definitely a good one. I also remember the Goosebumps books where you had to choose your own path through the book. Always resulted in a class argument when we discussed which paths we took and why we were right.
 
I definitely have too many hobbies. Besides Tbirds and Cougars, much of my time is spent with model Railroading, N-scale...1/160. I build modules to an interchange standard and take them all over the country and set them up with other modelers.

I have been playing guitar since 1977. I've been dabbling with home multi-track recording since 1992 when digital was still out of reach for most people. I still have two Tascam Modular Digiltal Multitrack machines...16 tracks total. It was a big thing back in the day. Fast computers and sophisticated software made them obsolete.

I'm a retired manufacturing engineer with a machinist background. I make amazing things with wood.

I dabble in self-reliance. I collect rainwater and have (use) solar power. Unless you plan on selling power back to the grid, don't ever let anybody convince you that you can generate electricity cheaper than the power company. I built my own system and saved $15K over an installer. It's not cheap even then and not for the faint of heart.
 
Craft Beer is one of my current hobbies. It is definitely a good thing that the craft beer industry didn't really explode until after I graduated college. Very fortunate thar the #2 craft brewery in the world is less than 30 minutes away....Side Project Brewing.

Otherwise, photographing my kids' sports is high on my list of activities.
 
Trunk Monkey said:
Besides cars? Avid mountain biker, runner and chess player, hobbyist photographer and videographer, movie lover and home theater hermit, spend time go carting to hone my driving skills. Love to sample craft beers. You'll always find me at the local bar or microbrewery when I travel for work.

I like mountain trail hiking and sunset walks by the beach, always take time to stop and smell the flowers, love chocolate and fine wine ... oh wait, that's for my Tinder profile.

Never mind...
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Damn, I almost wanted go on a date with you.... :p
 
Fixing crap around the house has become a hobby.... But I make furniture, projects for a purpose (like design and build speaker set for my computer), I find now that I am older, my skills have increased and I am not afraid anymore to just say "It's a Unix system, I KNOW THIS!" and fix it or make it.
 
My primary "hobby" is dirt bikes. '95 I got pneumonia that made quit smoking easier and went from trying to kill my self the long way to the short with dirt bikes. Started off with Harescrambles then went to Enduros. Now just ride for fun mostly not bothering with competing much anymore.

Long, long, long time ago, I raced BMX. That is where the 97D part of my username comes from.
 

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Cook details? Smoked? Seasonings? Cut of meat?
 
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Stovetop, large pot
4.3 lbs of chuck roast rolled onto a mixture of flour, salt, pepper and some montreal steak seasoning and then rubbed in.
Seared in pot, on all 'six' sides. Small amount of vinegar to shuffle the burnt material into a paste. Meat is removed and carrots/onions added to medium-low.
Meat is placed back in and water is added, trying to remember its easy to have too much broth. Covered and reduced stove to lowest setting. Celery and gold potatos are cut and added with a bit of rosemary, thyme, oregano and 4 small bay leaves. A few potatos are cut deliberately small in hopes that they fall apart and aid in the gravy thickness. Some potatos and celerys are left out, to be added in the final hour of cooking for a crunchy variety

Of course I had too much water expelling from the ingredients, took out a bunch of broth and boiled it down to a thick gravy in a separate pot. Goal was to stop the meat from being completely submersed. Considered keeping the gravy for a different dish, but ended up placing back in.

The cooking went for a bit over 8 hours. Every 20 minutes or so, check if it's boiling and consider turning the stove off, then back on later. The low setting on electric stoves is a smidge too high. Of course, the task is complete when the meat completely caves in when you jab it with a fork

Stovetop is tedious compared to the oven or crockpot methods, but pays off for me. I certaintly have not had a crockpot roast that I enjoyed more than a stovetop roast. The lack of precision in the recipe allows for unique batches, but its pretty hard to screw up a roast. Even if you screw up somehow, chances are its going to be good anyway.
 
General Zod is drilling Texas Tea out of the ground a lot as of late, lol. But yea way too many hobbies/projects, ain't no hiding that. Right now I'm focused on moving out to West Texas as I can't get anything done if I'm away from home 8 months out of the year. So yea I need to get settled in once and for all.
 
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