{"id":56,"date":"2002-04-26T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2002-04-26T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=56"},"modified":"2002-04-26T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2002-04-26T12:07:08","slug":"hobbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Friday Five: Hobbies"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Friday Five<\/a> is about pastimes and avocations.
\n1. What are your hobbies?<\/b> I used to have more, but the only one that has really survived the time pressures of parenting and working full-time is my fascination with games. Originally, it was just role-playing games (primarily D&D), but in recent years I’ve become rather obsessed with board and card games, too.
\n2. Do you collect anything? If so, what?<\/b> No. In fact, I’ve never understood the collector’s urge — the desire to acquire things just to display them, or to seal them away in a climate-controlled vault to protect their resale value. I try never to buy anything that I don’t intend to use<\/i>.
\n3. Is there a hobby you’re interested in, but just don’t have the time\/money to do?<\/b> Singing. I’ve been active in choral music on and off through the years. In the mid-Nineties I was active in the Concert Singers of Cary for several years and enjoyed it immensely, but dropped out because of the grueling rehearsal schedule and the fact that I was spending so little time at home. Eventually, I’ll go back to singing in some way, probably by joining a church choir or a barbershop group.
\n4. Have you ever turned a hobby into a moneymaking opportunity?<\/b> No.
\n5. Besides web-related stuff (burbs, rings, etc.), what clubs do you belong to?<\/b> At the moment, only one: TAPIT, the Palm user group that meets monthly in Cary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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