OT: Other than watch basketball part 2

[wire chief]

What has passed among you as an important activity in recent years?
Because of a change is status--job, marriage, moving, parenthood, others' unavailability
et al, you no longer do it.
Next month I will have accumulated the same number of years as there are trombones in River City,
and I feel it in my hand & eye coordination, as well as my balance. So last summer I gave up tennis,
which I have been playing since my teen years.
You?

 

[McFly]

Work. I haven't worked in a millennium. This millennium, at any rate. Took early retirement at the end of 1999, giving up a not inconsiderable portion of my pension. Miss the pension, not the work.

 

[wire chief]

Work. I haven't worked in a millennium. This millennium, at any rate. Took early retirement at the end of 1999, giving up a not inconsiderable portion of my pension. Miss the pension, not the work.

Similar situation, including diminished pension. My hearing loss at age 47 pushed me out so long ago.

 

[LasVegasYank]

Had to give up golf due to some surgery which left my left hand partially paralyzed. A shame as I had an 8 handicap.

Tried gardening on my postage stamp lot here in FL but the poor soil and lack of room left me with some fine eggplants but little else. Nothing like the acre and a quarter I had in CT which was part of an old farm and had at least a foot of loam. I could grow anything there just by thinking about it.

Now I specialize in grocery shopping and doctor's appointments.

 

[MSGRET]

Twice retired, 24 years Army and 20 years Real Estate. I now relax by reading, watching TV, playing Pai Gow at my local casino with a little slots on the side, and dining out with my lovely wife of 42 years on her days off. She says I'm more relaxed then she has ever seen me and that I now have the time to do the dishes and the vacuuming.

 

[Bigboote]

My hobbies of woodturning, flute playing, log splitting, and other yard work are kept alive by copious steroid shots to my hands. Running is kept alive by steroid shots to the feet. I lost volleyball, basketball, and raquetball in my teens-20's due to shoulders that just don't want to stay in joint. In a sense I'm lucky that my body began falling apart 40 years ago.

I've been planning on my wood turning to be a supplementary income in my eventual retirement, but I don't have a high level of confidence in that now.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Traveling around the country to WBB games ended. Also frequent lighthouse visitations.

We started following RU in 1995 and, until we moved in 2011, we made a lot of away games (and almost never missed a home game). A couple of years, we made every game. Beginning around 2006 / 2007 or so, we started traveling and touring lighthouses, mostly along the east coast and some on the Great Lakes.

I was blessed with my job as an auditor with Loews Theatres that I could (sometimes) coordinate business trips with games. Of course the oBE was (mostly) not too far away from New Jersey and my boss - and my wife's - was very flexible with how we took our vacation time. And the annual major away trip (not destination tourneys, which we never did) could be my vacation. Then, in 2005, Loews was taken over by AMC and for the rest of our time in NJ, I was more or less (early) retired, although a few years later I stopped being willing to fly (we mostly drove anyhow).

Once we moved to Arizona, the practicality of all this was curtailed. We went to one RU home game the next season and were among the few fans at the WNIT win in El Paso 5 years ago. We have yet to go to an Arizona away game (except in Phoenix). Lighthouses? Well, yes, we have seen some, but some years none, some years a few, and just 2 trips (Wisconsin and Oregon) that we saw quite a few.

I would say these were the 2 big changes, both primarily due to relocating, although if the wife's health was better we might do more. But, no way what we were doing in NJ.

 

[JordyG]

I was an avid cyclist until my knees made me give up. It was a shame because I had been serious about it since I was 17. 50 miles a day. I was also a serious workout fanatic. I was over 50 and still doing 2000 push ups, 2000 sit ups and running that treadmill for 1 hour, every day. Until my old shoulder injury made it so I can barely get my right arm over my head, until appendix surgery when I came back too soon a got a small hernia, until my knees said "not even this".

Nevertheless, if you've seen my previous posts I've substituted my physical workouts with other hobbies. I ain't complaining.

 

[JustinesGuy]

Twice retired, 24 years Army and 20 years Real Estate. I now relax by reading, watching TV, playing Pai Gow at my local casino with a little slots on the side, and dining out with my lovely wife of 42 years on her days off. She says I'm more relaxed then she has ever seen me and that I now have the time to do the dishes and the vacuuming.

Thanks for the service. My grandpa was in Iwo Jima and Guam. My other grandpa is 97 and was in Navy WW2. Still driving ha.
U in any wars?