Hobbies...
I liked to build models, though
in recent years I've not done much. The
majority are starships or space vessels, some I paint, some I don't. It
started harmlessly enough, a Tie Interceptor, but over time the
collection had grown. Ships
of all kinds, starships, shuttles, fighters, alien craft of all sort.
To
look at my room would be as if a battle fleet was massing, Star Wars
against
Star Trek, Dark against Light, Federation against everybody else. A bit
crowded, and a little over whelming at times, "That's okay," I'd say,
"there's always room for one more."
I have quite a collection of action figures. From Star
Trek: TNG, nearly every seaQuest figure, all the main characters from
DS9 plus
a couple more, all four Star Trek Ninja Turtles (was
just too cool to pass it up), only half the crew of Voyager, all
the
Babylon 5 figures and a few Star Wars figures, Luke, Han, Yoda, several
FarScape
figures. Like the others, this part of my collecting has slowed
considerably in the past few years
Another collection of mine is Mad and Cracked Magazines. I try to keep them in mint to excellent condition. A few are left over from when I was younger, so they are not in the best of shape. Torn, dirty, pages missing; that sort of thing. Currently my collection is up to, I would guess, 250-300 magazines, I stopped bothering trying to count them. Seems every time I get started, I end up reading them again. I can't make an accurate count if I keep getting distracted like that.
I was really into collecting Disney stuffed animals for awhile, but other things have since taken their place. I will however NOT part with my collection. I've got a long shelf stuffed with the plushies. Also every once in awhile, when I go to Disneyland I'll get another one to add to the pile. That's part of the rules I set for myself; each must come from Disneyland, anywhere else, like The Disney Store, is cheating. Recently I've added a Tinkerbell to my collection.
A past yearly hobby of mine was going to the San Diego Comic Convention
International, sometime in July or August. It was a lot of
fun, and I didn't go for the comics, as the name of the convention
suggests, but
for the oh so many other things to see. The panels, discussing things
from Sci-Fi, Comics, Upcoming Movies, TV Shows, Books, Authors, ect.
The screening of movies, cartoons, and TV
Shows, sometimes months before they to be released to the general
public,
or something special just for the convention. The many different people
you
can meet, from your favorite cartoon character voice to Francis Ford
Coppola
and everyone else in between. Heck, I had run into many stars walking
the
exhibit and merchandise floor, just enjoying the con, like me. I've
since stopped going because it's become too large and crowded, hard to
move around, hard to see anything. So as of 2008, after 17 years, I've
stopped going.
Of course, this is also a hobby of mine, writing, adjusting, updating, and tweaking these web pages. Looking for, making, and adjusting graphics. Re-writing and updating those things I've already written. Making new pages from scratch. Finding new midi music. Then uploading all the new stuff, and testing, testing, testing. I always test a lot. I like to make sure it works the way I want it to, with nothing broken.
