• trail biking

• hanging out with good friends

• swimming at the pool on a hot day

• learning a new programming language

• cooking with my wife

• exploring mysterious alleys, sidestreets, and buildings and finding cool public art

• social dances

• summer picnics

• building snowforts with my kids

• thrifting a new outfit

Yes programming and dig elecrtonics. I made things in the Forrest and barn, attic and basement as a child, just dumb things which would break in an instant. Now I’m trying those things to stick and work for at least a couple of months.

Inline skating 👌

• Reading.
• Sketching.
• Scale models, but I had to quit for health reasons.

I still absolutely love playing guitar. I’m not great, but if the younger me from back when I started could see how good I am now he’d be over the moon. Every so often I wind up listening to one of the songs that I really wanted to be able to play back when I started, and now it feels brilliant that I can actually just sit down and do that now

I also became keen on modding games (strategy games in particular, starting with Rome: Total War) quite early. I never learned enough programming to be really good at it, but I still do it pretty regularly just to make things for me and my friends. I take great joy in leaving easter eggs in there and waiting for them to find them

I’m fairly certain I would still get the same thrill from mountain biking as I used to, but I can’t really find out. My only bike now has road tyres and I am too out of practice and unfit to fly and up and down a hillside, and I also don’t have anyone to go with (important in case of injuries). However every time I have a downhill section of road on my bike or I see some mountain bikers out while I’m walking hills I get that deep urge to barrel along a trail as fast as my bravery will permit

Sadly, no.

Legos

Butt play

Reading. I used to love reading, and could read a book in a day. Almost never read now.

Beer brewing is kinda of doing this for me right now.

I’m getting excited each time I see the colour when I bottle it and then after a couple of weeks when it’s drinking time I’m like a kid of Christmas day to see how it tastes.

From a grown up perspective there’s legs to this as well. I can start off cheap, see how to improve, and slowly gather more equipment to do it better and better.

Nerf guns

Video games. Specifically I’ve started playing very retro games and emulating games from my childhood.

Any hobby I start I get very excited and want to tell everyone about it.

Minecraft, I play it in a completely different way then when I was a kid but it’s still just as fun.

Coin collecting. When you get your hands on a piece you’ve been after for years, the feeling can only be compared to getting a new toy as a kid. It’s lovely.

I have way more fun building decks for Magic the Gathering than I really ought to be allowed to have.