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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Wood working
Sewing (It's just like woodworking, only with much softer wood and nails.)
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Magnificent reframe
I don't have free time. I'm a junkie for 'transferability/recontectualization' of skills, so everything sooner or later becomes integrated with my 'work missions'
For example, I am a sad video game puppy - I've been playing Unreal Tournament for ... Eleven years. First year, it WAS 'free time' - I was itching to frag Xan, and I went hell for leather to WIN the tournament, become the Elite Warrior, and then walk around my hometown feeling like a hero. I did have to tone down the jump-dodging in my local supermarket, and seeing the interior of local churches as 'great for Z-axis action in death match' was a weird experience. Soon, the skills knocked on to halve the time it took me to edit music in Cubase, my 'recording studio' program, and enabled me and my partner to reach high positions on the British amateur ballroom dancing ladder. My spatial, reaction, and strategic defensive and offensive skills on the dance floor were a direct ONE to ONE link with my unreal tournament. Roving street photography. A grasp of death match moves and on-the-spot strategizing ups my 'good' shots significantly. My point is that for the last 8 years, Unreal Tournament has been my 'practice area' for 'key' skills needed in my jobs. As with UT, so with all other activities which started out as casual 'play'.
All that's left is my falling half asleep in a chair, and interspersing that with sitting half awake in a chair, kind of looking at one of the walls
All the best
