Get a doctors appointment on the same day.
Or the same 6 months.
That’ll be a hard one even in ideal circumstances, I literally live in a city where half the residents are doctors that commute into the larger city nearby for work part time and yet appointments are still only available a month out.
hangliding. the midwest is too flat :(
They used to do it at Warren Dunes in south west Michigan right on the lake.
I’d like to pick up woodworking. Unfortunately, the houses we generally live in are way too small (and expensive) to do that. There are no garages, unless you’re super rich. There also aren’t a lot of shops selling lumber we can just easily buy.
A track day in a performance/racing car.
I want to experience zero-G sometime.
We have a lot of great skateparks, but I’ve always wanted to try a pump track.
Only ones I can find in the midwest are dirt for BMX.
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At this point in my life, other than opportunity costs, there’s nothing stopping me from doing anything reasonable. The issue is time and will.
I’d love to be able to see the stars better. I live in a very bright, and often overcast area. I have a nice little telescope, but I’ve only taken it out a couple of times. I’ve been meaning to catch up with the local astro club, but, you know, time and will.
Have you considered purchasing a night vision device? They help cut through light pollution better than anything, you will see a crazy number of stars.
I appreciate the idea. I just really like the photons to hit my eyes directly. Putting electronics in between makes it feel more like looking at photos than real stars.
I am in the local club and have two over-the-top scopes and still can’t pull it together.
Surfing. We have water nearby but insufficient waves.
I’d love to go to a sober bar. Sure, I can get non alcoholic cocktails at my local, but it’d be nice to have the atmosphere and know everyone else is sober too
You’re just kidding, right? Is that a real thing? (I looked it up, apparently it is real)
May I ask, why do you want a bar without alcohol? Are you not allowed to or not drinking by choice?
Sounds kinda like atheist churches. Something that looks nonsensical on its face, but actually makes sense when you think about it.
One of the really beneficial things about religion is the sense of community and the ritual of going to church every week, singing some songs, etc. It’s a great place for religious people to meet people, make friends, and establish a good social life that can even extend outside of the church itself. So why not do all those things, but without the magic sky fairy?
I’m not the person you asked but I’ve heard of people wanting this and I would be willing as well. A non alcoholic bar would allow for less chaos in a welcoming environment. Bars are loud to force you to drink more. That incentive is gone when you take the alcohol away. Some nice light music as you converse with friends sounds great to me.
Wine bars are typically geared toward the light music to converse with friends angle, and if you don’t need it to be alcohol free, are much easier to find than sober bars.
To go hang out with people in a cool setting while having alcohol-like drinks without the problems. Like going to a Kava bar or something, or tea bar. Bunch of places out there with themed drinks to hang out. Sometimes you like the taste of cocktails but don’t want to get drunk.
In general many people consider it to be kind of rude to ask people why someone isn’t drinking/doesn’t want to drink. A lot of the reasons may be things they don’t want to share details about, past alcohol abuse, family history, traumatic experiences, health issues, etc. Even if it’s something pretty benign like they just don’t enjoy the taste it can get old just having to answer the same questions again and again because a lot of people really want to push the issue for one reason or another.
Personally, I do enjoy drinking, and don’t have anything against bars in general, but I can see the appeal of sober bars. Some people are just in search of a “third place” somewhere that’s not work or home that they can just go to hang out, talk to people, etc. and for a lot of people bars fill that role, but if they’re not drinking for any reason, bars may not be very attractive option for them. Also a lot of people when drunk can get loud, annoying, or just otherwise unpleasant to be around, not that sober people can’t also be jerks, but people in general are probably going to be dialed back a bit more when they’re all sober than when they’re drinking. And if your goal is to try to meet more people, you might have a chance of having more authentic interactions with the people you’re trying to meet, some people’s personalities can really change when they’ve been drinking, you might hit it off with people you wouldn’t have if one or both of you were drunk.
Isn’t that a coffeeshop?
If you’ve ever had a man hopped up on way too much espresso try to hit on you at a coffee shop, you’d know coffee makes people kind of drunk as well lmao
I want to make a tunnel boring machine for digging ~2 meter tall tunnels in sandstone. Sadly I live in a place with only sand in the underground and that’s not suitable for digging tunnels DIY style
That’s all?
Man, I’m really sorry you’re stuck in a sand pit.
We have so much fun with our TBM’s in my area. My neighbor, Ralf, built a 3M BEAST! You wouldn’t believe the daily progress he makes. It’s got integrated support walls and everything. Our club is in a bit of a feud with the hacks 3 subdivisions over. They keep boring too close to our tunnels. Not. Cool. Man.
Anyway, at least you can cut and cover with sand, a perfectly viable tunnelling strategy with lower startup costs.
Oh that sounds so cool, you got any videos of those machines?
I could do other tunneling methods, but I really want to make a TBM specifically
It feels like you guys are speaking a different language from a different planet
Cody’s Lab is also looking for an area to do stuff like that.
Walking from my house to the store
Zero gravity dancing?
Yeah lol that would be neat. I don’t know if you could move
You push off against the walls.
traditional archery.
Hunting.
I’m interested exclusively in hunting for food. There is very little state-owned land in my area (I think my state has the least amount of state own land in the country), and they have very, very brief windows for hunting. I’m primarily interested in hunting feral pigs, which are invasive. But despite them being invasive, hunting regulations are written in such a way that you can only practically hunt feral pigs on state-owned land during the same time that you would hunt deer, which is limited to a few days each year. (Technically I could hunt them during turkey season with a shotgun, and small game season with a rimfire, but neither of those are practical. I would need to hunt them on private property, because there’s no bag limit, no closed season, and no caliber limits on private land. Aside from that–which is already a challenge–I would likely need to get thermal imaging equipment, because feral pigs have gone from being diurnal to largely nocturnal, due to human predation. Oh, and you can’t hunt public land at night. So…
I hope that I can go on a pig safari later this year.
