what to do when you are bored?

[88vmx12]

Well I almost feel like I am prison at times. living in a a small apt and the town is tiny! about 2500- 3500 people maybe :confused2:. Well sitting on the weekends and bored to tears gets me nothing but in trouble shopping :damn angry:. I often shop Ebay and other Vmax part sites. Then I send it to Sean :rofl_200:... I think he might be getting frustrated at times, when I tell he has some items coming :biglaugh:. At this point I think I am about run out of things to buy, but I am sure it won't be long before something else bites me...

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[maleko89]

One of a few things I think....tinker on bike, play guitar, play with my son, brew beer.....drink beer.

 

[dmax1]

And here I am at work doing the same things as you shopping the Vmax sights and looking for my next possible purchase. Damn I'm bored here at work today! :bang head:

 

[SpecOps13]

If I lived in a town that small and had a small apartment, I wouldn't have a tenth the problems I have. :ummm:
You could come down here and help me finish up the projects that I'll never get around to in my lifetime...:clapping:

 

[KJShover]

I ride my bike in different places and shoot video and/or take some pictures. I just play my Bass, play my guitars, reload some ammo, go shooting. I'm finishing up building a cigarbox guitar (complete with internal amp as well as a jack for an external amp). Play with my dogs or goof off with the PS3. playing need for speed online or some of my WWII flying games online.

Now school is back in session so I just put my nose in the books.

 

[The Beekeeper]

When I'm not at work I usually have somthing going on out in the garage with either a customer project or one of my own, I ride the Max as much as I can, and when there's time I play Burnout Paradise online from my pc..................Tom.

 

[Barry barker]

Apartment living can wreck your spirit, but you live in what I think is one of the pretty places in the country. Correct me if I am wrong but you have ski resorts, the saw tooth mountains, hunting, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, just to mention a few of the things to do less than an hour away. Get out there and touch some lives.:eusa_dance:

 

[88vmx12]

Apartment living can wreck your spirit, but you live in what I think is one of the pretty places in the country. Correct me if I am wrong but you have ski resorts, the saw tooth mountains, hunting, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, just to mention a few of the things to do less than an hour away. Get out there and touch some lives.:eusa_dance:

I live or my wife lives in southern Idaho. not much hiking and mountains where I live or my wife lives LOL lots of fishing and hunting close by though. Where I am there are two ski resorts within 15 miles of me and lots of hunting and fishing. However I work too much to enjoy any of that. Plus I am at the highest incorporated town in the USA "Leadville Colorado" and we are already getting little snow flurries, The summer was 2 months and mostly rainy. Sean has my bike and there will be snow on the ground here before I will get it back. However I have a few friends that live in Denver that I can store my bike at their house. It is usually nice down in Denver for a long time, good fall riding weather. I wish I had my bike this summer I would have gone riding and stayed the nights in some unknown towns in Colorado and totally enjoyed myself. I truly need some bike time. G

 

[RaWarrior]

I might have you one better...I'm bored as hell, in a town of ~5000 people, and stuck in campus apartment housing. No garage, no toys to fiddle with, no projects to work on. Home is a good 200 mile drive (one way), so far too expensive in gas to drive home with any frequency to visit my Vmax or any other stuff.

I've got my Odyssey project that's been on pause now for weeks due to well, not being around to work on it.

The one upswing is our SPEED lab (student projects in engineering experience and design) has a fully equipped machine shop. Mills, lathes, CNC, saws of all sorts, sanders, any kind of metalworking tool you can think of. Welders of all shapes and sizes, from little 120v wire MIGs to 480v size-of-a-small-closet "do it all" ones, complete with radiators and stockpiles of k-cylinders. You have to take a training class to use the big CNC stuff or the welders worth more than say $1000, but I basically taught myself to use the smaller lathes and the mini-mill that they don't bother to lock.

So I plan to fab up a nice set of motor mounts for that Yamaha 340 sled engine to stick it in the odyssey....mill in some slots to make the position adjustable.

Potsdam does get a shitload of snow in the winter though, and it's a fairly low traffic area so riding around here is usually excellent, way better than the mob scene known as old forge or tug hill.

Otherwise, I play Team Fortress 2 on the computer, or sometimes Black Ops zombies co-op mode. I have a PS3, but really prefer games on the computer and don't use it all that much.

If anybody plays on Steam my username there is the same as here...

 

[88vmx12]

I might have you one better...I'm bored as hell, in a town of ~5000 people, and stuck in campus apartment housing. No garage, no toys to fiddle with, no projects to work on. Home is a good 200 mile drive (one way), so far too expensive in gas to drive home with any frequency to visit my Vmax or any other stuff.

I've got my Odyssey project that's been on pause now for weeks due to well, not being around to work on it.

The one upswing is our SPEED lab (student projects in engineering experience and design) has a fully equipped machine shop. Mills, lathes, CNC, saws of all sorts, sanders, any kind of metalworking tool you can think of. Welders of all shapes and sizes, from little 120v wire MIGs to 480v size-of-a-small-closet "do it all" ones, complete with radiators and stockpiles of k-cylinders. You have to take a training class to use the big CNC stuff or the welders worth more than say $1000, but I basically taught myself to use the smaller lathes and the mini-mill that they don't bother to lock.

So I plan to fab up a nice set of motor mounts for that Yamaha 340 sled engine to stick it in the odyssey....mill in some slots to make the position adjustable.

Potsdam does get a shitload of snow in the winter though, and it's a fairly low traffic area so riding around here is usually excellent, way better than the mob scene known as old forge or tug hill.

Otherwise, I play Team Fortress 2 on the computer, or sometimes Black Ops zombies co-op mode. I have a PS3, but really prefer games on the computer and don't use it all that much.

If anybody plays on Steam my username there is the same as here...

ha ha..... sounds like me! No garage , no tools 680 miles from home $400 round trip in diesel with my old truck. They won't let me have days off etc. etc. town way too small. if a local sees you talking to the opposite sex , even asking directions etc... You are having sex! They have nothing better to do than talk ****! So I enter my Apt. and check emails, have a small snack and off to bed.... There is no TV so I have nothing to do! :bang head:

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[RaWarrior]

. You are having sex!

None of that happens around here. Ratio here, like most engineering-focused schools, is 75/25 or so, and I consider that 25% to still be far below average in terms of talent (the lib arts schools are where it's at in that department).

Some CompSci major ran an article in the school paper a while ago after fiddling his way into the OIT department's system and gathering some network usage metrics...I don't remember the exact statistics, but something like 60% of "private" computers registered had accessed any of the 100 most-viewed porn sites in the past month, and like a quarter of public campus computers had. So somebody's watching porno's in the CAD labs or the library. Nice.

Needless to say there's a lot of :jerk it: going on around here.

 

[Sauron]

How about building RC vehicles, online gaming, writing a blog, and trail running?

 

[Barry barker]

There use to be a neat bar on main street, but i guess that might really get the locals talking!! Leadville is a nice to place to visit, would not want to live there. How often do you get to go home? Do you work for the mining company? Just curious.

 

[Lew L]

I make knives. A hobby I've had for years. I'm partial to drop point hunter styles made out of D2 tool steel.
Lew

 

[one2dmax]

I've seen knives and swords made out of leaf spring material. Just the right combination of hardness and ductility.

 

[ZRX/V-MAX]

masturbate!

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[88vmx12]

There use to be a neat bar on main street, but i guess that might really get the locals talking!! Leadville is a nice to place to visit, would not want to live there. How often do you get to go home? Do you work for the mining company? Just curious.

Yes there are a few bars in town! Infact I live right next to one. The place I live used to be one of the old whore houses. They say the town has many haunted places. I always say where I live the ghost moan all night long and keep me up :rofl_200::rofl_200::rofl_200:........
I don't get home very often at all. I was supposed to be able to go home every 6 weeks for a week. Last time I was home was 3 months ago :bang head:

I actually do work at the mine on fremont pass 11,400' above sea level. I work for a construction company that is getting the mine up and running again. I am 1 of 5 QA/QC inspectors

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[Frosty72]

I work on my piles!

 

[jfeagins]

There's always Farmville on facebook. It must be quite captivating, at least according to all the posts by a couple former classmates of mine. I think a couple of those gals must be addicted to it. Virtual farming - that just might be the key to ridding yourself of boredom - short of pulling your pud of course (per ZRX above).

 

[88vmx12]

There's always Farmville on facebook.

LMAO yeah no way in hell! my wife set me up on facebook but then thought I was not using it to her liking. I am not sure what the whole deal was so I closed it. The argument was not worth keeping it open.
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