My number one hobby is #ttrpgs -- mostly the #worldbuilding aspect of them, DMing, very rarely playing. Been doing it for uhh 35 years now. The worldbuilding's been constant, the actual play much more intermittent. My current game's about eight sessions in with a bunch of nuggets, running #dnd 5.5. It's going pretty well.

Roughly equivalent to this is
#meditation, #spirituality, and the #occult. I read a lot, I reflect a lot, sometimes I even do stuff, generally fairly ad hoc. I've been a #druid, a #christian, #asatru, various combinations of all three, now kinda doing my own thing.

Third is
#cooking, though I don't do as much of that as I used to. I used to love meat and got very good at variously preparing it, then the wife went vegan and I discovered meat seems to tamper with my mojo so I don't eat much of it anymore and most of my cooking jutsu is moot.

Fourth is
#reading in general, I suppose -- #speculativeFiction, generally, sometimes #romance, sometimes the happy union of the two. I'm not well-read, by any means, but I like it more than any other medium, when I have the brain for it. #Comics, too, especially #webcomics. Love 'em.

Fifth is
#martialArts. I've studied, at various times, #karate, #taijutsu, #aikido, #savate, and #hema, though none to any great extent and none all that recently. I like to spar, and someday I'd like to pick up #judo.

Sixth is uhh well I want to pick up
#crochet this year, maybe.

Also I sing sometimes.

Anyone wants to chat about any of the above, hit me up.

(Re-drafted for hashtags)

#Aikido #Haiku

#24
owe the empty space
being there but also not
Power of the mind

#introduction
Hello! I am Originalbarbas and I have recently joined this server. I am a physicist, currently researching
#quantum technologies in #Vigo. I build things with lasers on them, basically. Sometimes I also build the lasers too. I have lived in many places, recently in #Scotland and #Catalunya.

I like
#videgames (currently playing through Expedition 33), #tabletopgames, #ttrpgs, #manga, #anime, #books (I read everything that I get my hands into, but I specially like #scifi, #fantasy and #murdermysteries), #comics (european mostly, but also american and basically every genre I can find), #bouldering and recently #aikido and #iaido.

Pleased to be in your nice company!

P.S. I might write another in Spanish, maybe tomorrow.

#Aikido #Haiku

#23 
Hakamas and Gis
All washed and neatly folded
Pause a bit too long

Last Monday Leena helped us burn through some Christmas calories by wearing bags of peas on our head! It was only her fourth time leading #aikido practise and she is already making us do odd things! But it was a great way to make sure posture and balance remain in focus.

It was also the first time Pyry practised with a hakama. He managed well and didn't twist a toe on it!

@dentangle

I have also been picking up a bit of #TaiChi lately, a group meets in a park... I even have been skipping out on #Aikido to go (gasp!!!) ... at least when the weather is sunny or at least not the usual oppressively-dreary-water-falling-from-the-sky out.

Although, admittedly, I mostly go for the freestyle push-hands ... not so much for the forms, even though, obviously, the forms have a lot to teach. :)

Hope to bring some push-hands practice back to my aikido dojo someday...

#ThreeGoodThings #3goodthings
1) Brunch at #ThatsMyJam on Divisadero. All good, but the biscuits and jam are worth the trip by themselves.
2) Only 3 of us in the #Aikido dojo today. One was a 6th Dan I love to train with. The other was a wonderful 4th Dan who is training for her 5th Dan demo next month. Short version: Lucky me!
3) Carrot potato ginger soup with Weißwurst from Lehrs Market for dinner.
#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings
1) We bought a wider bed. I am not a calm sleeper, and my CPAP complicates things further. Hopefully a wider bed will make me just enough less disruptive at night to improve rest and harmony over here. 🤞
2) Extra #Aikido day was extra good. There are so many different takes on the art at my home dojo. Saturday teacher’s class is like Jedi Academy in a good way.
3) Still another week off of work! (This is a new development after a couple decades covering holidays.)

#Aikido #Haiku

#22
Repeat new pattern
Over and over again
Replacing old truths

#Aikido #Haiku

#21

Itchy pullover
Scratching chalk on blackboard sound
Technique not quite right