Hobbies that take time
I was thinking about it during a conversation about snowboarding last night - a lot of the good hobbies of our day just take a lot of time. Snowboarding? At least a half-day commitment - and that's if you're just going up to Snoqualmie. Which, by the way, apparently has great snow right now. Golf? Four hours for the round; five if it's a weekend and you're behind slow people or the course is just stacked up. Plus transit time. If you buy a boat? You're going to be out and on it for at least a half-day at a time. Going to the Seahawks game (go 'Hawks!)? Four hours for the game, plus transit and padding time.
This is all well and good up until you try to do other things as well. For example, I'm trying to go the gym a few times a week these days - yes you can go ahead and laugh now :). So, that blocks from going night skiing/snowboarding up at Snoqualmie. And then I've had enough other stuff that I needed to do during the weekends most weeks to have prevented me from being able to set aside enough consecutive hours to be able to head up to the mountains, and this upcoming weekend has already shaped up that way too...
Is there any point to my rambling? Not really; just that it's very easy to accidentally overcommit yourself and not realize it until the snow season is half to mostly done :(