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My work load doubled during COVID... Not a single moment left to hobbies, old or new...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Not much change for me, same hobbies: bit of cycling, photography, drinking wine. Also tried a bottle of Tawny Port lately, that wasn't bad either 
We sometimes have a "guest" cannabis plant from someone who wants to avoid the limit of three plants.
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In Alberta, you get to grow 4 plants; in some provinces, none. Or, indoors only. Little idea why the variance.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I learned today how to remove my new artificial eye from its socket, wash it, and put it back in. This is required maintenance every two months, and I got it on the 1st of March.
Pro tip: Rinse the eye in cool water after washing; much more comfortable going back in.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yep; doing more local walks I spotted some street furniture I'd never noticed before. Researched and found they relate to underground Telegraph cables - the internet of the late 19th century! Got obsessed and am now cataloging as many as I can. UK members please visit gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk[^] and contribute if you know of any! 
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I learned reflow soldering. Also esp32 coding in nanoframework.
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This is one of my favorite hobbies, when I get time to do so. Following old marked trails that have (old) markers is a fun sport, only to see where they lead. This I discovered when my family would make trips to Lake Tahoe (CA.) [This was back in the 60s and early 70s.] We would take US Hwy 50 from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe and from Placerville to Lake Tahoe, the road was marked with tombstones marking the mileage to Placerville. I found it fascinating to follow the mileage as we got farther from Placerville and closer to Lake Tahoe. For those who don't know, Placerville, CA was nick-named 'Hangtown". Most people who were put on trial there we hanged (lynched). The tombstones were a reminder to those who were going to Placerville to face a judge, you would know where your destiny lied.
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Sadly, Initially it was doom scrolling in March 2020.
Then Trump scrolling.
Then Trivia Quizzes.
Then I became a cruciverbalist for the first time in my life.
4 of them every morning.
Then I purchased an E-Scooter.
It is great to be outdoors again.
I have two of them now.
One of them is relaxing and easy and fun to ride.
The other one is busy and sometimes terrifying, but is the best fun to scoot on.
So the new thing for me from spending more time indoors is E-Scooting.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Yeah, I picked up Arduino in earnest.
I just finished installing a Google Assistant voice operated system for individually controlling the 8 recessed lights in my kids' "Game Dungeon". "Hey Google, light pattern 'front half'" will turn on the lights in the front half of the room and the back half off. I have half a dozen named patterns, but they can also be addresses with a bitwise number. "Hey Google, light pattern 162" will turn on 10100010.
I had great fun and taught my kids binary.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Picked up my old guitar and I'm trying to learn how to play it.
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I started learning to play the day after the Beatles made their American debut on Ed Sullivan show.
It helps to take lessons. I played in various bands several years later. Quit about 5 years ago, tired of all of the "drama". Plus I was "too old to Rock and Roll, and too young to die." - Jethro Tull.
Until you can take lessons, run you scales.
My callouses are all gone! 
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Wood Working kind of over the top to build myself a new desk
I found a Delta 36-725 T2 10 in contractor table saw on Craig's List for $400.00 only 2 1/2 hours from my home I live in the Mountains of Northern Arizona so every thing is 3 hours away
Home Depot and Milwaukee Power Tools had a special so I drank the Kool Aid and went cordless with a
Circular Saw Hammer Drill and Handheld Router the special included 3 batteries and charger
A set of brad point bits from Austria as well as a Doweling Jig Because I am old and no longer want
to assemble the desk on the garage floor I started on a Outfeed/Assembly Table with a Pipe Clamp Twin
Screw Vise Have I lost my mind NO It seemed like more fun than building another VB.Net Database Application Once the Desk is build any requests for cutting boards or small boxes will be honored
It was the least I could do to help stimulate the economy
PS anyone wishing to donate Wood Working Clamps feel free to reach out
It would have fun to help Mike Hankey
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A lot of home projects I had on the backburner got accelerated (furniture, network cabling, new home cinema, etc.)
Huge rail and ice loop infrastructure projects in Minecraft...(sadly I cannot afford to build my own Shinkansen here in Texas)
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Ah, I live in FL...
I keep forgetting... People are still locked down.
We are LITERALLY "Gods Waiting Room"... And we lock down the older people, so the younger people can live. Majority of counties have lifted masking, although many companies act like it's still critical.
This is NOT the season to have to lock down. Sun is out, virus drops off during this time of year, back in September!
I've worked from home for 15 years, so nothing has changed... Especially now that the gym opened the Suana/Hot Tub/Pool. So I am getting there more often. Oh, how I missed all of that...
Doing FASTING! Did two weeks, of two meals/week. Then going 3 weeks with 3 meals/week.
And finally losing the "Covid-19" (the 19 lbs from covid)...
During the lockdown, I started walking more, listening to Audible books, and podcasts at double speed.
Averaged 30-40 miles/week. (And still managed to gain weight. LOL)
I guess Walking/Listening was my Covid Hobby!
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Taking part in protest demonstrations against the Corona measures. 
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After watching a ton of video tutorials about "cut your own hair" I got the courage to buy an electric hair clipper set and try it. Some fails and fair rate of success.
I already tried the fake bald style, Jarhead cut, and currently I’m trying the Peaky Blinders style.
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If you uninstall/delete the Win Store from the computer, and then try to download a (free) store app from the browser (in my case: Chrome, Win Store web-page, ad-blocker off), no downlead will occur, and there will be no advisory, or error, message.
This makes sense given a design strategy of:
1) give the user what they never asked for ... lots of it
2) ignore the user asking for something their own behavior has blocked access to
3) do not inform users of the effects of their asking for something their own behavior has blocked access to because:
3a) stupid/crazy/OS-hacking users won't understand it
3b) stupid/crazy/OS-hacking users don't deserve it
4) Chrome users are apostates.
5) don't fix issues until class-action lawsuits are filed
But, wait: suppose it's Google/Chrome's devilish doings, another back-hander in the browser Armageddon ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 1-May-21 9:31am.
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Who's responsible for the silent treatment? Do you think the browser knows that the download failed but doesn't tell you? Or does the download pretend to succeed or even hide the file and then delete it?
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Greg Utas wrote: Who's responsible for the silent treatment?
Greg, I can't (for fear the demons will use the information) reveal the extent to which certain supernatural forces have permeated every current web-browser, the extent to which every minute detail of our behavior is tracked, classified, tagged, aggregated, and warehoused in vast infernal warehouses: so, it's better I stay silent on this.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It sounds like the demons aren't missing any information, so staying silent can only benefit them!
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Too late, I have your bank details. 
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I think you just put yourself in the demon category. I'd never have guessed!
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I can say, with certainty, that Richard is not a demon, and, that he is a demi-god.
I am honored that he sometimes manifests as my Nemesis 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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