The things he does...

elannis

I'm working in the office and I walk out to the living room and find my BF engaged in his new hobby: amateur radio.

He has all of our cookie sheets, muffin tins, etc. spread around him with various antennas on them, with his radio on the end table and he's sitting indian style in front of it listening to some guy in Idaho, lol. He is so much like a little kid sometimes, but it's cute, lol. He caught me giggling at him and gave me a sheepish look because he's still getting used to doing things that he wants to do without worrying about pleasing everyone (his mom) first, but he is definitely having a blast doing all this stuff, lol.

What do you find your SO doing that is silly/strange, but cute?

Beads921

That's really funny. I giggled too, as I imagined BF doing something similar.

One night I got home late from class to find BF lounging on the couch with the cats and 3 pairs of socks on the coffee table. BF decided he wanted to learn how to juggle that night, and he thought socks would be a good thing to use. He demonstrated his awesome new-found juggling skills for me. He decided that it was probably because the socks are not equal in size or shape that he was having trouble, so off he went to find 3 matching balls (which we do not have). He's given it a try a few other times since then with various throwable objects, but I don't think the hobby will ever really take off.

He also ties a shoelace to the back of his jeans and runs around the house with it (like a tail). The cats LOVE it and chase him around. He'll usually leave it on for a while as he does household chores, like dishes, and the cats usually just follow him and sit behind him wherever he goes until he takes it off. I love it. I think it's hilarious.

elannis

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[QUOTE]That's really funny. I giggled too, as I imagined BF doing something similar. One night I got home late from class to find BF lounging on the couch with the cats and 3 pairs of socks on the coffee table. BF decided he wanted to learn how to juggle that night, and he thought socks would be a good thing to use. He demonstrated his awesome new-found juggling skills for me. He decided that it was probably because the socks are not equal in size or shape that he was having trouble, so off he went to find 3 matching balls (which we do not have). He's given it a try a few other times since then with various throwable objects, but I don't think the hobby will ever really take off. He also ties a shoelace to the back of his jeans and runs around the house with it (like a tail). The cats LOVE it and chase him around. He'll usually leave it on for a while as he does household chores, like dishes, and the cats usually just follow him and sit behind him wherever he goes until he takes it off. I love it. I think it's hilarious.
Posted by Beads921[/QUOTE]


Hahaha, that's hilarious! Our BFs must be similar because I could definitely see mine doing that too if we had a cat, lol.

Also, bean bags work great for learning to juggle. Balls are hard to catch, but you can get bean bags more easily with just a couple fingers. Also, they don't go rolling all around when you drop them, they don't hurt, and they're easy to make.

lunarsongbird

Andrew's computer never goes to sleep....Instead it runs this program in the background that looks for alien radio/satellite transmissions! LOL!

ravenray

Aw cute   Well my Fi is a nerd so almost anything he does is cute

You know you are marrying an engineer when he finally doesn't have any homework he wants to build a Stirling engine.  Google it.  He has been thinking about it for days trying to get it to work. 

He also yo-yos.  And he is really good.  He is so funny he wants to take a picture of him doing a yo-yo trick every time we go some place special. He says he can't wait to go to Paris so he can throw up an Eifel Tower in front of the Eifel Tower....  Sigh it is cute though.  I have to say I adore him.

SopChick

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[QUOTE]Andrew's computer never goes to sleep....Instead it runs this program in the background that looks for alien radio/satellite transmissions! LOL!
Posted by lunarsongbird[/QUOTE]
SETI?

yeah... not just an opera nerd. lol

elannis

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[QUOTE]Andrew's computer never goes to sleep....Instead it runs this program in the background that looks for alien radio/satellite transmissions! LOL!
Posted by lunarsongbird[/QUOTE]

Lol that's interesting. I didn't know you could do that. Does he ever pick anything up?

lunarsongbird

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The things he does... : SETI? yeah... not just an opera nerd. lol
Posted by SopChick[/QUOTE]

LOL! You betcha!
But I don't have any room to talk- I'm listening to the Harry Potter Score all day at work today.... and yesterday I listened to hours of the Lord of the Rings soundtracks.

elannis

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[QUOTE]Aw cute :)  Well my Fi is a nerd so almost anything he does is cute :) You know you are marrying an engineer when he finally doesn't have any homework he wants to build a Stirling engine.  Google it.  He has been thinking about it for days trying to get it to work.  He also yo-yos.  And he is really good.  He is so funny he wants to take a picture of him doing a yo-yo trick every time we go some place special. He says he can't wait to go to Paris so he can throw up an Eifel Tower in front of the Eifel Tower....  Sigh it is cute though.  I have to say I adore him.
Posted by ravenray[/QUOTE]

There's no way I could make anything close to resembling that, lol. The yo-yo thing is cool though. I've never really been able to yo yo, so I gave it up, lol.

lennonkdc

BF is a video game geek. Recently he's been playing Kill Zone 3, because his bro, sis and bro in law all play online. So he plays on a squad with them, the bad part is that they are all in Japan, so they're 13 hours ahead of us. This means that he plays at odd times., like 7:30 on Saturday morning. He got so excited to 'hang out' with his siblings that its hard to be annoyed by the noise he makes  

He also has these funny voices for each of our cats, and uses them to talk for them, whats even funnier that I will respond to the 'cat' and we will have a whole conversation. Very lame I know, but I think its cute

elannis

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The things he does... : LOL! You betcha! But I don't have any room to talk- I'm listening to the Harry Potter Score all day at work today.... and yesterday I listened to hours of the Lord of the Rings soundtracks.
Posted by lunarsongbird[/QUOTE]

I just watched the first LOTR movie and was talking about how much I love all the music for it.

lunarsongbird

I'm not sure about SETI Findings...I've never asked. Hrm.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_about.php

SopChick

I haven't really watched HP (gasp... Sorry Elle!) but LOTR has an epic soundtrack.

lunarsongbird

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[QUOTE]I haven't really watched HP (gasp... Sorry Elle!) but LOTR has an epic soundtrack.
Posted by SopChick[/QUOTE]

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elannis

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[QUOTE]BF is a video game geek. Recently he's been playing Kill Zone 3, because his bro, sis and bro in law all play online. So he plays on a squad with them, the bad part is that they are all in Japan, so they're 13 hours ahead of us. This means that he plays at odd times., like 7:30 on Saturday morning. He got so excited to 'hang out' with his siblings that its hard to be annoyed by the noise he makes :)  He also has these funny voices for each of our cats, and uses them to talk for them, whats even funnier that I will respond to the 'cat' and we will have a whole conversation. Very lame I know, but I think its cute :)
Posted by lennonkdc[/QUOTE]

The time difference stinks that that is so neat that he's able to stay in touch with them that way. And your cat story made me smile, lol.

elannis

Haha, that giraffe reminds me of when we went to the zoo last weekend. We went and saw the baby elephant. He's like 10 months old and there was a squirrel in his exhibit and as soon as he saw it, he took after it like he wanted to play or something, lol.

ravenray

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The things he does... : There's no way I could make anything close to resembling that, lol. The yo-yo thing is cool though. I've never really been able to yo yo, so I gave it up, lol.
Posted by elannis[/QUOTE]
Ya I couldn't either but he loves to tinker.  Ya he is really good. We call him the yo-yo Master :)

Edit:  I have the entire LOTR Return of the King sound track memorized.  I can also sing all 3 of the songs on there, including the one in Elvis the Aragon sings :)  NERD party of me.

elannis

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: The things he does... : Ya I couldn't either but he loves to tinker.  Ya he is really good. We call him the yo-yo Master :) Edit:  I have the entire LOTR Return of the King sound track memorized.  I can also sing all 3 of the songs on there, including the one in Elvis the Aragon sings :)  NERD party of me.
Posted by ravenray[/QUOTE]


That's a cool nick-name. I have no nickname other than variations of my real name: E, Ely, Eli, El, etc.

I must be a nerd too then because I think the songs are cool too!

PaigeMcC

FBD plays Minecraft sometimes.  And every so often he'll build something for me...or something for the dogs.  I'll come in to the computer room and he's deep in thought making a ginormous dog house for the pugs or something like that.  I

polkadot111

bahahaha! I could see Jeff doing something similar!

Jeff is a engineer through and through. He builds lightening detectors. That's his newest obsession. He puts a bunch of wires and stuff together and somehow makes it so it can detect lightening. Then he drives around in storms with his lightening detector counting lightening bolts that it picks up. hahaha

elannis

1.  I have a question. What does FBD stand for?
2. I have also not seen all the HP movies.
3.  Is it just me or is this day taking FOREVER?!

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[QUOTE]bahahaha! I could see Jeff doing something similar! Jeff is a engineer through and through. He builds lightening detectors. That's his newest obsession. He puts a bunch of wires and stuff together and somehow makes it so it can detect lightening. Then he drives around in storms with his lightening detector counting lightening bolts that it picks up. hahaha
Posted by polkadot111[/QUOTE]

So he goes around trying to attract lightning to him? That doesn't sound safe but it sounds pretty awesome.

Peaseblossom55

BF is a computer geek, he even tried creating an online version of this board game we like.  It's been awhile since I heard about it though...

kristiwashere

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[QUOTE]I'm working in the office and I walk out to the living room and find my BF engaged in his new hobby: amateur radio. He has all of our cookie sheets, muffin tins, etc. spread around him with various antennas on them, with his radio on the end table and he's sitting indian style in front of it listening to some guy in Idaho, lol. He is so much like a little kid sometimes, but it's cute, lol. He caught me giggling at him and gave me a sheepish look because he's still getting used to doing things that he wants to do without worrying about pleasing everyone (his mom) first, but he is definitely having a blast doing all this stuff, lol. What do you find your SO doing that is silly/strange, but cute?
Posted by elannis[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>That's so awesome that he's into amateur radio, though! My dad is an avid ham radio operator and would die of happiness if me or FI or DS ever got into it. (I tried, but I'm not good with technical things). Does he get all excited like "guess where I talked to someone today??" - my dad does that, loves telling me all the countries he's talked to, and when we fly to California to visit fam, he brings like 50lbs worth of radio gear to see how different his radios work across the country...

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kristiwashere

Oh & to answer your question - SO is a musician, but not a particular genre, he's been in a bunch of very different bands. Some of them I love, some... not so much. He gets embarrassed when he does silly rap songs on the ipad, he'll literally sit in the car in our apartment parking lot for an hour to record his music since if he does it inside I can hear :P

elannis

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[QUOTE]In Response to The things he does... : That's so awesome that he's into amateur radio, though! My dad is an avid ham radio operator and would die of happiness if me or FI or DS ever got into it. (I tried, but I'm not good with technical things). Does he get all excited like "guess where I talked to someone today??" - my dad does that, loves telling me all the countries he's talked to, and when we fly to California to visit fam, he brings like 50lbs worth of radio gear to see how different his radios work across the country...
Posted by kristiwashere[/QUOTE]

First of all, your baby is adorable!!! And yes, he does come in and he'll kinda get a bit sheepish but he's too excited to contain himself and he'll be like, "I just talked to a guy in California/Idaho/Australia!" .. and that's literally all he came in to tell me, lol. It's so funny and so cute. He also brings all of his gear to anywhere we go and is currently figuring out how he can rig up some kind of car mount so it's portable too, lol.

kristiwashere

Yeah, sounds like my dad exactly! I guess it is a very exciting hobby! My dad completely re-rigs any vehicle he owns to have as much radio gear in it, lol!