<div dir="auto">It's just a theoretical abstraction bordering on anomalous bad data :-)<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"down by one" loosely translates to "add 2 more hobbies".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And if a new one requires more specialized tools.... Yay!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Making jewelry requires lots and lots of tools and parts and stones and metals. Did you know there are over 100 different hand files used in jewelry making? And the smaller they are the more they cost per inch. My torch collection is up to 6 and varies between oxy-acetelene, oxy-propane, and both fuels with air and I'm looking at an oxy-hydrogen torch and a very tiny Tig welder. The laser welders are WAY off budget for a hobby.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 4:58 PM Brian MacLeod via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hobby count goes down, eh?<div><br></div><div>So if your homelab were to say...go down then your active hobby count would be one less, making room...?</div><div><br></div><div>;-)</div><div><br></div><div>bnm</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:37 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">As I possibly provided some quantity of the exhibition gear from the several purges of my basement stash, I decided to avoid the public embarrassment of trying to bring them back home so I didn't go.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not gonna discuss the in house wants of a good working multi-ball pinball game. Even my wife agrees we should get one someday when my hobby count goes down. I don't really understand that concept.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 6:00 PM Scott M. Jones via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I went as well on Saturday. It did bring back a lot of memories, and I <br>
was surprised to see a lot of the same kind of equipment that I used to own.<br>
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On 7/30/23 2:44 PM, Mark--- via Ale wrote:<br>
> Boris, thanks for this event notice. I went today and had a great time <br>
> with my daughter who is into vintage computer and video games.<br>
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