Time for hobbies has died down a bit since I had my kid, but I was an avid tabletop board gamer. I enjoyed getting together with friends and playing any type of board game. My favorites and go to are: Champions of Midgard, Scythe, and Lords of the Waterdeep. If you haven't noticed what they have in common, the game style is referred to as European Resource Management or Eurogames. This board game style requires a much deeper sense strategy to acquire and manage resources rather than the American style of board games that are traditionally based on direct conflict, luck, and chance.
Aside from that, I still regularly attend a weekly organized collectible miniatures game tournament ran and sanctioned by local comic shops in the area called Heroclix based on superheroes and their respective storylines in the comic books. Since high school, I've been playing this game, and I'm still surprised by the community of people who continue to play it. I've met a lot of lifelong friends playing this game and traveled the country entering national championships. I was once ranked 27th best player in the world back in 2013 and 31st in 2015. I just won the state championship in the fall of 2019 here in Florida, which gave me a qualifying ticket to participate in their world's championship to be held in Columbus, Ohio, in 2020. Still, as you know, that was canceled with all the Covid19 shenanigans going on.
Besides board gaming, I enjoy working out as I converted my entire 2 car garage into a cross-fit style gymnasium complete with rubber flooring and squat rack. I'm also an aquarist. I've been building and taking care of fish tank aquariums since I was in middle school. I use to have a 120-gallon saltwater aquarium with some exotic fish years ago but left the whole set up with my father. Now I just have 50-gallon freshwater. Freshwater is actually more challenging than saltwater. Once you get your saltwater tank established, it's pretty much set it and forget it; the downside, however, is it's more expensive to start initially.
Right now, at this moment, I've been getting back into the new World of Warcraft expansion Shadowlands and having a blast!
