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Keyboards / Re: Is someone here, who quit the hobby and is only lurking now?
« Last post by Tseg on Mon, 06 May 2024, 02:17:16 »I have rotated hobbies for several decades. The only one I revisited for a few years with additional purchases was my watch collecting… oh, and did buy a specific high end knife after I finally won the maker’s “lottery” after a 4 year wait from my last purchase in the hobby (I could see me doing similar if/when I would get selected for a Key Cult raffle). I still very much enjoy most of the pieces from most of the hobbies I collected over the years. There was some downsizing in some hobbies to bare essential grail pieces, like with my camera hobby.
I currently have 7 keyboards (after having given one of my HHKB’s to my son) + waiting on 2 groupbuys (with one also including a numpad). At this point I feel pretty satiated with keyboards, but pretty much enjoy all the keyboards I own and am glad I dabbled in this hobby, and will continue practicing my typing skills (with my speed having doubled in 3/4 a year and near 100% accuracy). I imagine I’ll check out KB forums from time to time as I do revisit forums from other hobbies from time to time. It is interesting how varied forum cultures are, depending what is being collected. Probably the culture that is most particular that I have trouble getting along with is the snowblower collecting community. They are crazy opinionated with lots of rules about what can and cannot be said.
I currently have 7 keyboards (after having given one of my HHKB’s to my son) + waiting on 2 groupbuys (with one also including a numpad). At this point I feel pretty satiated with keyboards, but pretty much enjoy all the keyboards I own and am glad I dabbled in this hobby, and will continue practicing my typing skills (with my speed having doubled in 3/4 a year and near 100% accuracy). I imagine I’ll check out KB forums from time to time as I do revisit forums from other hobbies from time to time. It is interesting how varied forum cultures are, depending what is being collected. Probably the culture that is most particular that I have trouble getting along with is the snowblower collecting community. They are crazy opinionated with lots of rules about what can and cannot be said.