What beautiful, weird hobbies are dying in the modern world.

This might be a bit controversial, but since I do this, I'll mention it because that's how I feel.

Playing drums. Real drums. Midi are making us obsolete.

Don't get me wrong, there are still applications for live drums, especially if you want the groove or feel of a live drummer,

but bedroom music production has just skyrocketed even more due to the pandemic, and not everyone has enough space for a full acoustic kit. Ham Radio! I remember as a kid listening to my dad's

radio, and him always having a good time and genuinely enjoying a good rag chew. I got my license

and tuned in to some of the local repeaters. I found some nets with the most depressive

things I've ever heard. People talking about their terminal illnesses or how prescription costs

are killing them. I'm a coin collector and it is dying. My grandpa collected coins. He always told my brother

and I that, someday this will all be yours. There's $80,000 worth of coins in there. Well, what a

nightmare that was after he died. We learned Grandpa had been buying reproduction coins,

repackaging them as collectible or authentic, rare, and then selling them

back in the numismatic news for a profit.

So anyone we had come to appraise the collection just wouldn't touch it.

We finally got all of the counterfeit bullcrap out and the legit collectibles separated.

And there were less than 10 grand worth of those.

And even worse, my mother decided we had to share it with my cousins and aunt and uncle,

even though the collection was promised to my brother and I as the first grandkids.

So we got one grand a piece.

Stamp collecting.

It used to be a huge thing, but not anymore.

Probably because of the rise of email.

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