Guys my dad's 68th birthday is coming up AND he's retiring.

[joface@mastodon.scot]

@Gina My dad's 80 and been having fun with models like this 🙂
https://www.robotimeonline.com/en-gb/products/rokr-marble-travel-london-marble-run-wooden-3d-puzzle-egb01

[lalalasombra@chaos.social]

@Gina An acoustic guitar + lessons, a puppy, or carpentry lessons? 🙂

[danhugo@fosstodon.org]

@Gina

Handy?

https://www.lego.com

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@lalalasombra these are all things I want 😂

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@danhugo RIP my bank account 💸💸

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@stibbons putting that on my own birthday list. ✅️

[urig@mastodon.online]

@Gina learning a new language in group lessons worked nicely for my dad. Socially and intellectually empowering.

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@urig @Gina It's a lot of fun teaching older people a language. They really don't care about mistakes

[urig@mastodon.online]

@humanhorseshoes @Gina not my dad. He cared a lot about mistakes but had a knack for languages and soldered on. He learned Italian because of a nostalgia for 50's canzoni :)

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@urig @Gina What I meant is they aren't embarrassed by them, my oldest beginners were from Ukraine and Kazakhstan

[urig@mastodon.online]

@humanhorseshoes very cool. Which language(s) did you teach?

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@urig I teach English to speakers of Russian but have stopped now

[jaf@fosstodon.org]

@Gina In our case, it were grandchildren who helped combat boredom.