Thread: What else are you all into?

Reading, Aggressive Rollerblading (like ramps and stuff), Playing guitar, a little bit of stonecarving, video editing (comes with the rollerblading) and at the moment I'm trying to create some colognes. I gave my first attempt to my mother today who was very pleased with the result.

I'm really into cycling. In fact, a couple of years ago, I strapped my panniers to my bicycle and cycled from CT to Los Angeles, then two years later, cycled down to Key West. Hence the Trekker nick-name. I road across country on a Trek 830.

I was also an actor for a while and did some off-off broadway work in a play called BACKSTAGE BITCHES and played the Sheriff in a road show of TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD.

I also write Civil War mysteries and had one published a couple of years ago in ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE. Currently, when not being a mortgage broker, I'm working on a series of novels based on the characters I created for that short story.

...too many things:


-Tae Kwon Do (second degree black belt)
-Running (I am slow, but my wife and dog do it with me)
-Heritage vegetable gardening
-Artisan bread baking
-Flintlock firearms (making and shooting)
-Coaching high school debate
-Coppersmithing



...and a day job...

Dave

Hunting and photography.

I've just converted a 20' shipping container into a darkroom and it's heaven just to lock myself away and see what comes up in the developer.

Fencing, obviously, plus flyfishing and flytying, some woodworking. right now, I'm finishing my basement when I don't have a competition.

tom

Bible study, rasing a family, hiking and fishing when I can, history, computer repair and website design. I used to practice iaido (japanese swordsmanship) but not active currently.

I do a little collecting of NASA memorabilia, though the prices of the items I like most have been rising out of my comfort range for the past few years.

- Reading
- Home cinema and film in general
- Surfing (although there is little opportunity to do so here in England)
- 1/4 Mile drag racing
- Basketball
- Mid distance running
I also do a lot of conservation work, my main interest being reptiles. I currently maintain a small, non profit breeding facility that breeds rare and endangered animals. I work mostly with venomous snakes and monitor lizards.
I am also trying to develop an interest in photography, but so far my results have been less than satisfactory.

Kind regards,
Alex

I collect smoking pipes ,walking canes (both of which I use) and razors (have used some of the Gillette DE's but not the Rolls, Valet's or Straights (yet)).

I'm a ham radio operator with a General Class license (next to the highest class license), I can talk around the world. I volunteer with the local Emergency Management where I hold the position of Public Information Officer/ Webmaster. We just spent the last week helping the citizens in our county obtain shelter,food/water after the big ice storm. I also volunteer my radio services with Navy/Marine Corp MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System), and am a EC (Emergency Coordinator) with ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Services) for my county.

I also love to watch old movies, and read books. I also dabble a bit in digital photography and plan on delving further into that as money allows. (I'm currently not able to work and trying to get my disability started).

I like learning as much useless and strange stuff as I can: gregg shorthand, copperplate writing, piano, few other calligraphy styles, C++/C, LaTeX/TeX, robotics, neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, Matlab. The list goes on. I wouder what strange thing I will learn this year. Seems to be at least one new thing every year, though normally more.

Steven