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I have many interests besides clothing.  Music is one (I am a drummer, but haven't played in a band since college) of them, mainly punk, but a very, very wide variety of music, including Kiss.  I also collect (and drink) fine, small batch bourbon whiskey.  I have a cabin in the Smokey Mountains that affords me easy access to some great sources in TN and KY.  I am a cigar smoker (no Cubans, those are illegal here) and avid runner, running 6k a day about 6 days a week. 

I also greatly enjoy my time on the fora(e), it brings me great, great pleasure..

Botes.

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1 Timothy 6:7
Aside from non negotiable bodily functions like sleep, eating and breathing, dressing for the environment; an Antarctic dash to the pole or night at the opera is the one thing most people on earth share in common.
While some cultures have very simple needs, others have elaborated into the social realm of ritual.
I get to fly in a french Criquet C5, a postwar copy of the remarkable german Feiseler Storch. The thing is 60 years old, so slow when the engine failed I quipped to the pilot I might have to get out and push.
Yet we go through a preflight check longer than a Girls Ball games mom in running sweats takes to jump in the SUV, drive to STARBUCKS across the street while talking on her  cell to sugar daddy about the lemon pastrys being sold out and life is intolerable sometimes.
Attention to one's dress need not be a compulsive repetitive disorder. But it surely doesn't hurt to do a preflight check in the hall mirror.
It is also the one thing we get to 'take with us' at least to the slow return to physical dissolution while any spiritual aspect collects $200 or goes directly to jail.

In the meantime, I like a great many pursuits, never have the time or finances to pursue them all as much as I would wish. And I find single passion people rather tedious, like HorseyPeople. I own horses, make a small income with horses and am considered very knowledgable in many arcane and common sense aspects of horsemanship. I am popular with people new to the pursuit because I explain things instead of enjoying their discomforture to boost my own sense of competence.

I HATE horseypeople, the midle aged women filling black jadhpurs with cellulite and prussian spur'd boots without the brains to change out of riding togs to appropriate clothing because they want the world to know <YAWN>  they have horses.

So I simply try to get a journeyman's grasp of many activities, enough to ask the questions from the masters ; good booze,good music,good guns,good horses,vintage british cars, sailboats, airplanes and redheads.

Last edited by Chris Kavanaugh (2009-05-28 11:18:25)

I like to collect, pine cones in the Poconos and, drink in places which, I feel less foreigned because, every1 else is, too.

My daughter Samantha and I love to garden.

Last year we moved from the countryside to the big city and our orchids got damaged in the moving truck.

Rather than buy new ones we have been taking care of them and they are finally starting to flower again.

Even though the weather is perfect here in Thailand for orchids it still has been a lot of work as they need to be watered twice or 3 times a day in the summer. We have been giving the orchids flower fertilizer even in the off season which while wishful thinking was probably a mistake.

We also have some container vegetable plants.