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This didn't take long.  Badeye, you especially want to keep your chord hand out of the way for sure.
I like to read and walk.  Not at the same time.

bensonp,
I would hope not, lol, Need to keep your eye's on the road while moving. When I was much younger [a child] I was riding a bike, and not looking up and ran into the back of a parked car!! How embarrassing! Not so funny then, but hilarious now!!!
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My only other interest other then music and recording is Chess, I play corrispondence games with members of the chess community world wide and I have an extensive library of chess books,my latest additions are MCO 14 (modern chess openings) "my system" Aron Nimzovich and "modern chess strategy" by Ludek Pachman plus all of Bobby Fichers games and a host of other reference books,I ordered a tournament chess set from the chess store and the rollup green vinal board and pieces cost only $15 including shipping the squares are 2 1/2 inches and the king is 4 1/2 inches high, its the type used in all important tournaments

- Mixed Martial Arts 

-Also, I enjoy sporting a tutu, heavy facial make-up, ballerina slippers and going  to biker ( Harley Davidson) shows . I have a really pretty, sparkly wand in hand and I  run around singing" I am the Harley fairy, who cares if my legs are hairy?!!!" This can be very  interesting at times ( I often get to practice my Mixed Martial Arts while doing this). ( shush!, my wife doesn't know about this one!!!)

-Next,I like to sample perfumes in the mall to see which one makes me sneeze the loudest and hardest. The pretty girls in the long white jackets rarely think my actions are funny and/or amusing.............My wifes' ears turn red when I do this( this means she's mad)

From time to time, I'll go to fancy restaurants and ask 'em how much they charge for Mad Dog 20-20, or Boonesfarm Strawberry Farm wine. Or what kind of ketchup they have to pour over the filet-mignon( and pronounce it  'fill-et  mig-non'). My wifes' ears turn red every time I do this.( this means she's really mad!)

Proudly, I like to give homeless people money whenever I have a little extra.( only if they don't ask) ( My wife smiles at me when I do this...)

Once in a while,  I go to the grocery store and the person baggin' my groceries asks 'plastic or paper sir?', I enjoy replying, "plasper", or "paystic".( My wife refuses to go to the grocery store with me anymore)

Finally, I enjoy charting how long it takes to see spots and bright lights while holding my breath. My record is 1minute 40 seconds.( My wife tells me to be sure to pay my life insurance bills!!)

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L

**edited typo's 12-15-08**

I enjoy paddling kayaks and canoes in rivers and streams.  Not as much in stillwater.  Nothing harsher than mild whitewater usually, but I surely do enjoy a good splash coming over the bow or having my kayak submarine and pop back up as I bust through the hole.  Most of my reading that isn't Bible study are river guides.  Others like detective novels.  I like knowing which side of an island to run three miles from the put-in even on rivers in states I've never been and never expect to go.  Studying a river map, especially one with historic data of former mills or Indian fish traps or whatnot, gives me great pleasure.  It's come in handy a few times.  I actually lead a trip down a creek that I'd never been on before - but I knew which channels to run and where to stop for lunch because I'd read about the trip in enough different guides.  It's a sickness. 

Fishing.  Any kind of fishing on any type of water, so long as it is sporting and uses rod & reel.  I won't gill-net or use trot-lines (except for survival, which I have been fortunate enough not to have to do).  I generally do catch & release and get involved in the health of the waters I fish as well.  My favorite is surf fishing I think.  One never knows what one will catch in the surf, but more importantly just the fishing is enough.  Standing in the surf and being a part of the interaction between sun and moon and having the crashing sound of the surf drown out the spinning thoughts in my head is enough.  More than enough, it's a true joy.  If I can look up and see a formation of pelicans skimming menhaden from the surface, or perhaps a few porpoise playing in the far breakers... well that's just icing on the cake.  Next favorite I'd have to guess would be fishing with dry flies.  Watching a big trout shoot up through the water like a polaris missile to hit a fly I've presented just right, well that's fun. 

Sometimes I get really lucky and I fish while paddling a canoe or kayak. 

I enjoy hiking, but get very little opportunity to pursue this hobby.  Last trip I took the mountain was foggy and it was like hiking from nowhere to nowhere.  Just keep walking and smelling the damp and seeing the twenty or thirty feet around me present itself and then disappear again.  That was cool.  It was like I was the only one around.  Like no one could bother me or ask me to interrupt my reverie. 

I enjoy camping.  I base camp out of my truck now.  I used to do the backpacking thing, but carrying one's home is a bit extreme if one is not a turtle, snail, or hermit crab.  Now I take enough for great comfort in camp, and then go off on day trips, usually camping alongside a river.  It's great fun to put in upstream and float fish my way downstream, winding up at the campsite, able to waddle over to my campsite and grab a cold beer and start cooking a hot meal before going back after my car. 

Biking.  I very much enjoy biking, but get extremely little time on my bike.  I prefer the kind with pedals rather than engines.  I used to race, mostly informally but in a few sanctioned events.  I was terrible at sustained speed, but I could go all day long at a more moderate pace.  And so that's what I did - started touring.  What was cool was when we could set up way-stations and stop at someone's house each evening, wash up and get a good meal and sleep in a soft bed, then go the next day another 50 or 100 miles to the next spot and get there just as exhausted and just as ready for a hot meal and a soft bed.  This part of my life is in the past, though I surely do love thinking back on it. 

- Zurf

I've got my head stuck into some serious reading. It's a three year course on website administration.

When I finally qualify I will be able to join the other administrators on here and argue the toss about everything I know and lots of things I know sod all about.

Did I mention I write poetry as well?

Oh lord, somebody beat me to it!  LOL 

Well here goes, I am besides a music lover............a volcano lover, I am a volcano fanatic, I hunt down pictures, books, websites, etc, anything about volcanoes.   The book stores that specialize in geoscience books have a name for people like me, "Shake and Bakers".  I can tell you the old volcanic spots around the White Mountains of New Hampshire near where I live.
I and my family have visited some recent volcanoes in New Mexico.  Driven thru old lava flow sites near Spokane Washington.  And I am pretty damn sure I have the biggest Volcano and volcano related book collection in the the State of MAine.

Second, I am a devoted Star Trek Book reader.  The movies bore me to tears.  I'd rather read the book that the movie is based on, then watch the movie.

I have a complete collection of all the "Doc Savage" pulp fiction stories ever written by "Kenneth Robeson".  And I am also a devoted Dr. Who fan.  (British sci-fi tv)

And finally, but not least.  I am a devoted "dumpster diver" scavenger who goes to his local dump and pours over the potential scavengeable stuff for repair or recreation into something new.   My love is to take something and make it into a thing that I would have liked as a kid.  Ex.  I found a nice round wooden base, attached a cute little ceramic planter that had sun faces all around it.  I painted the suns bright gold and the bowl sky blue.  I painted the base a nice green color, then attached the bowl to it with craft glue.  Put two wooden posts with brass hanging hooks.  Glued several neat ceramic figurines of flowers and an old style water pump.  When it was done I called it a "Kids Stuff holder", then I gave it away to a local group that does a fund raising auction to benefit the local high school.   I have made hundreds of these over the last 10 years.  Sadly, ever since the "Antiques Roadshow" pickings are getting slimmer and slimmer.  Oh and along the way I have salvaged and refinished a number of old pieces of furniture for our own uses. 

I subscribe to Smithsonian, National Geographic, Earth, Science Illustrated and NAtional History magazine as I am a voracious reader. 

I also love to hike and make it a point to do at least on BIG hike a year on a peak that I have yet to climb.  Mt.  Katahdin in Maine was the most challenging and the most rewarding and soul satisfying hike I have ever done.  Oh yes, and I do a hike every year on or near my birthday.  9/13 

Argh, I nearly forgot, I am a big fan of the Fantasy/pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, (creator of Conan the Barbarian) and the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. (The Cthulhu Mythos) 

<phew I'm exhausted.>  <grin>

Maine is a big snowmobile highway if the snow conditions are good.  If your ever up this way let me know and I'll point you to the snowmobiler friendly places around here!

Singin'!
I love to compete and stuffff

uhmm...I also like a little bit of piano and drums.
I skateboard, but i'm not very good haha =P
Fourwheeling. It's soo much fun XD

Yea I have seen some of your posts, yer ok, ye can join in you have proved already you know sod all

but seriously, ....na, lets not be.

Carry on your silly comments and see how far you get with them.

My teacher plays mandolin, teaches violin, plays piano, slide guitar etc.  I would certainly say other instruments COUNT big time.

It's always about the music!  <grin>

My girlfriend has a mandolin, I don't know how to play it and neither doe's she, but I've messed around with it and I have to say I could definitly get into it. It's such an awsome instrument!
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