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Sean_A

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #225 on: January 29, 2012, 07:36:33 AM »
Other than family and friends, supporting the Red Wings is one of my favourite things to do. 

I also like reading history, but this obsession has waned in recent years after selling off most of my books. 

Following bull fighting has waned as well, but I still hope to attend the odd event here and there.   

I really enjoy seeking out good, affordable wines, but I don't do many buying trips to France anymore. 

Jeepers, maybe its time to get passionate about something!

Ciao
New plays planned for 2024: Nothing

Don_Mahaffey

Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #226 on: January 29, 2012, 08:14:02 AM »
Small school Texas High School football. I just love the drama and commitment the small town folks make to their youth. My kids go to a high school with an enrollment of 400. On friday nights between the varsity kids kids on the field, the freshman and JV teams that line the sidelines, the band, cheerleaders, mascots, drill teams, flag team...etc...we have almost 300 kids involved and about 3,000 in the stands. And most of the other teams do the same. Pretty cool atmosphere and pure sports as almost none of those kids will play ball after high school. Want to see raw emotion, go down on the field after the seniors play their last game.   

My vegetable garden. I'll be working on it this afternoon.

My chickens...nothing like an omelet with farm fresh eggs and fresh onion and tomato right out of the ground.

Fishing - grew up a bass fisherman, but I think I like redfishing better. And fresh red fish on the grill is out of this world good.

Ted Kramer

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #227 on: January 30, 2012, 10:48:27 AM »
chess
red wine - mostly Italian
Mozart

-Ted

Neil White

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #228 on: January 30, 2012, 02:41:29 PM »


  I like a fine cigar, jack Nicholson movies and scrable turnments.



   Anthony



Now that is funny........ At least I think it is meant to be  :-\

Neil

Sam Morrow

Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #229 on: January 30, 2012, 07:59:23 PM »
Small school Texas High School football. I just love the drama and commitment the small town folks make to their youth. My kids go to a high school with an enrollment of 400. On friday nights between the varsity kids kids on the field, the freshman and JV teams that line the sidelines, the band, cheerleaders, mascots, drill teams, flag team...etc...we have almost 300 kids involved and about 3,000 in the stands. And most of the other teams do the same. Pretty cool atmosphere and pure sports as almost none of those kids will play ball after high school. Want to see raw emotion, go down on the field after the seniors play their last game.   

My vegetable garden. I'll be working on it this afternoon.

My chickens...nothing like an omelet with farm fresh eggs and fresh onion and tomato right out of the ground.

Fishing - grew up a bass fisherman, but I think I like redfishing better. And fresh red fish on the grill is out of this world good.

Fighting Sandcrabs?

Philippe Binette

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #230 on: January 30, 2012, 08:01:35 PM »
Cooking
History
Ski and Hockey
Wine

french-canadian obvious choices

Mike Nuzzo

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #231 on: January 30, 2012, 08:41:06 PM »
Cary
Great work for sure!  Congratulations
I like your experimentation with a different style
It seems you should explore more

Working from a home office is great for spending time with the family (while still working a ton of hours), going to almost all daughter functions and walking them home from school occasionally.  2 years ago in a very slow and depressing market with most of my time at my desk eating Shipley donuts, I joined an MMA (mixed martial arts) gym - I wrestled for many years in my past.

I now train Brazillian Jiu Jitsu 6-7 days a week, 1-2 hours a day - sometimes with world champions and minor league UFC fighters.
It is a fascinating, highly complex martial artform.
I was not expecting to enjoy it as much as I have.
I am much fitter and have gotten very good.
It is fun choking out bigger, stronger grown men on a daily basis.

Mahaffey doesn't kick sand on me anymore either.

Cheers
Thinking of Bob, Rihc, Bill, George, Neil, Dr. Childs, & Tiger.

Bruce Hardie

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #232 on: January 31, 2012, 01:35:36 AM »
I'm President of an amateur theatre group. We entered 5 festivals in 2011 for 3 wins and 2 runners up.

Fitting props, costumes and a golf bag in the car is sometimes tough to manage.

Garland Bayley

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #233 on: February 01, 2012, 09:50:37 PM »
I'm President of an amateur theatre group. We entered 5 festivals in 2011 for 3 wins and 2 runners up.

Fitting props, costumes and a golf bag in the car is sometimes tough to manage.

Too late Bruce, Nuzzo already killed this thread with his engineering speak, martial arts, brain dump.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

DMoriarty

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #234 on: February 01, 2012, 09:58:13 PM »
I am much fitter and have gotten very good.
It is fun choking out bigger, stronger grown men on a daily basis.

Note to self . . . Don't piss off Mike Nuzzo.
Golf history can be quite interesting if you just let your favorite legends go and allow the truth to take you where it will.
--Tom MacWood (1958-2012)

Jim Franklin

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #235 on: February 02, 2012, 09:51:11 AM »
I love shooting pool all winter.
Mr Hurricane

Pete Blaisdell

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #236 on: March 09, 2012, 07:19:21 AM »
Anything baseball, from little league to the majors.

Jack higgins novels.

Anything that involves the Rules of Golf.

Collecting Golf Magazines, a little under 4000 in my basement in a special sectioned cubicle I built<10 ft. long, 51/2 ft.high and 3 ft. deep.
' Golf courses are like wives and the prom queen doesn't always make for the best wife "

Dave Falkner

Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #237 on: March 09, 2012, 04:42:09 PM »
Cary- Nice stuff!

Collecting (and listening to) Grateful Dead music

skiing - Mad River Glen

cooking-especially low and slow  love my big Green Egg

doing trialthlons -pretty slow there too (must be some kind of trend

Jim Sherma

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #238 on: March 09, 2012, 08:15:02 PM »
Dave - glad to see other Dead fans on the board. I was a taper and saw Jerry 150 times between 1981 and 1992. I've slowly been archiving all of my old analog masters onto a hard drive for easier access. I had a set of Nakamichi CM-100 with the cp-4 shotguns running into either a Sony D5-M or JVC PCM-D5. A lot of great nights for sure. Used to tour with a guy running an old Sony PCM-F1 digital processor onto a potable betamax machine. That set-up lined into some Schoepp's mics could sing at the right venue.

These days I am still pretty involved with listening to and collecting music with my tastes running the gamut - I truly believe that every genre has both great stuff and a lot of mediocrity. The trick is finding the stuff worth listening to.

Outside of work, golf and my two kids (4 and 8 years old) and being a news junkie and seeing some good shows here and there does not leave much time for too much else. (Saw acoustic Hot Tuna last week and have Psychic TV at the end of the month in Philly!)

Tim Martin

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #239 on: March 09, 2012, 08:23:35 PM »
Dave - glad to see other Dead fans on the board. I was a taper and saw Jerry 150 times between 1981 and 1992. I've slowly been archiving all of my old analog masters onto a hard drive for easier access. I had a set of Nakamichi CM-100 with the cp-4 shotguns running into either a Sony D5-M or JVC PCM-D5. A lot of great nights for sure. Used to tour with a guy running an old Sony PCM-F1 digital processor onto a potable betamax machine. That set-up lined into some Schoepp's mics could sing at the right venue.

These days I am still pretty involved with listening to and collecting music with my tastes running the gamut - I truly believe that every genre has both great stuff and a lot of mediocrity. The trick is finding the stuff worth listening to.

Outside of work, golf and my two kids (4 and 8 years old) and being a news junkie and seeing some good shows here and there does not leave much time for too much else. (Saw acoustic Hot Tuna last week and have Psychic TV at the end of the month in Philly!)

Faulkner looks good in his Dead hat on the golf course. I like the allegiance to his boys.

Jud_T

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #240 on: March 09, 2012, 08:45:43 PM »
Jim,

5/9/78- Syracuse War Memorial.  1st show. Werewolves Encore with Masks.
1/21/79  Masonic Temple Detroit.  Keith, No Donna (nuff said)
6/28/83- Poplar Creek.  Looks like rain with lightning all around us.
12/18/84  UIC Pavillion Jerry Garcia Band/ Frank Zappa
9/10/91- MSG with Branford Marsalis in rare form

amongst many others....
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Bill Seitz

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #241 on: March 09, 2012, 11:06:00 PM »
Live Music - I go to roughly 40-50 concerts per year, mostly at venues holding fewer than 500 people, occasionally with GCAers;
College Basketball and Football - though this was an especially bad year to be a UCLA and Illinois fan;
NHL Hockey - my Kings, as they have been for the last forty years or so, are pitiful, but I still watch every game;
Major League Baseball - Looking forward to Albert Pujols' 10 best years in Anaheim;
And craft beer.  I tend to stockpile highly regarded, very ageable beer the way many people do with wine, and probably have about $1,000 worth of good beer (based on its ebay value) in my closet. 

Ian Andrew

Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #242 on: March 09, 2012, 11:41:33 PM »
I still play a lot of hockey: 2 afternoons of pick-up + 2 evening league every week
I still play each year in the golf superintendents tournament

Dan King

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #243 on: March 09, 2012, 11:59:03 PM »
I used to have all sorts of "other" passionate interests. All that remains is three of the most beautiful grandchildren who have ever existed and cannabis.

Cheers,
Dan King
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Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
 --Mary H. Waldrip

Jimmy Cavezza

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #244 on: March 10, 2012, 04:44:41 PM »
Exploring the beautiful pacific northwest, Oregon Ducks, running ultra marathons.  Just signed up for my 1st 100k!

Mac Plumart

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #245 on: March 10, 2012, 04:56:02 PM »
I used to have all sorts of "other" passionate interests. All that remains is three of the most beautiful grandchildren who have ever existed and cannabis.

Cheers,
Dan King
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Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
 --Mary H. Waldrip


Dan...make sure not to miss our upcoming GCA.com trip to The Netherlands!! 
Sportsman/Adventure loving golfer.

Stewart Naugler

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #246 on: March 10, 2012, 08:23:44 PM »
This may be one of my favorite threads.

I love fly fishing, Michigan State football and basketball, U.S. History, Detroit Tigers/Lions/ Red Wings, Traveling with fellow supers, All apple products, Old friends, Girls, but I'm mostly obsessed with Ben Hogan and every aspect of golfing history. I literally grew up on a golf course, when other kids were going to day care, I was on the back of tractor pulling gang mowers. I use to cut cups and do course setup before I went to school in the morning. So for years all I knew was golf until football or basketball season started.

The only thing that rivals my golfing knowledge is Michigan State athletics. I never miss a game and I can probably name you every recruit in the last 15 years. I was obsessed with all things sports in high school but now that I'm getting older I'm starting to enjoy more "mature" things. A nice capital grill or ruth's chris filet mignon before going to the movies with my girlfriend.

I still make her watch golf ;)

Jim Sherma

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #247 on: March 10, 2012, 08:32:40 PM »
Jud - some of the greats that I was lucky to be at:

11/1/85 Richmond - they made a Dick's Picks out of it - my first show taping with my own equipment
12/15/86 Oakland - return show after Jerry's coma
6/29/86 Alpine - really liked the Shakedown-Estimated-Eyes - really the whole 6/28-6/30 Alpine-Alpine-Cincy run was strong
Jerry on Broadway - saw one show at the Lunt-Fontanne theater off of Times Square during the run
New Year's '87 - not the greatest run but catching a New Year's run was special
4/30 and 5/1/88 Frost - Afternoon shows in the California sun - few things could come close
3/24/86 Philly Spectrum - 2nd set was short but one of the greats
4 shows on the Jerry tour in '89 with MSG-Albany-Hartford in three successive nights - always wished there were more east coast JGB

So long ago but still meaningful to me. Still love live music in bars and clubs - The Dirtbombs are as good as it gets these days. I doubt anything will get as good as Jerry on the "right" night could however. These days it's work, family, golf and the New York Rangers.

Dave Falkner

Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #248 on: March 10, 2012, 09:07:36 PM »
Jim and Jud nice to see some folks that appreciate good music on here
 Jim that sound like a serious rig

i am a big audiance tape fan so would love to hear some of your stuff
some of my faves were

William and Mary 4/15/78

Springfield 5/11/78

Stanley Theater 11/30-12/1/79


Lake Placid 10/17/83

on and on

Carson Pilcher

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Re: Your "other" passionate interests
« Reply #249 on: March 10, 2012, 09:34:08 PM »
Music!  I like almost any music, but the Grateful Dead are at the top of my list by far.
Quail hunting
Bourbon  ;D

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