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Other great toys in your life?

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Mine is definitely my car - 2002 Subaru WRX. I love the thing!!! I've been working on mods and I turning into quite the piston head now....

And it gets me to the DZ faster than a hockey puck!

Marz

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Well, I'm an avid musician, playing Lead Trumpet for the TAMU Jazz Society, I also play harmonica and guitar...so those are some great toys in my life.

I also have my truck AND the '73 SuperBeetle that's been in storage for 4 years awaiting my trumphiant return (translation: I need about $10k to do what I want to do to it and I don't have $10k). Those are some expensive toys...especially the stuff I want to do with them (but can't yet due to the lack of $$).

I wholly understand being a gear head, I'm one too.
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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My CBR 900RR, Guitars/amps, Home theater system, motorhome, dirt bike, dog, computers, golf clubs, hokey equipment and a few guns... Weird that I could ever-ever get bored; nonetheless I still do all too often..?
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Jessica, Skymama, Michele, Sunshine and Rebecca.



When you eventually show up on a DZ.invasion, they are so going to kick your ass.

I'm selling my other toys, mostly competition rifles and pistols from when that was my thing. I'm about ready to part with my McMillan National Match M1A, that should get me about 20 blocks of tickets.

I have a nice David-Clark headset I keep forgetting to trade the DZO for tickets, too.

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1958 Selmer Mk. VI Tenor Saxophone (gold plate laquer) and a 1920's Whaley& Royce (non-modern fingering) silver plate alto sax - only played solo right now but as there have been some threats about a few of us at DZ jammin' someday...

1965 Triumph TR4a IRS (no, not THEM, stands for independent suspension model) with a Judson supercharger... currently under suspended restoration for the same reason Dave's not Beetling around...

1946 bungalow with finished basement, not so much a toy as an obligation... but so long as I need to live somewhere I'd rather it be in a character home than a flat. Of course, if I sold the home I could boast about a fresh custom rig >:(>:(>:(.

I WANT to build a Vans RV-6/7/8 with aerobatic capability and that brings this post to a new twist...


who else is / wants to be a pilot of powered aircraft ? Who dares fly what they've built


Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

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1958 Selmer Mk. VI Tenor Saxophone (gold plate laquer) and a 1920's Whaley& Royce (non-modern fingering) silver plate alto sax - only played solo right now but as there have been some threats about a few of us at DZ jammin' someday...



NOICE!

Oh damn, that'd be a cool night, get a small combo together and just the music flow...


edit: Yeah, my trumpet isn't anything real special. Its a Bach Strad 37, although I do have a Bobby Shew Signature Series #1 mouthpiece...now THAT is cool. B|
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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my toys oare on my webpage
these are the ones I currently own
toys



I've got a Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 and a 2003 Fender American Stratocaster hardtail. A Marshall TSL 100 head with a 4x12 cab, a Line6 Flextone2,
A Martin DX1 Dreadnought acoustic.

No pics of them though...

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My NAIM audio gear. Once I got past the sickness in the stomach feeling, which lasted 3 years because I'm definitely not from a wealthy background, I purchased the same audio system Phil Collins has kept in his main UK home. I've never regretted doing this, but I also can't justify it except that I love music more than driving. Plus, I hang out with guys like Harry Sandler and Irv Azoff from time to time.

D. James Nahikian
CHICAGO

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All of my computers; the LAN they play on, the router, the hub, the Linux server, etc.
"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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"I WANT to build a Vans RV-6/7/8 with aerobatic capability and that brings this post to a new twist..."

I helped my grandfather build his second RV-6 - I think it was the only time in our recent family history that all 3 generations of men worked on the same thing together. Sadly, he didn't live to see it complete.

"who else is / wants to be a pilot of powered aircraft ? Who dares fly what they've built "

Amen to that - it's a 10 minute walk to the local airfield from my house and our office parking lot is right next to the runway. Been eyeing a Challenger utralight kit (it's the engineers bug - the never ending desire to build stuff) - just a matter of finding the time to take the lessons to fly it and gathering the money to buy the kit segments.

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My pride and joy is my Gibson Les Paul, whom my family and friends call my "Mistress."

Oh, the joys of running my hands down her neck. Tugging away on her G-string. The firm carved body. The sweet tones she makes when I pluck her just right.

I love her more than Seb loves his three-hole punch...


My wife is hotter than your wife.

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I hear ya (well, figuratively anyway) It's about the music and not the horn. But both came to me in a neat way ...

I'm the second owner of the Selmer - an Air Command Band Colonel retired and let the horn sit for years before he replied to an ad my dad put in the paper - I was in grade 7 and had just taken up sax. It was well into high school before I really understood what I had and I almost feel guilty being the caretaker of such a fine horn.

The alto was an auction sale bargain for $95 if I recall. Unplayable at the time but very cool. It came with a WOOD mouthpiece which, when played, gives the horn that eerie tone that evokes a depression era recording... It was deemed NOT suitable to play in the wind ensemble and I wound up renting a Yamaha pro horn. Now and again I still wail on the Whaley but with no alternate fingering mechanisms it's a bit like driving a model T on the interstate - doable but barely. In some ways that antique tinny "no-name" horn is more valuable to be for what it isn't .

Music is ALL about vibes (...literally). Now all we need is bass, drums, piano and we could cyber-jam... Miles Davis quintet anyone?

-Dave


Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

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Zeagle Tech BC & Zeagle (Apex) TX-100
Kahr PM9
Rio Espresso maker (if only it stapled too)

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1999 H-D Sportster - 883Custom - With a few extras from KuryAkyn, et al - Added a Hypercharger and tickled the carb a little - knocked the baffles out - Black and Chrome - the only proper colors in the world for a motorcycle.
S&W 686 plus in .357 Magnum - Seven shot cylinder. Best tool in the world for perforating things.

Easy Does It

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Oh man, a good quintet jam session on the DZ when the beer light comes on...damn that would be COOL!

I'm sure we could get a bass player as well as a drummer...piano might be hard to do unless someone has a keyboard and a spare amp.

You're not going to the Holiday Boogie in Eloy are you? (*evil plans forming*) B|
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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