Year of the Rat

• Passion for Life
• Regrettably put on hold since being diagnosed with Glaucoma in 2006. But there is hope with upcoming stem cell research.
• Who grew your fuel?
• Family
• Friends
• Work
• Skiing (I learned to ski in Montgenèvre)
• Motorcycle Racing
• Ice Hockey (Right Wing - nickname "Fast Dave")
• Travel
• Photography
• Computers (my latest are a Samsung Q1 and two Quad Xeons running Win7 and 2008R2). All have their OS on solid state drives (SSD).
• Fast cars (New car joins the STi "The Black Devil"and gets kitted out)
• Parties (New Orleans Jazz Fest is the number one party of the year)
• Steam locomotives - especially The Mallard - I grew up overlooking the main line from London-Edinburgh at Heaton Station (21 Heaton Grove) and only five minutes from Heaton sheds where we would go trainspotting.
• Kayaking
• Camping
• Music, unfortunately the "Final Cut" is made and Syd (but his art lives on) and Rick Wright have left us. My iPod has 13,641 tunes, 174 music videos, and over 1000 pictures (and I own them all - Pay for your music). Upgraded the disk to 250GB.
• Backpacking
• Books
• History
• Robotics
• Writing  
• Scuba Diving (unfortunately long overdue return)
• Drawing and Sketches from Photoshop (Akvis).
• Art (Salvador Dali)
• Movies (and, of course, "Dave" - 1993)
• Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (Wallenford Estate Peaberry)
• Stamp collecting
• Amateur Radio - KB5WXE