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.
• Family
• Friends
• Work at Computatest, YourphotoCard, Unsinkable Boats and the 1745 Bookshelf.
  Remembering Didier Gilbert (23 yr. old Frenchman) who died of H₂S poisoning (39% sour gas—yes, percent not ppm) when an oil well was opened to a storage tank with an unsecured lid offshore of Prinos on Thasos Island, Greece being operated by Flopetrol.
• CEO at Campus ^eBikes
• Skiing (I learned to ski in Montgenèvre)
• Motorcycle Racing. Top on my TODO list is the Isle of Man TT.
• Ice Hockey (Right Wing - nickname “Fast Dave”)
• Travel
• Photography
• Computers (my latest are an HP Envy Touch Laptop running Windows 10 and two Quad Xeons running Windows 10 and Ubuntu Server). All have their OS on solid state drives (SSD).
• Fast cars (New car joins the STi “The Black Devil” [regrettably, now sold] 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 see the Great Kayak Expedition.
• Camping—Indian name is Green Cloud, Medieval name is Sir Dancesalot (Je suis un danseur), brother name Iced-T, pirate name Grey Beard.
• Favorite animals—Honey Badger and Tardigrade
• 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
• Beautiful Math
• Writer for The Washington News Times
• Scuba Diving (unfortunately long overdue return)
• Drawing and Sketches from Photoshop (Akvis).
• Art (Salvador Dalí) and this collaboration with Walt Disney called Destino
• Movies (and, of course, “Dave” - 1993)
• Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (Wallenford Estate Peaberry)
• Stamp collecting
• Amateur Radio—KB5WXE Technician Class Grid: EL29fr (QRZ: EL29er)
• Dave's Notes concerns Life events and other issues
• Studying drawing and painting at Houston Community College (2019). Here is my self-portrait styled after Frida Kahlo's 1943 painting Thinking about Death. The painting is titled In the back of my mind, time is running out (outside of the Casa Amarilla).