New Today 06/01/08

[Donald Hanson]

Hi Oldbies !

Hmmm, this has a look of familiarity to it. I keep thinking of the color blue though.

Looks like a great forum and in only a few minutes, I feel at home.

Hi, I am Donald. I live in the Seattle Washington and Portland Oregon areas. I love audio, I live 6 months out of the year on my boat (with a really cool 2-year old Siberian Husky), currently on the Columbia River. I like to fish and take a lot of pictures. My first post highschool degree was in commercial photography, then electronics (associates only there), then International banking and finally contract law.

I live the other 6 months in Eastern Washington (sunny Okanogan). I pass the spare moments there by doing electronic projects, well yes, of course audio projects. I am planning one of those cool Hashimoto EL 34 tube amp projects for this winter so I just may be stark raving mad by this time next year.

I will be 60 years old in 3 days and I am fine with that .

Hope to get acquainted with you all real soon.

D

[Marco]

Hi Donald,

Welcome to the forum; nice introduction

We feel like we know you, too, now

Anyway, we look forward to reading all about your views on hi-fi and music in due course!

Marco.

[Donald Hanson]

Thank you for the warm welcome. I am certain I will have many questions as I try to familiarize myself with this new great looking forum.

[BajaGringo]

Welcome Donald - we share a love of water. I live on the beach down here in Baja and couldn't imagine letting a day go by without getting my feet wet...

This is a great forum. A lot of nice folks and some very interesting discussions. This dumb Gringo has already learned a few new things since joining AoS.

Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks???

[Mike Reed]

What an interesting (half) life you have. Would that be 'The Great Columbia River' that Lonnie Donnegan sang about rather a long time ago?

You must surely have an on-board hifi outfit (plus copious provisions....), but what do you do all day? Just fish?

Birthday wishes for your big six-oh (I remember it well....) and welcome to this odd but eclectic forum

[Donald Hanson]

Well, to the Gringo. I do love getting my feet wet daily and so does my furry roommate. I have seen many of your posts in the AK arena. I have a feeling that I will enjoy the interaction here as it feels less like me vs. them. Can't explain that, but hey.

To M. R. It is an interesting 1/2 life and although I do a fair amount of fishing, I am restoring a 1962 44' Chris Craft wooden cruiser. I just pulled out the Chrysler 383s and installed two Detroit 6v53 diesels, so you can blame me for the recent diesel fuel price hijack.

I am also getting ready to open a seafood wholesale processing facility by the end of June 08. Ima hopin that goes well.

For onboard hifi, I am using a Sansui G-8000 receiver, a pair of Infinity Beta 20 speakers and a Sony Vaio laptop with an external hard drive containing 1000+ cds which I play through Windows MP via the line out on the docking station. A good match for a boat cabin.

Yeah, the six-oh thing bothers my family way more than it bothers me. I can't remember having this much fun. That could be because I actually had that much fun!!!

[Mike Reed]

Very droll, final paragraph!

[Mike]

MR.. your cat looks really cool (no pun intended) but slightly pissed off!

[Beechwoods]

Nice first post. I think you're living the life I hope to be able to have in, um, 25 years...

Yours, jealously, etc

[shane]

I am restoring a 1962 44' Chris Craft wooden cruiser.

I'd love to see some pictures of that! My boating is done in something a litle more modest...


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