1. Amateur Radio: I've been a ham since 1963. My callsign is K8MN.2. Playing the guitar: I've been playing since 1963. The early seventies saw me playing in traveling rock bands "Christopher" and "Mudshark". By the mid-seventies, I'd joined the Big Joe Duskin Blues Band and I stayed for ten years. During my Foreign Service career, I performed with various Finnish and African musicians. I played in expat bands in Guinea-Bissau, Finland and Tanzania.3. Astronomy4. Reading and writing5. Computers in general but I do a lot of work with home recording and home videography/DVD production.6. History7. Genealogy8. Collecting
Herman Peaquist
Whalefeathers, The Leningrad Cowboys, J. Karjalainen, Zane Carney, Big Joe Duskin, Reeve Carney, Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, Albert King, James Brown, Otis Redding, Zephyr, Ella Fitzgerald and anything bebop.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Cold Comfort Farm, October Skies, Smoke Signals, Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969), Of Mice and Men (Malkovich version), Of Mice and Men (Lon Cheney version), The Bobo, The Party, Saving Private Ryan, Matewan, Ironweed.
Law and Order (various incarnations), Crossing Jordan, Monk, Sunday Morning, Fox News, The New Adventures of the Old Christine.I lament the passing of Third Watch and NYPD Blue.
Almost anything Stephen King, almost anything Clancy, almost anything Ludlum, Voices of Glory (Davis Grubb), The Frontiersmen (Eckert), Darkness At Noon (Koestler), The Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine (Bradbury), Mila 19 (Uris).
I don't have many. I know too much.