I work out every day. Usually 60+ minutes on the staionary bike and I read a book. Generally fiction. I enjoy Harlan Coben, Vince Flynn, Lee Child, etc....
Have a 6 and an 8 year old and I coach (usually head coach) for just about every sports team. Currently coaching son's indoor soccer team and daughter's basketball team. By the way Bobby Jackson came out and coached practice with me the other night. Was awesome! Will post pictures one of these days. Baseball starts soon and I'll probably be assistant coach for both kid's teams.
I enjoy my road bike but rarely get out on it.
I enjoy researching the heck out Porsche 911's but haven't quite pulled the trigger yet... after 15 years of shopping. One of these days....
I also have become an anti-collector. Anytime I have an opportunity to get rid of crap I do it. Hate having stuff pile up around here.
Reading - Lots of books. From biographies...stocks/finance/economics....social science, personal development. Chess. Just bought Nimzowitsch's "My System" after hearing about it forever. I think on my to do list are more books that you hear about for a long time, but never get around to reading.
-Collecting toys from the 80's. I was watching a bunch of GI Joe auctions this weekend. I want to buy Transformers Generation 1, and maybe some nintendo games. More stuff from the 80's.
-Youtube. Is that a hobby? I can't believe the explosion of videos and media over the last 10-15 years. Mind boggling. Remember being excited when you got cable?
-The 80's! I watch the goonies so much, I almost pledge allegiance to it. A great 25th anniversary edition soundtrack of that movie came out last year. I might get into collecting more limited edition soundtracks.
I collect Van Halen memorabilia to include guitar picks, ticket stubs, backstage passes, tour shirts, band used items, any official merchandise, magazines, live concerts on audio/video, etc;
Pretty much, if it involves Van Halen or David Lee Roth, I collect it.
<< <i>I collect Van Halen memorabilia to include guitar picks, ticket stubs, backstage passes, tour shirts, band used items, any official merchandise, magazines, live concerts on audio/video, etc;
Pretty much, if it involves Van Halen or David Lee Roth, I collect it.
<< <i>-The 80's! I watch the goonies so much, I almost pledge allegiance to it. A great 25th anniversary edition soundtrack of that movie came out last year. I might get into collecting more limited edition soundtracks. >>
filmed and set in Astoria, OR - the town I spent my early years as a yute. My pop still lives there. The whole town is hilly, so as a kid who rode his bike everywhere, it was a chore to go most places. There is one particular street there that is so steep that I literally used to have dreams well into my late 20s where I'd be either be riding my bike or driving my car up it and end up falling over backwards and tumbling back down. Every time I visit my dad, I drive up that street several times to keep my fear in check.
Confession time: as big a cult hit as The Goonies is, and considering its setting, I've never seen the movie. For some reason it never appealed to me. Lots of other movies have been filmed there, including Kindergarten Cop, which included lots of footage of my grade school. My 4th grade teacher can be seen in it - I was stoked to see him, he was a really cool dude.
<< <i>I'm a stay at home dad with a 2 year old and 5 month old, so I don't have much free time. When I do get free time, it's spent working out or reading either sci fi or history books. >>
Being that close in age they have got to be a handful. My oldest is 9 and the youngest is almost 15 months so while the oldest is in school I try and keep up with the little one but he's non-stop action. Also not a lot of free time except during his nap time and nights when all is settled here.
Had been teaching myself how to play electric guitar but that got put on the back burner a bit. Pick it up here and there trying to keep my fingers working. Working out? Well I guess cutting/splitting/stacking firewood in the spring time covers that. Of course all winter I'm moving it from where it's stored to the wood stove and shoveling the white mess so although I'm not in the best of shape I get a work out most all year long.
Being a stay at home Dad isn't for everyone but we're happy and it works for us. So a big to you and all the other stay at home parents. >>
Calling 'em a handful is an understatement! I'm the wood splitter, stacker, and gatherer here too- usually 3 cords is all though. So, I make sure I lift as often as I can; I have a picture of me in high school curling an Olympic bar with some 45s on it. Pretty awesome if I may say...
Well where do I begin. I am now 33. Just got through the busiest month of the year!! My youngest daughter turns 4 in March, My son turned 5 in Dec. 4th, My wife turned 31 Dec. 10th, and my oldest daughter who I adopted in Nov of 2009 turned 11 Dec. 27th. Adopting her as I have raised her for 9 years was one of the greatest accomplishments. Worth every penny of the 9 year custody battle we went through. Nevermind all the other related birthday's in my extended family in December.
I collected cards as a kid like most of you, especially with my brother and dad. Born in Waltham Mass, moved to NH when I was 7 and lived there for 25 years. I now reside in the Low Country in SC. Shot a 78 on January 2nd. GOLF, love it with a passion. Would play everyday if I could. I mostly enjoy taking all 3 of my kids the driving range. I live in a golf course community so we try to go weekly.
I stopped collecting when I was around 14 or 15. Early 90's. I sold everything I had as a late teenager. My wife was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer to the bone back in March of 2008 and that is when it began. We spend a lot of time as a family as we don't know how long we will have her. Talk about inspiration. She has indured 10 surgeries in 2 and a half years, chemotherapy and radiation almost the whole time. The cancer has spread from her breast to her bones. It's showed up in her knee, tibia, foot, hip, upper back to name a few. She is down to 95 pounds and life is tough going through this, but if anything she handles it bette than I. Never complains, does what she can, and gives our kids everythng she has. Amazing women.
Anyway the cards started again in 08 as a coping mechanism, well and now it's what I do quite a bit especially when the kids are in bed. I have also gotten into old games, a bit in coins, I helped my daughter start collecting barbies in the box and she's up to like 50 worth a few grand. I probably have 700 to 800 graded cards stored away for the future or my kids someday. I like reading all your posts about discipline and direction in collecting as mine is 100% all over the place. I take part in some high end rips, I have gotten involved in some of the rips here, and know I find myself at storage auctions sometimes, and bidding at auctions online. I really, really love buyind and selling. I have sold on Ebay for a few years as well. I was talking to Rick Probstein the other night and told him all about the posts about him. He really is a great guy and I was glad to see all the support around him.
Above all that I own a retirement planning corporation with my business partner and we have 3 branches in SC, one in ATL, and another in CA. So I am busy, but life is all about balance. I first sold insurance for a year and then got into management and for the last 3 years serve as VP of our company.
Take my wife's situation out my life would be perfect, but I am very thankful for cardboard as it although I spend too much sometimes it has really helped me survive mentally. When I think I am losing it I get on Ebay, or come here. I know, I know. I don't have an Avatar and rarely, rarely post, but I would like to thank you all as you have helped me in a great way. Silently your posts, knowledge, some of the amazing support that your big hearts have given, jokes, annoying posts, especially sarcasm, etc, etc has played a major role in my life for the last 2 plus years. THANK YOU!!!!!
Life is short spend time with your family, work hard, play hard, and most of all be patient and kind as all good things come to good people. Even though my wife has Stage 4 cancer, there is a reason behind it. We live our life by taking the good out of the bad. Inspiring others with impossible dreams can help you realize your own.
God bless, take care, and oh did I mention a HUGE PATS fan!!!!! My wife has her Brady jersey on and all 3 of my kids are on the trampoline in the backyard as I type wearing their red and blue Pats shirts!!!!
Mike, your wife is amazing! One never knows how you will handle such situations until you are there. Your wife is how I HOPE I handle this type of situation. I admire her.
<< <i>Life is short spend time with your family, work hard, play hard, and most of all be patient and kind as all good things come to good people. Even though my wife has Stage 4 cancer, there is a reason behind it. We live our life by taking the good out of the bad. Inspiring others with impossible dreams can help you realize your own. >>
Mike, you sound like a good man. Being the glue for your family and wife requires a lot of love and perseverance - and I bet the majority of men out there wouldn't have what it takes. Thanks for sharing a little about your life.
<< <i>Mike, you sound like a good man. Being the glue for your family and wife requires a lot of love and perseverance - and I bet the majority of men out there wouldn't have what it takes. Thanks for sharing a little about your life. >>
So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
<< <i>I used to play Disk Golf (Frisbee Golf aka poor man's golf) but haven't had the time to get out lately. >>
My cousin, Scott (R.I.P.), was one of the founders, or at least one of the original big name disk golf players.
I have two categories of passions.
1) Things I can afford: cards, nature, music, graffiti (legal...I'm too old for anything else), photography 2) Things I wish I could afford: classic cars, guns
I guess I'm living vicariously through my more accomplished relatives, but my uncle is a "famous" bridge player in NYC. He's also written several books on bridge.
Yes I have that one. The other side has the gold VH logo right?
Rodney
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<< <i>I collect Van Halen memorabilia to include guitar picks, ticket stubs, backstage passes, tour shirts, band used items, any official merchandise, magazines, live concerts on audio/video, etc;
Pretty much, if it involves Van Halen or David Lee Roth, I collect it.
<< <i>-The 80's! I watch the goonies so much, I almost pledge allegiance to it. A great 25th anniversary edition soundtrack of that movie came out last year. I might get into collecting more limited edition soundtracks. >>
filmed and set in Astoria, OR - the town I spent my early years as a yute. My pop still lives there. The whole town is hilly, so as a kid who rode his bike everywhere, it was a chore to go most places. There is one particular street there that is so steep that I literally used to have dreams well into my late 20s where I'd be either be riding my bike or driving my car up it and end up falling over backwards and tumbling back down. Every time I visit my dad, I drive up that street several times to keep my fear in check.
Confession time: as big a cult hit as The Goonies is, and considering its setting, I've never seen the movie. For some reason it never appealed to me. Lots of other movies have been filmed there, including Kindergarten Cop, which included lots of footage of my grade school. My 4th grade teacher can be seen in it - I was stoked to see him, he was a really cool dude. >>
There have been several fan get togethers in astoria over the years. There was a big 25th anniversary one last summer. I've never been to oregon. One of these days....
Its funny how that movie was sleeper in the 80's....not as big of a box office hit as et, ghostbusters, gremlins, beverly hills cop. But became this big cult movie. I like how technology hadn't yet taken over the world, in 1985. The kids played with marbles, rode their bikes. Astoria seemed like a fun setting for a kid.
There's actually a live astoria webcam, set at the maritime museum.
For me it is bowling, Nationals in Reno in April, my fifth straight at 44, dont think I will make it to 50 like some of those guys. I am decent enough to make a little money, but I generally return it in a local Casino. Gave up softball after a hamstring pull 3 years ago. Used to collect Sporting News magazines, stopped when they took out the box scores. Would like more sex too, and am contemplating divorce. lol
My daugher's middle school volley ball team was 14-2 her 7th grade year, winning their season end tournament and also 14-2 their 8th grade year, there only 2 losses were to the team that won the regular season and also season end tournament. My son is a junior basketball player who currently starts JV, plays three quarters and is getting about five minutes varsity time each game...averaging double figures JV and one point a game varsity....those are my other passions besides cardboard. I'm also lucky they both are honors students with my daughter getting straight A's and my son carrying a 4.6 GPA. Oh yeah, forgot about the wife, I fit her in occasionally
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wow, fantastic book collection, Mike! >>
Thanks, Geordie. Anyone have any additions for me?! lol >>
Funny you say that Mike, my sister-in-law has some Zane Grey books that I've noticed. Bigger collection of Horatio Alger though. Doug
I work out every day. Usually 60+ minutes on the staionary bike and I read a book. Generally fiction. I enjoy Harlan Coben, Vince Flynn, Lee Child, etc....
Have a 6 and an 8 year old and I coach (usually head coach) for just about every sports team. Currently coaching son's indoor soccer team and daughter's basketball team. By the way Bobby Jackson came out and coached practice with me the other night. Was awesome! Will post pictures one of these days. Baseball starts soon and I'll probably be assistant coach for both kid's teams.
I enjoy my road bike but rarely get out on it.
I enjoy researching the heck out Porsche 911's but haven't quite pulled the trigger yet... after 15 years of shopping. One of these days....
I also have become an anti-collector. Anytime I have an opportunity to get rid of crap I do it. Hate having stuff pile up around here.
high school debate (I coach it)
landscape photography
my wife
my kids' endless sports and activities
Vegas
<< <i>Funny you say that Mike, my sister-in-law has some Zane Grey books that I've noticed. Bigger collection of Horatio Alger though. Doug >>
Hey, Doug, your sis-in-law must be one cool lady! Maybe I should test-drive an Alger book and see if I enjoy his writing, too...
Thanks for the tip!
Reading - Lots of books. From biographies...stocks/finance/economics....social science, personal development. Chess. Just bought Nimzowitsch's "My System" after hearing about it forever. I think on my to do list are more books that you hear about for a long time, but never get around to reading.
-Collecting toys from the 80's. I was watching a bunch of GI Joe auctions this weekend. I want to buy Transformers Generation 1, and maybe some nintendo games. More stuff from the 80's.
-Youtube. Is that a hobby? I can't believe the explosion of videos and media over the last 10-15 years. Mind boggling. Remember being excited when you got cable?
-The 80's! I watch the goonies so much, I almost pledge allegiance to it. A great 25th anniversary edition soundtrack of that movie came out last year. I might get into collecting more limited edition soundtracks.
I also enjoy working out; about 3x a week.
However, my #1 priority is finding Ms. Right.
Pretty much, if it involves Van Halen or David Lee Roth, I collect it.
Rodney
<< <i>I collect Van Halen memorabilia to include guitar picks, ticket stubs, backstage passes, tour shirts, band used items, any official merchandise, magazines, live concerts on audio/video, etc;
Pretty much, if it involves Van Halen or David Lee Roth, I collect it.
Rodney >>
got this one?
<< <i>-The 80's! I watch the goonies so much, I almost pledge allegiance to it. A great 25th anniversary edition soundtrack of that movie came out last year. I might get into collecting more limited edition soundtracks. >>
filmed and set in Astoria, OR - the town I spent my early years as a yute. My pop still lives there. The whole town is hilly, so as a kid who rode his bike everywhere, it was a chore to go most places. There is one particular street there that is so steep that I literally used to have dreams well into my late 20s where I'd be either be riding my bike or driving my car up it and end up falling over backwards and tumbling back down. Every time I visit my dad, I drive up that street several times to keep my fear in check.
Confession time: as big a cult hit as The Goonies is, and considering its setting, I've never seen the movie. For some reason it never appealed to me. Lots of other movies have been filmed there, including Kindergarten Cop, which included lots of footage of my grade school. My 4th grade teacher can be seen in it - I was stoked to see him, he was a really cool dude.
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<< <i>I'm a stay at home dad with a 2 year old and 5 month old, so I don't have much free time. When I do get free time, it's spent working out or reading either sci fi or history books. >>
Being that close in age they have got to be a handful. My oldest is 9 and the youngest is almost 15 months so while the oldest is in school I try and keep up with the little one but he's non-stop action. Also not a lot of free time except during his nap time and nights when all is settled here.
Had been teaching myself how to play electric guitar but that got put on the back burner a bit. Pick it up here and there trying to keep my fingers working.
Working out? Well I guess cutting/splitting/stacking firewood in the spring time covers that. Of course all winter I'm moving it from where it's stored to the wood stove and shoveling the white mess so although I'm not in the best of shape I get a work out most all year long.
Being a stay at home Dad isn't for everyone but we're happy and it works for us. So a big
Calling 'em a handful is an understatement! I'm the wood splitter, stacker, and gatherer here too- usually 3 cords is all though. So, I make sure I lift as often as I can; I have a picture of me in high school curling an Olympic bar with some 45s on it. Pretty awesome if I may say...
I collected cards as a kid like most of you, especially with my brother and dad. Born in Waltham Mass, moved to NH when I was 7 and lived there for 25 years. I now reside in the Low Country in SC. Shot a 78 on January 2nd. GOLF, love it with a passion. Would play everyday if I could. I mostly enjoy taking all 3 of my kids the driving range. I live in a golf course community so we try to go weekly.
I stopped collecting when I was around 14 or 15. Early 90's. I sold everything I had as a late teenager. My wife was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer to the bone back in March of 2008 and that is when it began. We spend a lot of time as a family as we don't know how long we will have her. Talk about inspiration. She has indured 10 surgeries in 2 and a half years, chemotherapy and radiation almost the whole time. The cancer has spread from her breast to her bones. It's showed up in her knee, tibia, foot, hip, upper back to name a few. She is down to 95 pounds and life is tough going through this, but if anything she handles it bette than I. Never complains, does what she can, and gives our kids everythng she has. Amazing women.
Anyway the cards started again in 08 as a coping mechanism, well and now it's what I do quite a bit especially when the kids are in bed. I have also gotten into old games, a bit in coins, I helped my daughter start collecting barbies in the box and she's up to like 50 worth a few grand. I probably have 700 to 800 graded cards stored away for the future or my kids someday. I like reading all your posts about discipline and direction in collecting as mine is 100% all over the place. I take part in some high end rips, I have gotten involved in some of the rips here, and know I find myself at storage auctions sometimes, and bidding at auctions online. I really, really love buyind and selling. I have sold on Ebay for a few years as well. I was talking to Rick Probstein the other night and told him all about the posts about him. He really is a great guy and I was glad to see all the support around him.
Above all that I own a retirement planning corporation with my business partner and we have 3 branches in SC, one in ATL, and another in CA. So I am busy, but life is all about balance. I first sold insurance for a year and then got into management and for the last 3 years serve as VP of our company.
Take my wife's situation out my life would be perfect, but I am very thankful for cardboard as it although I spend too much sometimes it has really helped me survive mentally. When I think I am losing it I get on Ebay, or come here. I know, I know. I don't have an Avatar and rarely, rarely post, but I would like to thank you all as you have helped me in a great way. Silently your posts, knowledge, some of the amazing support that your big hearts have given, jokes, annoying posts, especially sarcasm, etc, etc has played a major role in my life for the last 2 plus years. THANK YOU!!!!!
Life is short spend time with your family, work hard, play hard, and most of all be patient and kind as all good things come to good people. Even though my wife has Stage 4 cancer, there is a reason behind it. We live our life by taking the good out of the bad. Inspiring others with impossible dreams can help you realize your own.
God bless, take care, and oh did I mention a HUGE PATS fan!!!!! My wife has her Brady jersey on and all 3 of my kids are on the trampoline in the backyard as I type wearing their red and blue Pats shirts!!!!
Love this site, Thanks again!!!
Mike,
"Live everyday, don't throw it away"
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Mike, your wife is amazing! One never knows how you will handle such situations until you are there. Your wife is how I HOPE I handle this type of situation. I admire her.
<< <i>Life is short spend time with your family, work hard, play hard, and most of all be patient and kind as all good things come to good people. Even though my wife has Stage 4 cancer, there is a reason behind it. We live our life by taking the good out of the bad. Inspiring others with impossible dreams can help you realize your own.
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Wonderful words of wisdom. YOU are amazing, too.
Thank you for sharing...
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<< <i>Mike, you sound like a good man. Being the glue for your family and wife requires a lot of love and perseverance - and I bet the majority of men out there wouldn't have what it takes. Thanks for sharing a little about your life. >>
<< <i>I used to play Disk Golf (Frisbee Golf aka poor man's golf) but haven't had the time to get out lately. >>
My cousin, Scott (R.I.P.), was one of the founders, or at least one of the original big name disk golf players.
I have two categories of passions.
1) Things I can afford: cards, nature, music, graffiti (legal...I'm too old for anything else), photography
2) Things I wish I could afford: classic cars, guns
<< <i>I play tournament bridge. >>
I guess I'm living vicariously through my more accomplished relatives, but my uncle is a "famous" bridge player in NYC. He's also written several books on bridge.
Rodney
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<< <i>I collect Van Halen memorabilia to include guitar picks, ticket stubs, backstage passes, tour shirts, band used items, any official merchandise, magazines, live concerts on audio/video, etc;
Pretty much, if it involves Van Halen or David Lee Roth, I collect it.
Rodney >>
got this one?
Thanx for sharing.
I have been collecting some toys like this Dick Tracy car which I posted on a while back - it's in super condition!
And will - from time to time pick up small bakelite radios from the late 30s and 40s:
And last - collecting lobby cards from the matinee movies I went to when I was in grade school:
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<< <i>-The 80's! I watch the goonies so much, I almost pledge allegiance to it. A great 25th anniversary edition soundtrack of that movie came out last year. I might get into collecting more limited edition soundtracks. >>
filmed and set in Astoria, OR - the town I spent my early years as a yute. My pop still lives there. The whole town is hilly, so as a kid who rode his bike everywhere, it was a chore to go most places. There is one particular street there that is so steep that I literally used to have dreams well into my late 20s where I'd be either be riding my bike or driving my car up it and end up falling over backwards and tumbling back down. Every time I visit my dad, I drive up that street several times to keep my fear in check.
Confession time: as big a cult hit as The Goonies is, and considering its setting, I've never seen the movie. For some reason it never appealed to me. Lots of other movies have been filmed there, including Kindergarten Cop, which included lots of footage of my grade school. My 4th grade teacher can be seen in it - I was stoked to see him, he was a really cool dude. >>
There have been several fan get togethers in astoria over the years. There was a big 25th anniversary one last summer. I've never been to oregon. One of these days....
Its funny how that movie was sleeper in the 80's....not as big of a box office hit as et, ghostbusters, gremlins, beverly hills cop. But became this big cult movie. I like how technology hadn't yet taken over the world, in 1985. The kids played with marbles, rode their bikes. Astoria seemed like a fun setting for a kid.
There's actually a live astoria webcam, set at the maritime museum.
Astoria Webcam
Tim
<< <i>Between the cardboard and the Internet porn...
I hate that directv took espn classic off. i used to watch alot of those boxing matches.