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Posted by SpaceMouse on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:56 PM

Okay, for reals.

I am an EFT practitioner, which in case you have never heard of it means Emotional Freedom Technique. Basically it deals with the idea that negative emotions are stored within the body's bio field and exist as "short circuits" of this energy. By tapping on the body's energy meridians these emotions no longer exist much the same way that an electrical spark no longer exist when you separate the wires. It is very powerful stuff and I am using it almost exclusively in my health practice. Since nearly every dis-ease has an emotional component, EFT often works when nothing else will.

I wrote a short eBook on the subject if you want to spend 15 minutes reading up on it. It's free at my website. http://www.ChipEFT.com Also on the website, I'm interviewed on the radio by an MD, etc.

Recently however, I have been combining the "Law of Attraction" with EFT because it seems that most of the people that fail when practicing the Law of Attraction are doing so because they have emotions that interfere with their intending process. This has worked so well with people one-on-one that I am creating a series of teleseminars that should go live around November or December. These will correspond with the release of three books I currently have in production.

Hence the lapse in my layout construction, I've been researching and writing in every spare moment.  

 

 

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Posted by UP2CSX on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:51 PM

This is one cool thread! So much for the idea that everyone who plays with trains is some kind of strange nerd that dwells in a cave. Smile [:)].

Dave, first of all, thanks for your service. I've been kind of an amateur meterologist since I was about 12. I took some meteorology courses in college before I fainally relaized I'd never get past the all the math, darn it. I still have my own weather station and was a co-op observer for a while. Your research looks really interesting. I even understand some of it. Big Smile [:D] Now, if you can find a way to increase the precipitable moisture, get our lapse rate going, and jack up our atmospheric instability, we could get some rain here in Alabama and you'd be a hero here.

I'm really impressed by all the vocations and avocations I've seen here.

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Posted by yougottawanta on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:50 PM
I am a Construction Manager "Project Manager" for a multi purpose developer in the Washington Northern Va. area. I will break ground hopefully this week in Tysons Corner Va. I am first a DAD to two beatiful daughters,husband to a great wife and member of a local church.And am in the process of building my first layout.Smile [:)]
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Posted by yougottawanta on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:43 PM
Hey Dave. Great to see your post again. I havent seen a post by you for a while !
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:41 PM

I'm a rocket scientist, but to us rockets are "targets."  We're in the missile defense business, and I really, really hope our products are never needed.  Not because I don't think they'd work (we're actually getting pretty good at this,) but rather because I'm afraid of what our leaders might do in response.  I'm more on the computer end of things.

In a previous life I was the first human being to see the Grand Canyon of Mars.  Saw it one night as just some X's in the wrong place on a line printer plot, running a planetary radar astronomy operation.  Of course, the Viking orbiters made it to the red planet a few weeks later, so my tidbit of information became meaningless amid the glorious color photos.

I'm 60 years old now, but I still play competitive ice hockey once or twice a week.  Most of the guys are in their 30's, so we joke a lot about how I've been playing hockey at that rink at 8 PM on Tuesdays since Nixon was in the White House.  The funny thing about that joke is that it's true.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by yougottawanta on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:37 PM

Grumpy [|(]Is that a 68 Charger in the first picture ? Is that yours ? I had one when I married my first wife. Loved that car , still love that car. My first wife sold the car for 1000. dollars by forging my name and later divorced me . Banged Head [banghead]Sign - Dots [#dots]Angry [:(!] I better stop before I get mad again.

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Posted by Wulfblat on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:22 PM
I work as a software engineer, where I mostly design and implement relatively low level services (highly functional and reliable, but small and fast -- no Java for me).

My primary interest outside of work is Taekwon-Do, in which I hold a 2nd Dan, train daily and teach a couple of times a week.

Next, in order of time spent, are cooking and astronomy, with model railroading close behind, and travel and scuba diving fitting in where time (and money) allow (although I wish the latter two were nearer the top of the heap).

I really have too many hobbies to make great progress with any one, but some day after I retire I'm sure I'll appreciate having so many interesting things to do.
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:22 PM

I follow a few sports (gymnastics, track and field, NASCAR,) chase rail routes (mainly on maps and satellite photos, in person when possible,) read military history, read (and occasionally try to write) science fiction, and travel across and around the country to see family or visit places my wife and I haven't visited before.

Other than that, I eat too much and sleep too little.  And work on the railroad, of course.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Posted by ShadowNix on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:20 PM

Besides playing with my 2 boys and spending quality time with my wife, I try to fly fish (steelies, 'bows, cutt's or salmon) as much as I can!   Once the boys get to school, I plan on a lot more!!! I am also in the process of building a small (600 or so bottle) wine cellar and I enjoy collecting (and drinking) wine...

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Posted by Jake1210 on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:12 PM
I skateboard, do chores, during coaster season ride roller coasters. Model RRing is my off season thing. When I switch my comp desktop from roller coaster stuff to train stuff, us coaster enthusiasts know that the off season is iminant.
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Posted by Dave-the-Train on Monday, August 27, 2007 3:09 PM

 R. T. POTEET wrote:

THERE IS LIFE OUTSIDE THIS HOBBY???

What's a hobby?  Isn't this life? Confused [%-)]

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Posted by Lillen on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:57 PM
 selector wrote:

 R. T. POTEET wrote:

THERE IS LIFE OUTSIDE THIS HOBBY???

Oooooh, I am sooo there!

My personality is one where I am essentially obsessive/compulsive about anything that appeals to me.  At first it was Astronomy, then Karate, then my wife, then long distance and competitive running (I know....yawn!), then Astonomy as an adult, then grad school, then my work as a military psychologist, and now it is model trains and steam engine history.  It has always been full bore all the way.

So, I do have a life, but it comes in stages.  Very intense stages. Cool [8D]

-Crandell

 

I couldn't help recognizing my self in this. I do things in massive bursts of energy, lasting several years until another hobby or interest takes the mainline so to speak. I never forget the old though and they are always with me. I used to be long distance runner. I got home from work, as a mailman who ran and biked all day and then run an additional 7 miles, each day, even in blizzards even though I had to walk then. My other passions have included and still do, Astronomy(I have a nice Meade telescope), war gaming, and of course history, which I'm now divulging my self further in as I'm getting my education ready to become a teacher. The last year it's been trains. I have probably read 200 books about American trains the last year even though I study two educations at once and work part time as a truck driver for the post office.

 So, I understand what you say Crandell, I'm just like you in that regard.

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Posted by Lillen on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:57 PM
 selector wrote:

 R. T. POTEET wrote:

THERE IS LIFE OUTSIDE THIS HOBBY???

Oooooh, I am sooo there!

My personality is one where I am essentially obsessive/compulsive about anything that appeals to me.  At first it was Astronomy, then Karate, then my wife, then long distance and competitive running (I know....yawn!), then Astonomy as an adult, then grad school, then my work as a military psychologist, and now it is model trains and steam engine history.  It has always been full bore all the way.

So, I do have a life, but it comes in stages.  Very intense stages. Cool [8D]

-Crandell

 

I couldn't help recognizing my self in this. I do things in massive bursts of energy, lasting several years until another hobby or interest takes the mainline so to speak. I never forget the old though and they are always with me. I used to be long distance runner. I got home from work, as a mailman who ran and biked all day and then run an additional 7 miles, each day, even in blizzards even though I had to walk then. My other passions have included and still do, Astronomy(I have a nice Meade telescope), war gaming, and of course history, which I'm now divulging my self further in as I'm getting my education ready to become a teacher. The last year it's been trains. I have probably read 200 books about American trains the last year even though I study two educations at once and work part time as a truck driver for the post office.

 So, I understand what you say Crandell, I'm just like you in that regard.

Magnus

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:32 PM
No problem.
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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:32 PM
 pcarrell wrote:

So Dave V.,

You'd be familiar with the airflows involved in wave soaring.  Flying, particularly sailplanes, is an old passtime of mine.

Here's some links if you aren't familiar:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/miskin/gliding/gliding/x_wave_soaring.htm

http://www.drjack.info/INFO/DELMONTE/toc.page.html

Philip, great links!  I'll have to "favorite" them!

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:26 PM

So Dave V.,

You'd be familiar with the airflows involved in wave soaring.  Flying, particularly sailplanes, is an old passtime of mine.

Here's some links if you aren't familiar:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/miskin/gliding/gliding/x_wave_soaring.htm

http://www.drjack.info/INFO/DELMONTE/toc.page.html

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:08 PM

Here's me at work in 2003 over Baghdad:

I'm a meteorologist for the US Air Force.  I've served over 11 years and have spent over four of those 11 years supporting Army combat operations as OIC of various combat weather teams.  Here's me in Iraq again with a tactical weather station.

Right now the Air Force has assigned me to NC State University (still active duty, mind you) to complete my PhD in dynamic meteorology.

Now I study upper-level turbulence caused by flow over complex terrain.  Here's an example of my work from a March 2006 upper-level turbulence case.  The parameters are the NCSU1 and NCSU2 Turbulence Indices at 150 millibars:

These indices are combinations of parameters such as vorticity gradient, gradient of geostrophic streamfunction, Richardson number, etc...

My research page is here:

http://mesolab.meas.ncsu.edu/~drvollme/

I passed my PhD candidacy exams this Spring and am now in my final year.  When done I am told I'll be assigned to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque to work with the Air Force Research Lab.

My druthers is to hopefully get back over into the operations side and earn command of a weather squadron.

My other hobbys include:

GOLF!!!  Running, hiking, biking, etc.  Two dormant hobbies are flying (I have a pilot's license) and Civil War reenacting (Union, of course!).

My family keeps me busy the rest of the time!

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Posted by Hoople on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:07 PM

When I'm not MRRing, I'm:

Drumming... Drumming... Thinking about drumming... Making up riffs for drumming...

Yes I drum alot. Must drive the family insane.. No soundproof or pads.

I also like to ride my bike...

And go to school...

And try to find a girlfriend... So far it ain't working.

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Posted by medic_149 on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:06 PM

FIrst off, here is my other truck

when I am not on duty either as a dispatcher, or emt on the ambulance, I enjoy being outdoors. I love hunting, golf, canmping and fishing.

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Posted by jeffers_mz on Monday, August 27, 2007 1:39 PM
 jeffrey-wimberly wrote:
 jeffers_mz wrote:

When I'm not railroading, I...

...chase these:

I didn't know you're a storm chaser. One of my duties as a fire fighter is the chase tornados and report their position to 911.

 

I started chasing storms as early as age five or six, when I'd head to the backyard whenver a warning was issued, assuming I could do so without my parents catching me. I wanted to see one.

Real chasing had to wait till age 16 and a driver's license. Seen some pretty wild stuff, in addition to getting within a mile of 20 tornadoes before I stopped counting. Once saw something like the beginning of War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, three electrical hot spots, each with continual CG lightning, two to three strokes at any given time in each of the three hotspots, walking across the open prairie, with truckers on the CB going "I don't know what those things are is either, but I'm not driving out in front of them". Saw bead lightning twice, but no ball lightning yet. Got picked up crossing flood waters, swept sideways, and just barely found traction before being swept down a waterfall into a flooded cornfield. Found a wet spot with a whole bunch of little gullies, leading to one 3 foot wide by 3 foot deep gully freshly carved into the left anchorage of the downstream face of a large earthen dam once, and reported it.

An oval area from the capitol of my state to a small town an hour's drive north is tied for number 3 in the world in frequency of all tornadoes, and far and away number one on earth for F5 killers. Literature suggests thunderstorms reach an electrical peak 15 to 20 minutes prior to tornado-genesis, and if you plot a trace from the center of that oval, 15 to 20 minutes upstream, as the storm flies, just knock on the door and we'll talk trains and storms over cold brews.

Been here 11 years now, 10+ twisters within visual range, or would have been if it wasn't nighttime for some of them. Between the time I bought the land and the time I built the house, a big one crossed this property after wrecking a little town west of me, and I still find pieces of houses that don't match anything in sight each spring when the plows turn them up. It killed two people in a house just like mine a hour upstream, picking up the house, carrying it 200 yards, then smearing it across the ground such that none of the pieces left were bigger than a basketball. It was on the ground for more than forty continuous miles and ended up wrecking a shopping mall a mile north of where I was cowering in the basement with my family at the time. I don't chase at night, it's...counter-productive. If you end up getting chased some night, watch for arc-overs from big power lines, it's about the only warning you can depend on.

The day the pic above was taken, they threw the warning and I first saw this, on stepping outside:

At the time, it was in the wrong place for the issued warning, and I couldn't see any inflow or rotation, so I dismissed it as a gust front, but it later tornadoed a few miles east of here, so now I think it was a wall and beavertail.

The earlier pic should have showed two circulation vortexes, but digital cameras take their time snapping pics, and it was pretty unstable. I don't think it was a true multi-vortex, just a relatively weak circulation trying to organize down to ground level. You can barely see the other suction vortex just to the right of the more obvious one. The inflow into that whole region was incredible, that little piece of virga just about to enter the right side of the wall was clear over by the far right telephone pole just seconds earlier.

As that area of circulation approached my position, I went inside to take cover, and just as I closed the back door, I saw yet another twister on the ground about six miles south of me, for a total of two on the ground and one funnel in less than an hour. That's my record, so far.

If you do this for a living, I bet you have some stories too. Feel free to share.

 

:-)

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Posted by MilwaukeeRoad on Monday, August 27, 2007 11:11 AM

Conrail12,

My favorite team the New York Islanders spanked the Pens this season.

Also, I golf (just took 2nd in a tournament out of 30), play guitar, basketball (someday I'm going to face WCfan one on one), I like dirtbiking and ATVs (my friend has a track in his back yard), I also like swimming when there is scorching weather.

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Monday, August 27, 2007 11:03 AM
  I own a men's clothing store which is not very busy in the summer.  I have nine hours a day to kill on the computer.  It's amazing what you can learn about your chosen hobby if you study it five hours a day!  Model railroading is my escape from the stresses of work and life.  Music and movies at home are my primary passion.  There is something  about a good movie and a few beers that can wash away a lot of stress.  Upgrading my home theater is a lot more expensive than model railroading.  Modeling is my non-alcoholic stress reliever.  That and working in the yard.  Beer and lawn equipment don't really go hand in hand for safety reasons!
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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, August 27, 2007 10:50 AM
Right now I work for the local phone company.  I'm going to college and studying theology so that someday I can go into full time ministry work.  In the meantime I have a wife and kids that I spend a lot of my free time with, and I enjoy working on cars and playing guitar.
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Posted by Bdewoody on Monday, August 27, 2007 10:43 AM

I am a designer with a civil engineering firm.  My hobbies are building models, mostly aircraft and ships.  I also spend too much time on an online flight simulator called Fighter Ace.  Somewhere in there I make some time to work on my layout and customizing HO locomotives.

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Posted by Bapou on Monday, August 27, 2007 10:15 AM
Well I play Baseball and collect Baseball cards. I walk my dog named Bapou . I also mow the lawn but I hate that so it's not a hobby! Hopefully next year I can get a job to get more money! {edit} for trains of course!
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Posted by GAPPLEG on Monday, August 27, 2007 10:10 AM

 conrail92 wrote:
I'll take this moment to share what I am also interested In: Fan of hockey, love to watch The Penguins, Computers; website making, gaming and ect... , I golf a bit, Like to fish and do other outdoors things such as camping, And Railfanning is another big thing I enjoy. Thoose are a few things I do outside this hobby.

Did you see the penguins and the Sabres are going to play an outdoor game Jan.1 at Ralph Wilson football stadium ?  Go Sabres. I will enjoy seeing the "kid" play though.

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Posted by Hawks05 on Monday, August 27, 2007 9:59 AM
Well I don't do all that much with the model railroading. I think about it a lot and that's about it. I also like to buy a lot that I can't really run all that much. I'm thinking about my freelanced railroad at the moment and coming up with a color scheme for that. My apartment at school is right next to the track so I have an up close view of a lot of train action.

I'm a junior at college majoring in elementary education with minors in middle school math and middle school social studies. I have two to two and a half years left. Right now something that is taking up a lot of time is planning for my trip to Ireland next summer to study in Galway and then take two weeks to travel to other places.

I'm also a huge sports fan. I love playing baseball, basketball, and running. I love fantasy football and watching the NFL and NCAA on the weekends. I play for an amateur baseball team and play intramural softball and basketball.

Also I enjoy listening to music. I've recently gotten into the Gaelic/Celtic style. I'm a big fan of Gaelic Storm, Young Dubliners, Amadan, to name a few. Some other favorites are Dierks Bentley, O.A.R. and We the Living (The Profits).

Those are a few of my hobbies. Time to get ready for class though.
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Monday, August 27, 2007 8:59 AM
IS this one of those questions that forces us to self assess whether we have a life?

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Posted by conrail92 on Monday, August 27, 2007 8:35 AM
I'll take this moment to share what I am also interested In: Fan of hockey, love to watch The Penguins, Computers; website making, gaming and ect... , I golf a bit, Like to fish and do other outdoors things such as camping, And Railfanning is another big thing I enjoy. Thoose are a few things I do outside this hobby.
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Posted by Bill54 on Monday, August 27, 2007 8:00 AM

I work for the Fed Govt. as a management analyst.  My hobbies include going to NASCAR races, fishing, and camping.  I go to the races with my buddies and usually go fishing alone.   We camp from March to November.  When camping, my sister and brother in law go with us a lot.  They have their own RV.  My son and his family also have a 5th wheel camper and go with us to several places throughout the season.

This is our camper.  This was taken in June.  My son and his family joined us on this trip.

Bill

As my Mom always says...Where there's a will there's a way!

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