First Life: 1965-1986
-Smallish town kid (Yakima, Wa.)
-High School Survivalist (and IPSC shooter)
-French Quarter juggler
Second Life: 1986-1992
-Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (1986 cross country walk)
-Florida Peace Pilgrimage
-New England Walk for Nuclear Disarmament
-California Peace Walk
-Peace Camp (Nevada Nuclear Test Site)
-90 days Federal and 120 in a Vegas halfway house for Test Site trespass
-Berkeley activist house, Concord NWS protest
Third Life: 1992-present
-Occasional activist (Food not Bombs, Bike Traffic)
-Professional Bike Mechanic (means I work in a shop for pay)
-N.E.R.T. (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) member
-Prepper
-H.A.M. operator (KI6NZE)
Re: Hello from San Francisco
3 from the south end of Puget Sound!
"There never was a union of church and state which did not bring serious evils to religion."
The Right Reverend John England, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston SC, 1825.
The Right Reverend John England, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston SC, 1825.
Re: Hello from San Francisco
5Welcome from the south west end of the bay area. Quite the CV you have there!
Re: Hello from San Francisco
9Howdy and welcome!
Re: Hello from San Francisco
10Hello from the Central Valley near Tracy
But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you ... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
Dalai Lama
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Dalai Lama
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Re: Hello from San Francisco
11Welcome from Butte County, Ted. Are you a cat with all those lives? ;-)
CDFingers
CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack
Re: Hello from San Francisco
12 from Florida!
Quite a few experiences there. Sounds like you've lived a life for good causes. And deserve that bike shop job.
Quite a few experiences there. Sounds like you've lived a life for good causes. And deserve that bike shop job.
"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
-Willa Cather
-Willa Cather
Re: Hello from San Francisco
13From a fellow Sf bike and firearms person. Has anyone ever considered finding a biathlon course during summer and riding mountain bikes on the course? bikeathlon?
Bleeding Heart Liberal with Second Amendment Benefits.
Re: Hello from San Francisco
15I'm in if we can make it motorcycles.drigeba wrote:
From a fellow Sf bike and firearms person. Has anyone ever considered finding a biathlon course during summer and riding mountain bikes on the course? bikeathlon?
Re: Hello from San Francisco
16Fukshot wrote:I'm in if we can make it motorcycles.drigeba wrote:
From a fellow Sf bike and firearms person. Has anyone ever considered finding a biathlon course during summer and riding mountain bikes on the course? bikeathlon?
I've always had this fantasy to start the Cincinnati Biathalon: rollerblades and slingshots.
I don't like to think of my self as an artist so much as someone who stares at empty spaces and imagines s--t.
Re: Hello from San Francisco
17I have had that thought many times. Same name, too. I think it should be mountain bikes and any pistol that is not .22rf. Six shots at six beer cans. Pistols in a shoulder rig.drigeba wrote:
From a fellow Sf bike and firearms person. Has anyone ever considered finding a biathlon course during summer and riding mountain bikes on the course? bikeathlon?
Oh, g'day, Ted.
'Sorry stupid people but there are some definite disadvantages to being stupid."
-John Cleese
-John Cleese
Re: Hello from San Francisco
18Ok we may have a quorum here.
When the LGC annual meeting comes to california i can start figuring this out.
When the LGC annual meeting comes to california i can start figuring this out.
Bleeding Heart Liberal with Second Amendment Benefits.