OK people, hold tight for this story... En and Gee are my initials and that's a picture of me having cycled up some mountain in the Alps or Dolomites, I can't remember where.
And there was I thinking I had an imagination.
😁
I've been using my username on various internet platforms for years, it stands for "I am" and the two initials of my first names. Not really inventive, and I don't particularly like it, but since I've used it like forever, why change it.
My avatar combines my three passions / hobbies: coffee, watches, and amateur photography. I have spent less time on photography since the watch addiction has taken over 😁. I'm still going strong on coffee though. The avatar shows my 14900 with a patinated black dial that turned into a brown. It reminded me of my coffee mug made of old ground coffee.
Very cool thread! Really enjoyed reading @Shabbaz story.
Rudi is just the abbreviation of my name, and 99 the year I got my first watch as a gift from my parents, an old Casio.
My avatar shot... I took it during a trip to the german side of the alps, at the border between Germany and Austria. The months prior to this trip were very difficult for me and my wife (at that time my girlfriend), as we lost two close family members, one of them being her mother, and I thought we really needed time out. During a mountain hike there I asked her to marry me (I had it planned for months) and of course that trip is a memory I will forever cherish.
On the ceiling of a small chapel in the small bavarian town of Füssen, where we were, there was a gorgeous clock upside down, something I truly had never seen and took my breath away. I am buddhist, not christian, but liked it. The town itself has also a history of pocket watch making as well as clock making.
Funny how you never see both universities together in the same room.
Kroger is/was a supermarket chain in Texas and krogerfoot was the blackened soles of the feet of Texas hippies who went around barefoot. The avatar is just as it appears, a shot of John Goodman as Walter Sobchek in The Big Lebowski futilely trying to intimidate a high school kid, but altered* to depict him holding a copy The Pod by Ween, so not much of a story there, I’m afraid.
* By this brilliant blogger somewhere in here.
We visited the nearby Castle Neuschwanstein which is just amazing. For those who don’t know, it was built on top of a hill at the base of the alps in the late 19th century by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. After about two decades of construction he barely lived in it before his mysterious death.
Not my picture.
. Been in so many fights; was hit by a truck; survived cancer (so far); choked at a restaurant and received abdominal thrusts, had three rounds of « Cardioversion» (defibrillator to put heart back in sinus), was jumped by a guy with a pitchfork, etc…
Been there also...this is my picture...
You take this photo from this small bridge, along with hundreds of others...
And hope the bridge holds up so you don't end up down in the river....
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a field hockey club here in the Netherlands. It was and is quite a big sport here. And for the americans, not only for girls.
My avatar comes from my living room.
For some reason, when we have company over to the house, my wife likes to tell them the fellow in the picture (at far right) is me. It's not, but most take the bait and are soon hunched over the couch, glasses off, squinting at that little figure -- much to the delight of my wife. It's kind of strange because she doesn't usually mess with people like that.
Getting into vintage kind of felt like diving into unknown water, so it seemed to fit. My username is not so creative.
OK people, hold tight for this story... En and Gee are my initials and that's a picture of me having cycled up some mountain in the Alps or Dolomites, I can't remember where.
And there was I thinking I had an imagination.
