New to AAPK
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 5:32 am
Just checking in as the new guy in town. 
After many years of snooping around for information here, I decided to go ahead and register.
My real name is Wayne. My login name comes from the first letter of my last name merged with zyzzogeton, the last word in the Webster's 1913 Unabridged Dictionary. I started using it after I kept getting "already in use" messages when trying to join an online group years ago. Had to come up with something no one else had.
About me
- Retired Navy/High Tech Refugee/Semi-retired
- I live in rural central Texas about 60 miles from downtown Austin on a 316 acre farm.
- I'll mainly be found in the fixed blade, military knives, Other sharp objects, Kabar and Western forums.
- Life member of the NRA and proud annual member of Knife Rights.
- Volunteer FF/EMT since 1989. Volunteer Search and Recovery Diver since 1990. Certified SCUBA instructor (retired).
My literal EDC for off the farm is -
Kabar Rigger's knife - LFP
Buck 510 or 424 or 464 or 484 - RFP
ProTech TR4 - RFP clipped
BK11 - LRP
Kabar 125x - 4 and 8 o'clock
I have a few more goodies in my BoB.
Hobbies are
- hunting,
- fishing,
- knife and tomahawk throwing (spin, no-spin, instinctive, Mountain Man)
- gardening (Master Gardener)
- fledgling knife maker
Earlier this year, I was diagnosed with a hole in my heart, apparently there since birth.
When I was diagnosed, I asked the doc if I could still do about 10 things, hoping she would say "No", like ditch digging, fence post hole digging, hay baling, etc. She kept saying yes. So finally I asked her what I couldn't do - she said "Don't take up SCUBA diving." The doc kinda looked at me funny when I asked her, "So, you mean I should not have made those 8000+ dives I made over the last 40+ years?"
About 20 years ago, my youngest niece said - "Uncle Wayne, your sense of humor is so warped, it makes a pretzel look straight." I have made it a point to live up to that statement.
Got any Qs, just ask. Glad to be participating.
After many years of snooping around for information here, I decided to go ahead and register.My real name is Wayne. My login name comes from the first letter of my last name merged with zyzzogeton, the last word in the Webster's 1913 Unabridged Dictionary. I started using it after I kept getting "already in use" messages when trying to join an online group years ago. Had to come up with something no one else had.
About me
- Retired Navy/High Tech Refugee/Semi-retired
- I live in rural central Texas about 60 miles from downtown Austin on a 316 acre farm.
- I'll mainly be found in the fixed blade, military knives, Other sharp objects, Kabar and Western forums.
- Life member of the NRA and proud annual member of Knife Rights.
- Volunteer FF/EMT since 1989. Volunteer Search and Recovery Diver since 1990. Certified SCUBA instructor (retired).
My literal EDC for off the farm is -
Kabar Rigger's knife - LFP
Buck 510 or 424 or 464 or 484 - RFP
ProTech TR4 - RFP clipped
BK11 - LRP
Kabar 125x - 4 and 8 o'clock
I have a few more goodies in my BoB.
Hobbies are
- hunting,
- fishing,
- knife and tomahawk throwing (spin, no-spin, instinctive, Mountain Man)
- gardening (Master Gardener)
- fledgling knife maker
Earlier this year, I was diagnosed with a hole in my heart, apparently there since birth.
When I was diagnosed, I asked the doc if I could still do about 10 things, hoping she would say "No", like ditch digging, fence post hole digging, hay baling, etc. She kept saying yes. So finally I asked her what I couldn't do - she said "Don't take up SCUBA diving." The doc kinda looked at me funny when I asked her, "So, you mean I should not have made those 8000+ dives I made over the last 40+ years?"
About 20 years ago, my youngest niece said - "Uncle Wayne, your sense of humor is so warped, it makes a pretzel look straight." I have made it a point to live up to that statement.
Got any Qs, just ask. Glad to be participating.
from LA (lower Alabama) also known as the Florida Panhandle. Sounds like you'll fit in right well, lots of us know how to use hole diggers and build fence! 
