I don't know about the rest of you, but I thought it'd be interesting to
know a little more about the posters on this group. Totally voluntary of
course as I understand that privacy is a valued commodity these days. So
perhaps just a few lines - sort of a mini-bio would be interesting. As I
said totally voluntary....

I'll start off...

Name: Mal
Origin: London, England
Living: Perth, Western Australia, since '72
Vintage: 1957
Wife: Yes
Kids: 2, all grown up and left the coop
Obsessions: Tea, Wine, music, model trains
Job: Data Centre Manager
Favorite Tea: 1993 Menghai 7542 (so far...)

anybody else care to bite ?

Cheers
Mal
Oz

Sure, why not....

Name: Mike
Origin: Shamokin Pennsylvania
Residence: Martinsville, Virginia
Vintage: 1958
Wife: Yes (15 years)
Kids: No, unless you count my fish, dogs, and cats
Obsessions: Tea, Gourmet Food, Gardening, Kites, Computer Mods, Home
Automation, Home Theater, Aquariums in general and African Chiclids
in particular, plus my Hobby Du-Jour
Job: Electrical, Automation, and IT Manager
Favorite Tea: 1970s Grand Yellow Label ( http://tinyurl.com/pecz8 )

I'm more interested in what someone knows about tea than their bio.
You can glean some of the personal info over the long haul. It's like
striptease, a little at a time is better than all at once unless there
is a two drink minimum. Does anyone know of a good proxy server where
I can drop off my IP address for browsing? I'll trust that server
more than web masters sitting around monitoring hits.

Jim

PS I haven't seen any posts from MP in awhile. Used book stores are
great places to find interesting foreigh press Chinese grammar books.
I found a Japanese dictionary first published in 1890 and reprinted
1950. There are over 100 entries that start with cha related Kana and
Kanji terms. A few are Kana only. I came across a wonderful history
book about China published in Peking from a translation. At first I
thought it stange people,places,events in English with no Chinese till
I saw the wonderful index in the back with the characters. Italic in
the text means entries in the index. It does cause eye strain because
there is so much of it.

On Mar 19, 5:16 am, "Mal from Oz" hotmail.com> wrote:

Name: Lew
Origin: New York, NY, USA
Living: Same place lifelong, except for traveling and one miserable
year in ... oh, never mind.
Vintage: Ding1 Hai4
Wife: She's the wife; I'm the hubby.
Kids: Me, and there's Buster, the cat who smells like young sheng
Obsessions: Tea, music, programming, Chinese, the thought of
eventually becoming an old guy like Elliott Carter
Work: Programming
Favorite tea: I think it's Qi Jing Bian Zhen, but I haven't had an
opportunity to taste it in a *long* time.

/Lew

Name: Aloke
Grew up in India (Calcutta). Came to US for graduate studies 23 yrs ago.
Settled here in Central Ohio since then.

Grew up with 2 types of tea: Mom and the house staff preferred CTC
boiled and with milk. Dad used Green Label brewed in a tea pot.

I am a hard core Darjeeling black tea fan. I buy the stuff locally at
Indian grocery stores or mostly by mail order these days.

Name: Danica
Origin: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Living: Los Angeles, since '94
Vintage: Metal Dog
Husband: No
Kids: no human ones, but a beautiful tabby cat named Harley, and my
boyfriend's black pug Monty
Obsessions/ interest: Tea, fashion, collecting, meditation, genius,
human psychology, art of living is the heading i suppose
Job: Film Producer, making my first right now. What a journey!
Favorite Tea: So many. It's all about what mood I'm in. At work I
like taiwanese oolongs because they are easy to brew in a gaiwan. At
home I get more fancy. I have a lot of puerh teas, some fine ones,
but I'm not drinking them so much right now. The urge to collect
becomes too great...

The Los Angeles tea drinkers are a lot of computer-heads too! I love
it. Smart, sensitive, interesting people.

"Mal from Oz" be.joking.com> wrote:

Name: Nick
Origin: da Bronx, USA
Living: North Hollywoodm CA, USA, since 1961
Vintage: 1935
Wife: Yes
Kids: many, most grown up and left the coop
Obsessions: Tea, Wine, Whisky, Golf, Guns, BBQ
Job: Retired for 9 years ;-)
Favorite Tea: Genmaicha

--
Nick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families!

Well I found that interesting - yes, the number of respondants in the IT
game was a surprise (to me anyway). During the past 30 years in that
industry I found myself drinking copious amounts of coffee - lots of long
hours. I find now that I generally work less and more regular hours and
tea gives me the lift I need. And I do believe that a few cups of a nice
TGY or similar in the morning after I arrive 'sets me up' for the day.

Having said that, I still need that cup of instant first thing after waking
(yes, I hear you all cringing).

Anyway, back to the tea....

Cheers
Mal
Oz

OK.

Name: Richard Eilers
Origin: Traverse City, Michigan
Vintage: 1952
Residence: Saint Michaels, Maryland
Wife: yes (16 years for #2)
Kids: 2 boys grown and gone, 1 lovely girl, 3.5 years old
Obsessions: Tea, Sailing, Travel
Job(s): Botanist/Consultant (mostly Transmission Corridor Assesments
for Power and Natural Gas Pipelines), erstwhile tea merchant.
Favorite Tea: 2005 Yan Qing Hao WuYi Cha Wang, Kyoto Sencha, Ceylon
(Brunswick BOP), Darjeelings, etc.
Favorite coffee:Kenya AA Lighter Roast