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E emspace Member Vancouver Joined: Jan 05, 2003 Posts: 879	E emspace Posted posted on Wed, Jan 8, 2003 2:24 PM Aloha to all! emspace here, a brand-spankin'-new member. I have been in love with things Polynesian since my first trip to Hawaii in 1968. I was 9 years old (now you can do the math and figure out how old and crusty I am), got to see those fine lads Borman, Lovell, and Anders touch down from their recovery aircraft carrier at Pearl Harbor and wave (to me!) after orbiting the moon. I am lucky to have relatives in byooteeful Oahu, and they have encouraged my fetish all my life. Now I'm a web designer, musician, mug and lava-lava collector (not necessarily in order of importance) and resident of Vancouver, BC, Canada, probably the closest thing this frigid country has to the tropics. Plenty of palms, bananas, and yuccas planted here and there to soothe the eye and call the soul to thoughts of distant lands. Our town used to have a Trader Vic's as many of you will know, but it got swept away some time in the 80s. Alas, no scene here, though I once had the pleasure of meeting a young couple in a bar who wanted to open a place and gave them my card. I can't think of a better way to pry my butt out of this office chair, but Vancouverites can be extremely fickle in their dining and drinking habits. Restaurant failures within 1 year are around 50% I think. All in good time... Loves: my wife Steph, all things Tiki, tropical music of all kinds including exotica, reggae/dub, bossa nova (my favorite), and Afro-Cuban, as well as liberal dashes of funk and jazz, and travel. Hates: people who think "freedom of speech as long as you agree with me". I live in a very politically polarized place, and do my best to ignore the whole mess. Call me a lunatic, but I think life should be about joy, freedom, choices and opportunities. Old-fashioned, but it works for me! much aloha, emspace.

Aloha to all! emspace here, a brand-spankin'-new member. I have been in love with things Polynesian since my first trip to Hawaii in 1968. I was 9 years old (now you can do the math and figure out how old and crusty I am), got to see those fine lads Borman, Lovell, and Anders touch down from their recovery aircraft carrier at Pearl Harbor and wave (to me!) after orbiting the moon. I am lucky to have relatives in byooteeful Oahu, and they have encouraged my fetish all my life.

Now I'm a web designer, musician, mug and lava-lava collector (not necessarily in order of importance) and resident of Vancouver, BC, Canada, probably the closest thing this frigid country has to the tropics. Plenty of palms, bananas, and yuccas planted here and there to soothe the eye and call the soul to thoughts of distant lands. Our town used to have a Trader Vic's as many of you will know, but it got swept away some time in the 80s. Alas, no scene here, though I once had the pleasure of meeting a young couple in a bar who wanted to open a place and gave them my card. I can't think of a better way to pry my butt out of this office chair, but Vancouverites can be extremely fickle in their dining and drinking habits. Restaurant failures within 1 year are around 50% I think. All in good time...

Loves: my wife Steph, all things Tiki, tropical music of all kinds including exotica, reggae/dub, bossa nova (my favorite), and Afro-Cuban, as well as liberal dashes of funk and jazz, and travel.

Hates: people who think "freedom of speech as long as you agree with me". I live in a very politically polarized place, and do my best to ignore the whole mess. Call me a lunatic, but I think life should be about joy, freedom, choices and opportunities. Old-fashioned, but it works for me!

much aloha,
emspace.

Post #18686 by emspace on Wed, Jan 8, 2003 2:24 PM