This is a good topic, and I apologize for coming to the party late--it's
been a busy weekend!

I write and occasionally get published, although I'm not sure if that makes
me a writer.  I write poetry, and some of that gets published as well, but
I'm not sure if it's art.

I've been playing guitar in a band called Chester Drawers for thirteen
years, a band that consists of me and a buddy who get together once a week
and drink beer and learn songs, but we've never actually played a gig in an
establishment, so I don't know if that makes me a musician.

I occasionally cater parties and events with jambalaya, gumbo, boiled
crawfish, or fried catfish, but that doesn't make me a chef.

I've been in the securities industry for twelve years, but I do it to pay
the bills and choose not to let the career dictate how I live (I have my
kids for that).

I drive a Vanagon and have torn it down and rebuilt it along with a dozen
other cars, but that doesn't make me a mechanic.

Driving this Vanagon puts me in about a .01 percentile among drivers in this
country, and I like that.  As I've said before, my vehicle is the best (in
my mind).  I'm not really sure what my identity is but I know it involves
this odd machine.

So, I'm not quite arsty-fartsy, not quite buttoned-up, not really a hippie,
and most certainly not quite sane.  That makes me a Vanagon owner.

Joe T.

>From: mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Come out of the closet, all
>Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:12:45 -0500
>
>Former woodwright and ornamental plasterer. Currently selling and managing
>the craft of ornamental plaster and scagliola restoration.
>
>www.haylesandhowe.com
>
>--
>mordo
>1990 Carat

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