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Briar Tuck

Briar Tuck

Lifer
Nov 29, 2022
1,109
5,744
Oregon coast
I've been lurking here for about a month. New to pipes but I'm very enthusiastic and committed already, as I've always been keen on pipes and the time is right for me to indulge.

I'm retired from a career in IT (software development and QA). In my retirement I'm a drummer in a classic rock band and I also clean beer taps on the side. Both great gigs for a retiree! 🙂

I've learned a lot just from lurking here and I'm quite impressed with the wealth of knowledge among the members. I'm a total newbie when it comes to pipes, but I tend to dive in deep with my hobbies. I've already been purchasing and restoring estate pipes (learned a lot here) and I'm working on gaining a better appreciation and understanding of the various pipe tobaccos.

Glad to be here, and thank you all for the knowledge and insight you have provided to a new pipe smoker.

-Dan
 
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Briar Tuck

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Lifer
Nov 29, 2022
1,109
5,744
Oregon coast
Servant King said:
Welcome to the forum, from Southern California. I stayed in Astoria overnight a few years back...man, I could've sat there forever, drinking coffee, watching the boats come and go from that harbor. Good times!

Enjoy the forum, and enjoy the journey! 👍
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Thanks for the welcome. I moved here from Orange County. My wife and I took an Alaska cruise out of Seattle and had a few extra days to spend so we went to Portland and Astoria. That is what inspired us to move to Oregon. I live in Florence, on the central coast, but I still love making trips up the coast to Astoria.
 
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Lifer
Nov 29, 2022
1,109
5,744
Oregon coast
beargreasediet said:
Oregon coast seems like a pretty idyllic place to enjoy your pipe, or anything else for that matter. Enjoy, and welcome from Western WA!
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Thanks for the welcome. I really do love living here. I agree that it's pretty much ideal for everything that I enjoy. I moved here for the fishing but there's so much more that I've come to appreciate about this area.
 
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mingc

mingc

Lifer
Jun 20, 2019
4,233
12,552
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
Welcome from Stumptown.

Ah, the Oregon Coast, where I learned not to smoke in a strong wind. It must have been nearly 20 years ago now. I was walking on one of the beaches having a smoke when the pipe suddenly got very hot. I took it out of my mouth to look at and saw flames shooting out of a hole that had burned through the chamber wall. I reflexively threw the pipe on the sand and that was the last I saw of it. The next wave must have taken it away. This is how I know that old sea captains never smoked their pipes while steering through a gale!
 
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Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
16,660
31,230
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In the semi-rural NorthEastern USA
Briar Tuck said:
I've been lurking here for about a month. New to pipes but I'm very enthusiastic and committed already, as I've always been keen on pipes and the time is right for me to indulge.

I'm retired from a career in IT (software development and QA). In my retirement I'm a drummer in a classic rock band and I also clean beer taps on the side. Both great gigs for a retiree! 🙂
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Hi I am currently a janitor and I am sorry about your other I.T. guys. At least where I work there is always one I.T. guy (got several I.T. departments). And there is always that one gross guy, always at least here. Most of them are like normal. One guy had a crusty desk (we can't move things on desks, it's the rules) and he had a piece of cake on it, not on a plate or napkin. On the sticky stinky desk. Three days later he ate half the cake slice. We have one I.T. guy that doesn't flush ever and stands on a lazy susan or other spinning surface while peeing. So sorry that you probably met a few of those guys. Oh that guy also left me the grossest present when his office got moved. Years worth of snot rockets some blood on the wall behind his desk. I always imagine him being one of those why don't girls like nice guys (you're not that nice dude).
Also fun side note.... I imagine your beer tap cleaning being more of a vigilantly public service kind of thing. Why because it's more fun for me that way.
Briar Tuck said:
I've learned a lot just from lurking here and I'm quite impressed with the wealth of knowledge among the members. I'm a total newbie when it comes to pipes, but I tend to dive in deep with my hobbies. I've already been purchasing and restoring estate pipes (learned a lot here) and I'm working on gaining a better appreciation and understanding of the various pipe tobaccos.

Glad to be here, and thank you all for the knowledge and insight you have provided to a new pipe smoker.

-Dan
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It's a good time to be a pipe smoker. Being able to ask more then three or four pipe smokers when I run into them is an amazing thing.
 
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