There always has to be an oddball in the crowd.

[cactuswatcher]

Meme from masqthephlsphr


How common are cactuswatcher's interests

Universal none

Popular none

Common astronomy (24861) mountains (15801) science fiction (32066)

Specialist babylon 5 (5148) btvs (4237) celtic music (6426) geology (2659) russian (3641) trains (5258)

Unusual atpobtvs (13) atsf (2) bnsf (12) cactus (451) greek music (130) historical linguistics (148) mandolin (966)

Rare cbq (1) drgw (1)

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Comments

[ann1962]

I didn't bother posting mine, because listing interests is something I always forget to do.

Not oddball at all.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Quite the guy for abbreviations, aren't you ; ) And your abbreviations could mean one thing to you and another thing to someone else.

That goes for a lot of interests, though. "angel" for example, in the context of my interest list means one thing, but if you click on it and see all the people who list it as an interest, it means a *lot* of different things. ; )

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

For most of those abbreviations if you know one, you them all, except for BTVS. They are mostly old railroads.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I had to do a little thinking on these (and I didn't googlecheat.

atsf: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

bnsf: Burlington Northern Santa Fe

cbq: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy

drgw: Denver & Rio Grande Western

I'm pretty sure on these. My dad and his dad before him were serious rail enthusiasts. I imagine that there weren't too many others who could reminisce about listening to recordings of steam locomotives on a rainy Sunday, or state with certainty that at one point I had walked every inch of track in the county. Or that in my garage right now I have every issue of both Trains and Model Railroader magazine, along with a rather impressive collection of HO scale locomotives and cars.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

As I'm sure you know, those old magazines are worth something now.

I got the bug later in life. But, I'm old enough to remember road steam engines working. My sister and brother used to get a good look as trains passed by their two-room school at recess, going onto a long tressle toward a Missouri River bridge across the river bottoms from us.