Guess I'll poke my head in here, as I don't think I ever went onto the official intro page.
My name is Mike; I was born on base in Fairbanks, Alaska, back during the Cold War when there was an Air Force base up there. Grew up in north Seattle, but got pushed farther north to Everett when the real estate prices started skyrocketing back in the '80's.
I used to be a lighting electrician, but now I work in the legal arena (think
Law & Order), commuting back & forth to Seattle. I used to hunt and fish with my dad, but have fallen out of the practice for several years, as he lives in Oregon now, and I have neither a boat nor an RV. I do miss it sometimes.
I have had many grills over the years, but a couple years ago I got the crazy idea that I wanted to try low-n-slow smoking. So I bought a cheap-o Char Broil offset at Walmart, and then discovered the joy of having to totally modify it to make it work halfway decent. Even so, a few good smokes on it gave me the bug, and now I have my original 5-burner propane grill, a Weber OTG, an electric commercial fridge conversion that I did myself, and lastly, an old style, black MES 30. I had to give my other no-name charcoal grill to the daughter and son-in-law, to apease the wife.
Will probably clean up the Char Broil offset and sell it on craigslist this Spring, as I haven't used it in about a year.