Greetings from the Great Pacific Northwestern United States

Greetings to All, and thank you to Dave (Mac1775) for the invitation.  I have been a member of the SCF for quite some time, but have noticed that most of the folks there do not seem to have the same collecting interests as me (at least I don't see a lot of current discussions on the topics)
.... and I have a lot of collecting interests

Although my primary interest is pre-1965 Worldwide Airmails, I have country collections of Greece, Japan, Greenland, pre-1948 Germany, Liechtenstein, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Gold Coast/Ghana, Ryukyu, and have recently begun New Zealand. I also collect topically and have put together collections of 1949 75th Anniversary of the UPU, 1965 Centenary of ITU, 1959/1963 Centenary of the Red Cross, 1963 Malaria Eradication, 1959 World Refugee Year, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Issues, 1963 Freedom From Hunger, 1940 50th Anniversary of the Pan-American Union, 1966 20th Anniversary UNESCO, 1935 KGV Silver Jubilee, 1937 KGVI Coronation, 1946 Peace and Victory Omnibus, and the 1953 QEII Coronation. I have also begun thinking about adding Maps and Stamp Centenaries to my topical themes.

I enjoy discussing forgeries and have accumulated a lot of good information about separating the good from the bad, or even ugly

I am very much into designing my own album pages. I use Adobe PageMaker and PhotoShop quite extensively. All of my collections are mounted primarily on my own computer generated pages. That allows me to collect what interests me instead of simply filling holes in someone else's "collection".  I also am interested in stamp collecting database software.  Microsoft Excel spreadsheets are great, but I mostly lean toward the open source Microsoft Access applications.

Anyhow, look forward to joining you all in the group.

Cheers,
Terry