age: 46 (Dec 31, 1966)

MEMBER SINCE: November 2003

occupation: Telco Tech Grunt, Nihilist

gets me hot: girls

crush: Cider's Mom

sign: PLEASE DO NOT SIT ON THE BODYBAGS

makes me happy: getting published, unraveling the unfathomable, solitude, washing out the damage.

stats: 5'10 190 blah blah

into: Writing, reading, fixing broken things, school, exercise, self-reliance, people. The Jerky Boys, Country Blues from the 1920s/1930s

fantasy: house in the woods, quiet, time on my hands, writing every day all day, wrenching on my Land Rover, like-minded mate in my proximity.

i lost my virginity: 17, awkward, scared on my parent's bedroom floor, entirely unanware of what it was I was getting into or what it was I wanted.

body mods: tats left upper arm crossed M-16s, right upper arm "SKINS" (yeah, I know...); left patellar tendon nylon reinforcement! Lots of scars.

most humbling moment: SSG Phillips says to wigged out 17 year old me, "yo' daddy ain' here, troop" on my first day of basic training.