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Will

About Me

.. .. Hi! My name is Will, or you can also call me Toast, Wyatt, or Billy. I live in historic Riverside, California, the birthplace of the Navel Orange! I grew up in the suburbs of San Francisco and LA but have spent most of my adult life in small towns, so I'm a total hick at heart. My chief occupations are agricultural research in the San Jacinto Valley and my Laboratory here in Riverside, playing music on my drums, banjos, guitars, etc, cooking incredible vegan food, cultivating Onions, Tomatoes, Spinach, Swiss Chard, Beets and Squash in my backyard farm, and other leisure activities of questionable value. I travel a lot, mainly to Santa Cruz/Bay area, Humboldt County, Texas, Florida and around SoCal. I'll be in Kerrville, TX in May and either New Mexico or Oregon in June/July for the rainbow gathering. I'll be moving at the end of August to go to Graduate school but I'm waiting to hear back from all the colleges I applied to before I know for sure. I like people and animals a whole lot, so if you're a human, cat, dog, kangaroo, or whatever, drop me a line sometime and we can hang out.
Some Random Facts: I've been to 41 States and 4 Canadian Provinces, My favorite big cities are San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR and Austin, TX, I own four guitars, a drum set, two banjos, a pedal steel guitar, a lap steel guitar, a synthesizer, a xylophone, a bass guitar, a cajun accordion, and a violin, I've lived in Hayward, Placentia, San Rafael, and Arcata in CA, and Presque Isle, ME before I moved to Riverside, I someday want to write books and earn a phD, I've had my picture in the newspaper at least four times, I try to go to the Kerrville Folk Festival, the Rainbow Gathering, and The Fest! every year, I love to skateboard but never learned any tricks, I drink too much coffee, I'm constantly in search of the perfect plaid cowboy shirt, I'm licensed to drive a forklift and handle small amounts of radioactive material, and I want us all very much to be happy. .. ..

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who love life as much as I do; people who like to go out and have fun; bicyclists; anarchists; trekies; musicians; railroad enthusiasts; punks; cowpokes; hobos; squatters; burn-outs; mad scientists; people who love country music as much as I do (or more); aliens from outer space; people who are secretly robots; People who square and/or contra dance; quiet people; loud people; and people who are really excited about anything!

My Blog

The Great Tractor Adventure

After a solid month of very physically demanding field work down at the farm, the last major project to finish up from the summer was the EM survey. This maps out the electrical conductivity of the s...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:20:00 GMT

The farming life ain’t for everybody

Every two or three weeks for work I take this fancy machine called the "NEUTRON PROBE" out to the farm and use it to measure how much water is in the soil at 14 different locations in the 70-acre fiel...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Riverside is Awesome!

Southern California has always kind of turned me off, but my newly adopted hometown of Riverside, in the inland empire region of southern California, is really cool for a variety of reasons. People a...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:01:00 GMT

I got drums yo...

Word. I've been playing drums since I was fifteen. It was my first instrument and still to this day is the only one I feel like I can actually play well. When I moved to Maine two years ago I sort o...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 19:16:00 GMT

The New Mountain Goats Album...

is fucking incredible!!The first time I heard the mountain goats years ago at a friends house, I remember my reaction was something like: "Who the fuck does this guy think he is?" Lo-Fi recordings of...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:12:00 GMT

I Moved Back to California!

Hi everybody! I am now back in my home state of California on a semi-permanent basis. I now live in beautiful Riverside, California (to be honest, parts of it are kind of ugly), about 60 mile East o...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:29:00 GMT

Florida!

I just got back from Florida!  I went to the beautiful city of Gainesville, home of the Florida Gators.  Gainesville was much like any of other medium sized university town, except taken ove...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:30:00 GMT

My Arkansas Adventure

I just got back from Arkansas earlier this month, which was amazingly gorgeously beautiful.   I went to the rainbow gathering, the hippiest festival ever!  For those of y...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:56:00 GMT

Well shut my mouth, I'm a headin' South!

So it looks like it's actually going to happen: this friday I'm goin' to Arkansas!  I've decided to go by bus because 1: It's a hell of a lot cheaper than flying, 2: I get to see a lot of th...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:57:00 GMT

Why I love the Presque Isle Fire Dept.

Because....All the remaining snow in town is incredibly dirty on account of all the evil cars spraying dirty water everywhere and when the snowpack melted it covered the sidewalks with mud and rocks, ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:24:00 GMT