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Mark

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I am an alumnus of TTU in Cookeville Tennessee -- where I still live. I am currently engaged to my college sweetheart, Sina, whom I met in '03.I am also a 2nd lieutenant in the Army National Guard, Signal Corps branch.I like to write fiction, and am about 130 pages into my first serious attempt at a novel. Here's hoping it works out!I, however, am really bad at writing these little bios. I can sit here and throw out all this stuff about me, but there's really a lot more to me than the above. Just send me a message or something and we'll go from there. As much as I like to talk about myself to placate my massive ego, I think it's best that I just cut this short and save the embarrassment. :)

My Interests

Military history, horror fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, politics, religion, video games, hiking, sleeping, talking to my cat (who realizes how insane I am, but tolerates me because I feed him), and computers.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone.

Music:

Pink Floyd, Metallica, Enya (yes..I said Enya), NIN, Coil, Aphex Twin, Marylin Manson, Techno, Rock, Classical, and some Country.

Movies:

Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Old Boy, Dune, Dawn of the Dead (old and new versions), Fight Club, War of the Worlds, Saving Private Ryan, Come and See, Starship Troopers, DragonSlayer, Boondock Saints, Unbreakable, Cube, etc....

Television:

I don't watch it.

Books:

King, Turtledove, Stirling, Rowling, Tolkien, etc...

Heroes:

Anyone who has had a rough life, yet managed to gain control of it and go on to do great things. Generic, right?

My Blog

FETUS UPDATE!!

The ultrasound says it's going to be a little girl.  I'm very excited.  This means that I might finally get a chance to shoot someone when she eventually starts dating.  It's always ope...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:58:00 PST

Updates don’t come often...

Obviously I'm not in Yuma, AZ anymore.  :) Right now, life is great.  Sina and I own a house, we're both doing well at our jobs (though jobs can inevitably suck) and we have a child on the w...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:33:00 PST

In the desert

Well... I've been down here in Yuma, Arizona as part of Operation Jumpstart.  It's the first real world mission I've been on.  It's not the sort of thing that Iraq is, but politically it's a...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:17:00 PST

Life has changed quite a bit...

Yes, I realize that I update my blog about as often as pandas fuck, but hey... I have a life, unfortunately.  By life I mean going to work, coming home, and sleeping.  So maybe it needs some...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:31:00 PST

Hard as Dell

Got a phone interview today from Dell computers.  They were offering me a Tech Support job for $28,000 a year.  Everything was going great until they asked me if I planned on taking any days...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:40:00 PST

Me and blog updates are on speaking terms again

So here I am, less than a week from graduating OBC.  Awesome.  Now all I have to do is go to guard drill and make sure my sergeants are taken care of (and make sure they take care of my inex...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:32:00 PST

3 Months left...

I've been at Signal Corps OBC since early May, and I have less than three months to go before graduation.  All I can tell you is that slideshow presentations are Satan incarnate, especially when ...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:31:00 PST

<insert blog title here>

Okay... so I got the night off from work so I can make up for the graduation party that never happened.  It's my friend Nicki's b-day party, and although I love her to death and wish her a happy ...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:26:00 PST

*yawn*

A.M. Posts are becoming a habit for me, it appears.  For various reasons, I woud up staying awake for 24 hours.  I went into drill yesterday morning looking like a zombie; great first impres...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:52:00 PST

Re-shuffle

So, the Guard has moved me around from the Cookeville armory, to the Winchester armory, back to the Cookeville armory, and now to Lebanon.  Lots of fun, folks!  Still haven't been paid yet, ...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:44:00 PST