I am a just an ordinary yet nerdy lefty living and working in Northern California who enjoys hiking, the ocean and the night sky, wine tasting, micro-brews, chai lattes, and softball.I love to dance, sing and play musical instruments, read; I collect comic books and graphic novels, laser-discs, dvd's and LP's.I love going to the opera, theater, symphony, air shows, movies, plays and rock concerts.Walks on the beach and sunsets are on my top ten.
• I enjoy anything that involves southern California, I try to visit my hometown of San Diego at least once a year if time allows. Geological Field Work College trips during the summer, fast pitch softball and baseball, basketball, football, camping, surfing, swimming and diving, snowboarding (well I try to snowboard - falling on my face and butt 99.9% of the time hardly qualifies as snowboarding), scuba diving, white-water rafting, rock climbing, riding dirt bikes and quad 4x4's, brew fests, coffee, traveling (road-trips), oceanography and marine biology, archeology, geology, history (ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia and the American Civil War), physics, space, NASA, Apple-Macintosh computers and programs, Sea World, the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, the Gas Lamp district and Seaport Village in San Diego, the Santa Monica Pier and the Pier in Oceanside, roller coasters (the bigger and faster the better!), Disneyland, Grand Ole Opry, collecting photographs and movie memorabilia, art, paintings, museums, archeological sites, visiting state and national parks, overlooking the ocean and smelling the salty air, golf (i golf right-handed, i can't hit a golf ball to save my life left-handed), movies, dvd box sets and collector editions, flirting, spending time with friends and family, fast cars, playing video games with my brother on the xbox 360 and the PC. I enjoy hockey, horseback riding, NASCAR (Tony Stewart), my baseball team is the Los Angeles Dodgers, and my football team is the New Orleans Saints, my college sports team favorites are USC Trojans (love the marching band), UCLA Bruins (once upon a time I was set to play softball here), University of Notre Dame, and San Diego State - I love the college level of sports.
• I DISLIKE spiders, snakes, GDSOB Scorpions, people who play games (relationship ones), and who don't think girls can be any good at sports, catty females, unsportsmanlike like conduct, umpires who need glasses and a rule book, the designated hitter, the Yankees, Giants, 49ers, Raiders, liars and judgmental people.
May the Warm Winds of Heaven blow softly upon your house.
May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there.
May your Moccasins make happy tracks in many snows,
and may the Rainbow always touch your shoulder.
Alan Seeger. 1888–1916
"I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
I HAVE a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
