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Alex

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

About Me

I'm an ex-cop, ex-army officer, current full-time computer security guy. Spent 9 1/2 years in the Army Reserve as a Military Police soldier.I enjoy reading, writing, playing video games and brewing beer. Cycling (Mountain AND Road)rocks as does SEAL Team PT! (HOOYAH!) I'm an old school freestyle bmx guy too! I'm seriously considering getting a new flatland bike and hurting myself and seeing if I can get tayderrr to laugh at me. Update: It has begun! Just bought a frame to start building up muhahahahaWho am I? A perpetual optimist. Life is too short to not look for the good in things. The glass is always half full even if the glass in broken and leaking. Who am I? A dreamer. Always looking forward, always planning the next move, always looking for the next fun. Who am I? Husband, Dad and Geek. Kym is my better half in all things. She reels me in when I'm out there and makes me think of other ways to do things. Beautiful and frustrating, enigmatic but elegantly simple. It's me and you, back to back, taking on all opponents baby! Taydeer calls me stepdad...it's a fun and challenging job, with it's ups and downs, but always interesting! Luv ya bucko! Geek-o-rama! I mean come on, I traded my life of guns, humvees and bulletproof vests for a life of desk work, staring at computers screens and trying to figure out what the hackers are going to do next. It's a rough job fighting off the call of the snack machine, but someone has to do it.Who am I? I'm Alex and it's nice to meet you.

My Interests

Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Flatland BMX, BMWs, Land Rovers, Mazda Miatas, SEAL Team PT, brewing beer, drinking beer, dirty martinis, corgis and rat dogs, video games and computers stuff, knives and knife-making, firearms.

Music:

Pretty wide-ranging, but I listen to alot of industrial synth and electropop and EBM! NIN, Ministry, Nizter Ebb, Front242, Assemblage 23, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, etc.That being said, there is all kinds of crazy stuff on my ipod. Everything from Prince to Motley Crue to Gwen Stefani..in fact just the other day, Tayderrr was giving me crap about having a beyonce song on the ole ipod. :D

Movies:

The Matrix, Man on Fire, Star Wars, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Collateral, Denzel Washington is the man!

Television:

Buffy, Angel, Blade, Battlestar Galactica, 24, Heroes

Books:

Hyperion! , Dean Koontz, Laurel K. Hamilton, Stephen King

Heroes:

Kymba, My Dad, Lance Armstrong, Richard Marcinko, various cool people that I've met throughout my life, I find inspiration in lots of people.and of course the men and women of our armed forces. Shoot, move and communicate warfighters! Hoo-ah!