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AJ

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About Me


I have ten tattoos, quit smoking eight years ago, don't drink, watch too much TV, and don't cut the grass often enough. I'm a fanatic about the outdoors--I hike, backpack, and camp any chance I can get. I'm currently working towards my 2000-miler status by section hiking the Appalachian Trail.
I play music too. Currently, I play the flute, acoustic guitar, and violin. I don't play all that well, but I really enjoy it.
I'm also very interested in Green building techniques and practices. Especially as that relates to the construction industry. I'm getting ready to take the LEED AP exam soon as well.

My Interests

Backpacking, hiking, backpacking, hiking, backpacking (in that order)

Also, building and riding road and fixed gear bicycles, refrigerator poetry, thinking about writing a novel, and sitting around on my butt.

I'd like to meet:

Gandhi, Salvador Dali, Haruki Murakami, Lance Armstrong, Beethoven, Dr. Phil, Sherlock Holmes, and Ansel Adams (to name a few)

Music:

Everything.
Opera. (No, seriously.) Check out: Die Zauberflote, La Traviata, La Boheme, La Sonnambula, Turandot, and Giulio Cesare for starters...

This ain't yer Uncle Jimbo's bluegrass! Hackensaw Boys, Chairs, and Blue Harvest, as well as Split Lip Rayfield

And so you don't think I'm a complete idiot...here's some music I like you might recognize:
Elvis Costello, Counting Crows, Five for Fighting, Beatles, Graham Colton Band, Pixies, Calexico, Aqualung, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Bob Dylan, The Ramones, Neil Young, O.A.R., Ryan Adams & the Cardinals

Movies:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Any Guy Pierce movie
V for Vendetta
Princess Bride
Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Television:

Survivorman; Man vs. Wild; Mythbusters; CSI (the original); Criminal Minds; Macgyver; Judge Judy; old Transformers cartoons
Now, I fully admit to being addicted to Passions (yes, the soap opera) and after that's over, I watch Dr. Phil. I love Passions. I love Dr. Phil. I'm a pansy.

Books:

East of Eden
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Kite Runner
Soul Mountain
The Attack
The Pillars of the Earth
Walking with Spring
Don Quixote
Roget's New Pocket Thesaurus
Roots
Such A Long Journey
Tao of Photography
Watership Down
Never Let Me Go
Jude the Obscure
The Life of Pi
Family Matters
American Purgatorio
Any of Simon R. Green's Nightside series

Currently, I'm working through the Islam Quintet by Tariq Ali.

My Blog

I'm movin' and shakin'

I'm moving my blog, peeps.  I'm tired of Myspace and (believe it or not, I'm not yet sure I do) I'm tired of surveys.  Sooooo...I started a LiveJournal: http://ruffianpoet.livejournal.com/ I...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:23:00 PST

Just in case it wasn't obvious before


Posted by AJ on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:48:00 PST

WOW! The most PERSONAL survey EVER!

Brace yourselves for... The Most Personal Survey Ever...1. Who were you with last night?That depends on what your meaning of "with" is.  Did I have sex with anyone last night?  No.  But...
Posted by AJ on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:46:00 PST

What a perfect week...

Heather and I just got back from our nine-year-anniversary vacation.  And it was just AMAZING.  Except for the last evening (when the skies opened and rain poured down), the weather was perf...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 30 May 2007 02:35:00 PST

There is no ME in SURVEY.

1. You have $5 and need to buy snacks at a gas station. What do you buy?A Slim Jim, a King Size Snickers, and a bottle of fruit punch Gatorade.  All the food groups, right there, baby!2. If you w...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:21:00 PST

Ahhh...that's NIIIICE...survey fix

I have had a hell of a week, you guys.  I've been to Philly and back THREE DAYS this week.  What's nice is that I can finally see the beginning of the end of the tunnel.  In the course ...
Posted by AJ on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:35:00 PST

Just got home from Philly and...

...a friend posted this in a bulletin.  I can't figure out how to get the damn thing to embed in the damn blog.  But seriously, it's worth the 6 minutes to watch this thing.  Besides it...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:51:00 PST

What I've been up to lately...

Okay, so lately I've been distant.  Really distant from all my cool friends, both old and new, and I'm sorry.  My job, while nearly always on a schedule bordering on the insane, has actually...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:57:00 PST

A countdown

14 Books:Life of PiThe Kite RunnerThe AttackNever Let Me GoWatership DownSoul MountainKafka on the ShoreAmerican PurgatorioA Tale of Two CitiesA Friend of the EarthFamily MattersEverything is Illumina...
Posted by AJ on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:51:00 PST

Oh Yeah Baby! 30 More...

30 Things You'd Never Think to Ask1. Have you ever been searched by the cops? Yes.  And it wasn't fun.  They had a dog.  Big Ohio farm boy cops and lil ol' me with my pseudo-mohawk and ...
Posted by AJ on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:16:00 PST