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About Me

I graduated from the University of the Pacific finally and now I am trying to be a grown-up. I have been a father for 9 years and it has provided me previously unknown joy. I am a bit of a high dollar wino, and I love cooking, sipping and entertaining. I have eclectic musical tastes, and like to dance when the mood strikes me. I met a wonderful woman and we fall in love all over again every day! I ate some nice cupcakes the other night. You can try them too! http://www.cupsandcakesbakery.com/

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My Interests

I love cycling and hiking and need to make more time for both. I work on my two currently non-running motorcycles. I love music, and the feel of a mellow wine coursing through my head.

I'd like to meet:

beauty, deep down, unbridled joy at the complexity of life, persistent adherence to love, in light of broken hearts

Music:

Rosin Coven, She Wants Revenge, Smashing Pumpkins/Zwan, Tool/APC, Silver Sun Pickups, Tiger Army, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Specials, Monkey, Marilyn Manson, Fashion Bomb, Garbage, Staind, System of a Down, Breaking Benjamin, Alkaline Trio, Blue October, Hawthorne Heights, DCFC, the Shins, Placebo, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy

Movies:

Grosse Pointe Blank, Fight Club, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, RHPS, Garden State, Amelie

Television:

I pretty much only watch Comedy Central and edutainment things on Discovery Channel and History, and other such drivel

Books:

Generation Slut, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Middlesex, Neuromancer, The Bell Jar, Anne Rice, Patricia Cornwell, Ninn, erotica, true crime and other pulp

Heroes:

My two late grandfathers, my mother, my father, my girl

My Blog

My life is Rokken like Dokken!

Friday, I went for a training ride with Masque. He is training for a double century and a hellaciously longer ride this year. I would like to ride a century or two and do some triathalons. So, we hea...
Posted by El Troyano on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:32:00 PST

up early

I couldn't sleep after waking up at 3:30, so here I am. I applied for a new job and forwarded my resume to an acquaintance who works there for a hopefully inside track. In a few minutes, I will go run...
Posted by El Troyano on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:50:00 PST

And I ran, I ran so far away...

So I ran again with Alicia this morning. My knee was having none of it though, so after I determined that it was bluffing, I ignored it and got on with completing 30 minutes of exercise of the heart p...
Posted by El Troyano on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:45:00 PST

running

I got up this morning and went RUNNING with Alicia. We did one minute intervals of walking and running. It wasn't too strenuous, though I am out of shape and I broke my ankle Nov. 8th, last year and h...
Posted by El Troyano on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:52:00 PST

late night IM and Phone

Suffice it to say, I have met a kindred spirit! I have some joy in my life and can't wait for the next day! Prior to this, I was starting to get a little more motivated too. I felt that I was having t...
Posted by El Troyano on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:45:00 PST

pphht!

So. In spite of appearing looney, I begin to write late in the evening. I went out drinking after repairing a fair damsel's car, as is my wont. However, I still seek a partner, a damsel who likes, nay...
Posted by El Troyano on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:25:00 PST

Mix a jukebox disc.....................................

So, I seem to mix these discs that are filled with songs whose sole purpose is to make me cry while driving. Some band had a name like that... Are romantics doomed to be alone? WTF!?! OK, so the pity ...
Posted by El Troyano on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:55:00 PST

Though I usually cringe at the thought of poetry by non-poets, romance rears its sighing head

Caress and Reflect Discovery as two learn new meaning, Introspective realizations of lost time, Wordless messages of longing and desire, Lovers find themselves better reflected. Softly, the cha...
Posted by El Troyano on Sun, 28 May 2006 08:23:00 PST

fluid motion like a warm honey river

So, over the weekend, I got a new road bike. It is beautiful. Its lines are poetic. It was built with the rider in mind. One like me who enjoys moving along under the power of my muscles rhy...
Posted by El Troyano on Tue, 16 May 2006 08:20:00 PST

At the risk of being Melodramatic

I feel like I am the lyrics to a Weezer song. Am I already too old to be an idealist romantic? My cynic paint is beginning to wear thin, and I fear I may be shining through at the cost of my veneer....
Posted by El Troyano on Wed, 03 May 2006 03:44:00 PST