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About Me

I'm a fun loving family man with a beautiful American wife and two wonderful (most of the time! lol) kids. I live in Glasgow, Scotland and work for the government (I can't tell you what or I'd have to kill you! lol! seriously though I work in the exciting world of Trade & Investment) I am a major Star Wars fan and have lots of other interests too.

My Interests

Star Wars, Sci-Fi/Fantasy in general, music, reading, travel, history, the great outdoors, Movies, theatre, X-Box, PS2, psp video gaming and playing Guild Wars online, Yankees baseball. " .... width="425" height="350" ..

I'd like to meet:

Happily married guy simply looking to meet new friends.

Music:

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Movies:

I love movies but I'll put my top ones here! Star Wars (all of them) Lord of the Rings trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, Goodfellas, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Fargo, Dogma, Serenity, Unforgiven, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman Begins, Spirited Away and the list goes on and on. (You should see our DVD collection! lol!)

Television:

Stargate SG1 and Atlantis,Battlestar Galactica, Lost, The Sopranos, My name is Earl, Firefly, Seinfeld, That 70's Show, Little Britain, Band of Brothers, Black Books, Miami Ink and Spaced

Books:

The Lord of the Rings, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Catcher in the Rye, pretty much everything by Terry Pratchett & Stephen King

Heroes:

My late grandparents, my wife, JFK, Martin Luther King, Neil Armstrong, Derek Jeter and not forgetting Han Solo!

My Blog

Pardon the Witch!!

More amazing news today that I was really surprised to read that some poor woman had been tried and convicted of Witchcraft as recently as the 1940's !!! The family of the last ...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:15:00 PST

Rainforest gets protected status!

Great news today!! Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status. The segments of land in the northern Para state together cover 16.4 million hectares (63,320 sq miles), an ar...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:20:00 PST

Scared to death by fairies!

I read an article in the newspaper this morning which shows just how far things change in history and how peoples perceptions of the world around them have changed too. Four people buried 450 years ag...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:56:00 PST

Take a look at yourself!!

A time will come in our life when we will finally get it, when in the midst of all our fears and insanity, we will stop dead in our tracks and somewhere the voice inside our head will speak "ENOUGH".E...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:10:00 PST

What have the Scots ever done for us?

I was once amazed when a tourist stated to me that they were surprised that we had televisions in Scotland!! Have them I replied, of course we have them, we invented the bloody things!! In the spirit ...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:26:00 PST

R.I.P Steve Irwin

Another R.I.P today but one that is actually important for a change. Real sad news that Steve Irwin has been killed. What kind of man was Steve Irwin? He turned a small underfunded rep...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:28:00 PST

R.I.P Airfix

The company "Airfix" a major name from my childhood has gone into liquidation, prompting from me an outpouring of nostalgia for the model kits they made I am saddened by this news, I spent a great d...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:33:00 PST

R.I.P Stargate SG1

Not a happy bunny today finding out that the Sci-Fi channel are canning any further production of one of my favourite Shows, Stargate SG1 after the end of the 10th season. Aaaargh! Why get rid of a pr...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:56:00 PST

Getting Old!

There are just some days when you feel your age. Normally I feel the same way I did when I was 18 (only with a lot more responsibilities) but there are other days when I think God, I'm getting old. To...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:08:00 PST

Happiness!

We convince ourselves that life will be better when we are married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we will be more content when they are. After t...
Posted by Darth Kiltie on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:02:00 PST