Noneskull

-I'm a somewhat complex quasi-intellectual, agnostic, dilettante dork -Proud husband and awestruck father of 3 -I grew up in SoCal, but now reside in a Midwestern town with a Tibetan Buddhist temple -I am descended from Celtic warriors and fiercely proud of my Irish heritage -I once sang in a punk band -I sometimes fancy being a vegetarian, but animals are so darn yummy, I just can't bring myself to give 'em up -I was a wildland firefighter at the Grand Canyon -I'm always nervous around the ocean -I have been published in a national magazine -I laugh every time the ketchup makes that fart sound -I never got the "organized team sports fanatic" gene encoded in my DNA -I am married to the girl of my dreams -I want to learn how to play the mandolin -A Hopi friend said my spirit was embodied by the Turtle, symbolizing wisdom and long life (and slowness...) -I love my country but lament its staggeringly incompetent governance -I am virtually never ill -I went to choral camp (not as cool as "band camp", but I digress...) and can often be heard singing opera in the shower -Former miscreant with faded, lame-ass tats, chipped teeth & scars to prove it -I rarely know what day of the week it is -I act like a 7 year-old on Christmas morning when a big winter storm approaches -I have rambled and scrambled over 300 miles in and around the Grand Canyon -I was an exchange student in Germany after high school -I think Republicans are scary -Lover of books, well-built music, handcrafted lagers, mountains, storms, babies, dark-haired ladies in sundresses and other beautiful things -In 1984, I jumped from more than 40 feet up, into a deep pool in Oak Creek Canyon, AZ, did a straight-up belly flop, and broke 3 ribs -I ran a marathon once -I have had, at last count, 37 jobs -I hate cities and crowds -I love flowers and pictures drawn by little kids -I failed spectacularly at math in school, but can somehow transpose elevations from feet to meters, in my head -I suffer from verbosity -Grey, green and brown all look the same to me -Former college addict (Educated Idiot in recovery) -I love to observe pattern and process in the natural world -I have a freakishly acute sense of smell -I will NEVER wax my back (or anything else) -I can ALWAYS tell you which way north is -I drink far too much coffee -I have driven almost one million miles (half of them in a bus) -I long to climb a big mountain -My random bouts of precognition annoy the crap out of me -I once hitchhiked 200 miles, barefoot, during a solar eclipse on 5 hits of acid -I constantly fight the urge to tattoo my dermis with the tapestry of my life -I have never been fishing -The NASCAR thing utterly baffles me -I can recite long lists of irrelevant minutiae from memory but cannot program a VCR or total a drawer of change -I am puzzled as to how my 40th birthday could possibly be approaching -I find shaving extremely bizarre (waxed handlebar in '08? Anyone?) -I despise intolerance, ignorance, bigotry, and zealotry -I think too much and do too little -Smiling dogs always have the same effect on me -I am an unrepentant eccentric who wears flip-flops in the snow -I am generally laid back, but would, in defense of my family, unhesitatingly deconstruct any threat to them with crystalline focus and an utter absence of remorse -I am the sole example of me there is / Free Cursors Myspace Layouts Myspace Comments