I am smart, kind, usually very nice, I will make you smile and I am always polite. I need to work on modesty, but at least I have honesty down pat. I am looking for someone to have fun times with that is interesting to talk to and be around. I don't get to know people easily, but once I do, I am definitely a good person to know in just about any situation.

For me, fun has a very wide definition. Fun could mean going out to eat, going hiking, working out, cooking, trying something new, having a great conversation, going to the park (especially when there is a concert of some sort there!), walking the dogs, or just about anything else interesting. I have been well convinced in my life that there is just no point in wasting life on things that don't make us and others happy.

I manage the engineering department at a company that makes products used to train animals, which is a very interesting and demanding job that I enjoy. I am working on starting some businesses of my own, which I hope will open lots of other opportunities for me. I am trying very hard to be a good dad and succeeding at it for the most part! I am committed to making a positive difference in as many people's life's as I can and using the gifts I have to their fullest advantage. I am recently trying my hand at being vegan - and becoming very informed in the process!

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• Ecloketic_Again

Working with and fixing computers, training others, being silly, learning new things quickly, cooking, getting things done, making people laugh (or so I think), solving problems.

My intelligence. Sometimes my eyes. My vestigial tail...

I can read, watch or listen to just about anything, enjoy it, and learn something new from it. I am currently reading books about self improvement, weight lifting, and psychology. I like to have three or four books going at the same time and I read every chance I get. I subscribe to National Geographic, Make and Scientific American and read them regularly. I will read almost anything given the opportunity.

I like lots of different movies and genres of movies. Comedy is one of my favorites. I like movies like 300 and Sin City. I also like documentaries, nature specials and things like that. I am a fan of The Office, 30 Rock and some other shows from time to time. I like British humor from Monty Python to the I.T. Crowd. Python literacy is more or less a must in my family. I am well acquainted with who exactly lives in a pineapple under the sea... I have enjoyed many foreign films that I have seen. I love watching karate movies with my son.

Musically, I am O.K. with most kinds of music, with particular soft spots for 80's and 90's rock and metal (I was in a few bands during my teens and early twenties, mostly playing drums), classical, and techno. The playlist on my Zune has every kind of music imaginable. You want to listed to the current top forty songs in South East Asia? I'm your man! My iPod on the other hand, has more audio books than music. Pretty dorky, but I am really big on learning new things! I have in my house lots of percussion instruments, a nice electric drum set, an old but great Roland keyboard, an electric guitar and various other musical diversions.

My kids, books, family, music, a sense of accomplishment, friends. More or less in that order, but the order and the list are somewhat subject to change without notice.

Everything! I think a lot about business and new business ideas these days, both for my day job and for my own enterprises. What I want or need to learn next. How I can help and improve the circumstances of my family, friends, the world at large and myself. Where I am headed in the world and reaffirming that this is where I want to go.

Probably at home. Maybe out fixing a computer for someone. Sometimes out with friends. Occasionally, at the park after a nice meal.

I have a habit of thinking that many random things people say would make good names for bands. Like if someone says, "That nasty soup made me feel all bloated." I can't help but comment that "Bloated Soup" would be an excellent name for a punk band.

You think we would get along and you want to get to know the "real" me...