I think every single person on this site describes themselves as "laid back and down to earth" Being laid back is the new: likes long walks on the beach.

I'm 26, live and work in San Jose. I grew up here but only recently moved back from Santa Cruz and want to return right away. The food, the weather, the people, and the surf of Santa Cruz are fantastic.

I'm not 50 pounds heavier than my profile pictures indicate so I figure I've got to be ahead of the curve around here.

I love physical activity and I've dabbled in tons of sports over the years: swimming, surfing, hockey, jogging (Yuck), cycling, snowboarding, weightlifting, tennis, wrestling, and fly fishing. Swimming is the only thing that's been able to consistently hold my interest over the years though. I do have the basic training for just about any activity though!

I graduated with a BS from SJSU, and since then I've been working in San Jose running a group home for juvenile delinquents. It's a demanding job with very long hours that is sometimes very rewarding. Having a former resident stop by the house to shoot the shit and tell you how well he's doing is amazing and fully makes up for all the "We hate you!", "Why you gotta trip on every little thing?", and "I don't give a FUCK" that I hear from grumpy residents who want to leave.

Baking a loaf of bread, swimming, juggling flaming chainsaws, my job (Especially hunting for contraband!), sleeping through an air raid, and puns

A chin capable of cutting through a car wreck to free any trapped passengers.

I love to read. I like reading about history and food and really enjoyed Guns Germs and Steel as well as The Omnivores Dilemma. I know Steven King is pulp but I really enjoy most of his stuff. Niel Gaiman is a ton of fun, but I wish he were more prolific. I *thoroughly enjoyed Collen McCullough's Masters of Rome series. After reading them I found out that her other novels seem suspiciously like girl porn. I kinda suspected something was up since the novels I read would feature a hundred pages of dense political history and then unexpectedly switch into a scene where senator Decimus is played by Fabio.

I'm pretty easy to please with movies but I like older/guy movies a lot like The Godfather, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Office Space, Christopher Guest movies, and the ocassional dumb action flick. Musicals are generally not my thing.

Due to a busted radio at work that only received two stations I became really hooked on classic rock recently. Aerosmith, Guns and Roses, ACDC, Queen, The Beatles, Journey, Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones, George Thorogoodand and a million other bands that I can't remember the name of. I used to not care for that music but it really grew on me.

I like to cook and my training is three pronged. 1. Childhood lessons and random tips from my ex-hippie Santa Cruz pro chef father. 2. Cooking for my young criminal charges at work. 3. Making my own food where the results have no setting between catastrophic and delicious.
I adore fish of all kinds, mushrooms, red onions, and potatoes. My drinking is mostly restricted to red wine and liquor. I'm also a little bit of a salt snob, go sea or get out.

1. Water, whether Im drinking it, bathing in it, swimming in it, fishing in it, surfing on it, or boarding on it's less popular cousin snow.
2. Altoids, I have a problem
3. Heat, Im wholly uncomfortable in the cold and love things hotter than the average person
4. My iphone, I never thought I would become one of those cellphone people but I love my little gadget when Im cut off from civilization for 3.5 days a week.
5. Lists of six items, love em.
6. And YOU

How do I get this kid to stop hurling fruit at the neighbors houses?

How do I get this kid to stop snorting unidentified pills?

How do I get this kid to never breed?

Well my Friday night is actually Wednesday morning thanks to my bizzare schedule, a typical Wednesday may include

Going to a local bar for an end of shift drink with some coworkers. While 11 AM Wednesday may not be the *hippest* social hour of the week the hardcore regulars sure are friendly!

Go donate platelets at the Stanford Blood Center when their recruiting agents catch me unaware. I don't really have a lot of spare time or cash to donate but I've always got plenty of blood.

Go to a local farmers market and grab some sweet local produce.

I enjoyed Jackass: The Movie, I'm not proud.

You can offer me a cool personal recipe, a new job, want to hear some of my bizzare stories, are interested if the other people in my pictures are single.

Or if you're just a cool person to talk to, which I have no doubt you are you special flower you.