After a lot of looking at my life the last day and a half I decided that I should probably re-write this entire profile. A lot of this dealt with looking at what I want out of life, etcetera. A lot of that had to do with totaling my job (well at least the requirements of it) totally changing which threw me for a loop, but not anywhere close to what was to come with me later totaling my car that same day. As though those two were not enough of a shock to my system I came close to losing my life very violently a day after. Yea, I guess those things happening all at once can make you think a lot about a lot of things. I can’t really talk about the last one too much, but you can ask me if you want. My life is nothing if it is not interesting, and I have had co-workers tell me that my life resembles more of a movie or a drama than a regular life. I am tired of all that.

I am re-evaluating my life and what I want from it (see above). Also I am looking for a new car, well at least dowing research as to what kind of car that I want. I am debating first on if I am going to purchase it outright (pay cash) or finance it, or maybe even lease. While I love owning my car with no payments I also know that I can get a much better, or at least much nice vehicle if I finance it. Then there is the other important decision about what kind of car I want. I have generally tended to like larger cars, and had a 2006 Ford Taurus that I bought in 2005. After totaling it and being able to walk away it kind of makes me glad to drive a big car. By the way that was my first accident ever so not too bad I guess, 16 years without an accident. At the same time I kind of want a convertible and for a while (earlier this year) owned a 1975 MG that I was restoring. No matter what I did there were always other things breaking so I gave up on that and sold the car. Looking back now I am glad I did since I would not have walked away from the accident if I had been driving that car.

Anyway back to the debate, I am still not sure what I should buy. I work in boulder so a Subaru or Prius seem appropriate there, and at the same time so does anything that is a hybrid. Also I think it is a great thing to be more socially conscious and do the right thing to try and reduce my carbon footprint (it is reduced a lot more now that I am not driving, no I did not get a rental car). But then again I kind of want a convertible and there are no hybrids of those that I know of. A while back Audi was going to make one but I never heard anything about that after a few articles in Car and Driver or some other auto magazine, and as far as I know they do not have one yet. A wrangler would be nice here, but I prefer something more sporty than that, or at least a car that can hit 120 and still have a comfortable ride, but then again I do not drive fast that often. I guess I just have to figure out what I want. So that is about what I am doing with my life at this current moment.

Okay so this will make me sound like a geek, but I am good at most things that relate to technology in one way or another. Part of it has to do with my job, and part of it is just natural for me I guess. I am a good chef. I am pretty smart. I used to be good at photography. I am good at sailing, and flying airplanes (yes those two go together because there are a lot of similarities within certain elements of both such as navigation).

Initially the way I look just as with anyone, but after that probably the way that I act such as always saying please and thank you, holding the door for women. In general I think that I was raised to be polite and patient. Also I have been told that I have a lot of confidence, but that it does not come out overwhelmingly as cockiness.

Do you want a list?

I read for pleasure and work and school a lot. John Steinbeck is my favorite author, but I read a lot of different titles. (Of Mice and Men, Stumbling Upon Happiness, The Art of Travel, Cannery Row, Into the Wild, and Computer and School books.) I do not get to read for pleasure as much as I would like to.

Somewhere in between big Hollywood productions and Indi films lies a realm of movies that I love. Moves that have enough of a budget and a large enough release so that the production is well funded and the final cut looks good, yet original enough that they generally only play in a few theatres in a given area that is the size of Denver. Examples of these would be The Darjeeling Limited (I like most things by Wes Anderson), Food, Inc., and 500 Days of Summer.

I like most all music, but there are certain times I do not like certain types. I also tend to like most foods, and will try anything (literally anything, I have had some strange dishes before).

You really should try giving everything you own away sometime, it will show you that there really is not much that you could not live without. There are however some things I would not want to live without. Friends, Family, Photos, Music, Good Food, Love.

So I just figured out that in the last three years I have not been able to maintain any type of relationship for over two weeks. I would like to say it is not me, but I am the only common factor in the relationships so it pretty much has to be me.

I am working late tonight, and I just realized that while I am apparently scared of the dark, or at least my office in the dark. I am not sure why though. Does not make a lot of since.

You like to travel and you are able to, even if you have not traveled much, (I just think that would be fun, having someone to go out and explore the world with).

You want to settle down someday, probably not today or tomorrow, but maybe in a few years.

You like an eclectic mix of music (Death Cab, Bare Naked Ladies, Jay-Z, TI, Foxy Brown, Bone, NWA, Eazy-E, LL, Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, Peaches, Blackhawk, Alabama, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Jackson Brown, Cake, Paul Simon, Killers, Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge, Nat King Cole) and movies (Big Fish, What Dreams May Come, Away We Go, Sideways, Zoolander, Idiocracy, Romantic comedies and anything Wes Anderson or Kevin Smith make)

You think that we would get along without too much effort most of the time.

You like affection, and generally being around people.

You like to read (at least sometimes) and consider yourself intelligent enough to carry on a conversation. You like to talk and also to listen.

You are not afraid of meeting in person and actually want to do that at some point.