I love playing traditional Irish music on wooden flute. I’m in a band with a couple other Irish music geeks and we have a great time playing traditional Irish music as often as we can. I like outdoor activities like hiking, camping, kayaking, caving (is that really outdoors?), and rafting, but I haven’t done much lately and look forward to getting outdoors more very soon. I love dogs, grew up with them, but don’t currently have one. That may change soon as well. I work in local government as a traffic engineer. I have recently gotten into fitness walking and I walk about two and a half miles a day. I love reading fantasy and mysteries, rarely pass up on opportunity to wear a costume, and occasionally play video games. I am naturally quiet and prefer an intimate setting to a noisy crowd. I am a talented musician with boundless creativity. I’m a gentleman and I believe in treating others with respect.

I have a good job which I enjoy, mostly. It offers me plenty of time off which is important to me. I’m in a band. Although we play together informally quite often, we only play gigs about every other month, and at our busiest we play a couple times a month, so it’s not a huge time-suck like a lot of bands can be. Also in my spare time, I teach traditional Irish music at the Folk School of Chattanooga.

Music.

Don't really know.

I love reading fantasy, mystery, Sci-Fi, some horror, historical fiction, and some non-fiction. My favorite author right now is probably Brandon Sanderson and I also like Mary Robinette Kowal, Patrick Rothfuss, Patrick O’Brian, Laurell K. Hamilton, Robin Hobb, Robert Jordan, and a whole host of others. I love to read. I love movies and I’m more interested in being entertained by a movie than being emotionally or socially enlightened, so action, adventure, mystery, suspense, Sci-Fi, westerns, super-hero/comic movies, crime, comedies, romantic, young adult and children’s movies as long as it’s not too juvenile, foreign films, subtitles not a problem (did I mention I like to read?), and anything else as long as it’s entertaining. I enjoy the theater, symphony, opera, musicals, and I love folk music. I’m much more likely to see a folk act coming through town than pop, rock, or country. I’m a nut for traditional Irish music and I also like many other traditional music forms such as Appalachian, Swedish, French-Canadian, French, German, Italian, Indian, Greek, Mediterranean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, etc. Incidentally, this is pretty much the same list as the foods I enjoy.

My flute
Music
An audience (great or small)
Laughter
Food
Room to spread my wings

The meaning of things.

I’ve been out of the dating scene for a long while on a self-imposed quest for personal and spiritual betterment, so the honest answer is that on a typical Friday night I’m probably at home with my feet up, reading a good book, and shaking off the dust of a long work week. That’s assuming I don’t have a gig, a friend is not throwing a party, a buddy hasn’t called to see if I want to hang out, see a movie, or play some tunes, there isn’t a music festival I’m attending, performing in, or organizing, and a great musician isn’t playing in town or within road-trip distance. What I WANT the answer to be is spending time with a really cool special lady doing any of the aforementioned activities, spending a quiet evening together, or better still, doing something that she thinks will be fun that I’ve never tried before. My horizons want broadening.

I tend to be bluntly honest about myself, so just ask me.

. . . you’re wondering where all the genuinely good guys are.