While my personality changes with the season I found that who I am doesn't really change. First and foremost I'm honest to a fault, I'm a good judge of character, and I would rather ignore someone who annoys me than fight someone else's personal MO.

If the weather is good I like to go for walks in nearby nature reserves - and not always with headphones in my ears! If it's poor weather or whatnot, I have plenty of TV shows or movies to catch up on (I don't channel surf, just watch the good shows when they're available: Archer, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones).

Last year I: played a lot of volleyball with friends, got my own dirt bike (and broke my first bone: my collarbone), and got laid off from my first big-boy job. I sprung back by redirecting my engineering search towards a designing role that I enjoyed a lot more and ended up in Mentor, Ohio.

My life goals when I was a kid: school, job, woman, home, family.
SCHOOL: I got my bachelors, almost a masters in Mech Engineering. Though I've done enough schooling for now...
JOB: Honestly: I'm on my second big-boy job. I was let go at my first one because the managers changed their minds. BUT: I did a great job "diversifying my skill set" and have lots of options: I'm just going for what interests me right now, because I can. And that's great!
WOMAN: Unfortunately engineering is a very gender-biased area of study. To be honest, I can talk to women fine, hitting on women is a different matter altogether. I suppose you could say I'm shy at first and open up as I get more comfortable.
HOME: I almost bought a house last year, but when the contractor started to price-gouge me I "declined to work with him." Afterwards, when I lost my job, I felt sooo super relieved that I wasn't locked in still. I know now that I'll buy with cash and do the repair work myself.
FAMILY: Someday I'll be ready, but I just want a dog for now. I think they're a good bridge between cats and kids. Yeah...

being a jack of all trades. Dad is a handyman, my twin brother a mason/roofer/carpenter. If I can't do it already, at least I know someone who can show me.

is if my attitude is strange. I'd like to think I'm a predictable person even if a bit odd. A lot of it is due to a personal flaw (see "most private thing I'm willing to admit") but I try to overcome it by understanding interpersonal communication and spending extra time on areas I'm weak in.

Books: fantasy/scifi/adventure books. Game of Thrones, Ender's Game, Wheel of Time, Timeline, Early Potter books

Movies: my favorites are summed up best with Kurt Russell and Dan Akroyd. Also: Jurassic Park, Disney movies, Robin Williams, all sorts of 80s movies are all fair game. I have bad hearing sometimes so foreign movies with subtitles are also a GO (Science of Sleep, Amelie). Action movies are good, and so are most sci-fi. Especially Sci-fi/fantasy mash-ups like The Prestige

TV Shows: I watch Storage Wars/American Pickers. Sometimes the Colbert/Daily Show. If I find it while surfing: The Old House (I'm from a very DIY household and like to keep up). I used to watch Junkyard Wars, Reboot, Transformers, and Tom&Jerry as a kid. New shows I download: Breaking Bad, Archer, 30 Rock, Firefly, anime I have finished is now on Adult Swim, Star Trek). I'm downloading Battlestar Galactica right now, which is apparently an awesome tv series.

Music: The radio pickings are slimmer than canton/akron. I listen to 91.5 on the way to work and back (The Great American Songbook, 20s-40s). 98.5 and 105.7 are on the list too. But I also have a lot of metal, classical, and 1960/70s rock saved on my hard drive.

Food:
Chicken wings has been a tradition since high school: I'm very happy the recently found, nearby Stadium Grill has delicious wings! I like Asian, spicy thai, sushi, some hungarian and middle eastern dishes, lots of polish/german foods (I'm 50% czech). I absolutely hate olives though; i'll spit out food if I taste an olive in it. I'm fantastic at grilling (experimenting with smoked flavoring) and recently fell in love with crock pots/pressure cookers for how tender the meals become.

I have funny hearing. It's selective; involuntary rather than "hear what you want". I was born with fluid in my ears until I was 5 when I had an operation. I missed most of the critical years for communication development but somehow I got lucky and I don't have a lisp or a complete problem limiting my "inner monologue"

The worst side effects I have is that my ears are wide open. Usually if I miss a word I "improvise" to fit the conversation but if there are too many voices I can't focus easily. To be honest, it's funny that I even recognized this is the problem but I have a few funny anecdotes that sort of pointed it out to myself so I've been fortunate.

you like board games, know the secondary colors, have your own ideas for a date,, you like a storyline that's more than just spray'n'pray, even to just shoot the bull for a while and do something fun with someone new. Example: want to visit sites in Cleveland like the Rock'n'Roll HOF but haven't had anyone else to go with