I love stories and songs, and believe that shared stories and songs create bonds that can be hard to break. The bonds that can be forged through such commonality can be unbreakable, yet in some cases, could never occur without it.
Now on first shift, actually have evenings and weekends.
I'm a musician trained on flute and violin, with a degree in composition. I also play a little bit of mandolin and sang in concert choir in college.

I am a musician, well read, and philisophical

Trying to figure that out while I hold a regular job to pay the bills. Contemplating life, God, and what I should do. Designing a game or few in my spare time (card and board, not video). Happy to play music about every chance I get now, which is much more than it used to be working 2nds.

Music.
Meandering through a conversation, taking it through 4 or 5 subjects, and back to the original. This can be disconcerting to some.
Studying a multitude of subjects.

Most likely that I'm wearing a kilt. People usually find that to be pretty obvious.

A. Too many to list, my tastes are expanding in many directions at once. Authors in my personal collection include: Neil Gaiman, G.K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, Wendell Berry, Ayn Rand, Warren Ellis, Donald Miller, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, George R. R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Mickey Spillane, Frank Herbert, Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Jorge Louis Borges, Aleksander Sholzenitsyn, Yvegeny Zamyatin, and many others. I read a lot.
B. Revolver; Kill Bill; Mirrormask; Shaun of the Dead; Spinal Tap; Rope; Sin City; The Lady Vanishes; Snatch; Much Ado about Nothing; Big Trouble in Little China; North by Northwest; Scotland, PA; Dracula(with Bela); The Mummy(Boris Karloff); many more
C. David Bowie, Polyphonic Spree, Roxy Music, Dwight Yoakam, Charles Ives, George Crumb, Louis XIV, Bing Crosby, Shipwreck, Velella Velella, Kris Kristofferson, The Raveonettes, Johnny Cash, The Black Keys, Jethro Tull, Yes, Tin Machine, The Decemberists, The Hives, Auf der Mar, Ianis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Waylon Jennings, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Edgard Varese, many more

Stories, songs, friends, games, laughter....oops that's five. Oh well.

music, poetry, stories, the things that dictate the way we relate and transmit that relationship
game design and theory- the mechanics of making choices
God

Finding something to do with friends, be it games, a movie, or jamming. Otherwise, I might be in a coffee shop working on a song or a board game design.

Christians with anarcho-capitalist tendencies don't scare you.