Sometimes I'm socially inept, sometimes adept. I am currently in a work binge phase, working upwards of 70 plus hours a week. This will not last forever ("I ain't working for the rest of my life, that shit's retarded," "we must unlearn this obedience to a life of service," ya know). I am also recovering from a pretty invasive knee surgery, just started running again. I'm a busy little boy. I sincerely apologize for not having the time or the will or the patience to respond to certain messages.

Getting paid to hike around in the desert. Flying back and forth from Wisconsin to Nevada. Back and forth. Forever.

I'm shy. My eyes are very blue.

Post-apocalyptic novels. Science/speculative fiction.

Tea
Friends
Humor, sarcasm, satire, wit
Water
Eyes
Mobility

I suppose when my future children (Hamish, 8, and Dartagnan, 4) put down their holo-bears long enough to spend sometime with their G.O.D. (Good Old Dad) and get around to asking me their inevitable and predictable questions, like "Dad, when you were a kid like me, what was it like?" or "Dad, was water ever free?" or "Dad, what was a polar bear again?" I suppose I will smile, trying not to belay my weak fondness for nostalgia, pick them up, gently place them on either knee, and say, "Kids, your father had the privilege of living in the greatest time of cowardice this country has ever known." I will then take them to the "Ends Justifies the Means" Monument in Washington, D.C., and show them the majesty of thousands of lumps of hard, carbonized charcoal which represents the lives lost in the "Global War on Terror Part II: The Reckoning"© rising skyward dome that form the statue. I will stand with them as they view its majesty and explain: "Kids, on 9/11® America was attacked. After a brief nap our president eventually addressed his nation and urged the citizens he was sworn to protect to go shopping. Which is how we came to have the extra double-wide freezer downstairs."

you want to be pen pals and encourage each other to be great.

I'm interested in physics, astronomy, being outside, adventures, reading, writing, mountains, friends, the upper Midwest, running, tea, music, biology of bats, turtles, and dragonflies, good beer, whiskey, soccer, and a whole lot of other things.