I work full-time during the day and I am looking for the next step in my career. I study in the evening and weekends for school. It will be a couple more years before that will be done.

I work on the technology team for an insurance agency at a major corporation. I have some ideas where I want to go with my career, but I am not sure how to make it happen -- yet. Many evenings and weekends consist of homework to help make progress toward the goal of career advancement.

If I make free time, I usually spend it homebrewing, cooking/baking, and (not often enough time) practicing photography.

I like to think I am good at being analytical and breaking systems and projects into component parts. At work I have been told I am good at translating between the technology team and the business users to make sure both sides understand what is really going on. That ties into part of my career goals.

I am also trying to improve homebrewing skills and trying to break into mead and cider.

Books: A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones series, Ender's Game, Slaughterhouse-Five, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, 2001: A Space Odyssey (and the whole Space Odyssey series), stuff by David Sedaris, Arthur C. Clarke, Lewis Black, and Richard Dawkins. I have read more in the six months since I got my Nook than I did in the collective decades prior.

Movies: American Beauty, Blade Runner, Indiana Jones movies, Darren Aaronofsky movies, Stanley Kubrick movies (especially 2001: A Space Odyssey), Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The Bourne movies, etc.

Music: Orbital, Underworld, Phantogram, Sigur Rós, Stereolab, M83, Radiohead, Garbage, Portishead, The Flaming Lips, Boards of Canada, Spoon, The Stone Roses and much, much more. I have a lot of music.

Podcasts: Freakonomics, The Truth, Marketplace, Wiretap, 99% Invisible, Planet Money, This American Life, The Moth, Radiolab, Stuff To Blow Your Mind, Nature, The Infinite Monkey Cage, and You Are Not So Smart

Food: Sushi, pad thai, brick-oven pizza, much more.

Television: Mythbusters, Dexter, Game of Thrones, and Jeopardy! are really the only shows on the air I watch anymore. Shows that are no longer on the air that I like/liked are Firefly, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Good Eats, and Penn & Teller: Bullshit. Someday I might watch through Breaking Bad, but I do not make much time for television.

Music, podcasts, time to think, good food, good beer, and Wikipedia.

I think a lot about how things are done: lighting techniques and camera angles, recipes and flavors, homebrewing, and continual improvement. I spend a lot of time thinking.

If you think sending me a message seems like a good idea, I encourage you to do so. You have read down the page this far and I hope I have provided enough information above for you to know if you really want to send that message. It could be just to say hello. It could be with the intent of eventually getting a drink together. You should do what you think is best.