I hate staring at blank spaces. I'm a dreamer who has his feet on the ground but also keeps his head in the clouds. I refuse to let my inner child die, so I feed him milk and cookies upon occasion.

I'm a frequently visiting American that has plans to relocate here. Luckily I have a job that brings me here very often. Because I am visiting, I am looking for some cool people to hang out with and enjoy the city.

I am strong yet sensitive, opinionated yet I know how to listen, grounded yet adventurous, slightly stubborn yet I know how to pick my battles, whimsical yet pragmatic. I like to surround myself with people who are equal parts intelligent and goofy with strong character and a good moral compass. I've realized that having strong personality traits isn't always a good thing, unless you maintain a sense of balance. I try to complement my strong traits and find that if I become too much of one, I can always turn up the dial on the other.

I pride myself on the ability to just get things done, rather than spending too much time thinking about the approach. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate a deep conversation as much as the next person, but life is too short to waste time musing on abstracts. As a side note, I do most of my best thinking on long car rides and in the shower.

I only surround myself with individuals that I aspire to be more like. The majority of my good friends have strong character and have something to offer life. To sum it up, I love learning from and being pleasantly surprised by others (including my significant other).

I love animals, both cats and dogs, so if you're allergic... that's quite unfortunate.

There are a lot of things I take seriously in life, but I also know how to have fun with everyday situations. I have a strong ambition and motivation for what I want out of life, but I also enjoy stopping to smell the roses from time to time.

My job is to help organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful (bonus points if that rings a bell for you).

I absolutely love my work and wouldn't trade for anything else in the world. But, if I'm not there you can sometimes find me at the gym or training to be a sudoku grand master. I also know wayyyy more than anyone one person should about the deep, dark details of C++, which I try to offset by being an avid guitarist.

I race cars, ride motorcycles and fly airplanes... and find that this helps offset my day job as a software engineer.

I have a flexible job and a very eclectic set of hobbies, so I am able to keep very busy. I've worked diligently to get where I'm at so now I'm slowing down a bit to enjoy life.

Making light of a situation, cracking myself up and non-sequiturs. I can take a conversation in many random directions and I'm usually thinking about one or two other unrelated things while talking about another.

Beyond that, I'm quite good at guitar shredding, sudoku, taking long showers, solving a rubik's cube while carrying on a conversation and running extremely long distances.

Not only do I have deep, green eyes but somehow ended up with very dark and long eyelashes.

Random selections...

Books: Think and Grow Rich (classic), Freakonomics, Predictably Irrational...

Food: I love everything, but particularly anything Italian or green. I have very healthy eating habits...

Movies: Top Gun (of course), The Big Lebowski, etc.. I prefer dark or awkward comedies, horror films and the occasional feel-good, happy-ending film.

TV shows: I'm watching Prison Break right now -- and absolutely hooked. Otherwise: Seinfeld, The Office, etc.

adventurous vacations
playing guitar
bright and sunny days
long showers
my phone and work laptop (sigh)
my father for keeping me "straight and level"

How I can become more of a guitarist like Buckethead without quitting my job and moving into my parent's basement.

Out, of course... which may or may not include work. :\

That I'm still keeping my tattoo as a secret from my mom... even though she lives 2164 miles away (update: I recently showed her when she came out to visit... evidently she's my mom and loves me no matter what...or so she says).

Oh and my DVD collection is in ascending, alphabetical order.

You're not creepy...or clingy...or creepy AND clingy. *shudder* Just sayin. :)

Also, a wink is "okay" if you think your profile speaks for itself... but otherwise, an email is much better.