Hello and thanks for visiting,

I'm a morning person and do my best work and thinking at the start of the day, sometimes before dawn. For example, earlier this year, up before dawn to stoke the camp fire embers and get the morning cooking camp fire going. Like almost every weekend, up early to surf, go for a motorcycle ride and/or do the usual errands.

I'm most content with a small group of close friends, enjoying together, good food and drink, and each others company.

Good company is hard to find; just patiently working through the steps of this most amusing process, picking up a few interesting stories along the way. Finding the right person, where we both feel like we fit together is going to take time... and timing; I'm patient.

...working M-F, 9 to 5 for a large european enterprise software company in a business role.

...attending more live music concerts. In the past 12 months: Dave Matthews Band, Keane (opened by Youngblood Hawk), Passion Pit (opened by Matt and Kim), George Clinton, Metric, Snoop Dogg and The Killers. Later this year: at least one opera and one symphony performance, maybe the Stones? Visiting more museums and touring collections when the weather is poor.

...enjoying the company of some excellent new surfing, camping and motorcycling friends. And continuing to meet more new people.

...I've been fortunate to have already done a lot and seen a lot. Lived in Malaysia for a year. Flown in a glider, skippered a sail boat in the Caribbean and between neighboring Pacific islands, stayed at some nice hotels and backpacker guest houses, rode a snowmobile within the european arctic circle, scuba dived within hands reach of numerous sharks and turtles, wandered among many asian and european countries, soaked in the hot springs of Niigata Japan watching the first snowfall, et. al. It's been a good life so far; looking forward to more.

Recharging by being more analog through: cooking, riding my 1996 motorcycle and learning to maintain it on my own, surfing, plush car camping on occasion with a 3" sleeping pad, large bonfires/campfires, good company and scotch (or bourbon), making things by hand, printing some of my photographs from my +400 gigabyte collection of my travels domestically and abroad.

...getting random people to open up to me.
...being a good friend in tough times.
...fading between the foreground and background in social occasions; enjoying the conversation up close or closely observing from afar. It's also served me well for photographing for fun.

Depends on the occasion and my objective at that occasion:
...nothing, they don't notice me. Or that I'm noticing them. Or that I am chatting people up.

...my orange watch.

...when I finally decide to speak, my voice; tone and cadence of C. Slater, J. Sisto or Obama. Or my lopsided grin and bemused eyes?

...self aware, self deprecating and laid back in my personal life and in front of customers. Intense, detailed, methodical in my professional life, so they usually give me the toughest issues and/or customers.

Books: Anthony "Angry" Bourdain, Ernest Hemingway, Ken Follet, Neal Gaiman, Mark Twain, Lee Childs, Ian Fleming, et. al.

Movies/Shows: 60 minutes. Californication's Hank Moody. Anything written by Aaron Sorkin: The Newsroom, Sports Night, West Wing, Studio 60.

Not having easy access to the ocean to go surf, snorkel, et. al. This happened once, for a year; never will happen again.

...I've been pretty lucky to have some great experiences and to know some great people long term and in passing.

...focusing on being present. I'm a planner by nature and profession; sometimes I need to remind myself to be present.

I've been allocating more time to develop new friendships including healthy platonic friendships with great women.

Is there anything else you'd like to know? Then ask. ;-)

Genuinely looking forward to hearing from you.

And thanks again for visiting.