I've been in Seattle since 1969.
I graduated from Catholic School.
I am a mailman with a college degree.
I have a love-hate relationship with my job.
I had an amicable divorce a few years ago and I wish I could do the same with my employer.
I smile & wave at kids and pet dogs & cats --or is it vice versa?
I unwind with camping & road trips & The Big Lebowski.
I crave nature to recharge my faith in the world since I don't drink anymore.
I enjoy good food but I don't cook much --and that is probably a good thing.
I postpone doing my dishes until the weekend.
I like living simply with a minimum of stuff --unless it's my list of favorites or dirty dishes.
I love my iMac & its hi-speed magic, so I'll skip the cell phone.
I ride a Harley and drive a Toyota mini-van --not at the same time.
I vote Democrat because I'm sane.
I curse Republicans loudly because I'm sane.
I like paying taxes because I'm --wait, we've gotta have infrastructure, right? Correction: I grudgingly pay taxes.
I am a member of the Sons of Norway. No, it's not a white supremacist organization or a biker gang.
I walk in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade. No joke.
I donate $ to the Nature Conservancy because nature should be WILD.
I'm better at "making whoopie" than "cutting the rug" --er, unless I "blow my cool" and then it's "uh oh."
My biker friends nicknamed me "Buttertop" because of a large scar on my tummy. But you can't call me that. Nope.
I believe that love IS all you need (and the Beatles. Yeah!)
I like to laugh & smile often.

Evolving.
Aging & Stretching.
Letting go of expectations.
Learning patience & acceptance of myself & others.
Choosing happiness instead of bitching.
Working & saving for retirement.
Maintaining healthy relationships with loved ones.
Recognizing the Good in my life (--gratitude lists help).
Breaking my rusty cage by motorcycling, bicycling, & hiking.

organizing; shooting the breeze, getting serious about some topic, & then joking around; staying true to my ethics; remembering dumb stuff from movies; looking stuff up on the world wide interweb; hiding from the world; dorking around on home improvement projects that work out 75-90% of the time; car camping; road tripping on my Harley; getting lost but getting back on track; being a funny, affectionate, sweet, monogamous boyfriend --if I may say so.

hopefully, that I'm amiable.

Authors/Books: Aesop's Fables, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, just about anything by Hunter S. Thompson, some Charles Bukowski, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck.

Movies: Cool Hand Luke, the Big Lebowski, School of Rock, Fearless, City of Lost Children, Rififi, Summer Hours, La Femme Nikita, Away We Go, Blood Simple, Up in Smoke, Unforgiven, Dead Man, Dead Man Walking, At Close Range, The Crossing Guard, Little Miss Sunshine, The Fisher King, Repo Man, Kingpin, There Will be Blood, The Lives of Others, Out of the Past, American Beauty, Winter's Bone, Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, Snatch, the Sweet Hereafter, The Wild Angels, Kingpin, 44 Inch Chest, Sexy Beast, the Lord of the Rings series, Our Idiot Brother.
Documentaries: Why We Fight, Spellbound, Hoop Dreams, Dreams with Teeth, An Inconvenient Truth, the Aristocrats, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Winnebago Man, No Impact Man, The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Times of Harvey Milk, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Ralph Nader: an Unreasonable Man, Trudell, Trumbo, God Grew Tired of Us, My Flesh & Blood, I Like Killing Flies, Buck, Hot Coffee.

Shows/TV: The Wire, Breaking Bad, the Larry Sanders Show, Frontline, Nova, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Barney Miller, the Phil Silvers Show, anything with Jonathan Winters.

Food: Sumatra roast coffee, grilled wild Pacific Salmon,
broccoli, red plums, apple cider, Penn Cove mussels or shellfish in
general, filet mignon, baby spinach salad, cherries, strawberries,
honeycrisp apples, grilled BBQ, asparagus, Lil' Rae's cookies,
apple pie, Odwalla mango tango or carrot juice.

(Now for the big list in no particular order) Music: Peter
Gabriel, Tool, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Mathews Band, Chris Whitley, Kings of Leon, Ray LaMontagne, Band of Horses, Howlin' Wolf, Nick Vigarino, the Meters, the Beatles, AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, Band of Horses, Hound Dog Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Tragically Hip, the Pretenders, Faith No More, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, the Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan, Los Lobos, the Rev. Horton Heat, U2, Motorhead, Primus, Rush, Iggy Pop, the Church, Massive Attack, Sarah McLachlan, Kate Bush, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Parliament & Funkadelic, Sting, Tom Waits, Radiohead, Morphine, Jeff Buckley, Marvin Pontiac, Cowboy Junkies, Miles Davis, the Stone Roses, the Black Keys, the Black Crowes, Blues Traveler, Carl Perkins, Led Zeppelin, John Lee Hooker, ZZ Top, Queens of the Stone Age, INXS, REM, RATM, NIN, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, RL Burnside,and some others.
(My musical taste is all over the place.)

my glasses/contact lenses
love
hope
independence
nature
laughter

What's next on this hero's journey?

sadly, staying home since I work on most saturdays.

I would really like my next relationship to go the distance. I haven't given as much as I should in past relationships.

I strike your fancy.

ps. I'm also on POF. I'm not a serial dater or a 2-timer, I'm monogamous. I'm fishing for a match on a couple of sites and when I start dating someone I'll take my profiles down.