CURRENT MISSION

To not suck at life and to be happy while doing so!

ABOUT ME

I am an exceptionally intelligent, nice guy that isn't some completely boring nerd, I am an exciting nerd (ha ha)! I can sometimes be perceived as mildly tactless, but I honestly think that it is only because I try to be myself, and I often exhibit the awkward combination of thinking quickly without much of a buffer between thought and verbal manifestation of said thought.

PHILOSOPHY

Do unto others and never stop learning/growing/thinking, even if that means you change your mind.

Centres d'intérêt

I am busier than ever thanks to there being live music going on someplace basically every single night, I get to go shopping for local veggies at least a couple of times per week, there are a million places to go on walks both in the middle of everything and on the outskirts of town, and I am now living in a place where if I sit at a bar/pub for some music and to read while having a beer or glass of wine I'm not laughed or snickered at but approached and hit on!

I have plenty of friends and too many distractions and responsibilities to spend my time frivolously with someone that doesn't help me to grow and be a better person, even if that is just by learning things with me. When I am interacting with people that I'm not related to or extremely close friends with, I love small groups of people that actually want to converse or play games (video, board, drinking, truth or dare, just giggling about pop-culture while watching the worst offenders, etc..), and I definitely don't prefer bars and parties where there is a stereo that requires more than a two-foot voice (not that there aren't those times when I DO prefer some loud music...like 80's night at John Henry's from time to time) and/or board-games are frowned upon. Board-games should NEVER be frowned upon. I'm also a huge fan of drunk (or kinda buzzed) wandering and jabbering and/or people watching/mocking, so an evening of board-games, food, a bong, and wine/beer/booze before heading out for music (yay at Eugene's music scene!) and such is pretty much always going to be on my radar of awesomeness, especially if it's with my friends or one of my sisters!

• culture
• singing
• dining
• wine
• beer
• running
• partying
• drinking
• pub crawls
• shopping
• music
• live music
• camping

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Sitting on top of the highest point in the Willamette Valley when I was a kid and seeing the most stars I'd ever seen at that point in my life.

Camping in the Nor-Cal redwoods and seeing so many stars that it was ridiculous...and I was running around naked opining about it.

Being cuddled up with my girlfriend on Mary's Peak during the Perseid Meteor Shower in August of '13.

Seeing Stone Temple Pilots and having their guitarist hand me his pic because I was having such a blast and singing along to every song.

Seeing the Wu-Tang Clan at Bumbershoot the year my daughter was born and my ex-wife had completely fallen into her addiction...it was a much needed vacation that a couple friends and family members shared with me.