Bio: Michigan Farm raised, educated all the way up to High School. In fact I went to the same high school my mother did. Worked my dads farm and on a 5000 acre ranch at the same time.

I went to college for electronics, was on a carpenter apprenticeship before finally landing in a plastics factory. I worked for 26 years in various quality, lab management and statistics positions.

• Employment: Recently disposed due to management that should be in prison
• Location: Near the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee

Interests

Reading, building and operating computers, programming with PHP and MYSQL(most definitly a novice), music in a few forms, reading, being in the mountains and seeing the world turn, reading, chatting at Jmeeting and the Yahoo message boards, watching educational TV documentarys, understanding the space in my head and coming up short

Favorite Books/Authors

• The Riverworld Series by Jose Phillipe Farmer
• The Foundation Novels by Isaac Asimov
• The Ender Series by Francis Scott Card
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeleiver by Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Galactic Center Series by Gregory Benford
• The Saga Of Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson
• Arthur C. Clark, Stephen Baxter, Ben Hogan, Tom Clancy, Dan Simmons, Jack McDevett, Alistar Reynalds

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Music Genres

• Chillout, Lounge
• Ambient, Downtempo, Electronica
• Rock
• 60's & 70's
• Alternative Rock
• Blues
• New Age
• And a host of other stuff