About Me
I'm a pagan-friendly atheist and a co-owner and financial manager of a small family business. Politically, I'm mostly liberal but with a little bit of fiscal conservatism and libertarianism mixed in.
Music
Rather eclectic - classic rock, jazz, some classical - almost everything except except rap, and not much country. Particular likes include The Beatles, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd. I also like parodies, satire, and spoofs such as Tom Lehrer and the Capitol Steps.
Movies
I'm not a big moviegoer, but like most guys I enjoy action, adventure and espionage - but I also like getting dragged into chick flicks by the chicks. I especially enjoy anything involving time travel and the interesting paradoxes that result (Back to the Future, The Terminator, etc.)
TV
BBC's Life on Mars series (time travel!) M*A*S*H, and way too many Cops episodes.
Books
James Michener - I've read most of his epic historical novels. Also Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and some Stephen King, whose Night Shift anthology was bedtime stories for me one teenaged summer! (Just imagine how that will warp a young mind.) I also enjoy non-fiction about the origins of the universe, time and space, and atomic physics (i.e. Stephen Hawking).
Likes
Good food, especially nice steaks, sushi and sashimi, chocolate, microbrewed pale ales and IPAs, single malts, and wine (I could write a book about my wine favorites, but will spare you)
Dislikes
The "isms" - sexism, racism, age-ism, religious fanaticism, bigotry, etc. I especially hate people who take advantage of others perceived as weaker or beneath them (i.e. lousy tippers). Mean people suck!
Hobbies
Skiing (both Alpine and Nordic), computers, especially alternative software such as Mozilla's Firefox web browser and Thunderbird mail client. I use Cerulean Studios' Trillian multiple IM client to connect to AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, and GoogleTalk - all in one program! I am currently alpha testing their new Trillian 4 (Astra) program
I just received a nice gift of four bottles of wine (two nice Bordeaux reds, a Brouilly [Beaujolais] and a domestic Chardonnay), along with a half bottle of decent vodka and a tiny amount of Cognac!
I've become the family "Trans Fat Cop" and I have been working for a long time to indoctrinate my DW Autumn in my healthful ways. She has finally conceded to making the kids' birthday cakes and cupcakes for school from scratch with quality ingredients rather than using the cake mixes and ready made frosting, which are both laden with trans fats. I worked alongside her for three separate batches, doing the frosting all times and assisting with the cakes. The results were delicious and there is no more guilt about feeding our kids and their classmates crap. We used the frosting recipe exactly as shown on the Hershey's website, and an older variant of the cake recipe (similar, but not exactly the same - including using butter instead of some of the oil)
My 17 year old cat passed away. I'm heartbroken she was old and ill and her kidneys were failing and we found her dead this afternoon. I'll miss her brown furry self and her purring voice. I'm not really in the mood to talk just now, I just wanted folks to know why I'll be a little quiet for the time being.
Chelsea was my cat, too, of course - and a little bit of me is gone with her.
This evening I had a little battle with MyWastedSpace, oops, I mean MySpace, about MyHeight . I am 5' 10" tall and thought I had my MySpace set up properly. This evening, I viewed my profile and lo and behold, I grew an inch! So I went to edit my profile, selected 5' 10" and hit save and it came up 5' 11". I exited and reentered profile edit and it came up as 6' 0". So then I concluded that I understood the bug, and I went and entered 5' 9" hoping that it would come up 5' 10". Wrong! It came up 5' 9". So back I go and put in 5' 10" and I hope that it stays put this time. All that over nothing, since I'm happily married and not interested in anything on the side, so what does an inch or so matter anyway? I'm too much of a perfectionist. Or maybe I've finally figured out the solution to weight gain. Simply visit MySpace repeatedly, and you'll grow an inch each time, making your weight a better match to your height.
Sadly, I will have to borrow one, lol... mine all left! At least I won't have to feed them, lol :)
Ha! I think your father and my Nana are fellow alumnist in that school... I still wince at the thought of that mammoth pile of wood... and I was an only child :(
Hi! I'm Heather... your wife sent me, lol! Welcome to Covenspace :) My beloved is a pagan-friendly atheist, as well... seems to work for us. Happy you've decided to join us. It's a good group of all makes, models, sizes and shapes... but anyone who reads Hawking is aces in my book!
Blessings to you & yours...
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I'm a pagan-friendly atheist and a co-owner and financial manager of a small family business. Politically, I'm mostly liberal but with a little bit of fiscal conservatism and libertarianism mixed in.
Sadly, I will have to borrow one, lol... mine all left! At least I won't have to feed them, lol :)
HeatherHa! I think your father and my Nana are fellow alumnist in that school... I still wince at the thought of that mammoth pile of wood... and I was an only child :(
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