I am kinda taking a break from the whole searching for a date thing, which doesn't mean I am not open to meeting someone new, just that I am not really going to be doing any looking around. I'm gonna take a little time to work on myself, physically and mentally, and just enjoy life as it comes at me. But hey, if you think I'm interesting or maybe just think I'd be cool to chat with send me a note, because we all know that the best love comes when we least expect it.

I'm not perfect. I will be the first to admit that. I am starting to get wrinkles around my eyes, but inside I still feel like I'm a teenager. I never wanted to grow up, never wanted to pass out of that Peter Pan phase, but mother nature is beating me over the head with the aging stick, and I vow to fight back as long and as hard as it takes to get that **** to leave me alone! I'm doing everything I can to stave off old age short of surgery. Walking everywhere I go, taking up long distance bicycling, running around the house in my underwear in front of my kids friends (ok, maybe that one is only to embarass the kids), but for some reason I keep aging dammit!

As my favorite poet, Dylan Thomas, wrote:
"Do not go gently into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

So here's the low down. In three short years both my kids will be out of high school and off to live their own lives, so with that in mind I have decided I am going to shake my life up. Well, more like turn it upside down and shake it until something good comes out of the pockets. I have made myself a rather difficult goal, not unattainable, just difficult. I plan on touring all 50 states on a recumbent bicycle. To prepare for that I am spending the next three years doing a whole series of shorter trips to build myself up, and of course, campaigning for sponsors to fund my trip so that I can be "homeless in style!"

As you might be able to tell, holding me down to a sedentary life is going to be near impossible, so if you are looking for a guy who is just gonna chill and watch some tube with you, then I may not be the guy for you. BUT, if you are looking for someone who loves adventure and wants to make a better person out of himself then he is already, and you don't mind someone who isn't going to be at your beck and call every minute, then hit me up ... lets have some fun.

Now back to the normal profile stuff.

Some might consider me an enigma (others just think I'm a butthead). I am quiet at times and loud and raunchy at others -- hopefully at the appropriate moments, but sometimes at the innappropriate ones. I am serious at times, and funny as hell at other times -- again appropriately and innappropriately. I love my kids (especially when they are asleep), and am proud to be known as their father. I spend an innordinate amount of time on the computer, but probably because I am a graphic designer by trade, a journalist by education and a writer by heart and I get to sit and play at the computer all day.

I love life and love writing about my life, and appreciate all the friends that I have that put up with me writing about my life all the time. If there was one piece of advice that I could give to my kids and my friends it would be "Live like today is the very last day of your life, cause you only get one shot at this life. Make it count, and never, ever be afraid of what others are going to say to and about you -- because I will be there to have your back and support you 100%"

I know it's asking for quite a bit, but a woman really has to have an odd sense of humor to deal with me (I raised my kids on Monty Python and Douglas Adams ... I know I should be shot).

I personally HATE jogging, but I do it anyway not only because the national guard for some reason expects me to stay in shape, but I kinda figure if I let myself go to pot then my chances of meeting a beautiful lady who also appreciates my warped sense of humor are signifigantly decreased.

One of my favorite things to do each and every day is wake up! Sure beats the alternative.

Anyway, have fun and good luck to everyone finding the person their heart is calling out for!


For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
CONCLUSION:
Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

First dates -- woo hoo, now is the time for some real fun!

I'd really love to do something different for a first date, like getting dressed up in a tux and my date in a wedding dress and then go to all the bars/coffee houses and see if we can get free drinks. And if you have a really good sense of humor, I could always introduce you as my sister! But as this probably isn't going to happen easily (I mean, how many women have a wedding dress just sitting around ready to use -- don't answer that, I'm not sure I really want to know), then I would probably just settle for going out for coffee.