I'm originally from Mosier, Oregon, a small town on the Columbia river about 80 miles east of Portland.

I currently live in Waltham, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. It lacks the view of Mount Saint Helens, but the weather is better than Texas and I really like it here. The politicians are much more crooked, however.

In between the two I've lived in about 20 different places in Oregon, Texas, Virginia and South Carolina. I hate to move, but seem to do it a lot.

I work for Kubi Software, a small company based in Lincoln, Massachusetts, that builds a collaboration plugin for Outlook.

As for what I do, well I'm what's known as a "Systems Engineer" or a "Pre Sales Resource." Basically, that means that I'm the technical part of one of our sales teams - I go around on sales calls, give presentations and demos, make sure the existing customers are happy (from a technical standpoint) and generally keep the salesperson I'm working with from lying too much. It's not a 9-to-5 job and I love it.

Divorced

Born in 1969, and that's all I'm saying!

Generally Libertarian, but I've been known to vote Green or Communist depending on my mood. As far as I'm concerned I'm not wasting my vote - I appreciate living in a country where I can vote however I damn well please, and not get in trouble for it.

I went to Weatherford College and Southern Methodist University. I have a degree in Real Estate and Finance from the Edwin L Cox School of Business. You'll notice I'm not exactly using my degree at this moment - oh well...

Believe it or not, I have a pretty busy life. Here's the short list of things I like:

• Collecting and drinking fine single malt scotches.
• Cocktails in general - if you know me you know about my bar.
• Baking desserts - the only thing I really like to cook.
• Reading - I have an eclectic taste in books, so you can find about anything in my library except trashy romance novels.
• The study of 20th Century Soviet and German History (how's that for focused).
• Web design and development (in case you can't guess from this site). I generally like hacking and the various web technologies I use (ASP, PHP, JSP) tend to fill this desire quite well.
• Driving my Mini Cooper S down just about any twisty/hilly road I can find - generally a bit too fast.
• Woodworking - especially finish carpentry or miniatures. Don't ask me to build you a house - it will take forever and be way over built.
• Traveling: Generally in the US, Europe or Australia / New Zealand, but given the chance I'd go about anywhere.
• Web Surfing - the web is full of information on all sorts of interesting topics. I can spend hours just researching something for fun.
• Drinking Shiner Bock Beer (mmmmmmm, beeeeerrrrr), though I can't find it in New England.
• Just hanging out with friends - especially friends that are also fond of Shiner!

Zaphod died last year, so I'm currently between cats. I'll acquire another cat in the near future, however.

One older brother and one younger sister. I don't hate either of them anymore :-)