About Me

The last post was about the blog, this one will be about me. If this shocks you, then you haven't read many blogs. I'm not feeling too "writerish" today but can do the cheater's version: LISTS!

• Male
• Caucasian(euro-mutt)
• Hair: short and brown, though it's been long and brown at times
• Eyes: brown
• Age: 40, 41 in less than a month
• Height: 6' tall
• Weight: 200lbs give or take a few
• Marital status: Married w/ fetus (not "to fetus" which would be wrong. And gross.)
• Other characteristics: Bunk knees, sore back, asthma, allergies

Personal Likes:

• Silly movies, documentaries, films with subtitles, ambiguous endings, the oeuvres of Whit Stillman and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Pop, jazz, rock, country, bluegrass - basically any music that is good. You can keep your bad music, I want none of it!
• Books - pretty much anything but I do have a regrettable fondness for zombie fiction and the works of Robert Heinlein
• An assortment of television shows and other sundry entertainments
• Red wine and most food other than lima beans and liver
• The sound of a high cylinder count engine headed for the red line and/or a twin cylinder motorcycle burbling happily 

Personal Dislikes:

• People who don't signal lane changes
• People who drive slower than, but tantalizingly close to, the speed limit on roads without passing zones
• People who text and drive, text and walk, or text and converse
• Strawberry ice cream
• Pale lager beers (most mass market,American and Norwegian beers qualify as "blech!" (or "aesj" in Norsk))
• Clothes hangers. Why? Dunno.

Sporting history

• Youth... not much organized, but this was during the era when schools still had both gym and recess so I did kid stuff.
• Age 10ish: Soccer. I got pneumonia during this season which may have been the cause of my later asthma.
• Elementary school: Tae Kwon Do (Jhoon Rhee, "Nobody boddas me!")
• Junior and Senior High: some cycling but mostly just doing "stuff"
• 1989-1992: USC Road Bicycling club/team. I was never in podium contention but did occasionally get used for strategic moves like chasing "primes" ("pr-EEEM-z") which are mid-race points bonuses, and great ways to get riders to blow out early!
• Mid-1990s: Introduced to rock climbing and mountain biking by (girl) friends in LA
• 2000 Crashed my MTB (and took a look at my kneecap) in the South Platte region of Colorado
• Assorted riding and climbing and hiking and skiing and stuff until...
• 2010 Warrior Dash, Tough Mudder
• 2011 Rebel Race, Tough Mudder, and Tough Mudder
• 2012 I have registered for the GOALS ARA Savage adventure race

OK, now you, dear reader, and Google, and, by extension, the world know more than enough about me. I shall sign off and prepare for a planned early AM run tomorrow.