User Profile

          Web design is something I'm interested in and seem to have skill with, but am finding out that I don't have enough business sense or self discipline to start my own business. I have a couple projects I am trying to help out friends with, but I'm being made very aware of my short comings in the self discipline area. I don't plan to give up, unless a better alternative makes itself available to me, but I am realizing that the path will likely be longer and a little more complicated than I originally believed.

          I'm just starting to get back into my writing and art. With some of the stress melting away, the creativity doesn't hide so deep, and is a little easier to coax out of its hole. Being myself again will be a refreshing change, and will hopefully bring back or replace some of my wayward friends who seem to have grown tired of my sour moods and clingy-ness. Here's hoping, at least. ^_^

          If I know you well enough, you might be able to see my contact information entry with all my online and offline contact information. If you think you should have access to this information and you don't, you're welcome to ask me to add you to the contact info filter, but please don't be offended if I tell you no.

          I've been windows free since May 3rd, 2004, and am currently running ubuntu (well, technically kubuntu, but it pretty much just substitutes KDE for Gnome on the install disk). My first computer (that wasn't a shared family unit) I built with the help of a (now former) friend, as at the time I had no experience doing such things but I wanted a purple computer. I've since upgraded the hardware a bit, and transferred into a new case. My next project will most likely be adding a flat panel monitor so I can have a dual screen set up again. I previously had a dual 17" CRT set up, with the secondary monitor sitting on my filing cabinet next to my desk. That monitor died recently, and I've had to adjust to having just one monitor again.

          I enjoy shows like Firefly, Farscape, Cowboy Bebop, Veronica Mars, Kim Possible, Invader Zim, Daria, Doctor Who, Torchwood and I did have an appreciation for Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis, but I just had no desire to go back to either after the mid-season break of season 9 and 2 respectively. Also, I have caught random reruns of Will and Grace, and Dharma and Greg but I haven't had enough desire to track down either in its entirety in order to watch 'em in right and proper order. I used to have a love for the Star Trek 'verse, but it's gotten old and tired. The original series was fun, and I love DS9, however Next Gen doesn't really hold my interest, and Voyager lost all its charm after I've watched most of the episodes once. There wasn't anything positive about Enterprise and I only gave it a try out of habit.

          When I can get my hands on books I like to read (not as easy as it should be, since the libraries around here suck eggs) I will typically have my nose in a book, I even have a reading list that I'm trying to make a dent in but other stuff keeps popping up that I want to read also. I enjoy authors like Neal Stephenson, Poe, Kafka, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Gregory Maguire, Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, fairy tails credited to the Grimm Brothers, Shakespeare, George Orwell, Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Christopher Moore. You can find more information on my reading habits at Good Reads, my profile can be found here: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/81710.

          I mostly listen to classic rock, but I'll occasionally meander into various other sorts of music like celtic, swing, and electronic. I like groups/artists like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Don McLean, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Joel, Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Abba, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Van Morrison, Tom Lehrer, Simon and Garfunkle, Heart, Santana, Blood Sweat and Tears, Loreena McKennitt, Jefferson Airplane, Three Dog Night, and Blue Öyster Cult. I have the following musical and movie soundtracks: Wicked, Chicago (OCR, not the movie soundtrack!), Shoggoth on the Roof, The Fifth Element, one of the matrix scores and Kill Bill vol 1 and 2. Check out my profile on last.fm or my recent tracks list below.

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