Playing guitar, Tae Kwon Do (2nd Degree Black Belt), and building stuff (carpentry), volunteer Firefighter.
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Music
Lots of bands from the 70's and 80's, but some favorites: Alan Parsons Project, Al Stewart, Chicago, Klaatu (obscure, I know), Synergy, Walter/Wendy Carlos (Switched on Bach), Enya, Hayley Westenra, Carlos Santana, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Coldplay, Rondo Veneziano, Steeley Dan, Moody Blues, Electric Light Orchestra and anything classical.
I can handle some of the music from Godsmack and 3 Doors Down, but the vocal quality usually sucks so bad, I can't listen to it for long. Evanescense is ok, though. Can't stand rap, disco, or twangy country.
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1. May It Be - Enya
2. What You Never Know - Hayley Westenra
3. Amarantine - Enya
4. Both Sides Now - Hayley Westenra
5. Pokarakara Ana - Hayley Westenra
6. Only If - Enya
Current: Mythbusters, Stargate and Stargate Atlantis, Crossing Jordan, Battlestar Galactica (new), Ghost Hunters, Threshold (until CBS CANCELLED it!), almost anything on the History Channel.
Old Favorites: American Gothic, Tales from the Darkside, Monsters, Twilight Zone, Star Trek (all of them), Poltergeist The Legacy, Friday the 13th (the Series).
Books
Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Edwin Abbott (Flatland)
Heroes
The men and women of the US Armed Forces -- no one else even comes close
I've been into a lot of things over the years. I play Clarinet, Recorders, Saxaphone and guitar.
I was very active in theatre performing in over 40 plays in a 4 year period. Some of those were: Twelfth Night, Don't Drink the Water, The Comedy of Errors, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Oklahoma!, Heaven Can Wait, Camelot (2 times and directed) , Something's Afoot, The King and I, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Barefoot in the Park, Murder Game, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Fantasticks, Murder at the Howard Johnson's, South Pacific, Cinderella (Directed), The Gondoliers, Gypsy, Whodunnit, Music Man, Night and Day and Mame.
My tally of occupations has been: keymaker, newspaper carrier, logic tutor, Adjunct Professor, Radio DJ, Steamship agent, computer programmer, systems engineer, mathematician, business model architect and now, consultant and volunteer Firefighter.
My wife is a big geneology afficionado and she has traced my line back to a long series of Irish and English kings and other notables such as Lady Godiva (my 31st great-grandmother), Emperor Charlemagne (my 37th great-grandfather) and Nectaebus, Pharoah of Egypt (b 1804BC, 119th great-grandfather). She knows she must have royalty on her side too (she just still hasn't found it yet).
Oh, and I've just recently become a Sudoku junkie! Try it yourself!
