Hi, all.
Let's see, what to say. Gotta pick carefully - no one wants to hear everything.
Biography
I was born in 1960, one month before the election of President John F. Kennedy, in a small town in Missouri. My family moved about quite a bit in my early years: by the time I was 9 we had lived in Missouri, Colorado (twice), South Dakota, and Minnesota. Then we settled in Arkansas, and I would remain there (except for a year in Oklahoma) until I was 22.
I made it through school as quietly as I could manage. Dungeons and Dragons gave me a social life in my late teens. Then I went to college and things really opened up there. I met the woman whom I would eventually marry there in 1979, though we wouldn't actually marry until 1987.
In 1982 I graduated with a BA in Chemistry and Philosophy. I promptly joined the Army (MOS 91B, Combat Medical Specialist), and after a year of active duty I transferred to the National Guard and was accepted to graduate school at the University of Illinois Health Sciences Center.
In 1985 I moved to Los Angeles and began working as a chemist for a private analytical laboratory. I eventually moved on to the Department of Pharmacology at UCLA. Then in 1997 I changed careers, becoming a consultant in technical writing and business information research, and I have done this ever since then. Currently I do consulting for biotechnology and renewable energy companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I live with my wife of law, Michele; my wife of heart, Sonja; and four cats: Bear, Felix, George and Ivan. I'm a Master Composter, through Alameda County, and I practice square foot gardening.
3 Things You Probably Don't Know About Me
I've played the Kennedy Center.
I'm a member of Mensa.
I chose my own name.
Lessons Learned
Religion and Politics
I classify myself as a left-libertarian. That means that I am socially "liberal" and fiscally "conservative," but not as far in the latter direction as the most conservative of my libertarian brethren.
I was raised Episcopalian and Roman Catholic, went to a Methodist college, became agnostic, discovered Wicca, and now practice Thelema.
Kinks
In the interests of sparing people details they'd rather not know, I've masked the information below. Highlight it if you want to read it.
I'm a switch, though most people believe I'm strictly dominant. I tied up my first girlfriend when I was 15, and I have not had a vanilla relationship in the subsequent 33 years. This has given me a broad perspective on kink in general and BDSM in particular. My personal bends include bondage, tickling, spanking, forced orgasms, floggers, canes, electrical play, breath control, roleplay, abduction and resistance play.
Faves
Movies: Closet Land, Star Wars, The Last Samurai, The Green Mile, Men in Black.
Authors: Terry Pratchett, Robert Heinlein, Neal Stephenson, Mark Twain, Jim Butcher, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Glen Cook
Let's see, what to say. Gotta pick carefully - no one wants to hear everything.
Biography
I was born in 1960, one month before the election of President John F. Kennedy, in a small town in Missouri. My family moved about quite a bit in my early years: by the time I was 9 we had lived in Missouri, Colorado (twice), South Dakota, and Minnesota. Then we settled in Arkansas, and I would remain there (except for a year in Oklahoma) until I was 22.
I made it through school as quietly as I could manage. Dungeons and Dragons gave me a social life in my late teens. Then I went to college and things really opened up there. I met the woman whom I would eventually marry there in 1979, though we wouldn't actually marry until 1987.
In 1982 I graduated with a BA in Chemistry and Philosophy. I promptly joined the Army (MOS 91B, Combat Medical Specialist), and after a year of active duty I transferred to the National Guard and was accepted to graduate school at the University of Illinois Health Sciences Center.
In 1985 I moved to Los Angeles and began working as a chemist for a private analytical laboratory. I eventually moved on to the Department of Pharmacology at UCLA. Then in 1997 I changed careers, becoming a consultant in technical writing and business information research, and I have done this ever since then. Currently I do consulting for biotechnology and renewable energy companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I live with my wife of law, Michele; my wife of heart, Sonja; and four cats: Bear, Felix, George and Ivan. I'm a Master Composter, through Alameda County, and I practice square foot gardening.
3 Things You Probably Don't Know About Me
I've played the Kennedy Center.
I'm a member of Mensa.
I chose my own name.
Lessons Learned
- Saying "I love you" isn't the same thing as doing it.
- The opposite of love is not hatred, but indifference.
- Family is best chosen by deliberation, not genetic lottery.
- Nothing is as important as you think it is.
- Nothing is as unimportant as you think it is.
Religion and Politics
I classify myself as a left-libertarian. That means that I am socially "liberal" and fiscally "conservative," but not as far in the latter direction as the most conservative of my libertarian brethren.
I was raised Episcopalian and Roman Catholic, went to a Methodist college, became agnostic, discovered Wicca, and now practice Thelema.
Kinks
In the interests of sparing people details they'd rather not know, I've masked the information below. Highlight it if you want to read it.
I'm a switch, though most people believe I'm strictly dominant. I tied up my first girlfriend when I was 15, and I have not had a vanilla relationship in the subsequent 33 years. This has given me a broad perspective on kink in general and BDSM in particular. My personal bends include bondage, tickling, spanking, forced orgasms, floggers, canes, electrical play, breath control, roleplay, abduction and resistance play.
Faves
Movies: Closet Land, Star Wars, The Last Samurai, The Green Mile, Men in Black.
Authors: Terry Pratchett, Robert Heinlein, Neal Stephenson, Mark Twain, Jim Butcher, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Glen Cook
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