My Photos Website  (Flickr)

My NC State Sports Website 

My Personal Motto: "Life's short.  Work hard.  Play harder."

First things first: I hate writing online profiles -- they remind me far too much of those silly high school assignments where you had to write a two-page autobiography.  How can you encapsulate an ongoing life in just a few words?  

Where I Am From:  Originally, Cocoa Beach in Florida.  Yes, I have heard the "I Dream of Jeannie" jokes.  No, the town is not like that.  It is a mixed town of folks who work at Kennedy Space Center and is also a beach resort.  Cocoa Beach has some of the best surf on the Atlantic Coast of the US.  Good enough for a regular stop on the pro surfing tour.  Maybe you've seen the RonJon's stickers on people's cars?  That's my home town.

Anyway, I am from there because most of my family worked in the space industry at one time or another.  When you watch documentaries about Apollo, Gemini or Mercury, more than likely you will see one or more of my relatives.  I've seen my Mom, my Dad, my Grandfather and one of my Uncles.  Me, I saw every single Saturn V ever launched...in person.  

Why I Am In NC:

When the Apollo program came to an end, my parents found better jobs and that brought us here to Raleigh.  We've been here since the mid-1970s.  I can almost call myself a native.  Almost.

What I Like:

* Travel - been to all fifty states.  Been to dozens of countries.  Some I would go back to in a second (California) and others I would skip. 

* People - Everyone is interesting somehow.  Just keep in mind that interesting can have more than one meaning, like the old Chinese curse.  

* Art - There is a lot to see and experience in this life.  Creating art is the best way to remember it.  If you have a camera, you are an artist.  Me personally, I write, photograph, design and once in a while play music.  I made my living briefly as a professional musician, but it wasn't the life for me.  Besides, you play music, you don't work music. 

* The Sea and The Mountains: there are no finer places on this Earth than the Andes or Sierra Mountains and the Caribbrean Sea, and I have been to lots of places.  The Caribbean and the tall mountains all have bright colors and clean air. 

Much as I love NC, sorry, our mountains are hills compared to the Andes and most of our coastline has been ruined by too many baby boomer shacks.  Same goes for my hometown's beaches too.  The beach shouldn't have high rises in the dunes.  That's what I think, anyway.

* Sports: I love golf, even if I am not that good.  Think golf isn't hard?  Then why does Tiger Woods still take lessons?

I also love to watch ACC sports and pro hockey.  I used to like racing before racing decided to sell its soul for the money.  I mountain bike, hike, water-ski and other sorts of stuff.  I used to be a skydiver (116 jumps) and a ski racer, but the bones are getting brittle and the price of an accident is too high nowadays.

And so forth and so on.  Read this far?  Wow! Goodness gracious, sakes alive, you really do need to get a life...(I'm kidding, simmer down)

I am not that interesting.  Move along, nothing more to see here!!! 

favorite music: everything but new country and gangsta rap

favorite movies: until the end of the world

favorite hobbies: being outside.

favorite tv shows: battlestar galactica (the new one) are you a cylon? how do you know?

favorite restaurants: le select, gustavia, st. bartholemy, french west indies

favorite web sites: Fark.com, metafilter.com

favorite vacation spots: the caribbean and the sierra nevada