I am a 37 year old currently between jobs member of HumanKind. I am married and have accumulated five kids (four in my present marriage and one from a previous marriage who lives with his mother.
   Hobbies:
    Reading and Speculative fiction writing. I have published nothing to date and don't know if I truly want to. I enjoy reading and the speculation and am satisfied with that as well as developing new ideas. Since my eighth grade year, I had sketched at story ideas and a little poetry. I have accumulated quite a few sketches and drafts since then. I have been speculating on things for as long as I can remember. "What if this had happened instead of that, then the results would be . . . or worse yet . . ." I probably drove my parents crazy with questions in my attempt to create more realistic and believable speculation.

    Playing bass, drums, keys, and wrestling with the violin (a few instruments that I have laying around the house)

    Listening to music (eclectic taste here- everything but opera and polka is acceptable to my ears; yes, yes, it is probably because I don't understand Italian, but polkas tend to make me violent)

  General Info:
    I have a mind for useless trivia (useless unless of course I plan to go on Jeopardy). Movie trivia, music trivia, and more recently (past 10 years or so) attentiveness to what is happening in the news and the world around me has fueled my habit for speculation. Mixed in with the trivia is a healthy dash of world history that I absorbed when I wasn't paying attention in school. Combine all of that with an over active imagination and you have a recipe for speculative fiction. Being able to write a little bit helps too. After a time, everything I came across started to run through a kind of mental filter of potential relevance to my idol speculation.

    I spent a number of years in the U.S. Army which afforded me the opportunity to experience people from different places, lands, languages, cultures, and points of view all over the world. At the end of my military career, I took jobs that still afforded me opportunities to travel and I became DRIFTER.

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