I've traveled enough sea miles to go around the world twice, and went half way and back and can make any vessel capable of doing so do it again. I've driven enough miles by motorcycle to go around the world twice, by car to go to the moon, by 18 wheeler to the moon and back twice, I can drive any vehicle made by man on land and sea, and could take over any aircraft or even space craft in a pinch. I can teach classes on many subjects from anarchism and anthropology, to BDSM and overcoming jealousy. I've seen and spoken to spirits and hallucinated animals, and still can't say what they really are or what caused the experience.

I've brought a 19 year old through transition into a beautiful young man, and learned that even without having a child of my own, my mother's curse upon adolescent me has been fulfilled.

I'm sex positive, anti-fascist, love motorcycles and sailboats (for the same reason), Anarcho-Syndicalist and willing to risk my job to go to bat for my co-workers benefit (and have).

I've saved lives, and probably have taken at least one (you don't always find out for sure). And I'm proud of the former, and cry over the later. But I will not hesitate to do either again if needed.

I'm an egalitarian humanist, who believes black lives matter, feminism is important, and LGBTQI folk deserve every right anyone else has and I believe all of those people are justified in fighting for it, and that it's amazing people of color, women, and Native Americans are as patient and peaceful as they are. And more importantly that my privilege is not a shield against having to deal with it, but a weapon I will gladly use to fight along side those who do not have it, and I have and do.

My mother (a true civil rights hero, and the greatest teacher I ever had) died a horrible painful and humiliating death in front of her husband, myself and my wife over a span of 3 weeks. Big fuck you to Johnson and Johnson baby powder, the hospital that would not allow her to continue her gene therapy trial, and Right Wingers need to prohibit peaceful end of life transition.

I also suffer from Gulf War Syndrome, have combat related and job related physical permanent injuries, PTSD, Imposter Syndrome, and a fear of success.

I am a rape survivor (though in many places it still isn't able to prosecute it as such), and over a third of my sexual experience was coerced, all by women. I believe you about men, humans can be really fucking shitty to one another and it has to stop.

I am an auto-didactic polymath. And there are some subjects in which I have over 40k hours of research into. And I have not one shred of interest in colleges and their capitalist bullshit backed by HR policies designed by a capitalistic elitist racist.

I engage in capitalism only because it is necessary for survival, I seek every ethical means possible to divorce survival from it for myself and others.

I find it very hard to empathize with violent pawns of the oligarchy. On my better days I try. On my worst days, I don't even think about making the attempt.

I'm immeasurably complex, but I can be sated by the simplest things.

I wear a beard or goatee because without facial hair, even in my 40's I look like a twenty year old without it. Okay maybe in my early 30s without it.

I have tattoos, and each one tells something about me that I think everyone should know, and I get more whenever I can afford it and I don't balk at paying an artist for their work in the process. Because artists are what make this world worth living in.

I am a story teller. As such I love sharing my stories, and listening to yours.

My hope for the future can be summarized in one simple line.

'Humans can be better. So let's do that, shall we?'