44 separated (divorced in a month give or take) Yorkshireman with an 11 year old (stays with me most of the time) who is already in training to be a Royal Marine Commando?!? We are one month away from his second ever year without a visit to A&E (which will cost me £50 on Jan 1st - but worth it). Have two border collies who are great if only they would vacuum up after themselves and not expect to go out at 5am every morning (I cruelly ignore them on Sundays and get up at 7). Will be a long weekend for them as it is Bonfire night tomorrow.
Work as an IT Manager which is 99% pure boredom 1% panic trying to look as though I know the answers. I appear to be naturally good at it so it's not interesting. Like most I have dabbled with writing but while I can start and end, the intervening chapters hold no interest so for now the story plans remain on the bookcase. I'm terrible at watercolours but enjoy trying, figure in another 30 years Ill be average but that's not the reason for doing it. Read a fair bit through a broad range of styles (Ray, Gemmell, Zelazny, James P Hogan, P OBrien, Jack vance, Bertrum Chandler among the ones I would be gutted to loose). I like physics a fair bit and would do a degree/research if I had time and money; also trying to rebuild my kitchen (long story) and produce an accounts package I intend to give away free. There is a business model or I'm an idiot, I'll tell you in 12 months. Enjoy the usual MMO (my tipple is DDO)/Strategy/Roleplay games; starting to get bored with Battlefield already, good job I'm buying MW3 for my son next week. Like most music (off to see the Tiger Lillies in Feb which will be erm 'interesting'. Only other notable things I can think off at the moment are that I had cancer at 21 (Five of us went in at the same time only two of us came out, interesting learning you are mortal), which kiboshed becoming an officer in the RAF :( and is probably why my son is adopted. Oh and I've won a remote controlled Alfa Romeo Mito car that should arrive next week. Only thing I can ever remember winning.
