Some truth and some lies about me, you figure out which is which.
(CLICK on the pictures.)

Age: Fifty-mmph
Sex: M

Profession: Human being, Iconoclast, Raconteur, User of Tools , and all around guy.

Hobbies: Writing, Birdwatching, Gardening, Building, Undermining world governments, Hanging out, Smoking, Art, Cooking, Cooking Art, Making a Web page, Walking, Hiking, Lurking on ARK (alt.religion.kibology), Books, Music, Movies. Opposing things that annoy me, Annoying things that oppose me, Dogs, Cats, Aquarium fish, Composting, and others too numerous to mention.

I started out as a child, at a very young age I decided that I would grow up to be a man. Since then I have followed this established pattern of doing what was inevitable anyway, thus looking wise and gaining an undeserved reputation for forethought.

Short history: I was born in Edmonton, Alberta and moved with my parents to my grandparents farm when I was two weeks old. I remember little of the train trip but have been told I enjoyed it. When I was just two we moved a few miles south to live in the housing site of the Victory Coal Mine. Thus began my life as a "mine kid", a life apart from the common run of the farmers in the area. At the age of seventeen, the year I finished High School we moved back up to the farm. I worked for a year after that as a laminator operator/stacker/wrapper and general dogsbody at a building board manufacturing plant. Good times doesn't even come close to describing it, it was 12 hour days and six day weeks and hard physical work. I worked like a dog, slept like a log and smelled like a hog. I then worked as a general labourer until the lure of the bright lights called me to the city. More labour jobs there until I went to Alberta College, then joined the Post Office as a letter carrier. I first lived with my grandparents, then in various places.
In 1968 I resigned from the Post Office and travelled across Canada, then to Europe for awhile. I got married in Halifax, Nova Scotia, came back to Edmonton and the Post Office, then attended the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Radio/Television Arts. I next spent a year as a full time Research Technician in the Psychology Department at the University of Alberta playing with rodents. I was also attending University classes and driving a mail truck at night, (busy, busy).
My wife got a teaching job with Northland School Division and we moved north to Keg River for a year, then to Wabasca for four more years.

This is Tip, a Keeshund/Border Collie cross(at least) She's 11 years old, great with kids and of course, smart as a whip. (Tip passed away 19 October, 2001, peacefully in her sleep under the lilac tree. We all miss her.) Hey, love me, love my dog, my cat, my guinea pig, my fish,and especially, the birds.