So Who the Heck Is This Guy Anyway...?
Okay. Well, One side of my personality is explored in length at my website, which you can find from the link at the bottom of the screen called "Frustrated Pilot". Otherwise:
I'm still unemployed, with experience in fields I'll never be hired again for (retail and hospitality--I'm NOT a smiling face)...
I've been using computers since about 1983 or so. The first ones were Radio Shack TRS-80s, then a Tandy IBM clone got my family flirting with the Internet at the end of the Eighties, then a Packard Bell Pentium-I finally got us there in 1997. I keep saying that I like flight sims but I haven't really gotten far with those as I don't have the technology to really exploit them. A keyboard, a mouse and a joystick are NOT enough for me. I want a full function instrument dashboard, a HUD, a yoke, a throttle quadrant and rudder pedals at least! But enough about dream machines.
I drive a 2001 Chevy Prizm (Toyota Corolla, made in California) that I owe in upcoming payments about what it's worth. I'll have to get a job soon to keep the payments going. At least I know I'll be good through September. I'm still very worried about that tho'.
In the early 1990s I tried writing for comic books, at a company called Caravette Graphics/Samson Comics in Florida. I never got anything of mine published, although my former would-be boss there told me I was the most useful guy he almost hired for staff.
I've been an anime fan since about 1972 when I first saw Speed Racer. My full-blown fandom didn't emerge till after High School...I was into Doctor Who in High School. Even so, I don't watch much TV of any kind any more...Numb3rs and the Evening News are about it for me. My online novel (q.v. my website) and other Internet duties keep me rather busy for TV. The house where I live doesn't have cable anyway.
I'm out of touch when it comes to pop music too. I realise that I'm a child of the Seventies and Eighties (and a little Nineties too, I suppose) and that the record companies have no business attempting to cater to my weird tastes. More on that later.
I live with my parents. This is out of love as much as it is out of economics. Father is a cancer survivor and while he seems to be doing well now, sometimes he needs me around. I feel incredibly lonely an awful lot of the time and so far only the Internet is keeping me sane. In fact, I'm sure I'd test positive for some mental illness or another.
I build scale models as a hobby (airplanes, science-fiction robots, vehicles of all kinds except trains) and sometimes I write reviews for the IPMS/USA website or their magazine. I'll post URLs for my reviews in a later entry.
I'm a Sagittarius. Born Year of the Horse as well. According to the Book of Destiny, I was born "Week of the Titan" with a Karmic Path of "Grace"--which is supposed to mean I'm destined to do very big, very beautiful things with my life. Sitting where I am now, that's got to be a really bad joke.
More to come.
FP
I'm still unemployed, with experience in fields I'll never be hired again for (retail and hospitality--I'm NOT a smiling face)...
I've been using computers since about 1983 or so. The first ones were Radio Shack TRS-80s, then a Tandy IBM clone got my family flirting with the Internet at the end of the Eighties, then a Packard Bell Pentium-I finally got us there in 1997. I keep saying that I like flight sims but I haven't really gotten far with those as I don't have the technology to really exploit them. A keyboard, a mouse and a joystick are NOT enough for me. I want a full function instrument dashboard, a HUD, a yoke, a throttle quadrant and rudder pedals at least! But enough about dream machines.
I drive a 2001 Chevy Prizm (Toyota Corolla, made in California) that I owe in upcoming payments about what it's worth. I'll have to get a job soon to keep the payments going. At least I know I'll be good through September. I'm still very worried about that tho'.
In the early 1990s I tried writing for comic books, at a company called Caravette Graphics/Samson Comics in Florida. I never got anything of mine published, although my former would-be boss there told me I was the most useful guy he almost hired for staff.
I've been an anime fan since about 1972 when I first saw Speed Racer. My full-blown fandom didn't emerge till after High School...I was into Doctor Who in High School. Even so, I don't watch much TV of any kind any more...Numb3rs and the Evening News are about it for me. My online novel (q.v. my website) and other Internet duties keep me rather busy for TV. The house where I live doesn't have cable anyway.
I'm out of touch when it comes to pop music too. I realise that I'm a child of the Seventies and Eighties (and a little Nineties too, I suppose) and that the record companies have no business attempting to cater to my weird tastes. More on that later.
I live with my parents. This is out of love as much as it is out of economics. Father is a cancer survivor and while he seems to be doing well now, sometimes he needs me around. I feel incredibly lonely an awful lot of the time and so far only the Internet is keeping me sane. In fact, I'm sure I'd test positive for some mental illness or another.
I build scale models as a hobby (airplanes, science-fiction robots, vehicles of all kinds except trains) and sometimes I write reviews for the IPMS/USA website or their magazine. I'll post URLs for my reviews in a later entry.
I'm a Sagittarius. Born Year of the Horse as well. According to the Book of Destiny, I was born "Week of the Titan" with a Karmic Path of "Grace"--which is supposed to mean I'm destined to do very big, very beautiful things with my life. Sitting where I am now, that's got to be a really bad joke.
More to come.
FP