Flickr: Wes Warren(Beadopolis)

1. A fifth-generation Canadian, I've worked as a machinist, engineer, shop steward, security guard, pizza driver, KFC driver, truck driver, cook, dishwasher, used car salesman(!), stereo salesman, T.V. Camerman, TV Host, A/V Engineer, ice cream vendor, tire-change guy, gas jockey, diamond driller, video tranfer technician, phone message narrator, musician, roofer, landscaper, pipefitter, welder's helper, oilfield parts rep., oil changer, tanker loader, firefighter, and last but not least, beadmaker. Holy Smokes! Maybe I WAS more interesting as a Drunk!!

2. I've lived with addiction my whole life and have now chosen to do battle with it instead. So now I'm too good for my friends, not good enough for my wife, so I type 144 words per minute trying to get a LIFE! Oo! And I rhyme from time to time.

3. I never did graduate high school. HATED the System and well...I still do! I did later con my way into Arts in college, then dropped out. I guess GETTING IN was the challenge I sought! Nah, I was a stupid summer-lovin' pothead.

4. I ran for Provincial Office in Edmonton Center(Alberta's Capital) in 1992, then went on to study Incorporation for Offshore Banking. Ahem...a little prematurely I think.

5. I am the guy in the theatre that laughs during the not-funny parts, then laughs harder at THAT. I require intelligence in entertainment, but I'll settle for the news(lol!) or a dusty album.

6. I wasted my youth on drugs, alcohol, rock and roll, fast women and fast cars. (Real original, eh?) An motorcycle accident in '87
almost cost me a leg. I now set off metal detectors. Heck, I was so fast that I rolled an '88 Pontiac Grand Am Turbo when it was still 1987! But I'm a courteous, good driver...Well, NOW I mean.

7. I've been as far south as Tijuana, east as far as Winnipeg, to the Westshore of Vancouver Island, and north 150 miles past Yellowknife(close to the arctic circle). I've seen the stars from the base of the Garibaldi Glacier.

8. I happen to make polymer clay millefiore canes like nobody else on earth(to my knowledge).

9. I love physics, tools and machinery. There's justice in steel and math. There is very little fiction in my library.

10. I'm the guy that doesn't mind doing the humble tasks, but when others take credit, even the boss, I bend them over and...well, see Item #1.

11. I walk in the rain, I jump in the puddles. Animals dig me. And I hum a new tune to my Aloe Plant nearly every day.

12. I'm a clean freak. When people set down a coffee spoon on the counter, I'm in the other room wincing.

13. I dig most people, but despise haughty ones. I used to pick fights with 'em...now I just chuckle and walk.

14. I am a packrat. There IS no junk. When I need a 1/32 inch i.d. by 2.8cm o.d. washer and a 3 oz. compression spring to match, I know where them suckers are at.

15. I can make a roaring fire in seconds, but usually leave it for someone else to worry about once it's lit.

16. I am meticulous about paperwork...avoidance. I take the top sheet out of my printer before printing, just in case a fleck of lint should blemish an otherwise perfect document which should have been done weeks ago. Then I have to get someone else to send it.