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describe myself? what? i'd rather click on the "rather not say" button, but what the hell. i'll give it a shot. haven't really done anything like this since my fourth step. (friends of bill's will understand that.)

physically, i'm 6'2, about 200 lbs with blondish whitish silverish hair that i wish i had more of, blue eyes that i wish focused better, and more years on my time line than i care to admit. to earn a few bucks, i peddle beach houses in rhode island. it's a second career, having spent some time in marketing with the nfl and a couple of other places nowhere near as exciting or impressive, and then way too much time in graphic arts and printing.

mentally, i'm about half-smart. i'm one of those oddballs that did way better on the verbal s.a.t.s than the math. to keep my mind working, i read a lot of fiction and look forward to the sunday crossword puzzle in the ny times. i usually get about a 95 on that and sometimes i even finish it. i do it in ink to piss off my friends.

politically, i agree with winston churchill who said something like, "democracy is absolutely the worst form of government, except for all other forms of government." i guess that makes me more of a libertarian than anything else. today is nov. 3, 2008 and i'm not going to tell you who i'll likely vote for on nov. 4.

the beach is why and where i live. i love it at dawn and dusk and when few other people are around unless they're 18 and in a bikini. i guess that makes me a dirty old man. but at least the flame still burns.

my mental health is cared for by a med-management shrink who writes scrips for zoloft to lift my mood and which i take about half of and adderall to focus my attention-deficit-disorder mind and which i wish i had more of. i also talk to tom once a week who is a therapist and a friend and who is in charge of maintaining my sanity. he is sometimes successful.

i used to shoot a lot of pictures with a canon f-1 circa 1978. i had an f-1.4 55mm, an 80-200 zoom, and a 300mm f-3.6 (i think); all canon glass. canon gave all that stuff to me when i set them up as "photo consultant to the nfl" and "official camera of the super bowl". what a hoot. i gave it all to my daughter when she got interested in photography and i was no longer since i couldn't get field passes to football games anymore. the nfl had given me the opportunity to succeed elsewhere.

my interest in pictures came back when i semi-retired and moved to my beach house year-round. i was shooting with an old olympus 2mp snapshot camera which somehow became less fullfilling (duh). so last spring i treated myself to a nikon d-80 with the 18-200 nikkor vr zoom. i have yet to even put any kind of a scratch in the surface of what i have to learn. but i'm getting a major kick out of trying and have captured a few things that, slowly but surely, i'm getting up the nerve to post on flickr.

as to the rest of my profile, i'm addicted to alcohol, so i no longer drink. today is day number 8,928 without a martini or anything else. i am also addicted to sand, sea glass, sunsets, sunrises, red meat, butter, and white chocolate. i feed these addictions regularly.


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