Male

35

"girls like guys with skills, like numchuk skills, bowhunting skills" and i've got 'em. part german engineer, part irish roustabout and part scottish rogue, an exercise in contradiction. got an old mustang but rarely drive it - I bike to work. My motorcycle and bicycle get more miles than my car. I'm a vegetarian but like good leather shoes. Shy but naughty. "secretly I'm timid" - liz phair. Well-read but find much intellectualism tiresome and ineffectual - strike a balance between contemplation and real, dirt-under-the-fingernails action. I'm retro and techno at the same time. I revel in the cheap but appreciate the finer things. Love nothing better than finding the finer things cheap or free! I'm equally at home in Costco and the Berkeley Bowl, Grocery Outlet or Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, etc. love the outdoors, hiking and biking, fast motorcycle rides, learning more about almost any subject, nights at home when you just look stuff up online or read. I used to live for poetry. Still write on occasion. I built a bike shed and earthquake retrofitted a house. I know how to fix your bicycle. I'm a nonpracticing buddhist, but practice open, non-conscious attentiveness at times. I have not owned a car most of my adult life, but now I do. I can be sensitive and perceptive, but sometimes just need to be alone. I've got a strong moral sense but know how to properly be bad. I'm a hopeless romantic. I am prone to sing Rufus Wainwright at the top of my lungs while driving alone. (not a capella) I've been to burning man but like to use my creative energy in other parts of my life too. I own my own house.