A fine concoction of remarkable capability and devout ridiculousness. Really. Tho' the phrases "can of whoop-ass" or "hardworking get-it-done guy" may not be the first that crosses your mind when you meet AJ at one of his parties, in my experience he is very much both of these. Whether that's in the realm of environmental law or stupid human tricks depends upon the moment, I guess.

i don't care if i am the only one filling up your testimonial box (damn that sounds so dirty!)...aj i'm so glad i remembered that we are great friends. in exchange for the little things in the past, the big thing that remains clear is your enourmous HEART (did you think i might say something else?) be-have! i love you aj...thanks for being there when it counts***

similarly i discovered aj at the bottom of a mountain of dirty clothes, where he and his elderly blind froo-froo dog (rip morgan) were snuggling together in solidarity against the mean cold world outside. here's where i enter the story and expose aj to descriptive words other than 'nice'...and he in turn let me loose at the top of nevados with a slick board bound to my feet. it was a trade off and a fair deal in many wonderful ways. he is now working towards his doctorate, and is an official smarty-pants (as if we didn't already know that already...gosh!) but i doubt he could describe a color.

originally i found aj in the dumpster digging for pickled herring and crackers. I had to get the little guy out of there and clean him up. oh how he's grown since then, but he just can't ignore his roots. I can't take him anywhere near a safeway or snosterbla or he makes a b-line to the back of the building! perhaps dumpster dinners do taste better, hell i've been known to partake. Anyway, he has come along way, whether it's sipping peter vella from the box on a snowy afternoon in the parking lot of mt. bachelor, sucking individual packets of relish on the shores of diamond lake, or drinking capitan morgan's from a juice bottle whilst walking up the slopes of whistler mountain--aj knows the good life!