Business IT/admin efficiency expert and management consultant. Part-time inventor.

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I was just a geeky kid, math and science all I did, no idea what I should do when I got out of school
Should I get a math degree? Maybe physics was for me? One thing that I knew was I could never work to rule
Gave the uni life a try, mostly it just slid on by, mechatronics wasn't on the schedule then you see
I'd not thought of robots since I was fourteen, and not convinced that engineering was my path, I chose my destiny

I've always liked Transformers; they've been through my door now since eighty-four
I've always liked Transformers; though there's been distractions, there's more satisfactions

Public sector, worked the stacks, shuffled endless files of facts, boredom made me change and I became "the PC guy"
Fixed the office, just relax, got promoted into Tax, wrote their network bible 'fore I had to say goodbye.
Moved my broke ass interstate, years I toiled there numbered eight, answering the phones when the computers fell apart
Nine to five began to grate, next to nought remunerate, dreamed up schemes of real estate - a way I could restart.

I've always liked Transformers; it's the moving parts of the designer's arts
I've always liked Transformers; they were pioneering in their engineering

Moved cross-country once again, naught to lose and much to gain, gambled on a hunch and talked a bank out of a loan
Found that if you have the gab the world's your living finance lab so now my house of robot toys ain't rented; it's my own!
Retired for now, you never know, I'll just sit back and watch the show, I love that I can sleep in late on each and ev'ry day
When the numbers sing and dance there's money there so take a chance; you never know when fortune can be called to come and play

And I've always liked Transformers - now my new collection has a wide selection
I've always liked Transformers - and now e-Bay can be a place to play

Let's see - as of early 2008, my non-Transformer hobbies mainly revolve around getting me fit after more than a decade behind a desk. I have classes in Pilates, yoga, and tai chi. I'm also doing singing training and guitar lessons, because I was bored and had a couple of free hours.

Drawing-type art is on the backburner for the moment, although I'm reading various theory books. I'm getting back into the general reading habit, am practising medium-scale finance-fu, and am testing out plans for changing the world (on a small scale, to start with). I'd like to get into general plastic modelling, but this isn't really the city for cultural fringe hobbies. In the meantime, I randomly strike up conversations with professors, CEOs, and anyone else that I "shouldn't" bother. I try to find the interesting in everyone. (Except telemarketers.)

I occasionally write, am a killer technical beta (weak on emotional undercurrent, though), and can put together a lyric or two if inspiration strikes. I prowl around LiveJournal looking for weird topics, and can be found on AIM, ICQ, Yahoo chat, a number of different IRC networks and Usenet groups, as well as several of the more popular Transformer websites. A G1 fan at heart, I'm more than happy to wrangle about the merits of everything Transformer-related or non. Yes, that includes slashfic, although so far I've never actually written any.

Apparently my brain has to be doing something or I go crackers. I've blueprinted a transoceanic canal through Mexico, designed a semitrailer that transforms into a 3200-square-foot house, and am currently memorizing pi while in the shower.

Chat to me about cyberpunk, politics, the meaning of Alpha Trion's beard, plushies, BotCon, why Throttlebots are so cute, love lost and won, the meaning of human existence, Simpsons quotes, kangaroos, fic, filk, bungee jumping, or the use of the Oxford comma. Everything may be fodder, but it's interesting fodder.