I took two years of German in High School and could still count to ten and order potato salad or strawberry punch if I'm somehow transported magically to Munich.

I decided to actually write my first novel while laying in a hospital bed after back surgery in 1986.

The most disturbing book I own is Practical Homicide Investigation.

I cheated to win the egg drop contest in high school. Bad me.

I love playing chess but hate checkers with a passion.

Coolest place I've ever been is on the launch tower at Kennedy Space Center.

I hate cities. Except Vancouver, B.C.

My favorite food is not bacon. It's lasagna.

I make a mean pasta salad.

I hate the physical act of writing.

I ran over a prairie dog in Wyoming doing 75 mph. They go POP real loud.

I once slept in the woods on the ground overnight in just my clothes. It was cold.

If I could live anywhere right now it would be Montana.

I would love to visit Maine someday.

I was totally into model rockets as a kid.

I launched a mouse in a model rocket when I was a kid. I tied a parachute to him. It did not open.

I spent twenty minutes looking for a bottle of anhydrous water in the physics storeroom when my teacher punked me in 12th grade.

I killed a rattlesnake with a log once.

My favorite novel is IT by Stephen King.

My favorite short story is A Thousand Deaths by Orson Scott Card.

I build my own computers.

I am a licensed Ham Radio operator.

I prefer cold to heat.