User:Dunniteowl

New to this, so bear with me...

If this is *my* page, then I suppose it ought to be about me. Me, me, me, me, me. So here goes. Short bio:

Born: 11 October 1960; Male; 155 lbs; 5'6"; Blue eyes, Blond hair; red beard and mustache.

Birthplace: Napa, California-- if you think I whine too much, remember, I was born in the heart of Whine Country... :)

Relatively well self educated with a two year degree from Diablo Community College (aka: Tinker-toy Tech and former school of former nobody George Lucas.) 4 Years USAF training, worked for Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Intel, Chevron, AMD, IBM and a very short stint with Appplied Materials.

Currently I am the Curator of the Capital of Texas Zoo and have had at least 5 childhood dreams come true from being there. (Would be nice if being a millionaire--that would be 6 childhood dreams-- happened there as well. No pay in this job.) Where else do you get to play with a baby lion, chase Cavys, feed and pet a Cougar, wrap a 14 foot Albino Burmese Python around you, fight an 8.5' Green Anaconda, train an owl, piebald crow, handle Sulfur Crested Cockatoos, Conyers, Yellow-nape Parrots, Blue and Gold Macaws, wrestle Morelet's Crocodiles and Water Monitors all in a day's work?

Aside from all that, I am an aspiring writer and game designer since way before I was doing any of those other things. Been writing poetry since I was 12, fiction since I was 14, designing board wargames since 18, creating AD&D modules for my game world P'arn N`ath since I was 21 and working on an SF-RPG system since I was 24. Of course, as they are all works going from my interests and have not yet put food on the table, they are counted more as hobby interests at this point in time.

Other than that, my interests include any field of study that ends with: -ology, -ography, -metry, -ory, -ics or -iction-- so, just about everything under the sun, moon or stars.

My talent for outdoing myself in incredibly ignorant acts is, while not legenday, the stuff of many a good yarn and tale over the dinner table, campfire or on the field of battle (SCA.) I have been reliably tested to be very intelligent, however, intelligence alone does not connote wisdom or practicality. Add this to a rather impulsive nature and you can get a good idea that my life, in general, has all the qualities of a great tragi-comedy.

In light of that information-- God, I hope this is what this particular page is meant for...

dunniteowl and his page-- both a work in progress.