"You've never lived until you 've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know."
Interests
My family; good sci-fi novels; watching sci-fi, science, and cartoons; yard work; music (classic rock, hard rock, varities of metal, drum&bass, jungle dnb, dark dnb, hyper dnb, classical, German and Celtic/Scottish Folk music); research papers/articles in political science (particularly International Relations & Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, and aspects of Public Administration); research papers/articles in German and Military history; Addicted to Warhammer 40,000; old-school RPG's (Rifts, Robotech, Car Wars, Recon, AD&D First Edition, and Battletech/Mechwarrior); video games (computer based, PS1/2, and XBox); building/designing model tanks, planes, boats, and troops...And I'm sure I could find more, but this will do for now me thinks.