So in simple terms I like sports especially the Cubs and Red Wings. I also root for the Rockies, Nuggets and Broncos because of where I live, but it will be a cold day in hell that I cheer for the Avalanche.

I try and read as much as possible and prefer the classics like Dickens and Hemingway and Fitzgerald over today's popular lit. Of today's authors I prefer Palahniuk and Ishiguro, but will read the back of the cereal box if it is in front of me.

I love to write but never seem to have the time. I do the New York Times crossword in ink. I like beer and bourbon and tequila. I'll kick your ass at Trivia Pursuit and know how to figure pot odds on hitting my flush in hold 'em.

I've lately gotten into meta-physics, and I'm not talking about listening to Yani and knowing my horoscope. I mean the nature of time and what the fourth dimension is and the relationship of information to existence. I love talking about it, but it normally draws blank stares or yawns.

That goes hand-in-hand with my interest in religion in general and Buddhism in particular. I believe that the major religious figures of history were all speaking the same Truth. They just had to each put it in terms that their followers would understand. There's a reason they preached love and harmony and worked against hate and violence.