- Kenpo: I have been doing Kenpo since February of 2006, and have been elevated to a black gi (but still a colored belt), meaning official recognition as an asistant instructor but still a student. I spend time instructing the kid's class followed by participation of the adult class.
- SCA: The Society of Creative Anachronism is Medieval and Renaissance re-enactment. Usually these are camping events. The 'Kingdom' we live in is the Kingdom of An Tir. Most of what I do in the SCA is pirate-based personna, but truly my personna is a 14th century Italian from the Etruscan area of Italy that goes by the name of Octavian Silvermoon. There isn't period documentation for that name, and the 'period' name is Octavianus Lunanus. This roughly translates to 'the one known as Octavian who was adopted by [someone else] knows as Octavian, who is from the town of Luna.'
- Fencing: With my SCA hobby, I participate in boffer fighting, but also fencing. Boffer fighting only goes so far when you can't hear the clang of steel on steel when you are trying to kill your opponent in a duel ;)
- LARP: Every week on the 1/3/5 Friday, and 2/4 Saturday I participate in a Live Action RolePlaying game that I have been in since the summer of 2008. We are running the old 'World of Darkness' by Whitewolf, with each night being a different primary venue. There is one game we do which is new world, and one that is dark ages.
- D&D: Some friends of mine have a weekly D&D 3.5 edition game on Sundays. It is a lot of fun, and I am playing a fae ninja (rouge) that is immune to fire and prone to playing tricks on other people.
Since December 2006 I work full-time doing IT (Information Technology) at a community college in Salem. This is working supporting client workstations running Windows (usually Windows XP Professional). I also support Vista (which has been on my machine from 2006-2008), and Windows 7 (which came out in public beta in 2009). On top of that, I am Apple Certified for OSX 10.5 Leopard.
Here are some other things that might be of use to you:
- Renaissance clothing ~~ Example garb outfits and patterns for Renaissance re-enactment (i.e. to wear to the wedding). We will be doing our honeymoon the first part of July, being an Anime Convention in Anaheim for 4 days, another 5 days in southern Florida, and then another 5 days on a cruise.
- Pets ~~ Currently we have none, but in the past we have had 4 cats (Sai, Yuki, Ken, and Sabriel) and 2 rats (kuro-nezumi and Luis), as well as some rabbits. I have a lot more pictures of them than what is on here, but it's at least a start. You'll also find that there are pictures or past pets who have either passed on or left to live somewhere else here on my Pets
page. Yuki gave birth to 5 kitties on 5/5, so we have cinco de 猫 (ねこ/neko)。
- Poems ~~ I have almost all of my poetry up in my poetry section. Out of my poetry, I have been published in multiple venues of literature, online and in print. Published works: The Moon On Next Morrow's Night, The First Snow, and Souls Of the Dead. There are also some published in poetry anthologies from yearbook-signing books printed in high school, but I don't remember which ones off-hand were printed in that.
To date I have had one poem published by another online site and two poems professionally published. The first is from my blue section [The Moon On Next Morrow's Nigh] and was published on a website for Celtic culture in Australia back in about 1996 or 1997 or so. The second one is from my green section [The First Snow] was published Fall 2000 in an anthology called "Time After Time" by The International Libray of Poetry. The third one is to be published not only in an anthology through The International Library of Poetry, but read aloud on a cd with 32 other poems! It is from my purple section [Souls of the Dead].
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