I guess its my turn.....

My name is Gary, and I'm a 35 year old architect. I'm married to my soul-mate, and we live north of Evansville Indiana. We plan on moving further out of town in a year or two.

Being an architect is a fairly consuming career (5 years of college; 5 years of supervised professional development; 9 national examinations; state registration; 18 hours of continuing ed every year to maintain my license), but since I only develop commercial projects I have a lot of flexibility in my scheduling...which is good...because I love the outdoors.

All of my hobbies revolve around the same "general interest" and include: camping; hiking; shooting; gun collecting (a misnomer because I USE my guns); survivalism / preparation; knife collecting (not a misnomer because I don't have the heart to hurt my babies); politics; and evaluating survival gear.

NOTE: md02 if you're reading this - I will use that UM. Tom - I don't have the heart to use my YKLE...its my favorite knife!