I'm 36 and living in California, in the perpetual-vacationland of the Coachella Valley. I grew up in Michigan. I've worked as an IT professional, a teacher, a salesman, and I spent two educational years when I was young working at a Burger King. For reasons that baffle some and others can fully appreciate, in 2002 I left a $32/hr. network administrator's position and am now firmly committed to the potentially non-paying field of fiction writing. ^.^