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I am a freelance communication consultant, production manager and designer. I also sit on the Editorial Board for the wonderful Standard Ebooks Project —check them out if you like high-quality, Rights free ebooks.

Just for Fun

What I do It varies: in the past I worked mostly on books, some magazines, communications & design — that was the last 20 some-odd years. Currently I work contract doing any of a vast myriad of tasks in the communications field (in some cases just for fun).

What I read Bad sci-fi [and good sci-fi]) and fantasy [only the good stuff] mostly, the occasional classic, a few YA here and there and one or two mysteries a year. I generally read around 100 books a year (see the counts since 2012 here and make no bones about rereading books—that’s what they are there for. My personal library is around 850 paperbacks with a few hardcovers in there and my ebook collections sits right around 950. Sadly these days I almost always ignore my paperbacks in favour of ebooks.

Jobs I have done Worked in a furniture department, hoed sugar beets, DQ cook, feed mill labourer, stockyard hand, wireline hand, farm hand, bale truck loader, waiter, stage hand (props, lighting and sound), stage manager, retail renovations, stage carpenter, book designer, IT support, graphic designer, marketing & design, IT manager, marketing manager, production manager, magazine designer, communications consultant, magazine writer, web designer, and glass artist.

Places I’ve lived France/Belgium (briefly), Montreal, Southern Alberta, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Victoria and up and down the PNW on a boat.

Places I’ve been Alberta (north to south, east to west), Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Yellowknife, Lac La Ronge, Regina, Gray Saskatchewan, Vancouver, Victoria, Tofino, Port Hardy, Haida G’waii (the Queen Charlottes), the Broughton Archipelago, Prince Rupert, Ottawa, all of Canada on the Number 1 Highway west of Montreal, Newfoundland, St. Pierre/Miquelon, NYC, Upper New York State, Boston, Vermont, Michigan, San Francisco, Montana, Puerto Vallarta, Reykjavik, London, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Figueres, Paris, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, the Alsace Lorraine, Luxembourg, the Mosel Valley (Germany) and Altona, Manitoba. Most recently I sailed the west coast from Vancouver to LA.

Things I like to do Sail, climb rocks, play Civ, read (se above), volunteer making quality ebooks, and fiddle around with computers. Artistically speaking, I draw (badly), screen print, create stained glass and write both professionally and for pleasure (no comment).

My OS I started with an Apple IIc and ProDOS, moved to Windows 3.1 then back to a Mac, Systems 6 through 7, Windows XP and now run OS X 10.15 (Catalina) and Windows 10 on my desktop and OS X 11 (Big Sur) on my old MacBook. iOS is my mobile platform of choice, but I have an Nexus 7 kicking around for the occasion Android fix. Recently I have been expanding my horizons with a foray into Linux (Mint)—so far, so good.