My name is Perry Pearson, though friends call me 'Pear'. The truly sycophantic friends call me "Supreme One" but I don't really think they mean it.
I was born on May 10, 1978, and grew up in the same house, in the same town (Troy, Montana), in the same pair of faded hand-me-down corduroys for 20 years.
I was a hyper little ADD bastard through elementary and high school, so ultimately my grades suffered enough that I didn't go to college, ending up in the Coast Guard instead. I joined the CG in 1998, and after boot camp found myself on an icebreaker, the Polar Star, tooling around in the Arctic for a summer while not touching solid ground in 4 months. There's not much to do in the Arctic, which is something you discover very quickly. After about a week I was amusing myself by tossing ice cubes in the deep fat fryer. After about a year or so I attended a navigation school in Yorktown Virginia, and then found myself stationed on a much smaller boat in Homer, Alaska. It was on a weekend trip to Anchorage that I discovered OTR at a Borders listening station. The album was Good Dog Bad Dog, and it's darker tone fit precisely with my mood at the time.
In 2001 I transferred to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I still reside and work for the Coast Guard as an operations specialist in a Search and Rescue coordination center. My office handles more search and rescue on a yearly basis than any other unit in the coast guard. While on watch I communicate directly with vessels in distress via VHF radio, broadcast weather and information, and keep communications schedules with numerous aircraft and boats. It's insanely busy sometimes. TOO busy. I will be getting out of the coast guard in 8-20 months (i'm undecided exactly when) and finally going to college with my newfound ability to pay attention without someone throwing a chalk eraser at my head.
All right, that's probably alltogether too much information, but there ya go.
That is a photo of myself I use as my avatar here, if only because at the time I had no other photos to use. If anyone knows of any interesting photos, I'd be glad for the suggestion.
I'm trying to become more active on the boards recently. I admit I was initially all for keeping the discussions to email, but in the last few weeks I've really seen the benefits of the forums, especially with the vines. I can be found at virtually any time of the day on the forums over at craigslist.org, which has destroyed any suggestion of a normal well-adjusted life I may have had.
Rock on with your bad selves. And stuff.
