I was tagged some time ago

Jason Rudolph tagged me with this "5 things non-geeky we don’t know about you" blog viral concept. It’s taken me a while to get some time to see to this.

So here we go…

1. I love energetic/complex music and have very wide tastes. Death Metal (Strapping Young Lad, Mastodon, Cephalic Carnage, Death…), Progressive Rock (Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull) , Skacore (Voodoo Glow Skulls), Qawwali (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), eastern European folk music (Marta Sebestyen), contemporary classical (Steve Reich, Steve Martland) and even some unusual pop (Cardiacs, William D. Drake) and even Outkast. However I tend to like only a few artists from each genre that really do it for me. "Metal" does it for me the most though, and now I am the "old guy in the corner" at metal gigs as this passion won’t ever leave me, which is going to get strange when I’m 60 (I’m only 34 now!).
2. I have two wonderful daughters, both born into this world naturally, at home in our living room in birth pools, medication- and intervention-free thanks to the dedication of my wife. They are healthy, full of vitality – at times it seems like too much!
3. I am passionate about organic food, food production issues and environmental ethics and sustainability. This is a large part of the reason for me being a vegan.
4. I’m a "flunkie". I left school at the age of 16 as I did not like what conventional educational offered me, and my computer programming skills were already far beyond what the system could give me… my path was already predetermined. Anyway, that means no science degree, no further/higher education etc. Funnily enough I feel like I’ve turned out OK, and have avoided a whole load of pointless examinations and assessments and student loan debts.
5. I love helping people and organisations improve working methods and IT stuff, but sadly the job description of "someone who will help you organize your sh*t" isn’t often found, so I work for myself as a freelance contractor as I have done for 10 years now.

Somehow I don’t think the world will change for me revealing this information, but hey…