TrickTheTeeVee

Good Evening (Or) Good Morning,
[depending on when you find this]
My name is Patrick, but due to the number of circles I am in that have similarly named sapients, I use "Trick" as a regular handle on my persona to thin the proverbial herd.

Music is one of the human artifacts that I stumbled upon in the early, formative years of my life, but it is easily the most intensely tied to emotion from those days, so it naturally became the foundation to every experience I have encountered in the 30 times I have circled our star.

Apart from the addiction to music that I occasionally refer to as a "hobby", I also enjoy:
- Anything that happens within the tiny bubble that we refer to as "the Cosmos" (as long as it is presented in an entertaining and catchingly creative way)
- listening to the same song, in small sections, thousands of times while I tweek the eq frequency by the db
- putting oil, imbued with varying reflections of light wave lengths, on different materials so as to inflict specific emotions upon the unsuspecting viewers
- Figuring out what a person's viewpoint is, on any subject, then taking the opposing viewpoint in the conversation, so as to: figure out how strongly they feel, discern what "makes them tick" generally, discover how they handle opposition, see if they are a genuine person, or to just screw with them (depending on the situation)
- Over using commas in the body text of everything I type
- Putting on armor and wielding bamboo sticks with the goal of beating another person (with the same goal) with those sticks until strike points accumulate, or stamina quits
- Spending any amount of time with my offspring
- figuring out creative ways to arrange the written version of the vibrations we (humans) can make with the upper 1/5th of our body
- being overly wordy in an attempt to weed out the skimmers so the real message is delivered to the articulate, patient few
- Imbibing alcohol while trying to force my abstract thoughts into text based explanations of my entire life for strangers (soon to be friends) to read
- Brainstorming ways that I can accumulate enough money to afford having a family while actually being able to spend time with them (now that's a concept!)
- Trying to assimilate more instruments into my current one-man-band style music career
- Looking at, and inputting to my memory, the written word of other sapient minds that have come and gone on this mortal coil
- Finding new and exciting things that happen as a direct result of the life on this gravitationally locked rock
- Entering the arena of battle, with friends, using pieces of collectable cardboard, printed with pictures and text
(an arena that I am dominated by my wife in, almost every time)

I think that life is for having fun. I think that intelligence is a happy coincidence. I am convinced that you can learn something unique from everyone (everything). I have found that vitamin "C" is the only miracle on this planet. I act like something worth doing is worth planning and doing right. I believe that life is worthless, random, and finite and that is the exact reason that it is so special and to-be-cherished. I know that (as much as I have social anxiety) I am a member of a social species and it helps my chemistry to interact.

I am looking forward to interacting with everyone here.