User:Pat Payne

About Me
I am a carbon-based life-form on the North American landmass. I do not argue with dragons, for I know that I am crunchy and taste good with ketchup. :)

Seriously, though, I live in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and work both as a freelance writer for the local paper every so often (the Palos Verdes Peninsula News) as well as as a computer tech at a dot-com firm in Los Angeles. In my off hours, I like nothing better than to curl up with a good book. I usually have at least three going at once, and juggle between them. (I try not to go too high in number though, or the different books get jumbled -- once, for three days, I was convinced that Athos, Porthos and Aramis had fought Hitler! :P )

As the boxes say below, I have an interest in Old English history, but in general, I'm interested in most historical areas. It's just the times of Caesar and Alfred the Great that I've gravitated to more than any other.

I've been hit by a vandal recently. This is all I have to say about it: '''"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." -- Winston Churchill'''

and

'''"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." --attributed to Winston Churchill.'''

Articles started
Noting too major yet:
 * Herr Meets Hare
 * I'll Never Heil Again
 * MAN-08 Elmeth
 * I'm also working on a major re-write of de Legibus.
 * Glaistig
 * Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

Books I'm reading now

 * Richard and John: Kings at War by Frank McLynn

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