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Ian MacLeod is a fifty-four year old Vietnam Era vet, now disabled, and a Chronic Pain Patient of twenty-six years; he is also an advocate for CP treatment, with most of that formerly done through the Pain Relief Network, a pain treatment advocacy org that was destroyed recently by the DOJ because the president and surviving founder got in the way of a DOJ attack on another pain treating physician. He is a professional musician, singer and a songwriter, published with Elephant Trunk Music through BMI, and plays almost anything with strings or keys, plus some brass and percussion, and has a 3 1/4 octave vocal range. An avid outdoorsman, he is an amateur mycologist, formerly with the Oregon Mycological Society and a volunteer resource for Central Oregon hospitals through the Poison Control Center, but is now recovering after almost two years of caring for his beloved wife, now deceased. She was the love of his life, and he says that much of what he likes best about himself now came to him in gift from her. He misses her very, very much.

He plans on renewing his OMS membership as soon as he is fit to walk the woods again. He is a lifelong martial artist, describes himself as "a pagan and agnostic: "I do not worship, but come closest to it with a Native American concept of Beauty, which for me is personified by Woman." He meditates Eastern style, does massage, energy work similar to Huna and is learning more herbal remedies. He loves and gets along well with most animals, and is currently owned jointly by six cats and two grandchildren, Gabe and Honey Beatrice, a very new, beautiful little addition to the family! He practices TNR with the local feral cats, and traps and relocates skunks, with no accidents so far. He is very much a patriot, and politically a progressive attracted to the philosophy of Anarchy. He is by preference nonviolent, eats little meat and is considering vegetarianism again (he was an ovo/lacto vegetarian for twelve years).

A former rock climber, he enjoys not catching fish, and will take any excuse to get outdoors and away from "civilization." He collects survival skills and other things. He enjoys cooking for others because it's too much trouble for just himself, and he likes to eat, avoiding processed and GM foods as much as possible. He's a former EMT-1 and Paramedic Neonate Transport Tech, ex-Hospital Corps, was an electronics and mechanical design drafter, and says that when he works on anything mechanical that isn't on paper he always gets bit. He speaks English very well, Spanish well enough to get into trouble, and German well enough to get out of trouble - generally. He loves learning new things, and is interested in almost everything, though he finds people to be the most fascinating things on the planet, and women the most beautiful. He wants to learn everything about everything, and though he doesn't expect to live long enough to succeed, he's having a wonderful time trying. Subjects of interest and some study include anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology, comparative religion, sociology, mythology, history, psychology, astrophysics, quantum physics, chaos theory, poetry, he's very interested in Constitutional law, and that is just a start.

A native Texan now in Oregon, he stands six feet two inches tall, usually weighing in around two hundred or two hundred ten pounds, though right now he's closer to one-sixty. He has long, dark hair and a trimmed beard (with increasing gray), hazel eyes and phenomenal hearing, to the occasional dismay of snarky people who don't talk quite far enough behind his back. He is scrupulously honest with a strong sense of honor, strong opinions, and very strong beliefs. He loves to write, and says that word processing computers have likely saved more than one forest just on his account, as he sheds articles, poems, stories, songs and music the way other people shed hair, but that at least it doesn't clog the drain in the shower.

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