oedius wrote: I am 55 years young. I have one son who is a Marine and one stepson who is in the Marine Reserves. My wife is a nurse. I am a "transplanted" texan, originally Arkansas, living here for over 18 years now. I work in Quality Assurance department of a railcar repair company. Basically, I inspect the railcars when they arrive & generate repair estimates & work orders. This means I get to spend lots of time outdoors away from confines of office. This is in Roscoe Texas, 8 miles west of Sweetwater, and is also home to one of the world's largest wind farms. My home in Abilene is about 48 miles east.
I have been an avid road bicycler for about 5 years now. I currently ride a Felt F75. I also have a 1999 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster which has been upgraded with 1200cc Screamin'Eagle Thunderstorm Heads. It still will not touch any of the "crotch rockets" but, I nothing sounds as good as a Harley in my opinion.
I have been involved in boxing, grappling & other martials arts over the years. Firearms have always been an important part of my life.
And above all, I am a Christian even though I may not always be best example.
Oh, about my forum name; I once worked with a plant manager who loved to use the word "odious". For some reason, I happened to think of this later on when I was creating my Ebay account. I just changed the spelling and made it my user name. In retrospect, now that I have know the actual definition of "odious", I may consider finding a new forum / in-game name".
This morning, I did officialy sign up with M.O.M. and change my in-game name accordingly. Thanks to all of you guys for your hard work & devotion to making this a success.
Wow!! Sounds like a great group of guys in our squad. I'm glad I switched over to the dark side

To continue my bio, I am originally from Beeville, TX. That's near Corpus Christi. I am a transplanted Kansan, not by choice. I blame my dad for that. I did move to Garland, TX last year but had to move back for family reasons. Like I said in my earlier post, I am commercial real estate appraiser. I've been doing that for about 7 years. I love it but working for local government sucks, but it does have it's benefits. I have 3 kids, all girls!!! So I have 3 shotguns, 3 chains, 3 locks, and no key for my beautiful girls. I was married, but now happily divorced. I thought I was going be married forever but someone's dick got in the way. Anyways, that's either here nor there. I'll save that for another thread

So I just live for today, and hope for tomorrow!! I do plan on moving out of state in the next 2-3 years because the pay in Wichita (aka Wichitity) KS sucks ace!! I hope to move back to TX or somewhere in the east coast. Well that's a summary of my life in 100 words or less. I hope to see you guys in the skies soon.
Iceman: You can be my wingman any time.
Maverick: Bullshit! You can be mine.
If I see you in the skies, I can be your wingman or you can be mine!!! Let me know.