Lee Doty

This is the author as he appears online.

It's also the author as he might appear if he were his eight-year-old daughter flouncing about in his wife's chemotherapy wig.

If there's a moral in that silliness somewhere, it's that life throws you curve balls and you're supposed to make lemonade. Wait... not with the curve balls, but I guess maybe after they smack you in the cup... hold it, something's still off with that metaphor.

What was I saying? Oh yeah. Life's hilarious. It'll make you laugh and cry. Choose to focus on the laughter.

The bullet-point biography:

* I love my wife and four daughters. My dogs and cat-- less so.

* I'm a full-time computer nerd who writes realtime trading systems for a major investment bank

* I like to punch/kick/grapple with stuff. I've practiced a lot of martial arts, currently studying Brazillian Jujitsu

* I love to write, and do it almost exclusively during my daily 2+ hour train commute to my office in downtown seattle.

* I play "Left 4 Dead" and "Battlefield" franchise games with friends online. Look for me on steam or battlelog: ID = PingBannon

* My greatest aspiration in life it to make people laugh. My greatest satisfaction is making my kids laugh when they're mad at me.