Hello. My name is Jesse Dyer.
I live in Boone, North Carolina, which is in the United States of America, which is on the upper half of planet Earth by the inhabitants' usual reckoning of direction. It's a nice place, and you can apply that to whatever level of depth you like.
If you're thinking I remind you of some kid you went to school with named Jesse Langlois, then that is because I'm him. Once upon a time, my folks got divorced, and I found out that my name wasn't what I thought it was due to some neglected paperwork which continued to be neglected. I'm not really hung up on being named Dyer since the guy that passed it along bailed when I was very very small, but now I've got all these other people that would have to change too. It's a mess. It's an even bigger mess since I've allegedly got these two half-sisters I'm not allowed to meet by the aforementioned guy. Happily, however, I do have this guy that stepped in. He's a good Dad, and if you need some art, tell him I sent you.
I am happily married to Cindy, who is a stay-at-home-mom, and I will tell anyone who asks (or is willing to listen) that mine is one of the happier plights of men for having found a woman willing to accept this arrangement. There really needs to be a grander title for her role; it has been long underappreciated. In any case, she is a great lady, and I am truly lucky to have found her. No one else in the world would be willing to watch me turn into the grumpy old man I'm becoming, so I've got that going for me.. ..which is nice.
I have two wonderful sons, and we're expecting another child soon. We're hoping for a girl.. well, Cindy is; I'm kind of sitting the fence. I was young once, and I do not relish fending off boys like me. I like being a Dad; you get to have an excuse for acting like a kid. I'm gonna do it anyway, but at least I have a reason.
I work for a local software company. My current role is that of a software tester, and it is happy work. You'll probably hear my jaw about it a lot in my blog, but you can reduce it all down to a simple tenet; figure out what assumptions the programmers made and then attempt to falsify those assumptions. It takes a lot of thinking, which is nice.
I read a lot. Once, when I thought that more than anything else, I wanted to write for a living, I read a lot of classics. I love the works of Shakespeare and Poe (which, if your kids develop an interest in, is a good sign that you need to talk to them more..), and I am a closet poetry enthusiast. These days, however, I read a lot of technical books and fluff.
I used to do Pen and Paper Role Playing Games. I managed to retain my dignity and avoid LARPing, but it's still pretty nerdy. Once you have children, you come to some hard realizations, and so my big bag of dice is collecting dust in my night stand. Still can't bring myself to throw 'em away, though.
I love eighties music, which means that I'm prematurely old. You can spot the move to being old by the time at which music stops being produced in your own little world, and mine stopped around about 1994 or so.
Video games stopped getting made in my world around about 2000 or so, but I'm still enjoying playing the old ones. There's a lot of extremely realistic, overwhelming complex, grossly time-consuming interctive movies I keep hearing about, but those aren't video games. (And you kids get off my lawn!)
Oh, and I'm a big computer nerd.
If you want to get in touch with me, email jessedyer (at) jessedyer (dot) com.
