I am a repurposed astrochimp, initiated into humankind via the US Navy submarine service where I learned to play for endless hours under the North Pole with a hammer, gyroscopes and glow-in-the-dark squishy toys. Later trained in a veterans work release program to preflight graphic design files, I was granted a conditional Human Being 1.0 rating with a gold star for drawing caricatures of US presidents with a toothbrush. Currently, I freelance from a palatial and sprawling multi-level ranch house in Texas where I timeshare my beloved Commodore computer with a TX-OK prairie dog co-op in exchange for teaching Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign inbetween dust storms and tornados.