Name: William Lee Beane, a.k.a. Bill

Where I Live: Jacksonville, Florida

Birth Date and Place: August 25 - Tallahassee, Florida

Day Job: Solutions Center Consultant for ADP TimeSaver software

Night Job: Contract Website Designer

Becoming Bill...

In my younger years, I was called Billy except when my mom was mad. She would call me William Lee, rather loudly too. It was my Uncle Jim that started calling me Bill shortly before I graduated from high school. He said that Billy was a boy's name and Bill was more appropriate for a young man. When I started college, I started going by Bill. Pretty soon that was what everyone was calling me, everyone except for a few of my relatives who still call me Billy to this day.

Things I do when I am not at WDW...

Besides working, that is... having two jobs tends to take up most of my time...

I love soccer or football as the rest of the world knows it. I watch it whenever I can. I am a big fan of Major League Soccer and both the US Men's and Women's National Teams. My favorite foreign league is the English Premier League. I also like to watch some of the other European leagues as well, Germany's Bundesliga, Spain's La Liga, Holland's Eredivisie, France's Ligue 1. I have even been known to watch games on Univision, Telefutura and Galavision, even though my command of the Spanish language is minimal at best. Fox Soccer Channel and Gol-TV are two of my all-time favorite satellite channels.

Growing up in Tallahassee and having my Nana work for the school, I was exposed to the joys of being a Florida State University Seminoles fan at an early age. Games involving the Seminoles are really the only sports I keep up with anymore excepting soccer.

I have been an avid gamer since my late teens. Through the years, I have played many different role playing games. I started out with D&D and Gamma World in the late seventies. Shortly there after, I discovered Traveller and it became my favorite game well into the eighties. Then came Champions and the Hero System, pretty much everything I ran or played during the late eighties and throughout the nineties used the Champions or Hero System rules. In 1998, I discovered the Fuzion system. It was my gaming system of choice up until about three years ago when I returned to using the Hero System rules.

I also like to write fiction and listen to music.

My writing is very dependent upon my mood. I have written flowery poetry, hard pounding science fiction, some very dark relationship pieces, crazy song lyrics... It is pretty much a hodge-podge of what I am feeling at the time. Like most writers, I am working on a novel, maybe that should be working at a novel. Not much progress to report, just a story running around in my head that has had a very hard time making it to paper.

When it comes to music, you could probably find my picture by the definition of "weird taste," if there was such a listing in the dictionary. A quick check of one of my CD storage racks finds: Mannheim Steamroller; Ray Lynch; Peter Buffet; David Arkenstone; Enya; Clannad; Jan Hammer; various movie/TV soundtracks and scores; Pink Floyd; Santana; Tangerine Dream; Tori Amos; Sarah McLachlan; New Order; Depeche Mode; The Sisters of Mercy; Rush; The Human League; Seal; Tears for Fears; The Cars; Emerson, Lake and Palmer; Inxs; Billy Joel; Robert Plant; U2; Genesis; Peter Gabriel; The Cranberries; R.E.M.; Midnight Oil; The Rippingtons; Spyrogyra; Chieli Minucci; Special FX; Third Force; Cusco... and that is just one of my CD storage racks.

As of late, I have been listening to a lot of Contemporary/Smooth Jazz and have discovered satellite radio, more specifically Sirius First Wave (Classic Alternative) and Sirius Jazz Cafe (Smooth Jazz).