Greetings, by some act of God you have found your way here. Below is the essentials on the man, the myth, the Bohemian Ryan Curtis Thomason. I hope you enjoy this little journey into my world.

Up close and personal:

Born on October 31, 1978, I became an actor on the stage of life. I lived in Pasadena and Temple City until age six when I moved to Santa Maria and the Central Coast. It is a great place to grow up. Looking back I didn't appreciate it like I do now. It was always warm, never really too cold, but cold enough for me. I had good friends, and generally we were safe. My school years could have been better, but then I think most of us think that. I went to church, and grew up with the ideals that the Assemblies of God instilled/brainwashed/beat into me. The decisions that my mother made when I was growing up lead her to be blacklisted from alot of the friends she made in church. She didn't go like she used to, but I was still hardcore. In fact, I remember when I thought I would die because she grounded me from going to youth. In the end, church people took out their resentment of my mother on me. I didn't know it at the time, I didn't realize until years later. My relationship with God is my own. I believe in him. I believe that Jesus is his Son. I believe that church and religion were the worst thing to happen to the message of Christ. One man said it best, "The Christian Army is the only army in the world that shoots its wounded". Amen to that. With that being said. My life has kinda been a spiral since. I've done what I want, when I wanted to, and how I wanted to do it. For better or worse. So I graduated high school, and got a whole bunch of money to go to college, all for free baby. What do I do? Drop out after two months, yay me! I didn't know what I wanted to do, and in fear, I just let it slip by. I'm thinking about going into teaching. I want to go back to school, and teaching is a great field to get into.

So life has lead me down many paths. In the short time I've been on this earth, I've held more jobs than most people I know. From security guard, to pizza maker, customer service representative, to telemarkter, I've literally worked here, there, and everywhere. In the eight years that I've been in the work force, only one job I've held over a year. How sad is that? I've been fired from a few of them, most I've left in rather spectacular fashions. Its amazing that I can still get a job.

So more about me. I'm currently seperated from my wife. I met her online. We were both avid roleplayers, and played on some of the same online sites. We talked alot online. One thing leads to another, and she ends up moving out from Louisiana to California to be with me. She had some crazy notions before moving out that she was going to join the navy. Silly ideas I told her. I was able to steer her from such a path. So maybe a month she's been out in California with me. She hasn't found a job, even though I assured her any day now. She was a little depressed, and then bam, the navy guys find her. She decides to join up, and we decide to get married. WooHoo! Rash decisions galour! So we end up eloping to Las Vegas, and three weeks after we are married, she is off to basic.

I end up getting evicted, but that couldn't be helped, and I moved back home to live with my mother while Michelle was in basic. I really didn't look for work in Santa Maria, because, well it has an economy that really doesn't support much else than the local Air Force Base, and migrant workers. It kinda irked my mom, but what the hell, I paid her rent money. Basically I was just tired of working, and wanted a break. Well Michelle had income coming in, so I didn't have much to worry about. I didn't have a car payment as defaulted on my loan, and they didn't have a clue where the car was. I was living the good life. No worries, good friends, and good times. So then Michelle graduated from boot camp in April of 2002, and I fly out to Great Lakes IL to see the ceremony. It was a great trip, and good to see her. We were seperated again for a week before meeting up in Monterey. We got housing there and I was there for not even more than half a year.

Monterey was a great place to live, and yet at the same time, there was nothing to do. It was a tourist trap. For some odd reason people loved coming from all over the world to look at the water, and get lost in the massive seaweed forests out there while scuba diving. All I learned about the damn place was that John Steinbeck was a big lush who hung out with the seedier crowd. VIVA STEINBECK! I met up with another Navy "wife" named Jason, and we hung out. I really didn't work, well one day a week at the Hertz Rent-A-Car as a lot attendant, and basically I lived out my dream of being a bum. Michelle was learning to be a Russian linguist, and unfortuantly washed out. No big deal, 80% who start out don't finish it. More bad news, she was sent to Pensacola Florida for her next school. We spent the next several months apart. I went and visited friends, visited mom, just keep myself busy. Michelle graduated her school in November of 2002, and went to her parents for Thanksgiving, I did do, by bus.

Let me tell you that Greyhound is possibly the worst way to travel. It was two days and four hours of hell. PURE HELL. Do you know what hell is? I've been there. Its riding packed Greyhound bus, with a woman who takes up her seat, and half of mine, throughout the wasteland of west texas, with no stops, no end to sight, and you won't ever sleep. The strangest people ride the bus, some talk your ear off while you think you might get a wink of sleep, others are just plain crazy. I can say I've done it, and I will never do it again.

So where does this leave us now kids? Well Admiral Ryan has returned to Santa Maria to start over. I've learned alot about myself and life these past three years. I think I'm a better person for it. My credit is starting to get back on track, and I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I hope that I can find a job, afterall, work and me do not go together well. I don't know what life has in store for me down the road, but its been one hell of a ride so far, I doubt the future will let me down.