Robert Plamondon is a writer/farmer/engineer in Blodgett, Oregon. At the moment his greatest claims to fame are his day job as a network performance guru in Citrix Systems' WANScaler group and for his rediscovery and promotion of practical free-range poultry techniques of 50-100 years ago. Robert lives on his 37-acre farm in Oregon's Coast Range with his wife Karen, two sons, Dan (17), and Karl (14). He has an old Ford tractor and half a rack of WAN accelerators. Robert is the author of Through Dungeons Deep: A Fantasy Gamers' Handbook and Success With Baby Chicks (available through Norton Creek Press).