101 Things About Me
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
# I have attempted to create an artistic masterpiece since I could hold a crayon.
# My masterpiece apparently has nothing to do with paper, crayon, or any other physical media.
# I don’t get angry often.
# I get even more often, usually by means of the Atlas technique.
# I am really skinny.
# My tattoos distract many people from my thin nature.
# I got my tattoos between the age of 19 and 22.
# I have been lusting for more off and on since then.
# I think I’m over it now. Things change.
# I am writing this at the age of 29.
# It doesn’t feel as though I’ve made it beyond 22.
# Probably because I don’t have any more tattoos.
# I think I’m over it now.
# I have brown hair, which turns a pleasant reddish when wet.
# I have green eyes which turn remarkable colors when I’m happy or mad.
# I have really long fingers. Long enough to do really intricate tasks. Long enough to get in the way of the tools for the intricate tasks.
# I cut or impale my fingers on a regular basis.
# I have not bled to death yet, but I thought I did once.
# Everyone I know has given me grief about my size. I’m vain enough to know they’re jealous. Especially those weightlifter dudes over there.
# I didn’t invent the Llama.
# My music preferences appear to be symptoms of OCD. I play the same album, sometimes the same song, over and over. The most common sounds from my music box are Celtic tunes and instrumental stuff.
# I have a wife. She is awesomer than I am in many respects. I have some quality that is superior, I just can’t seem to place it.
# I have four kids. They’ve got me beat hands down. More patience, persistence, energy. Better looking (those are from me?) and smarter.
# People give me a hard time about four daughters. I know better. I don’t want a son. Never did.
# But they are NOT available. All four are on restriction until the age of 18.
# My favorite thing as a kid was stuffed animals.
# I collected (and still collect) Tom Swift, Louis L’amour, business cards, pens and small pieces of hardware (screws, bolts, nails).
# I collect books, boxes (the nice ones, not cardboard, silly), dragons, Father Christmas figures (I think Gandalf fits in there, right?), and bad habits.
# I am a coffee junky. Actually, anything I really like, I overdo it. But Coffee is really bad.
# I don’t sweat much. Except when I mow the lawn at noon on a cloudless, 90 degree day after drinking a pot of coffee.
# I still have acne, though not as bad as 10 years ago. If I could get rid of one thing, THAT would be it.
# I have written over 200 poems. I have yet to get off my ass and publish them. I have put at least 30 of them on electronic media since I wrote my first one in 1990.
# I’ve been writing again, after a long block during 2003 and most of 2004.
# I have lived over 6 years in Hawaii. It’s not paradise, sorry. Townsville, Australia may be closer to paradise.
# I have been to (set foot on for more than a quick stop) more than 15 different countries in the world, most of which have shores on the Pacific or Indian Oceans.
# I have a great talent for languages. I have yet to have time to prove this to anyone beyond myself.
# I made up my own language. It’s useless to make up your own language unless you make up a country to speak it.
# I think I know a lot about computers.
# I know more ways to break them than fix them.
# As I write this, I have been in the US Navy for 8 years, 6 months and 4 days.
# I have approximately 2 years left in this organization.
# I am very proud of my service in this military.
# I am not proud of all the things I’ve done in this capacity.
# I will miss the Navy on the day I am discharged.
# I will not miss the uniform, the duty, the people.
# I love the ocean and I never want to see it again.
# I used to think I would make a good ninja.
# I have been overconfident many times in my life.
# I taught my kids that the number one rule is “don’t be stupid”
# They follow it better than I do, sometimes.
# My favorite story of all time is Melanie Rawn’s “Dragon Prince-Dragon Star” series.
# I have soundtracks for most of my favorite books. The score for #51 is the “Last of the Mohicans” soundtrack.
# I never get rid of clothes. I wear some of the same shirts I had in Junior High.
# I graduated from High School in 1992 and remember no-one in my class. I graduated in Seoul, Korea.
# I remember very little about my senior year. I spent the entire time in a closet (voluntarily) with nothing but a drafting table, a chair and a bookshelf stocked with books and a CD player.
# The only interesting thing I did in school was JROTC, which lasted 6 months.
# I won “Top Gun” for shooting the highest score in the Pacific DOD schools JROTC rifle teams. I remember that accomplishment vividly.
# I AM related to Wild Bill. That must be where the shooting comes from. He might have been a linguist too, but that is not confirmed.
# I have 3 siblings. I am the oldest. Steve is a masterful artist of nearly every medium. He is really strange too. Heather is a wonderful pianist, has perfect pitch. Ben is an accomplished percussionist and one of the foremost examples of Christians I know.
# I hate TV. Specifically commercials. I rarely even trouble myself to turn it on. I have little respect for people who keep the TV on all day. I will not watch even the best movie in the world if it’s on a channel with commercials.
# My favorite movies are Moll Flanders, The Fifth Element, StarWars, What Dreams May Come, and, of course everything by Python.
# I have engaged in sex with 3 people in my life. One of them was a professional, one was for fun, one is for love. I don’t believe in the spirituality of sex anymore. There’s only one left.
# I believe in the compliment, the trust and honesty of sex. The spirituality of it all stinks of magic.
# Becoming Christian did not suddenly cause me to retract the statements in this list. Most of the meanings may have changed somewhat, however.
# I am still a mystic and appreciate faerie rings, full moons, candles and all the other trappings that make faith and magic undeniable.
# For that reason, I deny myself most of the mystical. Magic is not a means I can live by or with.
# I have great fashion style. My wife buys my clothes. I hate patterns and logos.
# I have a green thumb. I only keep plants in my garden if they promise to stay alive without my having to coddle them.
# There is no sport that interests me save, perhaps, Volvo-bashing.
# My dream home will consist of a library and a tub for one that will fit at least three (being six feet long makes standard tubs obsolete). All other rooms and options will be left to somebody else.
# I am an accomplished swimmer and have taught many in a professional status. I haven’t been to the pool more than one time this year. Last year was a little better with 3 different pools. I hate the beach.
# I get hypothermia very easily. My first teaching experience was at the pool in Green Mountain Falls, CO.
# I really wanted to live forever. Now I just want to live until I get tired of it.
# I have a perfect plan to succeed at #73. There are some problems with technology.
# I’ve recently found the means to live forever. It’s not in the manner I previously expected, however, but much more pleasant in the end.
# I have only been driving since I was 25. I was too lazy to get my license.
# I hate driving now, and want to give my license back.
# I love my car. It’s a Ford Escort LX four door. White, dented, CD player, kidstains and all, it’s my car.
# I am selfish and self centered. I don’t give up my things.
# I am easily swayed to others’ opinions. Probably because I am overly trusting.
# I give more than I take. I am not proud of that.
# I AM glad of that, however.
# I am not a pathological liar, however, I am an empathic embellisher.
# Growing up was just about the same as being grown up. Things happen.
# It took me 28 years to figure out what to do with myself. Maybe I am just now growing up.
# It has really disturbed people to find out that I have a plan. I suspect it is hard to believe that after 28 years I actually have a plan.
# I have kept many secrets from my family. None of them are really worth keeping. The subjects just don’t come up, and all is trivial.
# I have never cheated on my wife.
# I have lied more to my parents than any other person on earth, except maybe God, but he said he wasn’t listening.
# I was wrong about God. But not any more.
# I type really fast with little or no errors. Nobody seems to care.
# I hate typos, expecially in something disseminated to the public.
# I can read and write fluently in Futhark runes.
# I have never done drugs. Nearly everyone I know doubts that.
# I love cats. Dogs are stupid.
# I will return to the desert one day. Probably to die. Hopefully a few times before that.
# I have stolen plenty of things before. Have been caught only in the times it was completely harmless. I’ve managed to overcome this vice.
# I am a perfectionist neat freak. Once or twice a week.
# I drink. Beer. Lots when I get it, but don’t really care if it’s not there.
# Beer is not alcohol for me. I really do enjoy the taste. I’m very finicky about beer.
# I am really really strict with my children. I am picky, demanding and easily frustrated with them. Better that than letting them play with cars in the street.
# I never hate my life. Sometimes I hate when others’ lives intrude.
# I know I shouldn’t.
# I don’t have a “True Love.” I have two names that would contend for that honor if it existed. I don’t think it exists in the literal sense of the terms.
# I like silver, green, blue, copper, water, heat, dirt, paper, skin, wood. Mostly natural stuff.
# I don’t like gold, red, yellow, plastic, cold, white, hair, pollen, disorder. Mostly fake stuff.
# I have a very indirect approach to achieving goals. I acheive my goals.
# I waste time, am very lazy, but move efficiently when necessary.
# I eat steak or grilled cheese and peanut butter when I can get them. I could live off them, and burritos, of course.
# I am a male. I collect images of pretty girls and store them on my computer. I justify this by stating that at least I can draw them. I am collecting material for inspiration.
# That last one was a lie. I am victim to the common fault in men. We become obsessed with pretty girls.
# In August, I wiped every image of my computer and chucked my collection. Part of my “Living Forever Plan.”
# I used to write all the time. I have exquisite penmanship. I haven’t done it in awhile.
# I LOVE to LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN and find out who the mysterious man in green is. Sometimes there’s a very important thing or two I might forget. This usually helps me figure out what I’m looking for.