101 Things About Me

# 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.

1. Hello Pooka (Dave).

   Interesting words. I see you served abourd the USS Texas cgn-39. I don"t want to be a pest, but was hoping you maybe able to help me out. I"m trying to locate Lee Jones, who was an LT, and served abourd that ship during the early 80s. Lee would now be around 60 years of age. He was from an Francisco. If you can help me make contact, maybe you knew Lee, or some other shipmate that you still know maybe able to help out if you pass this on. It would be nice of you, if you could spare me a minute with a reply.  Thanks.

   Posted by on 07/11 at 11:48 PM
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