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    2006-02-16

    101 Things About Me

    1. I'm in the middle.
    2. Tallest (I think) on my Mom's side of the family, shortest on my Dad's
    3. I have an older sister.
    4. I have a younger sister.
    5. I have no pets.
    6. Marriage agrees with me.
    7. I tend to think randomly (hence the name of the site).
    8. Cancer runs in my family.
    9. My astrological sign is Out of Order.
    10. OK, it's Cancer.
    11. I like clear things... lucite, crystal, glass (clear or colored), instructions.
    12. I will eat any variety of cultural food.
    13. I will eat any variety of fast food.
    14. I am not a picky eater.
    15. I am ALWAYS forced to decide where to eat.
    16. It's because I'm always the one saying, "It's lunchtime, let's go!"
    17. When I decide, someone who made me choose says, "Nah, I don't want that."
    18. I have a bullet in my chest, just behind my right lung.
    19. After being shot, I told the family who helped me not die, "I'm from New York.  Don't worry, this falls under the category 'Major Inconvenience'."
    20. The bullet is still there.
    21. I joke about it all the time.
    22. I see humor in EVERYTHING.
    23. Except death.
    24. A dead guy walks into a bar... it doesn't hurt him, he's dead.  See... no humor at all.
    25. I am afraid to be alone, in the dark, outside.
    26. I love to read.
    27. I never get to.
    28. I like to write little programs that are a waste of time.
    29. I try not to do this at work.
    30. I don't like outsourcing.
    31. I used to like Dell and tout them for their business model.
    32. I've learned that this model has changed.
    33. I like to make people happy.
    34. I cater to my users at the expense of my projects (Gregg/Leon.. you didn't just read that!).
    35. I spent the ages of 14 and 15 very depressed.
    36. By age 16, I was emerging from that darkness.
    37. By age 17, I was very happy.
    38. I remained happy ever since.
    39. Depressing music had a lot to do with it.
    40. Knowing that others see darkness helps one to see and focus on the light.
    41. The darkness inside NEVER completely goes away.
    42. I am addicted to 42... I look for it everywhere.
    43. My middlle son has inherited some of that darkness.
    44. I wanted a Mohawk...
    45. or colored hair...
    46. or SOMETHING.
    47. I never did it.
    48. I always had a job, and thought a "punk" appearance was inacceptible.
    49. It started at age 11 with a paper route.
    50. At age 13, I caddied.  I was a horrible caddie (4'11" and SKINNY!).
    51. At age 14, I took a job putting price labels on carpet samples.
    52. I assembled Sunday papers for 3 bucks a week after that.
    53. They tried to pay me in candy.  I quit.
    54. At age 16, I worked at Service Merchandise.
    55. At age 17, I was laid off and went to Marshall's.
    56. Later that year, I went back to Service Merchandise.
    57. I got a car and started delivering Chinese food.
    58. The restaurant owners moved to Texas.
    59. Before they closed without telling me, I found out and left in an ungraceful manner. :(
    60. I missed Lilly and Phillip (the owners), but I wondered why two Chinese people picked names they couldn't pronounce (this is not a racial slur... it's a fact about two individuals).
    61. I worked at a yacht club for two summers.  It was like being a member... there was nothing to do!
    62. The country club moved me to the golf course when the manager's son needed a job.
    63. I mowed grass and weed-whipped the sand trap edges.  Sandblasting is an unlpleasant form of facial exfoliation.
    64. I guided the hose as they ironed and fungicided the greens.
    65. The iron was a liquid that looked remarkably -- and smelled somewhat -- like blood.
    66. I LOVED the golf course (after three weeks of soreness -- emotional AND physical).
    67. I had MUSCLES (not big, but well defined!!).
    68. I got a job at the computer center at college in sophomore year as a computer-lab aide.
    69. I went back to the golf course that summer.
    70. I got a call asking if I would stay at college and be an operator.
    71. I was a computer operator from that point on.
    72. And still a computer-lab aide.
    73. I delivered pizza.
    74. I did radio news (paid, at an AM station... in addition to free DJ-ing for the college station).
    75. I tutored.
    76. I was a workaholic.
    77. I got just under a 3.0 GPA coming out of school.  Guess I worked too much.
    78. I submitted ALL of my resumes to San Diego.
    79. They ALL came back saying "call us when you live here -- we're not moving you".
    80. I got a job in Newark, NJ because Mom worked with a woman... her brother worked at AT&T... he had trouble finding a job after college... he hooked me up with his boss... I impressed him.
    81. AT&T "forced" me to move to Orlando.
    82. I left AT&T when they split up, put me in Lucent, and told me I'd likely move to Greensboro or somewhere in Colorado.
    83. I dumped a lot of this list into work-related items.
    84. Despite all that work, I have entirely NOT grown up.
    85. We demand responsibility and good grades from our kids.
    86. Beyond that, I push HEAVILY into creativity.
    87. I emphasize the right-brain heavily over the left, but value both.  Creativity keeps one afloat.  Logic keeps one from going adrift.
    88. I graduated college in '88.
    89. My graduation ceremony was the "42nd Commencement Ceremony" for my college.
    90. I met my wife in March of '90... three weeks after she moved to Florida from her parents home in Ohio.
    91. A friend was introducing me to girls, and then making sure I never met them again (I'm not the type to ask for a number on the first encounter).  Michelle was one of them.  I went to where she worked and asked her out.  We were married in '91.
    92. That "friend" had a bad encounter with a girl in our group, and has since gone elsewhere.
    93. I like my in-laws (whole family... not just parents).
    94. My wife likes hers.
    95. I love British humor.
    96. And British New Wave (from the 80's).
    97. And the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
    98. I'm not sure I like this list.
    99. But that doesn't matter.
    100. Because it's almost complete.
    101. And I'm not feeling ambitious enough to go back and edit it. :)

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    goodkt님이 남긴 글:
    Your list was very enjoyable and I really think I know quite a bit about you as a person. A man of 101 things to say!!
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    Vanessa님이 남긴 글:
    This was the cutest thing ever to read. Not only humorous but interesting. I loved the 101 things about me. I shal try it myself. Maybe tomorrow. LOL! Must say i feel like i already know you by reading all that. Great reading    
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    katie님이 남긴 글:
    Great list! I would have done the newspaper job for candy if they paid in Reeses, but otherwise I would have quit too. :)

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    Marina님이 남긴 글:
    Hmmm...this is tempting....
    101 Things about ME (not that you'd care...)
    1. I have a lot of health problems right now
    2. None of them is a bullet in me
    3. I "get" to have rotator cuff surgery in a week
    4. It is my 3rd one (but first on my R shoulder)
    5. No, I do not play baseball
    6. I'm really not athletic at all
    7. My son REALLY is
    8. He takes after my husband
    9. I love being married
    10. I don't always like who I'm married to
    11. He's a workaholic
    12. My daughters are as different as night and day
    13. They get along fine
    14. I don't seem to get along with one of them
    15. She is a lot like her dad
    16. I'm a hopeless romantic
    17. I have no fear of death, but hate being scared (like movies)
    18. I LOVE to be outside in the dark, alone (the stars here are incredible)
    19. I like to create.
    20. I'm working on 2 quilts right now, and my son's graduation announcements.
    21. I fear I won't have anything done before my next surgery!
    22. I want to get back into photography and watercolors
    23. I miss the Pacific Ocean
    24. I grew up in Seal Beach, and could hear the waves breaking from my bedroom window.
    25. It's the only thing I miss about CA
    26. Oh, maybe I miss my Aunt June
    27. I don't mind being alone
    28. I love watching people
    29. I thrive in sunshine
    30. I can't wait to get into a swimming pool this summer
    31. I hope I CAN get into a swimming pool this summer
    32. I will have surgery on my cervical spine sometime after I recover from the Rotator Cuff surgery
    33. I LOVE to cook (part of the create thing)
    34. I love to cook for people who enjoy eating (like college kids).
    35. I used to cook all summer for a church camp.
    36. I used to cook for a summer intern group of missionaries before they went out into their mission fields (see starving college kids above)
    37. They said I was the best!
    38. Some of them accused me of fattening them up before they went out in their foreign fields.
    39. I really like this cd (borrowed from my daughter, it's Michael Buble)
    40. I'm 45 right now
    41. I feel like I'm perpetually 33
    42. Except when I'm in pain, then I feel 80
    43. I worked in a library for almost a year and a half
    44. I quit so I could help my son through his senior year
    45. I was the "computer specialist" there
    46. I am NOT a computer specialist, but managed to be the person who knew the most there!
    47. I taught classes for our patrons and taught them how to do email
    48. I caught a lot of men doing porn stuff, which was scary and sad and made me mad
    49. I don't miss that part of the job
    50. I was sexually abused as a child, by a man who was addicted to porn
    51. I was in a wet t shirt contest when I was in college
    52. I don't know if my husband knows that
    53. I KNOW my kids don't know that
    54. They do know that I did a LOT of partying before I became a Christian
    55. It's one of the side effects of being abused
    56. My mom died of lung cancer
    57. I was 13 when she died
    58. My dad didn't get me out of school to tell me
    59. One of my daughter's is going to move to SE Asia next year.
    60. She said I had to come there when she has her first baby
    61. I might decide to stay (see 10 above)
    62. I don't mind being around strangers
    63. I think I always wanted to be a writer
    64. I always was a writer, but never got paid for it
    65. I have always been an artist
    66. I am pretty much equal right/left brained
    67. I HATE math
    68. We homeschooled our kids for 8 years
    69. Our daughters started college at 16 (one was on her 16th birthday)
    70. I graduated from H.S. and started college at 16
    71. I changed my major every semester
    72. I never graduated from college
    73. I am a lifetime learner
    74. I love taking classes and learning new things
    75. I love going on job interviews
    76. I enjoy making resume's for people
    77. I am good at it too!
    78. I don't know what I'll make for dinner tonight
    79. No one cares
    80. No one will know
    81. I love playing games
    82. I don't care if I win or not
    83. One of my daughters is just like that too
    84. It drives the competitive people in our family nuts
    85. I love unusual words
    86. My husband gave me a Jack Russell Terrier for my birthday last year to keep me company
    87. I wanted a lap dog
    88. I really wanted a Silky Terrier
    89. He knew that
    90. I like Trixie anyways
    91. I think the best part of my life has been lived
    92. I look forward to the next part of my life, but don't think I'll accomplish much
    93. I think I'll SEE more
    94. I like kids
    95. I should have had more
    96. My kids are my "greatest accomplishment"
    97. They are each a little like me in different ways
    98. They are each like their dad in different ways
    99. I like planting things and gardening
    100. I am very curious
    101. I like dark chocolate best
     
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    Mocha 님이 남긴 글:
    The British humour (see the extra "u"?) and being the first to ask about eating lunch alone would make you a candidate for Super Cool Friend. That's only because I know of your affinity for the number 42 which, by the way, I FULLY EXPECTED TO BE AN ADAMS REFERENCE. Nice job!
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    T.님이 남긴 글:
    I saw Douglas Adams speak during my sophomore year of college; I had, of course, read through the entire trilogy, all four books at that time, at least in triplicate.  The Hitchhiker's Trilogy is in my top five bestest most favorite mmmm-mmmm good books of all time...but I visited you via Dr. Cara's site to find another Depeche Mode fan...can it be true?  Douglas Adams and Depeche Mode, too?  The universe is, indeed, a terribly good place for a master sandwich maker.
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    CaraDr님이 남긴 글:
    I think you're my long lost brother or something! :)
     
    I might have to try to do this list, but thinking of 101 things... wait... 101? A veiled DM reference? Possibly a sign? Well, now I have no choice! ;)
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    Aynde님이 남긴 글:
    YAY!  You'll eat any variety of cultural food?  You're my kind of guy!  I'd like to eat something exotic (Indian or ethopian or morrocan)  this weekend but everyone who is going to dinner doesn't do exotic.  *cry*
     
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    .IegnA님이 남긴 글:
    If it's okay with you I've added you to my "frequent reads".
     
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    .IegnA님이 남긴 글:
    I think ya did pretty good!  I think it's funny to hear the names foreign people pick out for themselves.  I have tutored Korean people in my recent past and got into a naming discussion with the dad over his name - Tommy.  He argued (in a good way) with me that Tommy was more formal than Tom.  I asked him why he thought this and he said that Tom Sawyer and Tom from Tom & Jerry (yes, the cartoon) were children so Tommy was more adult - Tommy Hilfiger.  I thought this was interesting.  Asian cultures don't actually hear the difference in the L and R sounds and unless they are exposed to the sounds as babies or very young children it is very difficult for them to learn those sounds as adults.
     
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