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I've been memed. Drat and damnation.
Okay, 8 things about me folks don't know but are revealing about my personality.
Look, I've revealed far more about myself here than I have anywhere else. So if you folks already know it, it doesn't count.
1) I do not like confrontations. I do not go looking for a fight or trying to start an argument ( the War on Islam excepted). But if I am cornered, or if you threaten me or someone I care about, it gets very ugly very fast. My daughters call it The Voice. My wife has seen what happens beyond The Voice when you push me too far (not to her). You want me on your side in that dark alley.
2) I am very shy around strangers. I tend to keep to myself in crowds. I don’t like public speaking. When I have to I resort back to the musician, the performer, in me to get through it. That just occurs naturally anymore. I hate talking about myself (“go around the room and introduce yourself and what you do” terrifies me) because I think I am terribly boring and don’t know near as much as I do. I often think I suffer from a bit of clinical depression but have never looked too far into that.
3) My original college major was music/clarinet. My degree is in journalism which I never pursued. A mistake.
4) I would rather be teaching History or Literature as a profession, though at my age it’s a bit late to be changing course that severely. My daughters tell me they wish I would teach English to some of their dunderheaded friends who have received college degrees (and they don’t know how) and that, because of the way I can spin a “fish” story, I ought to write children’s books.
5) My favorite book is The Monkey Wrench Gang by Ed Abbey. Another is A Soldier of the Great War. My favorite author is Jim Harrison. I can’t stand Hemingway. He whines too much. Suck it up and get on with it, dude.
6) I loathe computers. I loathe cellphones. To me they are necessary evils in our modern age. I STILL have one rotary phone among the others in my house. I do not play video games on line. I prefer something like pinball (always!) or Pacman. I have not watched network TeeVee in years or cable TeeVee since the November travesty. Except for some history shows and even more cooking shows. I make a wicked chili and used to roll my own pastry for Dutch Chicken Pot Pie. My wife still lets me make chili but has now reserved the pastry making for herself. Not for taste but for ease of cleanup :)
7) I have read methodically the Bible as a single continuous “work”, cover to cover, twice. That does not include all the other Bible reading I have done. All those begatting chapters are tough. I still have the first Catholic Bible given to me by my parents and the first King James version given to me by a childhood mentor. All that said I think I am a lousy Christian and a terrible Catholic.
8) I keep far too much inside. I don’t talk about things that trouble me personally to anyone, even the death of friends and family. Whether family members or the number of friends that have been very violently murdered ( 4 thus far), I don’t grieve except to myself. A stoicism I got from my father which is both a curse and a blessing. I handle the large crisis far better than the daily day to day petty annoyances. By the way, each of those friends might still be alive IF THEY HAD CARRIED A GUN. AT LEAST THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A CHANCE.
9) I have lived in the same county all my life (except for the first year after I was married, when I lived 4 miles over the county line). Partly because I love it here and partly as a sense of belonging, of duty. My family has lived here since the early 1700’s. We signed the initial petition to erect this county. I know where all my ancestors are buried. My sister, cousins, etc have all moved away. Only my kids (2 of 3), mom and I remain. Someone has to keep our name here, someone has to watch those graves. And, a bit of trivia, though we are now separated by a continent, I live now and grew up within 2 miles of where Pastorius' adopted mom hails from. The borough I grew up in was, until 1900 or so, named after his family. We may have bumped into each other as very young kids (when he was visiting). Come to think of it, I seem to remember this 8 year old railing against the Crayon Book and the Musselmen who followed it.
10) I've been a rabid knife collector for over 30 years, curently have nearly 1,000 different knives of all sorts. I always carry at least four. Three, for utility, you might know about. The fourth not until I have run out of ammo.
11) I’m a counter-jihad blogger. And damn proud of it.
Okay. So I nominate Epaminondas, Carlos Echevarria and Jewel.
Hey, guys, blame Pastorius ;>)
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Curses! Memed!
I've been memed. Drat and damnation.
Okay, 8 things about me folks don't know but are revealing about my personality.
Look, I've revealed far more about myself here than I have anywhere else. So if you folks already know it, it doesn't count.
1) I do not like confrontations. I do not go looking for a fight or trying to start an argument ( the War on Islam excepted). But if I am cornered, or if you threaten me or someone I care about, it gets very ugly very fast. My daughters call it The Voice. My wife has seen what happens beyond The Voice when you push me too far (not to her). You want me on your side in that dark alley.
2) I am very shy around strangers. I tend to keep to myself in crowds. I don’t like public speaking. When I have to I resort back to the musician, the performer, in me to get through it. That just occurs naturally anymore. I hate talking about myself (“go around the room and introduce yourself and what you do” terrifies me) because I think I am terribly boring and don’t know near as much as I do. I often think I suffer from a bit of clinical depression but have never looked too far into that.
3) My original college major was music/clarinet. My degree is in journalism which I never pursued. A mistake.
4) I would rather be teaching History or Literature as a profession, though at my age it’s a bit late to be changing course that severely. My daughters tell me they wish I would teach English to some of their dunderheaded friends who have received college degrees (and they don’t know how) and that, because of the way I can spin a “fish” story, I ought to write children’s books.
5) My favorite book is The Monkey Wrench Gang by Ed Abbey. Another is A Soldier of the Great War. My favorite author is Jim Harrison. I can’t stand Hemingway. He whines too much. Suck it up and get on with it, dude.
6) I loathe computers. I loathe cellphones. To me they are necessary evils in our modern age. I STILL have one rotary phone among the others in my house. I do not play video games on line. I prefer something like pinball (always!) or Pacman. I have not watched network TeeVee in years or cable TeeVee since the November travesty. Except for some history shows and even more cooking shows. I make a wicked chili and used to roll my own pastry for Dutch Chicken Pot Pie. My wife still lets me make chili but has now reserved the pastry making for herself. Not for taste but for ease of cleanup :)
7) I have read methodically the Bible as a single continuous “work”, cover to cover, twice. That does not include all the other Bible reading I have done. All those begatting chapters are tough. I still have the first Catholic Bible given to me by my parents and the first King James version given to me by a childhood mentor. All that said I think I am a lousy Christian and a terrible Catholic.
8) I keep far too much inside. I don’t talk about things that trouble me personally to anyone, even the death of friends and family. Whether family members or the number of friends that have been very violently murdered ( 4 thus far), I don’t grieve except to myself. A stoicism I got from my father which is both a curse and a blessing. I handle the large crisis far better than the daily day to day petty annoyances. By the way, each of those friends might still be alive IF THEY HAD CARRIED A GUN. AT LEAST THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A CHANCE.
9) I have lived in the same county all my life (except for the first year after I was married, when I lived 4 miles over the county line). Partly because I love it here and partly as a sense of belonging, of duty. My family has lived here since the early 1700’s. We signed the initial petition to erect this county. I know where all my ancestors are buried. My sister, cousins, etc have all moved away. Only my kids (2 of 3), mom and I remain. Someone has to keep our name here, someone has to watch those graves. And, a bit of trivia, though we are now separated by a continent, I live now and grew up within 2 miles of where Pastorius' adopted mom hails from. The borough I grew up in was, until 1900 or so, named after his family. We may have bumped into each other as very young kids (when he was visiting). Come to think of it, I seem to remember this 8 year old railing against the Crayon Book and the Musselmen who followed it.
10) I've been a rabid knife collector for over 30 years, curently have nearly 1,000 different knives of all sorts. I always carry at least four. Three, for utility, you might know about. The fourth not until I have run out of ammo.
11) I’m a counter-jihad blogger. And damn proud of it.
Okay. So I nominate Epaminondas, Carlos Echevarria and Jewel.
Hey, guys, blame Pastorius ;>)
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