2009
02.07

25 kinda random slightly catagorized facts about me

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So, there’s this meme going around facebook, among other places, where you put down 25 random facts about yourself.  Great fun, really.  Having already done that, I will instead put down 25 more facts here, in a not so random, slightly categorized fashion.

Growing Up

  1. When I was born I was taken straight away to the room they take sick babies.  Apparently my lungs weren’t fully developed, which made me blue, I was also jaundiced, which made me yellow, and I was really long.  I was not a pretty baby.
  2. I was active in the Boy Scouts from second grade until I a little while after I graduated high school.  After I turned 18, I joined the Venture Crew (which was lame…) and also did a stint as an assistant scout master.  Great fun, lots of friends from scouting that I wish I kept in better contact with than just friending on facebook…
  3. I spent my childhood sick.  I’ve had pneumonia at least twice, once in combination with bronchitis.  I had an uncountable number of cold and flu infections.  That all went away after  I got out of the elementary, and since then, I’m actually pretty healthy, only getting actually sick for one day a year.
  4. With as much stupid stuff as I’ve done, I’ve only ever broken one bone.  And that was broken getting a burrito out of the microwave.  Of all the times I’ve jumped onto the hood of a moving car, rode my bike off poorly made ramps, or climbing and subsequently falling out of various trees, I’ve only broken the third metacarple of my left hand.
  5. I’ve had a total of four cars in my life.  First was a Dodge Diplomat, second was a Dodge colt, third was a Ford Tempo, and now I have a Ford Focus.  The Diplomat was just a gas guzzler, the Colt sprouted an oil leak and the engine died, the Tempo got personal with a deer, and the Focus survives to this day.

Things that I have done

  1. I’ve gone cliff diving.  Nothing real fancy like going to Hawaii and jumping off of a volcano or anything.  But still, jumping like fifty feet into a lake below is quite a rush.  If I had a few extra dollars around, I probably would go to Hawaii, or where ever they have nice cliffs, and jump off of them there also.
  2. I used to drive fast.  The fastest I have gone was 135mph in the Colt.  Not the smartest thing to be doing in a Dodge Colt, but it was a hell of a lot of fun.  I’ve slowed down quite a bit since then…
  3. I’ve been published.  Nothing really fancy, just some gaming materials in a magazine.  The articles were paid though, which is nice, so is seeing my name in print, even if it was misspelled in the first one.
  4. Perhaps its due to my time in the Scouts, but over the years I have lit some pretty hot fires.  I have burned all kinds of things, and in fact, once, we had a fire that we could almost use to forge steel.  Probably the most interesting thing I have ever burned would be a bowling ball.  It wasn’t easy, and it smelled really bad, but I caught one on fire.
  5. My friends and I started a fight club before fight club came out.  Fight Club came out in 1999, we were beating the crap out of each other on a regular basis my starting my junior year, before the movie even came out.  now  I just need to see if I can collect royalties from that…

Just to show you how much of a nerd I am

  1. I have a tattoo of the black mana symbol from Magic: The Gathering.  My next tattoo is probably going to be dinosaur related, and I would like to get a d20 some where as well.
  2. I have been playing on computers for quite some time.  I don’t know exactly when I started playing on them.  I started playing games on my grandfathers old PC.  Had some Pharos tomb game or something.  Then my parents took one of his, and I started to learn Basic on that, this all started somewhere between the ages of 10 and 13.  At thirteen, I remember my parents getting a computer that could run windows 3.1, and that was when I started playing on the internets.
  3. I have more books for role playing games than I have shelf space.  Literally, I got a ton of books.  AD&D 2nd Edition, Palladium Multiverse, World of Darkness, Hackmaster, Kobolds Ate my Baby, I got t hopefully I’ll be able to get them all out again soon.
  4. I love science fiction, from space operas to military science fiction to the classics.  I don’t know what it is about it, but I like books about aliens, light sabers, and giant robots.
  5. I love watching all the specials about black holes, particle physics, gravity and any other thing that you could expect Stephen Hawking to be a guest speaker on.  Last couple of times that I have tried to find anything like that on demand with the cable company, none of the discovery networks seem to be showing them, which saddens me greatly.  Instead I’m stuck playing around on Galaxy Zoo.

Random obscure confessions to people you probably don’t know, and if you think it’s about you, you’re probably wrong.

  1. I’m really sorry about all the dick things I’ve pulled on you over the years.
  2. I really wish I could kiss you one more time.  Well, a whole bunch more actually, but that may be asking a lot, so I could probably settle for just one more.  Damnit, your lips are like pringles, I just can’t stop…  Anyways…
  3. That day that we were in the pool all by ourselves all those years ago, I really wish I had made a move at that time.  C’est le vie…
  4. I had a dream about you last night, and it was haaaaaawt!*
  5. You’re so vain, you probably think these are about you.  Well, this one isn’t really a confession as much as it’s a parody of a song lyric, but someone out there is probably vain enough for it to apply…

Crap, I need five more…

  1. I had sex in Lake Erie.  Not at Lake Erie, not on the beach by Lake Erie, not even in a boat on Lake Erie.  I had sex in Lake Erie.  I supprised my penis didn’t fall off…
  2. I make more at my crappy job than I did as a regional IT manager for a fortune 500 company managing networks in multiple cities.
  3. I have my name on a bar for drinking a lot of expensive beer.  Some of it really sucked, I would not reccomend anything made from kelp.  Some of it was really awesome.
  4. The most wings I have ever eaten in one sitting was 72.  I even out ate the fat kids at the party…
  5. I don’t have any porn on my computer.  Well, there may be some home made stuff, but nothing downloaded from the internet.

And there you go, 25 things about me.

*ok, slight change, but I like this one better ;)