100 Things About Me - Part 1
1. I can play guitar, but not real well. I haven't really played in over 8 years. The neck on my beloved old Silvertone archtop needs reattaching, and I keep running into repair shops who harp on the fact that the repair cost is 3 times the value of the guitar. How can you let someone with that attitude work on your axe? It's not about the dollar value, ya idjits!
2. I started to develop arthritis in college, but hopefully I have 15-20 years to go before my knuckles look like walnuts.
3. I would love to hunt Cape Buffalo with a handgun, grizzly bear with a bow & arrow, and wild boar with a pigsticker. If you're gonna hunt, then might as well let the animal have a shot at you, too.
4. I once drank 2/3 of a 1.75L bottle of whiskey on New Years, yacked it up outside, then went in and polished off the bottle before midnight. Second worst hangover ever.
5. I think Mozart's Overture to The Marriage Of Figaro is the sum total of all that is grand and wonderful about classical music, distilled down into 4 minutes of sheer perfection.
6. Despite my appreciation of fine art, antiques & musicals as well as having a military-grade internal Gaydar, I'm straight. Yes, I'm sure! Thanks for asking!
7. I would love to see U2 kick REM's ass at a truckstop. Bonus points for making Michael Stipe cry.
8. My friends have called me generous and caring, but I have the capability of being a severe asshole.
9. I don't actively practice any religion, but I do like the concept of karma.
10. Every evaluation from my entire scholastic & work career can be summed up in 3 words... Bright, Talented, Lazy.
11. I own every Louis L'amour book in print. Ditto for the novels of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell, David Lindsey, Randy Wayne White, and I'm only lacking a few hard-to-find John D. MacDonalds!
12. I am completely mesmerized by precision craftsmanship. I can stare at the clockwork of a Breguet or Audemars Piguet for hours.
13. I probably consume my own volume in Diet Rite soda on a monthly basis. Ditto for iced tea.
14. Any spider with a legspan larger than a dime absolutely creeps me out. Never try to hand me a tarantula, I will kill it immediately, then kill you.
15. I am an Eagle Scout. I would like to get back into Scouting, but am having issues with some of their current policies.
16. I'm generally law-abiding. That being said, if I could make off with a Federal Reserve truck full of used $100 bills without getting caught or killing anyone, I'd probably do it.
17. I can't listen to John Philip Sousa's 'Stars And Stripes Forever' without getting goosebumps.
18. My capacity for tasteless humor knows no bounds. See "asshole" statement above.
19. It would greatly amuse me to see formal dueling used to settle disputes once again. People would be a lot more polite if they risked getting a yard of steel through their brisket for mouthing off.
20. Right now is always a good time for a nap.
2. I started to develop arthritis in college, but hopefully I have 15-20 years to go before my knuckles look like walnuts.
3. I would love to hunt Cape Buffalo with a handgun, grizzly bear with a bow & arrow, and wild boar with a pigsticker. If you're gonna hunt, then might as well let the animal have a shot at you, too.
4. I once drank 2/3 of a 1.75L bottle of whiskey on New Years, yacked it up outside, then went in and polished off the bottle before midnight. Second worst hangover ever.
5. I think Mozart's Overture to The Marriage Of Figaro is the sum total of all that is grand and wonderful about classical music, distilled down into 4 minutes of sheer perfection.
6. Despite my appreciation of fine art, antiques & musicals as well as having a military-grade internal Gaydar, I'm straight. Yes, I'm sure! Thanks for asking!
7. I would love to see U2 kick REM's ass at a truckstop. Bonus points for making Michael Stipe cry.
8. My friends have called me generous and caring, but I have the capability of being a severe asshole.
9. I don't actively practice any religion, but I do like the concept of karma.
10. Every evaluation from my entire scholastic & work career can be summed up in 3 words... Bright, Talented, Lazy.
11. I own every Louis L'amour book in print. Ditto for the novels of Clive Cussler, Bernard Cornwell, David Lindsey, Randy Wayne White, and I'm only lacking a few hard-to-find John D. MacDonalds!
12. I am completely mesmerized by precision craftsmanship. I can stare at the clockwork of a Breguet or Audemars Piguet for hours.
13. I probably consume my own volume in Diet Rite soda on a monthly basis. Ditto for iced tea.
14. Any spider with a legspan larger than a dime absolutely creeps me out. Never try to hand me a tarantula, I will kill it immediately, then kill you.
15. I am an Eagle Scout. I would like to get back into Scouting, but am having issues with some of their current policies.
16. I'm generally law-abiding. That being said, if I could make off with a Federal Reserve truck full of used $100 bills without getting caught or killing anyone, I'd probably do it.
17. I can't listen to John Philip Sousa's 'Stars And Stripes Forever' without getting goosebumps.
18. My capacity for tasteless humor knows no bounds. See "asshole" statement above.
19. It would greatly amuse me to see formal dueling used to settle disputes once again. People would be a lot more polite if they risked getting a yard of steel through their brisket for mouthing off.
20. Right now is always a good time for a nap.
posted by El Capitan | 11:52 AM
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