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100 Things About Me

  1. I was born in Michigan, raised in East Tennessee.
  2. I ran my first website in 1994.
  3. I am a light social drinker.
  4. I am ambidextrous but I prefer the use of my right hand.
  5. I have a very selective photographic memory with little control over the selections.
  6. I've been told I know many useless facts and trivia.
  7. I have a solid and growing vocabulary.
  8. I enjoy learning, learning to learn better, and how to think about things in different ways.
  9. I am fascinated with language, reprensentation of ideas, and forms of communication.
  10. I speak the auxiliary language Esperanto pretty well, but have recently shelved it to learn Spanish better.
  11. I tend to be a cautious optimist.
  12. My Myers-Briggs personality type is xNTx, sometimes an ENTJ/INTJ/ENTP/INTP depending on the situation.
  13. I adapt readily and enjoy change.
  14. I am more comfortable as a driver than a passenger.
  15. I gesture a lot when I'm talking; I'm even known to use sound effects and invent new words for emphasis or humor.
  16. I become very motivated when someone thinks I'm not capable of accomplishing something.
  17. I tend to be a jack-of-all-trades, master of only a few.
  18. I crave a measure of solitude in my life to recenter and collect myself.
  19. I like to stay up late after everyone is in bed because it is so quiet.
  20. I like to make people laugh, and I'm secure enough to laugh at myself.
  21. I can be sarcastic at times and sometimes like to argue and debate.
  22. General fitness and a healthy, balanced lifestyle are important to me.
  23. I am loyal to my "tribe" consisting of close family, friends, and associates.
  24. I tend to be critical of others in my circles, but that should never be interpreted as disloyalty.
  25. When it comes down to it, I am very loyal and dependable.
  26. I am the oldest child in my family with a younger brother and sister; I am also divorced with two teenage children living with me. My children are the most important thing in my life right now.
  27. My astrological sign is Pisces, but I don't really believe in astrology. The basics are good to know for conversations, though.
  28. Many people think I'm standoffish until they get to know me.
  29. Even though I struggle with social anxiety in formal groups, I can be very outgoing, talkative, and funny in smaller groups.
  30. When it comes to profanity, I believe I curse and swear about the right amount. I save it until really mean it.
  31. I drowned once as a child (or nearly so as it would seem).
  32. I was in Cub Scouts and later Boy Scouts. I never got very far in the Boy Scouts because our leaders disappeared.
  33. I used to see strange things when I was little, and I frequently slept with the covers pulled over my head.
  34. The rest of the day I was overly bold/reckless to the point of nearly being killed several times.
  35. I was obsessed with treehouses and many other outdoor things as a child.
  36. My childhood imaginary friend seemed very real to me.
  37. I used to have a sleepwalking problem.
  38. I also fell out of bed a lot without awakening.
  39. As a child I was facinated with horror, science fiction, mystery, and adventure books and movies.
  40. In elementary school I read Hardy Boys, Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, Danny Dunn, Tom Swift, Robert Heinlein, Jules Verne, and every Newbury book I could find in the libraries.
  41. As a child I sometimes had the odd habit of sleeping in different places in the house each night.
  42. I loved to climb trees so much as a child that my mother teased me frequently about being a monkey.
  43. I wanted to be a scientist when I grew up, later and artist, then later a computer scientist. Now?...
  44. I had played a clarinet, saxiphone, and trombone in the school band.
  45. Today I can only play musical instruments at a basic level, but I can still read sheet music well.
  46. Fall is my favorite season.
  47. I am somewhat coulrophobic (fearful of clowns, mainly the happy ones).
  48. I can juggle.
  49. I enjoy a variety of ethnic cuisines, especially spicy ones.
  50. I like coffee black if it's good coffee, and I enjoy good tea hot or cold.
  51. I enjoy wines, particularly reds.
  52. I enjoy playing board, card, and trivia games in a social setting.
  53. I enjoy puzzles and challenges when I'm in the right frame of mind.
  54. I enjoy roller coasters and other thrill rides.
  55. I enjoy swimming, underwater especially.
  56. I've an interest in amateur astronomy and own a Newtonian reflector telescope.
  57. I enjoy walking at night with my dog, watching the sky for orbital objects, and checking out the constellations.
  58. I enjoy hiking, scenic walks in general, climbing lighthouses, towers, etc.
  59. I am an avid cave hunter, explorer, mapper, and climber.
  60. My favorite color is blue, or silver if one considers that a color.
  61. I disapprove of habitual bad health habits like smoking.
  62. I have a strong affinity for wolves.
  63. I prefer the cold over the heat unless there's a beach involved.
  64. I am an avid reader and I have accumulated a diverse library of books.
  65. I enjoy reading and writing poetry.
  66. There are so many unread books I want to read, I almost never reread.
  67. I often find myself making lists of things.
  68. I used to feel sleep was such a waste of time, and now I fight to get just seven hours.
  69. It takes me a long time to go to sleep because I lay in bed thinking about things.
  70. Meditation has helped a great deal to calm my mind.
  71. I prefer to sleep in in the pitch dark.
  72. I often have very vivid, complex, and symbolic dreams.
  73. Some of my recurring dream themes include solar eclipses, standing stones, stars, grass, caves, trains, and bridges.
  74. Sometimes I wish I could make up my mind about learning to dance.
  75. I would like to write books someday, both novels and technical books.
  76. If I could have any career I would be an independently wealthy inventor.
  77. I have difficulty sleeping without a fan, air filter, or noise-maker of some sort.
  78. The sound of chimes, wind, and running water are soothing to me.
  79. Rainstorms and thunderstorm sounds at night are great too.
  80. There's almost always an annoying song track playing in my head when I'm awake.
  81. I can whistle with my lips or through my front teeth.
  82. I have wide-ranging ecclectic musical tastes (Pop and 80's Music included).
  83. I am now unafraid of karaoke. However, you should be afraid of me being unafraid!
  84. I stay mostly in control of my emotions.
  85. Sometimes I regret not cutting loose more often.
  86. Losing my mother to breast cancer was probably the hardest experience in my life so far.
  87. I exert a strong sense of self, and accept that I will always be a work in progress, striving to branch out and make new connections.
  88. I've found that I can pretty much accomplish anything that I focus on, eventually.
  89. I wonder what one could accomplish if one didn't die as prescribed by our genes, but lived a significantly longer lifespan.
  90. I enjoy snow, sand, beaches, mountains, and forests.
  91. I have only been out of the US once so far, and only to Toronto, Canada.
  92. My dream vacation would be travel abroad with a loved one without financial worries and no set end date.
  93. I'm very independent and could easily be a loner if I wanted to be. But I don't.
  94. Humor is an important part of life.
  95. I believe in God but have quite a few doubts about much of the particulars of organized religions.
  96. I do not believe the good ol' days were all that good.
  97. I've have always looked to the future, but now I'm learning to take a deep breath and live more in the present.
  98. I strive for balance in my life.
  99. My ultimate goal is to be happy, free, and grow.
  100. I still have much to learn and overcome.