100 things...

[nockergeek]

Stolen from odanu, because it seemed like a good idea at the time...


1. My eyes fluctuate between blue and grey, depending on the weather and what I'm wearing.
2. Not counting the band at church, I've only seen a live band play 3 times.
3. While my hair hasn't been every color of the rainbow yet, it's definitely been around all the primary colors.
4. Rechargeable batteries and I don't get along. No matter how much I pamper them and follow the instructions carefully, they end up with a battery life of about an hour or so.
5. I'm woefully clumsy, and yet I can DDR with some competence. Amazing.
6. I love playing a good game, but I loathe playing in a heavily competitve field.
7. Although I hardly ever get to have it, I love the taste of a good, well-aged scotch.
8. I think the human body is one of the strangest, oddest, neatest, most beautiful things God ever came up with.
9. I love being naked. If I could, I'd hardly ever wear clothing.
10. And yet, I've never gone skinny-dipping, since nudity-friendly pools are hard to find.
11. A habit I picked up from my dad is naming cars and computers, and somehow transferring a personality to them suitable of the name.
12. I suffer from chronic depression, but only for two or three days at a time.
13. I used to be really bitter towards humanity in general.
14. I found my soulmate while LARPing, which is something I haven't done in years -- LARPing, not soulmate-finding.
15. I love swimming, even if I'm terrible at it.
16. The transition from high school to college taught me that being #1 in a small field means little in the real world.
17. I've never been drunk or high before. The former from lack of desire, the latter from lack of access and desire.
18. I used to be a terrible flirt, but I've toned it down a lot.
19. My love of Monty Python goes back to my days in the womb, since it runs in the family.
20. I almost completely lost my virginity in my bedroom back home during a college summer break, but my SO at the time said it hurt too much as soon as we started.
21. I really lost my virginity on a friend's couch in Warrensburg on a cold December night six years ago with the woman I eventually married.
22. I used to be infatuated with petite women, but I've since learned that all body shapes and sizes can be beautiful.
23. My best friend from high school now works for the Evil Empire, but I won't hold it against him. :)
24. I don't regret anything I've ever done. I'm not proud of some of the things I've done, and there are things I'd do completely differently if I could do them over, but all of them have taught me and shaped me into the person I am now.
25. I'm not afraid of heights -- I can look out the window in a plane just fine -- but the idea of falling off of ladders and ledges scares me to death.
26. Sometimes I miss having Sunday mornings off, but at church we've got great friends, great music, and some great messages to roll around in our minds, so it's all worth it.
27. I'm almost completely incompetent in the kitchen.
28. The idea of having a kid or kids one day both fascinates and frightens me.
29. I have not yet found a steak that can rival the goodness of a Hops Jamaican Top Sirloin.
30. Touching and being touched by my Z is one of my favorite things in the world.
31. Despite being horribly out of shape, I somehow got an A in high school gym class, just because I improved from test to test.
32. I actually took fencing in college. I was terrible at it.
33. I miss the days when action figures were actually meant to be played with, rather than used as little objets d'art.
34. That said, I have decorated my office at work with action figures. They guard my computer.
35. Watching my grandfather succumn to Alzheimer's was... well, it was odd and sad to watch his memory unravel.
36. I'm a hypochondriac.
37. I'm extremely paranoid about my car making odd sounds, since I've had enough problems with it off and on in the past.
38. I'm scared to death of rejection, and yet I crave human companionship and risk rejection.
39. I couldn't stand dogs until I got one. I'm still a cat person, though.
40. Painting miniatures is a practice in patience and detail, and I enjoy doing it. The only problem is having the energy and inspiration to paint.
41. I've never broken a bone, had surgery (other than stitches), or had cavities.
42. In 4th grade, I was hit in the head with a baseball bat. On accident, I swear!
43. I got into my first driving accident 4 hours after I passed my license test. Of course, I had to hit the most expensive vehicle I could - a brand new silver Mustang convertable. My Chevy Celebrity, however, was almost completely unharmed.
44. I'm fascinated by sex and sexuality, just because it is so absolutely amazing and beautiful.
45. I used to smoke in high school. I gave it up when one cigarette couldn't get me buzzed anymore. I refuse to play the game of diminishing returns.
46. I used to hate the color orange. Now it's one of my favorites. Just shows what playing Phoenix will do to a man.
47. Sometimes, I feel like an absolute poser, like I'm faking my way through life, nowhere near as good at anything as anyone else and amazed that I've managed to survive without being "found out".
48. PBS documentaries 0wn me. Cosmos and The Civil War are my favorites.
49. I need to put together some wishlists on ThinkGeek and Amazon, even if no one buys me anything. It would just be nice to see what I think I lack.
50. I don't like fake breasts. Never understood the point, especially since they look and feel so strange.
51. In 6th grade, I failed on an assignment and tried to strangle myself with my coat in the middle of class. Let's just say I wasn't used to failure yet.
52. I don't remember my first kiss. I think it was with Robyn, my first girlfriend in high school, but I'm not sure.
53. I sometimes miss my classmates from high school and college, but I can't seem to find them online, and I don't feel like paying for the priviledge.
54. My wife and I freely admit that we're perverts. Perhaps not perverts of the highest order, but perverts just the same.
55. I break into a sweat at the slightest provocation. No temperature or humidty can stop me from sweating.
56. I wish I had straight hair sometimes. When my hair gets long, it starts getting a mind of its own.
57. I still haven't managed to suffer fools gladly, but I'm getting better. Maybe it's because I realize that I'm a fool too.
58. I'm a very liberal person, even if I am a Christian.
59. My favorite books of all time are Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Tao of Pooh.
60. I've never had one favorite band. I like so many different styles of music at once.
61. Karaoke can be a lot of fun, but only with the right friends and the right song lists. The friends and the songs I had in college were great for karaoke.
62. I've never understood the script kiddie, black hat hacker mentality. Okay, so you can defile websites and ruin servers. In the end, though, what's the point, other than some feeble attempt to "stick it to the Man"?
63. I love problem solving, which is why computer programming and computer security is so enjoyable for me. It's tinkering for fun and profit.
64. I never could understand why so many Christians seem to exist only to judge others and tell them how terrible they are. Perhaps they're afraid to look in the mirror and realize that we're all terrible in our own little ways.
65. Back in college, I had to memorize the names of the books of the Bible in order because a character I was playing had to recite them. Considering I was an athiest at the time, I consider this to be quite the feat.
66. Guys are weird about bathroom etiquette, as if we're deathly afraid to see each other's dicks by accident. While I don't understand this mentality, I still go by it.
67. Sometimes I contemplate going back to school to get a CompSci degree, but I know that right now I have neither the time nor the money.
68. My wife and I are Final Fantasy nuts, although we can't agree on which FF game is the best. Oh, and I've never been able to finish FF6 or FF Tactics.
69. I've never successfully sixty-nined with anyone. (Okay, that was juvenile, I know. :)
70. My favorite pizza topping used to be pepperoni, but in college I was introduced to the idea of the Hawaiian pizza, and I haven't looked back since.
71. Twice in my life, I've celebrated my birthday with Star Wars cakes. One of those times was last year. It was a gleeful reminder of my childhood.
72. The first time in my life that I really cried, not counting from physical pain, was when Robyn broke up with me the first time.
73. Sometimes, I miss the early days of CCGs, back before Magic became a sport on ESPN. Things were simpler and more fun back then.
74. Back in high school, I practically had my bedroom wallpapered in Playboy centerfolds. Sure, it sounds silly now, but back then, it was great, er, "inspiration".
75. The first computer that I ever used with any regularity was a Commodore 64, back in the days before I'd ever heard of a hard drive.
76. When I was very, very young - too young to remember - I almost cut off my ear with a glass table. To this day, my left ear still has a notch/lump in the cartilege where it healed
77. I have a bad habit of being indecisive or non-committal, usually when making decisions that affect others in the immediate future.
78. I've never played a truly evil character as an RPG player, but I have had a evilly insane villain when I ran a game once. And yet, I find myself more interested in the villains most of the time. They get no respect.
79. When I was a kid, I used to ponder what I'd do with three wishes. I always aimed high - I wanted to be omnipotent, to have the power to do anything I could imagine. I mean, who needs money or things when you have godlike power?
80. It took me 25 years of searching to find God, trying to find a version of Him that I was totally comfortable with. Turns out I had to meet Him on His terms, and that means sometimes giving up that "comfortable" notion completely.
81. I think that over 50% of my shirts now have a dragon motif. Jenny would be so proud.
82. On a good day, I can do Dynamite Rave and only miss a couple of steps. On a great day, I can nail it.
83. I often lack self-discipline, because I get comfortable with goofing around (like I am now. :)
84. I sometimes wonder what a big group marriage would be like, because there's a lot of people that I care about. In the end, though, I think I'm doing well just to manage a marriage with one person.
85. I love playing around in Photoshop, even if I'm only marginally good at it. It's fun to tinker with graphics.
86. I used to spend most nights of my week making hundreds of pounds of pasta in the back of a Fazoli's restaurant. I don't miss it.
87. My favorite sandwich is a reuben on marbled rye.
88. Yes, I really did die right after I was born. I was without heartbeat or lung activity for almost five minutes, and it was probably too early to check me for brain activity. It's a miracle that I survived without any mental disability.
89. I don't have a favorite movie, although Fellowship of the Ring and Snatch are right up there. And of course, the original Star Wars will always have a special spot in my heart.
90. The first anime I ever saw was on Sci-Fi Channel. I think it was Lensman.
91. When I was about 6 or 7, I played Doctor (although that wasn't what we called it) with a neighbor girl. I remember being utterly amazed at her crotch, since I'd never seen one of those before. I also remember it smelling like baby powder. (What an odd memory to keep, huh?)
92. When I was growing up, I had a fort in the back yard that my dad made out of wooden pallets. It was up on stilts, and I could look out over... well, over the neighborhood, anyway. He also made me a cardboard X-Wing once.
93. In college, a student's worst dream came true for me - skipping a bunch of classes, and then walking in on the final without realizing it. Needless to say, I failed that class (which was History of the English Language, by the way.)
94. Whenever Z and I see an ad online that asks, "Is there porn on your computer?", we both laugh and say, "We hope so! We put it there!"
95. I cried when I saw Lilo and Stitch. That, and What Dreams May Come are the only two movies in recent memory to choke me up.
96. I wear my title of "geek" with pride. It's who I am.
97. I'm not nearly as geek as I want to eventually be, though.
98. I sometimes wonder if Melanie ever forgave me for breaking up with her. I know it was hard on her, and I heard later that her personality changed after we broke up. I do feel sorry that I hurt her like that (but, as I said, I don't regret it -- I had to do it.)
99. I will never forget how Z woke me up on our honeymoon. It's a great thing when a dream about oral sex turns out to not be a dream!
100. Despite customers that inundate me with work and drive me up the wall at times, I somehow manage to hang onto what little shreds of sanity I have left.

There. 100 things about me. :)

Comments

backwards lists

[evildennis.livejournal.com]

Reading this backwards, (which I did), provides some interesting lead-ins...I really like reading 11 and then going to 10...(and btw, there will be a LARP at A-Kon if you wanted to try those out again)