101 Proclamations

My wonderful wife Gina recently posted her 100 Things About Moi and even though we have been together for 16 years, I learned quite a bit about her from it. Thinking that it might be interesting for others to have the chance to learn some obscure things about me, I decided to copy the idea here for My Thermos. Credit also goes out to our new friends Elle and Cardiogirl for the inspiration.

And because I needed to add one for my clever play on words title to be accurate, here are 101 things I think are interesting about me:

1. I am creating this list in Excel so I don’t have to keep count
2. I nearly got held back in Kindergarten because I wasn’t reading
3. In 5th grade I finished the 6th grade reading curriculum and had to have a special language and spelling program
4. I have seen the movie Fletch over 200 times
5. I am the youngest of 3 boys
6. I used to not get along with my brothers but we’re ok now
7. I had knee surgery in 1990
8. I spent the 10th year Anniversary of the death of John Lennon in Central Park with a couple hundred of my closest friends
9. I love breakfast foods
10. Chicken Kiev is quite possibly the world’s most perfect food
11. I have become disillusioned with the show "lost" but still can’t stop watching
12. I am much better on the air guitar than I am on a real one
13. I had a guitar custom built for me by these folks
14. It took me almost 3 months to pick it out
15. I have multiple tattoos
16. People always seem surprised to find that out
17. I have spent New Years Eve in New York several times
18. None of them have ever been in Times Square (that is madness)
19. I believe I read remarkably fast
20. My first job was at K-Mart, or it may have been at Oak Drugs
21. I guess I don’t remember what my first job was
22. I used to want to be a photographer
23. My uncle and I drank a shot of Jack Daniels to celebrate my 16th birthday
24. I hope the statute of limitations for the above has run out
25. I went to College in Colorado
26. I had the same roommate 3 of my 4 years in college
27. We haven’t spoken since
28. My hair back then was "Carlos Santana circa 1975" long
29. Now I can’t go more than 4 weeks or so between haircuts without thinking my hair is too long
30. I only went to 1 sporting event in those 4 years – Go …. um … Team
31. I have absolutely no patience for shopping of any kind
32. This is especially true for clothes shopping. If I don’t find something in 4 minutes I get frustrated and need to leave
33. I once had migraine headaches for a stretch of 11 months
34. I had a spinal tap to find out what was causing them
35. I stopped having them when I quit my job
36. The smell of bananas makes me nauseous
37. I used to be a really picky eater
38. I am surprised my parents didn’t kill me over it
39. I am still a little finicky but nowhere near what I used to be
40. I have nearly 1500 vinyl LP records
41. I don’t listen to them often enough
42. One of my goals is to catalog them into a master music database
43. I started to go gray in my twenties
44. My brothers and father are all balding, so I’m ok with the gray
45. Every year I buy 3 boxes of girl scout cookies from my niece
46. Every year I end up throwing one of them away
47. I think I would rather go blind than deaf
48. I tend to root for the underdog
49. I am just slightly under six feet tall
50. I thought about skipping 50-60 to see if anyone would notice
51. I learned a lot from my father, grandfathers, and great grandfathers
    even though I may not have realized it was happening at the time
52. Religion has never played a big part in my life
53. Morality and ethics have
54. Other than my wedding ring, I don’t wear any jewelry
55. I still have my very first computer – it was an Atari 800
56. I love cheese – if I ever turned out to be lactose intolerant I think I would just die
57. I am a pizza purist – crust, sauce, cheese – what else could you possibly need
58. I am self employed and love it – although I really miss group health insurance
59. I think Colorado is the most perfect place on earth
60. I really have very little desire to drink alcohol of any sort any more
61. In college I spent a lot of time at a brew pub called Coopersmith’s
62. If I was still near Coopersmiths and their Horsetooth Stout that thing I said about no alcohol would not be true
63. I can’t stand doing yard work of any type – if it was up to me we would pave the backyard
64. I was never a big participant in extra-curricular activities at school
65. I have been to more concerts than I can remember
66. I have tried to save every ticket stub but I think I have lost some over the years
67. I prefer Letterman to Leno
68. I will never have a house without cats if I have anything to say about it
69. When I was about 6 I hung on to the handle on the bottom of a garage door while it was going up to "see where it goes"
70. It wasn’t my smartest move as I then realized I was a good 6 feet off the ground and hanging from a handle on the bottom of a garage door
71. The only thing that makes winter bearable is the homemade hot cocoa that Gina makes for me
72. I have a pretty good collection of Beatles related memorabilia
73. I would love to have a full wall of bookshelves in one room in my house – floor to ceiling
74. I have multiple quotes by Frank Zappa hanging on the wall in my office
75. I prefer Pinball to Video Games
76. I wish the saying "You reap what you sow" was really true
77. I name the computers on my network after guitar manufacturers
78. I named my first cat after Christie Brinkley
79. I wanted to name me and Gina’s first 2 cats Difford and Tilbrook of Squeeze fame
80. We ended up naming them Abbey and Penny
81. I prefer The Beatles over The Rolling Stones
82. I just thought of the title for this post – I think it is very clever
83. I hardly ever drink soft-drinks (pop or soda) anymore
84. A desk needs a good stapler to be complete – even if I never really use it
85. I think music and lyrics are equally important
86. I wore glasses from the age of 5 until I was 13
87. I wear them again now but only because I was getting headaches from staring at the computer so long
88. When I was about 14 I went to Italy and saw amazing art and museums
89. I also ran away for a couple of hours
90. I really can’t believe my parent’s didn’t kill me over that
91. My first car was a hand-me-down Cutlass Supreme
92. I used to be very good at Cribbage
93. If it was up to me I would probably never bother to hang up my coat
94. I am neither a pot or a pan (Gina will understand this one)
95. I really have a hard time believing that two of The Beatles are dead (Help! is on tv as I write this – I am very sad)
96. I once played darts with Spencer Davis and while I can’t prove it, I think he may have cheated
97. One of my favorite things to do is to browse through albums in a used record store
98. I seem to be unusually lucky at winning contests and drawings
99. Unfortunately, this luck doesn’t seem to apply to the lottery
100. My favorite thing to call someone out of anger is Asshat
101. As much as I struggled to come up with this many, I am now finding myself needing to edit / leave some things off

So there you have it. And if you managed to actually read the whole thing – in the comments be sure to let me know which item was the most interesting or surprising.

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