I'm doing this for my Facebook peeps:
1. I have better than 20-20 sight and very good color vision, and I probably will for a long time. I've never even been to the eye doctor. It's genetic, much of my family is the same way. This really helps me with #10, below.
2. I am the cook in my family and I love it. My favorites are Mediterranean, Thai, and Indian. Simple, rustic food.
3. I have played guitar since 1984 and I own three guitars, but I'll never be a Steve Vai and that sometimes bothers me.
4. I did once make an Ace Frehley costume for Halloween and then got sick and couldn't wear it.
5. I am not superstitious at all and don't really understand how anyone could be.
6. I love all wine, but especially powerful reds and the Sauvignon Blancs of New Zealand.
7. I love Apple Macs, I'll never buy another Windows computer.
8. I have made 720 batches of Salsa Joe, give or take, and I have given the recipe out to at least a hundred people.
9. I love backpacking in the wilderness of the American Southwest.
10. My greatest love, besides my family, is photography. I love imagery. Capturing it, manipulating it. Getting it to say something. "Convincing" an image to be "more true" than the actual scene.
11. I once had nine pet guinea pigs.
12. I was really good at baseball once upon a time and it's still my favorite sport and the one I'm most likely to watch.
13. I hate watching sports on TV. But I love watching movies...
14. My favorite movie is The Seven Samurai, directed by Akira Kurosawa. This film has been remade as a Western (The Magnificent Seven) and also as a CGI film by Pixar (A Bug's Life). Kurosawa is also mentioned in the BNL song "One Week".
15. My favorite book is The Lord Of The Rings, I have read it several times. I was really scared when they decided to make the movies, but I was happy with the results.
16. I love to swim in tropical water, especially underwater. I grew up loving the water.
17. I used to be a math tutor in college. I love math, especially really challenging math like Eigenvectors and Differential Equations. I'm sick that way.
18. I love raw fish, especially mackerel.
19. I have had panic attacks since childhood, but have learned how to control them.
20. My favorite music is the old delta blues of Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Willie McTell, Willie Johnson, and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
21. I love blogging about my life & family and I hope one day my kids will read it when they get older.
22. I am very shy on the inside, but not so much on the outside anymore.
23. I once designed jet engines in Arizona.
24. I can no longer recall what my father's voice sounded like.
25. I often dream that my mother is still alive and I am always very sad when I wake up and find that she isn't. It's my most common dream.
7 comments:
#11 suprised me because I remember Grandma didn't seem to fond of animals. She always told me about a cat named "Puff" that she hated. I can't imagine she was excited about 9 guinea pigs, unless of course that was after you were out of the house...
It was when I was 10 or 11. I'm not really sure my mom liked them but they lived in a cage so at least they were contained.
Interesting read. I feel like I know a little more about you.
Thanks for sharing - I don't think I knew any of that about you at all when we were kids.
Now, as for #8 - spill it.
As for #8, I realized I have already spilled it! http://worldofwild.blogspot.com/2007/02/salsa-joe.html
Mom was a farm girl so animals other than human were meant to be "out-doors" and if a cat didn't contribute (like it did in the barns by catching mice) what really good was it? Dad's voice was soft but deep except when he was somewhat enthusiastic i.e. pissed off -- not so soft ... and deep !!
I knew all of those things except the last one, the dreams of mom.
I'm sure you didn't have all 9 guinea pigs at once! I remember the one named Sue.
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