On My Birthday In History

Found this after reading an article on the Walther P22 – which I am seriously considering buying to teach the boys to shoot – on blogonomicon. Look up your birthday in Wikipedia and list 3 neat facts, 2 Births and 1 death. BTW to look up your date got to the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and your…

Johari Window

Ever the glutton for personality tests – is introspective on the test? – I followed Shelli’s lead and signed up for my own Johari Window. It’s a test where you pick words to describe yourself and then have others use words to describe you too. You can see my current results here.

4 Meme

Via Countertop: Four jobs you’ve had in your life (other than current, for me): Portrait photographer and 1 hour photo worker, oil field valve rebuilder, assistant at fathering institute, Domino’s Pizza driver. Four movies you could watch over and over: Grosse Point Blank, Office Space, Fight Club, True Lies. Four places you’ve lived: Kingwood, TX,…

3 Wishes for Yourself

My wife asked me an interesting question a few weeks ago and it just screams blog entry and meme. What three wishes would you make for yourself? You can’t do things for others or the world in general, but only selfish you only wishes. Here’s mine. Weigh 200 lbs with 10% body fat. Be independently…

A Surreal Memory

Got this from the Mrs. If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL MEMORY OF YOU AND ME. It can be anything you want–good or bad–BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you’re…

Wow I’m Naturally Intellegent

Not normally a quiz person but Shelli did this one and the output doesn’t look too cheese for my website. Naturally Smart You’re a naturally smart person. Your intelligence comes to you naturally, rather than from instruction – and you are better with applied or more real-world things… which comes in handy, here in the…

Top 25 Songs From 1983

Batty suggested this one, though she wanted you to do it with 100 songs, I’m only going to use 30. Bold the ones you like. Underline your favorite (from this list). Strike through the songs you loathe. Italicize the ones you can’t remember. Leave it untagged if you’re without an opinion. 1. Every Breath You…

Because Everyone Else is Doing It….

First it was Shelli, then Batty, so I knew it had to be real cool. 1.When you look at yourself in the mirror, what’s the first thing you look at? My face. 2. How much cash do you have on you right now? $1, but I’ll get some more at lunch. 3. What’s a word…