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I see it a lot, and so I thought I'd do the same thing. It's hardly complete, barely a introductory snuffle, but there it is.

1. I am left handed, as are two brothers and a sister. My parents are both right handed. ffice ffice" />
2. I shoot rifles and handguns, play guitar and use computers right handed
3. Despite being 5’10” and 240 pounds, I do 100 to 300 pushups a day, take brisk 3 mile walks at lunch and recently hiked 10 miles round trip with 3000 feet vertical gain.
4. My cholesterol is normal, overall good health, despite eating burgers and fries a couple times a week.
5. I get one or two colds a year, seldom more than a nuisance.
6. I like good beer, good whiskey and good cigars.
7. I hate the ubiquitous Nanny Goat thing, from Global Scolds to Food and Tobacco Nazis. STFU!
8. My last good hair day was October 27, 1987. I then joined the Army and came out the other side with male pattern baldness.
9. I am an artist, but I dislike the culture. Abstract art is nothing but pretentious, self-important shite.
10. Despite a deep, abiding love for reading and writing, I often failed English classes.
11. I became a father just short of my 23^rd birthday.
12. I’m still happily married to the mother of my sons.
13. I have never had a manicure, and there’s only one way I’ll ever get one—losing one of my arms.
14. I love sports that I’m not good at, football, hockey, baseball in that order.
15. I was pretty good at soccer, which taught me that the sport sucks balls, both to play and to watch.
16. I prefer the Winter Olympics over the Summer Olympics.
17. Math is hard for me, but I still manage to work successfully in the civil engineering field.
18. I have a short temper, but manage to keep it in check almost all the time. It gets easier as time goes on. I tend to yell a lot at other drivers when I’m by myself in my car.
19. I’ve never met anyone remotely famous.
20. I knew a kid who shook John Wayne’s hand. It was in the local paper even.
21. I love metal music, as well as certain variations of hard rock and metal.
22. I’m an insufferable music snob, and am not shy about sharing my feelings.
23. My country music-loving wife does not like it when I do that.
24. I don’t mind blues music, but think it’s a little overrated, with a few notable exceptions.
25. I currently own nearly 200 CDs, most of which are fairly mainstream, but very little pop music.
26. A CD I own that surprises friends; Tear for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair
27. A CD I own that surprises me; Garbage
28. I was raised Catholic, and still find some comfort attending mass occasionally.
29. I am not, however, religious. I’m annoyed by people who wear Jeebus on their sleeves.
30. I do believe in a Creator, but doubt he’s paying much attention to how tightly you close your eyes when praying for the Cubs to win the Series.
31. I love flying in planes. I want to be a pilot. But I loathe air travel—the delays, the crowding, the logistical nightmare.
32. One of my most fervent hopes is that when I die we have a permanent moon base and have sent people to Mars.
33. I have an almost complete novel in my head. I just need to write it down and sort it out and decide if it sucks or not.
34. I have numerous other story ideas and characters in my head, clamoring to get out.
35. I have very vivid, colorful dreams that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
36. I am very modest, and will use public restrooms for twosies only in dire emergencies.
37. I also lock the bathroom door at home, even when alone.
38. Actor I most resemble: Kevin James with Jeffrey Tambor’s hairline.
39. I have a movie crush on Zooey Deschanel
40. I absolutely love seeing Jenna Fischer smile. Watch The Office—you’ll see.
41. I won’t drink beer out of a can, unless offered one by my host, and then it’s sippy time.
42. I’ve been to ffice:smarttags" />Venice, Paris, Berlin ( East and West), Yugoslavia and lived in Germany for three years.
43. I’ve never been to our nation’s capital.
44. I’ve lived in Alaska.
45. I lived in Phoenix, immediately after Alaska.
46. I’ve been to 35 states.
47. I’ve never seen the Atlantic, aside from flying over it.
48. With a few exceptions noted above, I’ve lived my entire life in the shadow of the Rocky mountains, and always at 3000 feet or more in elevation.
49. I like Colorado, but I don’t love it. I’d happily pack up the family and move, if I could.
50. I want to live in a wide variety of places, the deep south, Texas, Oregon, New Mexico, North Dakota.
51. The list of places I’d like to retire includes Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming.
52. One place I really want to visit is Scotland, my ancestral home.
53. I get goose bumps when I hear bagpipes. It’s a visceral emotional thing.
54. No place is as calming to my soul as laceName w:st="on">Yellowstone laceName> laceType w:st="on">Park laceType>.
55. I want to blow 5000 bucks in Vegas, without gambling. Don’t like gambling.
56. I want to do the same thing in New York City.
57. I want to go on a week long pub crawl across the British Isles.
58. Sometimes I like cats. Sometimes they piss me the hell off.
59. I learned long ago that I cannot properly care for dogs. So I’ll never own a dog again.
60. I am much less morally uptight at 41 than I was at 31.
61. I have a little fat Buddha on my computer monitor.
62. I hate fantasy football. It distracts from the purity of the game.
63. I’ve read the Lord of the Rings at least 20 times since I was 14.
64. Lonesome Dove is the most deeply moving book I’ve ever read, no matter how often I read it.
65. I always have at least one book going, often two.
66. Right now I’m reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Zipporah, Wife of Moses, by Marek Halter.
67. I recently finished Lone Survivor, Chesty, Seventh Son by OS Card, and Guests of the Ayatollah.
68. On deck is tentatively, a book about World War I and an Ernie Pyle memoir.
69. The only assigned books I finished in high school were Lord of the Flies, the Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.
70. I’ve never watched Jaws.
71. The only Rocky movie I’ve seen is IV. It sucked.
72. Didn’t have two cars at the same time until August of 2000.
73. My best car ever is the one I drive now, a Hyundai Elantra.
74. My dream car is a ’69 Camaro SS
75. I regret not going Airborne in the Army. I also regret not staying in the Reserves or the Guard.
76. I would quit my job today if I had the means to write full time.
77. I don’t have insomnia, but I am a light sleeper, and wake up two or three times a night.
78. I’ve never fallen asleep accidentally; when I fall asleep it’s because I mean to.
79. While I usually like what I do, my “career” is not my life.
80. If I were a writer I’d get up at noon, exercise, run errands in the afternoon, and write in the evening, and go to bed at 3am or so.
81. I don’t mind being bald, but I wish like hell I could grow a Sam Elliott mustache.
82. My boyhood idols included Crazy Horse, Jim Bridger and Han Solo.
83. I lived behind a drive-in theater as a kid. I saw Bad News Bears and Logan’s Run without sound.
84. I also lived in a haunted house as a kid.
85. I was not a big kid, but I loved dodge ball, tag, smear the queer. Put me on a level with the bullies.
86. I remember Civil Defense PSAs about nuclear war. I knew where the closest fallout shelters were.
87. My buddy and I loved to scare the hell out of each other with Bigfoot, poltergeist and UFO stories.
88. I think we were poor. I used to eat a lot of macaroni and cheese, and tuna casserole.
89. We lived for two years without a TV. I think that’s when I read Lord of the Rings the first time.
90. I never touched a computer until January 1992, when I started college.
91. The first time I voted was in 1992. I voted for Bill Clinton. Regrets? Yes, starting in early 1993.
92. I began listening to Rush Limbaugh in 1994. Still listen regularly.
93. I’d rather be with my wife and sons than anyone else in the world.
94. I once preferred to be alone, and aside from my family, would still prefer it.
95. I never got homesick as a kid. Quite the opposite, I was often relieved to be anywhere else.
96. I spent a large portion of my life fearing death. Maturity has provided me an odd sense of peace about the inevitability of death.
97. I believe there is some kind of afterlife. Read Abandon in Place by Jerry Oltion for a truly comforting and believable description of life after death.
98. I firmly believe people can be evil, just as people can be good.
99. My opinions of humanity are as varied, powerful and diverse as humanity itself is. I offer: Paris Hilton and Marcus Luttrell. Mozart and Slayer.
100. I loathe socialism in all its incarnations. The absolute worst thing to do to the human race is to smother the human spirit. Beware the word “progressive.”

Have a good "Labor" Day, comrades.

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