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7 Random Things About You!

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Tell us 7 random things about you that we might not already know.

Here are mine…

- I am left handed.
- I am not very tall.
- My sleeping habits are not ruled by the clock.
- I get cold when temperatures fall below 70.
- The smell of fresh brewed coffee brings me comfort.
- Finding my keys and cell phone is a never ending search.
- My youngest daughter is getting married Saturday.
 
#2 ·
-I rule
-I rule more
-I love my kids but id like to beat them sometimes
-I like caramel apples. With peanuts of course. Granny Smith apples.
-i hate Alabama football
-I like just about any kind of meat
-I like to build just about anything I can practically use
 
#6 ·
I am rarely wrong
I have enough body hair to weave a Navajo rug.
I always measure twice.
I am estaticly happy.
I enjoy telling stories, some of them true.
Cold is my enemy, rain and cold unbearable.
I have three grandchildren.
 
#7 ·
I'm losing my hair I think.
I taught jr. high for 30 yrs.
I paint portraits
I play classical guitar
I have a wife I've known 40 yrs and she's my best friend
I've got two wonderful daughters
I love Maine as a place to live.
 
#8 · (Edited by Moderator)
1. I Shot my first duck when I was 8 years old

2. I love eating red beans and rice

3. Started fishing around 4 years old
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4. Red beans and rice make me fart a lot

5. My favorite car was my 1967 Mercedes 250se coupe cause it had a lot of wood trim inside
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6. We had red beans and rice for dinner tonight

7. My cat likes red beans also
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#9 ·
My 7 are…..

1. I am old
2. I am worn out
3. I am a kind of loner except for family
4. I would rather eat a good corn tamale than anything else
5. I can eat Japalenos by the spoonful.
6 I really enjoy making band saw boxes
7. I grow Bonsai trees for fun and selling.
7 1/2. I have fallen in love with Beetle Kill Pine (Thanks to Monte)

So I fudged a bit. I'm old and have earned it.
 
#10 ·
1. I have two master of music degrees (guitar performance and teaching music)
2. I played Carnegie Hall in 2010 on classical guitar premiering a new composition
3. My first language was Swedish
4. I am a full time guitar and orchestra teacher in high school
5. I have played bass, guitar (classical, acoustic, electric) mandolin, and banjo in many musicals
6. I commercial fish (squid, herring, and bunker) in the summer
7. Anything over 70 degrees Fahrenheit I consider too hot (I love the cold)
 
#11 ·
Greg, I hadn't laughed that hard in a very long time brought tears to my eyes laughing, thanks!

Congrats Cricket

1. I was fortunate to retire at the age of 50 4 years ago.
2. I've never been married and no kids.
3. I like to ride my Harley
4. I quit smoking 18 years ago
5. I like to drink wine
6. I like having breakfast with my 81 year old dad
7. My dog walks me every morning.
 
#12 ·
1- Used to love working with disturbed and dangerous youth.
2- Don't like disturbed and dangerous adults.
3- Excessively reclusive
4- Love nature
5- Dreamer
6- Like jumbojack, if I could transplant the hair on my back to my head, I'd look like a hippie.
7- My daughter also got married on the hills of TX near New Braunfels.
 
#13 ·
1. I am colorblind
2. I got married at 21, just celebrated 10 yrs married, and still going strong
3. I lived in Chile for two years while I was 19 and 20.
4. I am a physicist specializing in acoustics, and am a total nerd about sound/audio/music
5. My first woodworking project was a pencil holder for a family member for Christmas when I was 7 or 8, and it was horrendous.
6. I spent a summer designing sound systems for a German firm that is a world leader in large scale sound system design.
7. I don't really read for pleasure, I read to learn. This bugs my wife to no end.

BONUS - I am the goofy parent, so the kids always come to me when they really want to do something.
 
#14 ·
I have 4 brothers
3 of my brothers work more hours than I do
At age 85, my mother still chooses to work several hours a day on her painting
I have leukemia but don't change my life because of it
I have gone to Russia and I am in the process of bringing a lady over to marry.
I am a loner somewhat and most of my friends are through LJs
I work a full time job besides my woodworking
 
#16 · (Edited by Moderator)
I am very much in love with my wife Bronwen married at twenty years old, forty three years ago and would do it all again.
I consider myself a very private person but love nearly everyone including some people who have treated me badly over the years mostly family strangely enough
I retired a while back and mostly my retired life revolves around my two workshops metal and wood.
I adore and love my three sons and my daughter in law and two grandchildren Reuben and Rhiannon beautiful.
I was working in orthodontics including a five year stint in Germany where I worked in a private clinic.
When I was a young man I was very heavily involved with the church and found that christianity/chuch was great but it had one massive flaw it was run by human beings.I no loger am involved with religeon it took me untill recently to get over the guilt I never took my boys once to church and they thank me for it today.
I am only ever involved with two sites on the computer this one and an engineering forum .I have been there for many years.
I now try to enjoy myself as much as possible and Bronwen and I are still very much in love I have never been apart from her except when I go into hospital.Neihter have I been unfaithful she is my only one LOl and I don't care who knows.LOve you guys have fun Alistair
 
#17 ·
1.i have 1 awesome daughter.wanted more but god had other plans.
2.been married almost 16 years.
3.i work WAY to much.
4.i like being alone much of the time.except with my daughter.
5.love woodworking,just not getting any better at it.
6.love old cars and trucks.especially 4 wheel drives.
7.love me some alabama football.

congratulations on the wedding cricket.
 
#18 ·
Here are mine…
Cricket, mine are similar to yours

- I am left handed.
- I am very tall.
- My sleeping habits are not ruled by the clock.
- I get cold when temperatures fall below -20F.
- The smell of fresh brewed coffee brings me comfort.
- Finding my keys and cell phone is a never ending search.
- My youngest daughter is to be born the end of september.
 
#19 ·
I was 10 and upset for a month when my metal German Luger replica cap gun went missing.
In dreams I've looked in a mirror about 3 times and have seen 3 different people who I knew were me.
I still miss riding my motorcycle, which was about 22 years ago.
I can be bribed very easily with fresh barbequed meat or almond croissants.
I witness strong patterns or things happening in 2's on a daily basis, usually within an hour of each other.
I have had 6 very different working carreers/jobs in the last 29 years.
I hate walking. I'd rather be longboarding or cycling.
 
#20 ·
1. I love the smell of coffee … but I DONT like it in my mouth! (Same with pipe tobacco)
2. I hate that I still have to work. (My plan at 20 was to be retired by 50… yeah right! )
3. I wish I had gone to college. Had the chance when I first got married (1974) but decided that I needed to earn money to raise my new young family was more important)
4. When I was 20 I had about FIFTEEN W-2's stapled to my income tax return. (Up till I was about 35 or so, you BETTER NOT piss me off at work, because I'll start a new career tomorrow! :)
5. As I look back I realize if I had kept my temper (and my mouth) in check, I could have been retired from TWO JOBS by now!
6. I often wonder how different my life would have been if I had joined the military after high school. (In 1970 the draft was in full swing and I had no doubt that I would have been shipped straight to Viet Nam, and quite honestly… that FEAR kept me from enlisting)
7. I played the Saxophone all thru junior and senior high school, and I WISH I had kept it up.
 
#22 ·
1. Born in 1973 (41 Yo but don't feel like an old fart…more like a 29 yo!!!)
2. Married for 13 years and have a 5 yo daughter Abby
3. Wife thinks she has 2 kids as I NEVER act my age (and get my daughter into trouble!!!)
4. I'm short and over weight (5"6' @ 85Kg/187 Lb)
5. My wife is tall and got a GREAT figure (6"1' a natural blonde and 78Kg/171Lb)
6. Metal engineering/fabrication/welding background but love to work with wood as well
7. Have broken the same leg 3 times in almost the same spot
 
#23 ·
1. Recently started back going to church and I am glad I did.
2. Remodeled a few houses over the years.
3. Two kids (we got lucky 1 girl and 1 boy)
4. December will be 10 years of marriage to my wife
5. Grandfather will have been gone 11 years in December, I miss him much and the stuff he used to tell me when I was younger I now understand.
6. New to woodworking
7. Found most of my tools via craigslist and borrowed some from the best brother ever.
 
#24 · (Edited by Moderator)
1. I've only been clean shaven 3 times since I first grew a beard. (at age 1)..........lol
2. My Uncle Herman got me interested in woodworking when I was about 14. (a lot of years in-between was nil) unfortunately.
3. I like Coors Light Beer
4. I like Guinness Draught
5. I really am a dabler of all, but, master of none.
7. I know the 7 bad words, according to George Carlin by heart. They are: (i don't wanna say em out loud)
 
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