For openers (and this seems a good place to open) I'm here because my kids suggested it. It would be fun, they said, and they were right!I like most everything sensory that doesn't hurt: absurdly funny movies (Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Leslie Nielson), Civil War skirmishing in the North-South Skirmish Association (http://www.n-ssa.org ); the smells of new-mown grass and burned black powder; a good cigar, baseball, Jack Daniel's "nice" and women who are pretty AND intelligent. And none of these things necessarily in the order listed.I've been around the block often enough to have memorized most of the chuckholes and spot the good parking spaces. I remember radio when it had scripted programs, tv when it came in black-and-white on three channels at my cousin's house ('cuz they HAD one), anytime-day-or-night passenger trains, Dwight David Eisenhower and the night Sputnik went up ('cuz that was the night my dog got loose, got hit and got killed). I remember polio, and lining up in the Saybrook Elementary School gym to swallow the sugar cubes that made the threat go away; I remember segregation and Selma, the march on Washington and the "I have a dream" speech. I remember exactly what I was doing at noon on Nov. 22, 1963 and May 4, 1970, at 8:40 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, and at lots of times before and since.I remember Republicans when they stood for fiscal responsibility and personal liberty; I remember Democrats when they stood for something -- anything. And I remember when being an elected official was a mark of honor rather than proof of guile. But enough of politics.I am physically, emotionally and intellectually large, having long ago discovered that "different strokes for different folks" goes a lot deeper than Sly Stone. I have pushed life's envelope and discovered it is in some places elastic, in others tympany-tight. I've grown wise enough to avoid, when practicable, the drumheads.I am in philosophy Libertarian -- "Mind your own business and don't hit your sister" would make a great national motto -- and in practice Christian, although actually agnostic. But the 11th commandment works, whether you believe in Jesus, Muhammed, Budda or Jerry Garcia.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: jim
Birthday: 6/23/45
Birthplace: Ashtabula, OH
Current Location: Avon, OH
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: what hair? Oh! Bray
Height: 6'3"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: 11 generations American, some german, indian, etc.
The Shoes You Wore Today: Rockports
Your Weakness: chocolate ice cream
Your Fears: alzheimers, failing my family
Your Perfect Pizza: everything AND anchovies
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: win the Pulitzer
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: "..."
Thoughts First Waking Up: is it 5:30 yet?
Your Best Physical Feature: beard
Your Bedtime: when i damn well feel like it
Your Most Missed Memory: my father saying grace
Pepsi or Coke: Dr. Pepper
MacDonalds or Burger King: Chipotle's
Single or Group Dates: what's a "date"?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Constant Comment
Chocolate or Vanilla: you have to ask??
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee
Do you Smoke: cigars
Do you Swear: to tell the truth...
Do you Sing: lustily
Do you Shower Daily: waste of water and skin oil
Have you Been in Love: oh, yes
Do you want to go to College: would LOVE to go to college!
Do you want to get Married: yes, but my wife wouldn't like it...
Do you belive in yourself: there's nobody else in whom to believe
Do you get Motion Sickness: yep
Do you think you are Attractive: in an old-fart, Dumbledore sort of way
Are you a Health Freak: hardly
Do you get along with your Parents: did with dad, not so much with mom. Long story
Do you like Thunderstorms: LOVE 'em!
Do you play an Instrument: used to play guitar
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yep
In the past month have you Smoked: yep
In the past month have you been on Drugs: prescription
In the past month have you gone on a Date: nope
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yep
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Oh, my God, the very THOUGHT of it!...
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: wish I had. Love it!
In the past month have you been on Stage: I'm on stage every day
In the past month have you been Dumped: Taken some, but not been dumped myself
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: not enough water around here
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: a couple hearts, in my dreams
Ever been Drunk: I'm a skirmisher, aren't I?
Ever been called a Tease: not lately
Ever been Beaten up: nope
Ever Shoplifted: nope
How do you want to Die: quickly, neatly and on the bottom
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I ask myself that every day.
What country would you most like to Visit: England
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: blue/green
Favourite Hair Color: blonde/black/brown/magenta/blue
Short or Long Hair: yes
Height: 8'10"
Weight: 100
Best Clothing Style: loose
Number of Drugs I have taken: enough
Number of CDs I own: too many
Number of Piercings: ??? Bring your bayonet and give it yer best shot!
Number of Tattoos: "no identifiable marks or scars"
Number of things in my Past I Regret: not all that many
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You are a
Social Liberal
(86% permissive)
and an...
Economic Conservative
(93% permissive)
You are best described as a:
Anarchist
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