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CPT Redbeard

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About Me

I am daddy to an adorable little girl, husband to a wonderful woman, a poli sci grad student, an amateur strongman competitor, and from what I am told also a great big teddy bear (in the cute sense, I think).You can see more videos at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=redbeardsm

My Interests

Lifting heavy things, spending time with my family and friends, politics, building stuff (mostly stuff that I can later lift), being outdoors (especially around water), travel. Oh, and eating. Lots of eating.

I'd like to meet:

I'd have to have a whole server just to list this and the reasons why. There are tons of historical figures I'd love to chat with. Not a fan of pop culture celebrities, but the Framers, medieval leaders, Biblical figures, authors, etc.etc. are high on my list.Other than that, interesting people. By interesting I mean exactly like me. Or close to it, since nobody's quite as awesome as me.

Music:

Anything but opera and songs that can't go more than one verse without a four letter word (which disqualifies almost all rap / hip-hop / whatever they call that crap nowadays). Southern rock/country is probably my favorite

Movies:

Depends on my mood. Generally action or comedy, with an occasional historical-esque movie thrown in from time to time.

Television:

I like to watch South Park, rasslin', football, strongman, C-SPAN, news, RFD, CMT, Lost, and Amazing Race. With Lilly around I usually only get to see Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, the Backyardigans, Play With Me Sesame, and the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Books:

Pretty much whatever I don't *have* to read - that takes all the fun out of it. Outside of that, I'd say nonfiction.

Heroes:

My wife, my parents, anybody who sticks with something they believe in when it'd be easier not to.

My Blog

Lilly’s too smart for her own good

Being a "modern" parent, I try not to spank Lilly. I've done it, she knows what it is and greatly fears it, but I dislike doing it and try to avoid it as much as possible. I rely on the "count to 3" a...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Mon, 05 May 2008 06:58:00 PST

Disney World spring break trip

Since I’m on spring break this week, we decided to take Lilly to Disney World on Monday. She’d been excited about it for a while  every so often we’d ask here where we were going to...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:42:00 PST

Florida’s Strongest Man writeup

I had a great time hanging out with some guys I knew and meeting some new guys. The events for the day were supposed to be a 300 incline log press for reps, a husafel/keg/husafel carry medley, a stone...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:56:00 PST

change of plans and some Lilly stuff

We had planned to go out to dinner with the family and go see Christmas lights in Green Cove last Saturday, but the threat of rain scared them off so we postponed it to this weekend. So we're postponi...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:22:00 PST

YES!!

I've tried 3 times now to write about this - somehow the window keeps closing before I finish.We went to Disney World Wednesday. Kristal and Lilly are staying until Saturday, but I had work to do so I...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:02:00 PST

long time no update

Lilly continues to amaze. The other day she just randomly counted to 10 for no particualr reason. Somewhere she learned the words "amazing" and "wonderful" - she said I was amazing and Kristal was won...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:24:00 PST

Lilly’s monsters

Lilly and I were walking around the mall in G'ville the other day (we do that a lot when she wants to play on a playground but we don't want to go out in the heat/bugs/whatever). As we walked close to...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:38:00 PST

Sharks in the Closet

Earlier this week, Lilly and Kristal watched Disney's "The Little Mermaid." Apparently Lilly was really bothered by the one scene with the shark in it, because despite both Kristal and I reassuring he...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:36:00 PST

Weddings and birthdays

Lemme see&.what's happened since last time I wrote here? On Sept 22, I got to perform Carmen and Mark's wedding. That was interesting. The hairdresser was 2 hours late and apparently didn't underst...
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:35:00 PST

catching up

 Nothing major has happened since I last blogged, but lots of little stuff. Lilly continues to grow.  She'll be two on Monday. We're having a small party for her at the day care next Sunday....
Posted by CPT Redbeard on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:28:00 PST