I'm just a reflection of myself
At least 3 of my contacts wondered what I look like. I'm not my favorite model. :-)
Ack! I even forgot to remove the earphones! I'm listening to The New Yorker and just bought a cup of coffee.
Oh yes, I was tagged. Now I shall tag five others.
Here are the rules: (Requests)
1. Sit down
2. TAKE A PICTURE OF YOURSELF RIGHT NOW. Don't primp, just snap one!
3. Upload it
4. Tag 5 people to do the same
I was also tagged to reveal 16 random things about myself.
1. The best part of me is my parents.
2. The second best part of me is my wife. She is second only because my parents won her over.
3. Now you should expect I'd say my children and grandchildren are the third best part of me. I really should say that. All my children are through marriage. They do make me feel more normal.
4. The older I get the more I want the young to succeed.
5. I listen to a lot of podcasts: Wait, wait, don't tell me!, The Groks Science Show, Left Right and Center, The Slate Political Gabfest, and so on.
6. I also subscribe to Audible for audio books. The best in the past year was The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett. The worst was Magic Street by Orson Scott Card and, believe it or not, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway.
7. I'm not usually competitive. Probably my most outstanding performance is when I scored third out of 500 in promotion testing. Probably my worst performance is when a professor in college gave me a both a negative and the lowest score in Properties of Materials class. I know it was the lowest score because he wrote it on the board. It sounds funny to get a -35 out of a possible 100 points, but at the time I was not laughing.
8. My favorite teacher has to be my second grade teacher. For some reason I didn't learn to read in the first grade. Instead of holding me back, she spent extra time with me. Our society should value teachers more.
9. I was raised a military brat.
10. One time I remember spending long hours in the car while the family moved to my father's new assignment. We stopped at my uncle's. He teased me and I kicked him. Hard. I honestly didn't know I could hurt an adult. Both my aunt and uncle understandably stayed away from me after that. Many, many years later my father told me how angry he would have been had he known. I'm so sorry Dad. I really didn't mean it.
11. I'm not sure there are 16 random things about me. Hmm. I was raised in Alaska, the land of the midnight sun.
12. The midnight sun is in summer. My friend and I hiked up Peter's Creek during the longest day of the year. It was light except for an hour or so. We couldn't see the glacier where we camped but we could feel the wind coming off it. We gave up trying to sleep and walked home hoping to avoid the grizzly bears we saw earlier in the day.
13. Alaskan winters can mean that sometimes you can not see your hand in front of your face at night. Even your own dog might not recognize you. I walked home one night and was greeted by my Siberian husky growling at me. Plaintively I called his name hoping he would recognize my voice. He did.
14. I used to wait for the school bus in short sleeves. My lips would turn purple and I'd start to shiver. Some people ignore the cold when it is what they know. Not that I advise that attitude. My father used to say that Alaska sometimes will not allow even one mistake.
15. I wrote a poem when I was about 19. Pretentiously it started out: What be I but a man. I test my wings to see if I, can fly. The poem wasn't any good, not that I know what is good when it comes to poetry, but the feeling was universal I think.
16. One more thing and I've made it! Hmm. I still have memories where I wish I had done this or that better. Unfortunately I can't change the past. It took me a long time to learn the few things I've learned. I try hard to accept my mistakes. I still wish I hadn't made them.
I'm just a reflection of myself
At least 3 of my contacts wondered what I look like. I'm not my favorite model. :-)
Ack! I even forgot to remove the earphones! I'm listening to The New Yorker and just bought a cup of coffee.
Oh yes, I was tagged. Now I shall tag five others.
Here are the rules: (Requests)
1. Sit down
2. TAKE A PICTURE OF YOURSELF RIGHT NOW. Don't primp, just snap one!
3. Upload it
4. Tag 5 people to do the same
I was also tagged to reveal 16 random things about myself.
1. The best part of me is my parents.
2. The second best part of me is my wife. She is second only because my parents won her over.
3. Now you should expect I'd say my children and grandchildren are the third best part of me. I really should say that. All my children are through marriage. They do make me feel more normal.
4. The older I get the more I want the young to succeed.
5. I listen to a lot of podcasts: Wait, wait, don't tell me!, The Groks Science Show, Left Right and Center, The Slate Political Gabfest, and so on.
6. I also subscribe to Audible for audio books. The best in the past year was The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett. The worst was Magic Street by Orson Scott Card and, believe it or not, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway.
7. I'm not usually competitive. Probably my most outstanding performance is when I scored third out of 500 in promotion testing. Probably my worst performance is when a professor in college gave me a both a negative and the lowest score in Properties of Materials class. I know it was the lowest score because he wrote it on the board. It sounds funny to get a -35 out of a possible 100 points, but at the time I was not laughing.
8. My favorite teacher has to be my second grade teacher. For some reason I didn't learn to read in the first grade. Instead of holding me back, she spent extra time with me. Our society should value teachers more.
9. I was raised a military brat.
10. One time I remember spending long hours in the car while the family moved to my father's new assignment. We stopped at my uncle's. He teased me and I kicked him. Hard. I honestly didn't know I could hurt an adult. Both my aunt and uncle understandably stayed away from me after that. Many, many years later my father told me how angry he would have been had he known. I'm so sorry Dad. I really didn't mean it.
11. I'm not sure there are 16 random things about me. Hmm. I was raised in Alaska, the land of the midnight sun.
12. The midnight sun is in summer. My friend and I hiked up Peter's Creek during the longest day of the year. It was light except for an hour or so. We couldn't see the glacier where we camped but we could feel the wind coming off it. We gave up trying to sleep and walked home hoping to avoid the grizzly bears we saw earlier in the day.
13. Alaskan winters can mean that sometimes you can not see your hand in front of your face at night. Even your own dog might not recognize you. I walked home one night and was greeted by my Siberian husky growling at me. Plaintively I called his name hoping he would recognize my voice. He did.
14. I used to wait for the school bus in short sleeves. My lips would turn purple and I'd start to shiver. Some people ignore the cold when it is what they know. Not that I advise that attitude. My father used to say that Alaska sometimes will not allow even one mistake.
15. I wrote a poem when I was about 19. Pretentiously it started out: What be I but a man. I test my wings to see if I, can fly. The poem wasn't any good, not that I know what is good when it comes to poetry, but the feeling was universal I think.
16. One more thing and I've made it! Hmm. I still have memories where I wish I had done this or that better. Unfortunately I can't change the past. It took me a long time to learn the few things I've learned. I try hard to accept my mistakes. I still wish I hadn't made them.