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20 Helens agree - Bill is meme-ing

Ok, I’m meme-ing (it’s been a long week).

Twenty things you might not know about me.

  1. My first name is Charles.
  2. I was born in Puerto Rico.
  3. I graduated from UT; I started as an Electrical Engineering major, and ended with a Computer Science degree.
  4. My father graduated UT; he started as an engineering major, and ended with an accounting degree.
  5. His father graduated UT with an engineering degree.
  6. His father graduated UT.
  7. I lived in Calgary, Alberta Canada for a year; I have driven between Houston and there (4 days and 20º of latitude) several times.
  8. I enjoy watching televised women’s curling.
  9. I lived 1 mile south of the Pentagon for 2 years, working in north Georgetown, commuting daily across the Francis Scott Key bridge in my pickup truck with Texas license plates.
  10. I once missed a wedding reception after chewing dozens of skittles into a gritty sugary pulp, then accidentally inhaling some of it into my lungs.
  11. I’ve had lunch with John Henry Faulk.
  12. In 1985 I sat in lounge chairs with Dick Scobee, in his back yard sharing iced tea and good conversation about meaningless things. Six months later he was commanding Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded.
  13. For almost a year I lived a few blocks from where Stevie Ray Vaughan played weekly. I never went to see him play.
  14. Porter is my favorite style of beer.
  15. Porter is the name of my 9 year old ex-racing greyhound.
  16. I have won a blue ribbon in a homebrew competition for a porter I brewed that had butternut squash in it.
  17. I have had hundreds of people urinate in my back yard.
  18. In high school, I thought I was odd because the parents of everyone of my friends were still married to each other, as were mine.
  19. My parents are now divorced and both remarried.
  20. I have been accused (by different people) of being both a Right Wing Nazi Conservative, and a Left Wing Hippie Liberal.

-b

January 24th, 2004 Posted by bshirley | meme | no comments

Visited Countries

I am left to wonder what TomJohnChris’ maps would look like. Or my mother’s for that matter.

-b

create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide

That’s: US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Holy See, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Venesuela, St. Vincent, Grenada. (lots of other islands that are part of the US or UK or Netherlands).

I have good friends in Denmark that would put me up indefinitely.
I have friends in Australia and Honduras that would host me.

Those are trips I need to make.

Iceland is also on my list of wants to visit.

January 23rd, 2004 Posted by bshirley | meme, travel | no comments

meme: quizilla

the
Strong
Strong - Silent and often mysterious, you don’t
mind being by yourself. You can get things done
on your own and don’t like anyone to bother
you. You are more artistic than given credit
for.

What Faerie Personality Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
(more…)

August 9th, 2003 Posted by bshirley | meme | no comments

online compatibility test

Ok, I succumbed to one of those silly on-line personality tests, one that i randomly stumbled upon…


SimilarMinds.com Compatibility Test
Your match with Anke you are 93% similar you are 91% complementary

How Compatible are You with me?

Anke (aka thineownself on LJ) was some random person I found mindlessly chasing lj links.

June 21st, 2003 Posted by bshirley | meme | no comments

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