April 12, 2005

• Several of my fellow Xangians have been posting tid-bits of information about themselves. The number of tid-bits is supposed to correlate to the year you were born. I thought I’d give it a shot. I was born in 1958, so here are 58 things you never really wanted to know about me….

  
  

   

  
  

  
  
  1. I typically consume between 80 and 100 ounces of diet Mt. Dew a day and I have been doing this ever since my college days. If my blood-caffeine level drops below 30%, I immediately lapse into a coma.
     
  2. I sleep either on my stomach or in the fetal position. If I’m having a really bad day at work, I can be found in the fetal position under my desk.
     
  3. I just celebrated my 11^th anniversary with my current employer.
     
  4. I used to sing with a professional men’s chorus and I’ve done a 13 city tour of Spain and a 15 city tour of Russia and the Baltic States with them.
     
  5. My favorite meal is pork chops and scalloped potatoes. Yes, my cholesterol and blood pressure are high.
     
  6. I love fiction and I have the bizarre habit of finding an author I like and reading everything they have written. To date I have read every novel published by Dean Koontz, Robin Cook, James Patterson, Scott Turrow, and Michael Crichton.
     
  7. I despise self-help books.
     
  8. I have a bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in music and another bachelor’s in psychology. I sell sound equipment for a living…go figure.
     
  9. My mother was a schizophrenic and died in the mental ward of a local hospital just after I graduated from college.
     
  10. I have no interest in sports.
      
  11. I acted with, and severed as musical director for several area theater groups here in Tulsa for about 10 years.
      
  12. No…I’m not gay.
      
  13. I was a Southern Baptist Minister of Music for 17 years and even though I left the ministry almost 12 years ago, I still do weddings from time to time. I’m officiating at my son’s wedding in June.
      
  14. I have an “inny.”
      
  15. For three years I was a house parent at a home for unmarried pregnant teenagers.
      
  16. Because of this, I have the distinction of being able to say that I’ve lived with 76 pregnant women in my life. I’ve never fully recovered.
      
  17. I play five instruments.
      
  18. Two of those instruments I really suck at.
      
  19. My dream job is being an insanely rich syndicated columnist.
      
  20. I like Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain…..not really.
      
  21. I am the world’s most happily married man.
      
  22. Unfortunately, it took two failed marriages for me to realize that marriage is really a good thing.
      
  23. I’m a published composer of liturgical choral music.
      
  24. Me and a buddy of mine who is a play-write spent three years writing a stage musical based on the Ernest Lawrence Thayer poem “Casey at the Bat.”
      
  25. It debuted in Tulsa at the University Center Theater in 1995.
      
  26. A local theater critic wrote that it was the “Little League version of Broadway.”
      
  27. I had him killed
      
  28. If you’d like a poster from the musical please let me know, I have 8000 left over in a box in my attic.
      
  29. Dave Barry is my hero.
      
  30. The first “concert” I ever attended was going to see a Broadway touring group do “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
      
  31. Ted Neely rocks.
      
  32. My favorite movie is “The Princess Bride.”
      
  33. I kick ass at Trivial Pursuit.
      
  34. There are about 10 movies that I have seen so many times that I can pretty much recite the dialog word for word. Some of those movies are “Airplane,” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Ghost Busters,” and “Stripes.”
      
  35. My wife refuses to watch any of these movies with me because my proclivity towards saying the lines along with the actors makes her want to strangle me.
      
  36. Both my son and I can sing every word from “Les Miserables.”
      
  37. I do not have a great track record with power tools.
      
  38. I once sat next to Garth Brooks on a flight from Tulsa to Nashville.
      
  39. I really like my job.
      
  40. I “Google” about 20 times a day.
      
  41. I’m addicted to National Public Radio
      
  42. Specifically; Car Talk, Wait-Wait Don’t Tell Me, Talk of the Nation/Science Friday, The Writer’s Almanac, and BBC news.
      
  43. Yes, I am a nerd.
      
  44. I was a die-hard Republican up until the last few years I spent in the Ministry. One day I was walking down this road in Damascus and I was  blinded by a bright light. Suddenly Al Franken appeared to me and…….no, that’s not exactly how it happened, but I’m certainly a Democrat these days.
      
  45. I fly about 45 times a year.
      
  46. I’m afraid of heights but I’ve gone ski-diving.
      
  47. I love to snow ski.
      
  48. I don’t understand the national Paris Hilton/Jessica Simpson/Pamela Anderson, bimbette obsession.
      
  49. Give me Scully from the X-Files any day.
      
  50. Ever since the movie “The American President.” I’ve had a crush on Annette Benning.
      
  51. Speaking of the X-Files; M*A*S*H*, and the X-Files are the two greatest television shows ever produced.
      
  52. I am an only child, and it shows.
      
  53. When I get stressed, I can be a jerk sometimes.
      
  54. My son is graduating from Baylor next month with a 4.0, and is getting married in June. He is actually my hero.
      
  55. I bought my wife a Mini-Cooper for her birthday. It’s a lot like driving a clown car.
      
  56. I HATE getting AARP crap in the mail….I’ve still got 3 YEARS before I turn 50, damnit!
      
  57. I am the national poster child for passive-aggressive behavior, but at least I know this about myself.
      
  58. I’m very happy with life right now.

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