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It depends.Are you a wealthy 25-year-old that has complete financial freedom perhaps because of receiving an inheritance?A friend of mine was.His father left him a large sum of resources that would have taken care of him his entire life if he invested it right.Unfortunately, he didn’t.He ended up running the rat race just like everyone else.However, if such is your lot and you handle things correctly, then you will never have a reason to have one of those JOB’s.Good luck.The Proverbial BoatOn the other hand, if you find yourself to be in the same boat as everyone else then you might need to secure that good corporate job instead.Here’s the not so funny part of the story I shared above.When his dad died, he was working for the Post Office. Just 6 months away from being offered a fulltime position. He’s been part time for 4 years and would be looking at a secure government position with benefits very soon.As the story goes, he comes from a long line of educators and found himself faced with a decision.A. Leave the Post Office and pursue education.B. Stay at the Post Office and buckle in for the long road to retirement.It was a tough choice for him.However, after much wrestling, he opted for A.Unfortunately, his plan didn’t quite work the way he wanted. After several years of study and a 3.47 accumulative grade point average he couldn’t even find a job.6 months later he secured a data entry position that paid half of what he was making in his postal days and offered no benefits.Opting Into SecuritySo now, back to your question. Which should you choose?1. Living the life of passion that motivates you forward into the hobby of your dreams?2. Working 9 to 5 just to make a living.Can I have all the above please?Sure, but how?Your hobby is involved in some niche I would imagine. Can’t think of one that isn’t.Why not find a corporate position within that niche?Here is what that would look like.Say you’re a numbers type of person. Everything you do is about numbers. You wake in the morning and the first thing you are talking about is numbers. At lunch time your life is not complete without a copy of the Wall Street Journal. While others are watching the latest releases of the newest dramas or game shows on TV, your tapping into business style broadcasts.I sure fill sorry for you. But hey, that’s not my point here.Why not do something like becoming a Bookkeeper? Transition into being an Accountant at some point and arrive at the status of CPA.There are a million and one ways to play this scenario out but the point remains the same.Once you arrive at your end destination and when the time is right. Instead of working for the man, be the man by opening your own practice and hiring others to do your bidding.You have now taken the hobby that you’re passionate about, made it a profession and at your final destination become your own boss.It’s the perfect, structured plan that works for many successful entrepreneurs.Becoming the Risk TakerThe problem with that strategy is it will take time to arrive at your goal. Perhaps you are more free spirited and willing to take a chance.Even mistakes can be corrected.Many individuals pursued their passions with all they had.Unfortunately, some of them failed.On the good side, others succeeded.There’s nothing quite like doing what you love and loving what you do.This is where my friends' story gets really good.150 days ago, he returned to Corporate America due to some of his own failings with the online marketing direction he had ended up pursuing. His downfall is a long story that involves mergers and Google, but the bottom line was that he had to do something and opted to return to work.In sales.Within the first month he was at the top of the sales charts. Within 90 days he opted to resign his position.The money was good.The position was a great fit.He was winning awards that came in the form of cash bonuses.Then he left.He just couldn’t adapt to the corporate style of life. Being free was in his blood.If your hobby is in your blood you might not have a choice. At least if you want to keep peace with your inner self.I’d love to report that now he is swimming in success and dollars are flowing in from every direction. Unfortunately, such is not the case.Not the case, yet.Future ForwardHe remains passionate about online marketing.In the last 90 days,he has taken a site that did not exist into the upper rungs of Alexa. It is beginning to show up in awesome spots on Google.This doesn’t happen on accident.Some days he has spent 15 plus hours getting into position on the Web.In fact, to cut expenses he sold his house and lives in a TeePee. That TeePee is located in Idaho. Recently it reached negative 4 Fahrenheit before factoring in wind chill.What would compel him to do such a thing?A passion.A dream.And a plan.If you take this path, define how serious you are about your plan and then decide. There are many approaches to answering your question and all of them are right.The question is, which one is right for you?And the answer to that question can only be found deep within your being.Are you a risk taker?Do you have a dream?Go for it. You can make your dreams a reality.Are you more structured in your ways?Does your life brim with methodology?Corporate America might just be what you need to succeed.Like I said at the beginning, it depends. The question remains, what will you decide?

Ooh, sounds intriguing. The Pacific Northwest (“the PNW”) has a couple common themes in our lingo — mainly geography, weather, people.Geography: (feel free to pull up Google Maps)Seattle is in Western Washington, the forested, wet side of our state, while the Cascade Mountains (Cascades) separates Eastern Washington, a rural, warmer agricultural region famous for apples, wine, and cherries. The Cascades are also the namesake for ‘Cascadia’, an independence movement of the Pacific Northwest that’s more of a cult icon for us being so physically detached from the rest of the country. You can sometimes find the Cascadian flag on cars, cafe doors, laptops, and streetlamps. We never refer to ourselves as from Washington, since everyone thinks of Washington DC. We’ll always say Seattle, even if we’re from hours away.North of Seattle is Skagit Valley, a muddy area famous for tulip fields, and the San Juan Islands, picturesque islets that are home to hidden coves with lurking orca whales. To the west is Puget Sound (“the Sound”), the large saltwater bay that is also the eponymous name for most of Western Washington, and to the west of that is the Kitsap Peninsula (or KP), and as a whole, the Olympic Peninsula, a remote, wet national park that was the setting for the Twilight book/film series.Down south is Mount Rainier, which impressively looms over Seattle on the horizon, with Mt St. Helens next to it, a volcano that famously erupted in 1980. The Columbia River Gorge, sits right on our state border with Oregon and below, the city of Portland. We sometimes go to Oregon for shopping, since they have no sales tax.Just to the east of Seattle across Lake Washington is the Eastside (such as the cities of Mercer Island, Bellevue, Redmond), an affluent area home to Microsoft and Bill Gates, who lives in the mansion-littered town of Medina. It is our ‘bougie’ and affluent part of the region.To the south is South Seattle, South King County (Renton, Kent, Tukwila), and even further is the large city of Tacoma. These highly diverse, lower income neighborhoods are home to large immigrant and refugee populations. Seattle-Tacoma Airport (“Sea-Tac”) is also here.In Seattle, South Lake Union is home to Amazon, and is a tech hotspot rapidly gentrifying Seattle. There is a streetcar partially funded by Amazon, called the SLUT (South Lake Union Trolley). Its pretty useless, except being able to tell people you’ll “ride the SLUT” later today. There is also the Seattle Monorail, built during the 1962 World’s Fair, that’s a tourist item, going from Westlake Center (shopping center of downtown) to Seattle Center (where the World’s Fair was, the Space Needle, and MoPOP — Museum of Pop Culture, and formerly the EMP/Experience Music Project).Capitol Hill (“Cap Hill”), to the east of the downtown, is the millennial, gayborhood, dining area with fancy bars and clubs. Queen Anne, just behind the Space Needle, is an older residential area home to the true Seattlelites who have been here for centuries, before apartments existed. Kerry Park is here, a picturesque view of the Space Needle, downtown, and Mt. Rainier all in one frame.The Waterfront, Pike Place Market (never never never Pike’s Place), and Seattle Center (where the Space Needle is) are incredibly touristy and not visited by locals. West Seattle (a nice, slow-paced beachfront peninsula, and especially the seaside stroll on Alki Beach), Fremont (home of the original counter-culture scene, and features a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin), Ballard (originally our fisherman's wharf and Scandinavian neighborhood, but now just families and microbreweries) are more likely to draw locals. Golden Gardens (a beach park in Ballard) is popular for summer bonfires, and is next to the Chittenden Boat Locks (“Ballard Locks” or simply “the Locks”), where you can watch migrating salmon return to spawn in an underground viewing tunnel. Magnuson Park is popular for its off-leash dog area, and Gasworks Park is famous for its view of Seattle from the north, where you can see seaplanes take off and land on the water.East of Ballard and Fremont, and north of Capitol Hill, across the Montlake Cut (canal separating Lake Washington and Puget Sound via Lake Union), is the University of Washington (or UW, “U-dub”). It is far better than Washington State University (WSU, “wazzoo”) which is in the middle of nowhere on the Idaho border, but a rivalry somehow persists. Because UW’s Husky Stadium is next to Lake Washington, you can “sailgate” during a game.“the bridge(s)” — the bridges across Lake Washington to the Eastside, namely 520 and I-90. “the Viaduct” — Alaskan Way Viaduct on the Seattle Waterfront, which is to crumble in the next earthquake and is being replaced. “the Narrows” — the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. “the Canal” — Hood Canal, a saltwater inlet on the Kitsap Peninsula.Culture:Politically, many people identify as progressive in addition to liberal, in that we don’t necessarily believe national policies and parties represent us. LGBT families are common, and marijuana (“pot”) is socially universal and the norm (tobacco is dangerous for your health!). Nobody can agree on policies though, since we constantly discuss ad nauseum, and perpetually love, then hate, each mayor of Seattle. The Stranger is an alternative newspaper, written mostly by and for young urban millennials who don’t adhere to mainstream journalism. By some measures, its the second most widely read newspaper after the Seattle Times.Bicycling is common as a means of commute, even though our city is so hilly few would imagine it as being possible. Toyota Priuses (is the plural Priui?) are ubiquitous, and by far the most representative car in the city (followed by Subaru Outbacks for hikers/skiiers). Not composting can get you fined, and people do take their plastic bags/batteries/lightbulbs/styrofoam/wine corks to recycle. Thrift stores are actually pretty expensive in Seattle proper.We suck at sports. Only when we can get into the Superbowl do we care. Or if you’ve actually been following a team for decades. We have white and blue flags littered around the state with a “12” on it — representing the 12th Man of the Seattle Seahawks. Actual sports fans are also bitter towards Howard Schultz (CEO of Starbucks) who sold our basketball team, the Seattle Sonics, to Oklahoma City of all places.Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix and Pearl Jam are from here. But most of their listeners are of a bygone era. Macklemore (the rapper) is a hometown homeboy. Everyone knows a couple friends that tour around with their underground garage-born band, but you’ve never seen them perform so you don’t know what music they do. Then again, none of us have a ‘genre’ of music we like, its a diverse mix or so unique it hasn’t been categorized.Weather:The Mountain is Out (You can see Mt. Rainier, a measure of cloud overcast and visibility)Downpour / Showers / Scattered Showers / Sprinkling / Drizzles / Mist. In that order. Rain isn’t usually referred to as just ‘rain’.Nobody uses an umbrella. Seattle’s rain isn’t usually super stormy, its just never-ending soft rainfall or drizzles. Umbrellas immediately identify you as a tourist (and was an ad slogan for our Light Rail — “faster than you can spot a tourist with an umbrella”)— a hoodie or North Face (the generic name for any weatherproof polyester jacket) is the usual protection. Some people wear shorts in October, and that’s totally normal. You also never wash your car (saying that you did refers to a sunny streak). A momentary pause in the rain is called a sunbreak.Sunshowers = rain with sun shining. Freezing Fog = when its so moist and cold, frost can form in the air. Frost can stick to branches and freeze, dragging them down onto power lines. Power outages are common in the winter.“Its sunny (out)” — the sun hasn’t set yet (doesn’t matter if you can see it), and often a term in the summer to indicate sunset hasn’t arrived. For people from southern states like California/Arizona, noticing the days get longer/shorter may be a surprise.“snow” — mass hysteria. Every kid hopes for a snow day, every parent agonizes over the icy commute. Yes, our one inch seems like nothing, until it melts and refreezes as black ice. We aren’t flat like upstate Michigan — we have hills that when you slide will promptly deposit your car into Elliot Bay or I-5.Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) — when Californians and Texans get depression during our gloomy season. The usual cure is to sit in a room with a lightbox. We also sometimes get reverse SAD when we go to Phoenix or Las Vegas and are drowning in sunlight, never wanting to go out.People:We are passive but polite people. We’ll say hi to our neighbors, but never ask for their name. We use the self-checkout at the grocery store to avoid talking to a human, put on headphones to avoid public interactions, stare at our phones when people ask for donations. We order groceries online sometimes, and almost everyone has a Netflix subscription (the ‘and chill’ part is questionable).Seattle Freeze — when we’re polite but not friendly. We’ll say “let’s grab a drink sometime!” and it’ll never happen. Californians and East Coasters get upset, especially those that move here for their tech jobs, thinking everyone wants to be their friend. Blame our Scandinavian forefathers and their isolated, subdued personalities. We were grueling timber and fish country after all. If you hear “let me check my schedule”— don’t bother following up.We suck at driving. We’re not aggressive like LA, or particularly slow, we’re just very uncooperative. We won’t slow down to let you in, we won’t run a stop sign, we won’t leave the left lane without lingering, we won’t forgive you for calling us out — but honking is too scary for us, that’s a Californian.“from here” — means you were born and raised in the state. Even if you moved here 20 years, ago, you’re not from here. Especially Californians.We don’t use actual idioms a lot, and for younger folks who don’t get the allusions, it can get very confusing. Something like “kitty-corner” (diagonal), might be interpreted as a cat cafe of sorts or “kiddie corner”.Food:We are pretentious people. That “organic, locally sourced, shade-grown, fair trade, non-GMO, gluten free, cruelty-free, carbon neutral” stuff is normal.We don’t drink Starbucks (unless we’re in a hurry), and rotate between a few drinks, such as a Grande Skinny White Chocolate Mocha or a Dirty Chai or a London Fog or a Venti Ristretto Soy Macchiato with three pumps of vanilla, no foam. Basic brewed coffee is known as ‘drip’. Coffee in general can be called espresso, never java. Some innovations (like different pour overs, or the Flat White) are good, some are imported stupidity (nitro brew).Seafood is the most common protein featured. Salmon is the chicken of the sea, especially Chinook / King or Sockeye salmon (saa-mun, not sal-mohn). Atlantic salmon is also not a salmon, its a trout. Snow and King Crab from Alaska is also prized, but the local Dungeness Crabs will always beat the pathetic blue crabs of the East coast. Many of us know our oysters (especially Penn Cove), and forget that the geoduck (“gooey-duck”, a giant, phallic clam) isn’t actually common elsewhere.We know our apples (there are many kinds) and our two cherries — Rainiers are always better. Rainier is also our hometown cheap beer, and along with PBR, replaces Coors or Bud at college and sport parties.The cheapest meal is Pho, a Vietnamese noodle soup, or banh mi, a Vietnamese sandwich. Dick’s burgers and teriyaki also follow, and poke bowls are the latest craze . No idea what a hoagie or a po’boy is.Fusion cuisines are prevalent on the West Coast. LA can have their Korean Tacos, and Portland can have their Thai Fried Chicken. We have Latin-Japanese and Vietnamese-French, in addition to everything +Pacific Northwest cuisine.Columbusing — “discovering” an ethnic cuisine from an immigrant neighborhood, and sharing it with other people so it can be made fusion and 2000x more expensiveAttire:“hipster” — Someone whose aesthetic, interests, and inspirations deviate from the “mainstream”. They don’t need to be counter-culture, just unique and niche-y. Not to be confused with “hippie”, referencing the former residents of Fremont in the 1980s.“lumberjack” or “lumbersexual”— style that features plaid flannel, hiking boots, thick facial hair, even in the middle of Seattle. More affiliated with Portland, and perhaps places like Bellingham up north.“metrosexual” — actually pays attention to fashion imported from New York and Europe. People who follow fashion are rare here, since we’re all hiding behind hoodies and North Faces anyhow.“techie” — some overly-loose plaid button up, jeans, and an electronic gadget (smartphone, Macbook, Apple Watch). The techie outfit applies to most white-collar jobs, tech-related or not.“semiformal” — a button up. “Formal” — a tie.“Green Lake mom” or “Subaru mom” — the equivalent of a soccer mom. Typically in yoga leggings, a black puffy vest, and pushing a double stroller on the way to barre or the farmers market, clutching a white chocolate mocha or dark chocolate peppermint frappuccino.Other Lingo:Highways are referred to as “I-5” or “520”, not “The 5” or “The 405”Hella instead of super (hella pricey), like CaliforniaTolo — a Sadie Hawkins dance (which most people here will have no idea about)Additional resources:Portlandia (with a grain of salt)Pemco Insurance Profile Ads here and here and some uploaded by this guyOld, but our local equivalent of Saturday Night Live, Almost Live. It is still very applicable, and a must watch for locals. (its also where Bill Nye got his start!)

.Previous answerers have strayed from the conditions of the question, that being facts “about yourself”, thereby eliminating themselves, though I must give honorable mention to those who went all the way to 1000. (Still eliminated.)I’m just narcissistic enough to attempt to answer this question.I am Deputy to the Chief Outlaw of the Bottom Writers™.I’ve been writing on Quora for 15 months.I have 662k answer views.I have 611 answers on Quora.I have 82 questions on Quora.Enough about Quora…more about me! I thought I was a human being.Gigi J Wolf, however, brought it to my attention that I am, in fact, an iguana. At least, I think I am.I did not choose to become an iguana.I had iguananess thrust upon me.I’ve learned to live with it. (Thinking I am an iguana)Udo Andre's answer to When did you realize you were an iguana?Life as an iguana is not so bad, actually. I kinda like it. ‘Course, I like lots of things.I have friends who are raccoons.I am easily distracted.I type with two fingers.Oh I have 10 fingers alright (eight and two thumbs) but I type with two.I also have 10 toes, but they’re useless for typing.Maybe I shouldn’t say that ’cause I’ve never really tried to type with my toes. I just assumed they would be useless.I often assume too much.My 20th fact and already I’m bored. I can only imagine how you must feel.Oh! There’s a mouse! I like mice.I once had a deer mouse steal half a Hershey bar from me up on a mountain.I like mountains.When I was 17 I got arrested for indecent exposure.I told the story in one of my answers…something to do with ‘Were you popular in high school’, or something. You can look it up.I can recite “The Raven” verbatim, from memory. That’s 18 stanzas, 1100 words.I like my Boss, Gigi. She’s a kindred spirit and fellow iguana.I’m scared of spiders.I never jumped out of an airplane, even though I signed up for the 82nd Airborne.Yeah, I was in the service, 1972- 1975.I was put in the ASA (Army Security Agency)Then they booted me out after 15 months ’cause I couldn’t get a Top Secret Security Clearance ’cause I was born in Germany.I was born in Germany.It took the Army 15 months to figure out I was born in Germany thus ineligible for a Top Secret Security Clearance, while all the while doing a job which required it. So I got shipped to Georgia and ran a gym.I got brown eyes.I had an alligator snap at me while I was low-crawling through a swamp in Louisiana during basic training.Oh, yeah, I did my basic training and AIT in Ft. Polk, Louisiana.I didn’t like Louisiana.I didn’t like the Army.I don’t have a favorite color.I lost 300+ pages of a manuscript I was writing years ago when they auctioned off my storage.My storage was auctioned off.See, now that’s 2 different facts, there, OK? I often feel the need to point out the obvious.I wear a size 7 1/2 shoe.I understand German.I can speak German. (See, there again, 2 diff…)I can read German fairly well, but have real trouble writing it.Did I say I was born in Germany? I came to the U.S. when I was just a little kid, is why I have no accent. (I just say that ’cause I know a lot of you are wondering why I have no accent.)I could have gotten 2 facts out of that! I mess up a lot and am too lazy to fix it.Did it again! Two…never mind. I like dogs.I got bit by a squirrel once.I have a picture of my Dad in his uniform. (He fought in WWll)I have a moustache.I didn’t always have a moustache. Duh.I’ve been on a roller coaster.I’m right-handed.But I got a left hand too.I use my left hand exclusively when blowing my nose.I put my pants on one leg at a time.I put my left leg in first. (See, I got 2 out of that one!)I live in a mobile home.I own the mobile home I live in.This mobile home is so hot right now…I’m sweating.I know how to prune roses.I have felled trees.I fell asleep at the wheel once.I woke up behind the wheel bouncing off a guard rail at 60 MPH!I have a red shirt.I’ve had a beard and shaved it off. More than once.(Damn, coulda got 2 on that one!) I like orange juice.I could slalom ski when I was 11 years old.I could run a slalom course at 33 mph, and touch both shoulders to the water. (One at a time at each turn, of course.)I never learned how to turn snow skiing, so I was just a downhill racer. Straight, fast, drop to my side to stop.I really enjoyed water skiing, but was scared shitless most of the time snow skiing- flying down the steep runs.Brussel sprouts make me gag.Oysters make me gag.Gagging makes me hurl sometimes.I loved the high dive.I could do a beauty 1 1/2 off the high dive.I once did a 1 1/2 off a 30 foot cliff. (I used to say it was a 40 foot cliff, but it was really only 30)I’m no big fan of swimming.Most of the swimming I’ve ever done in my life was from where I hit the water back to the diving board.I like rope swings too. (Where you end up in the water.)I jumped off a third story balcony once on a dare.I sprained both my ankles jumping off a third story balcony once.(See what I did there?) I swallowed a goldfish once on a dare.I chugged a half bottle of rum in one breath on a dare.I don’t do dares anymore…I’ve been to Moscow….(Idaho)I’ve gone to rock concerts at George, Washington.I went to Black Sabbath at the Portland Coliseum.I saw Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in 1969. (My first concert)I saw them again, 30 years later, in 1999. (My last concert.)I like jam sandwiches.I like peanut butter sandwiches.I don’t like peanut butter and jam sandwiches.I put equal amounts of tossed green salad and mashed potatoes on my fork and eat them together.I’ve had my tonsils out.I caught my Dad drinking a beer with Santa Claus.I think anyone who has read these last 100 facts is nuttier than I am.I need to shorten these up some. I’m 5′ 4″ tall.I make up my own short jokes.I am single.I am divorced.I had a wife and I had a best friend. Now they have each other.I have been non-functional for a period of time.I have spent a few days in the psyche ward at Harborview.I have had my .38 revolver confiscated by the police.I got it back.They took it again…I got it back a second time.I’ve seen Bald Eagles up close.I like ice cream.I’m willing to pay the extra to get real German beer.I’ve been stuck in the mud.I sleep sometimes, but not a lot.I’m 63 years old.I’ll be 64 in October. (Wait, that’s not a fact, is it?) If I live til October, I’ll be 64.I may not live ’til October.I am in end stage COPD.I’m on oxygen 24/7.I smoked cigarettes for over 40 years.I quit smoking 4 years ago.I wish I had never started. (smoking)I can quote “Hamlet’s Soliloquy” verbatim.I pee standing up.I’ve peed in the woods.I’ve peed in the ocean.I’ve peed in places I shouldn’t have peed.I used to run. Not anymore.As the weeks go by, it gets harder to breathe.I use my nebulizer 3 or 4 times a day.I fill it with Ipatropium Bromide and Albuterol Sulfate solution.I take Theophylline every day.I take Amlodipine every day.I take Metformin every day.I take furosemide every day.I take Potassium CL every day.I take Incruse Ellipta every day.I take Advair every day.I don’t have as fun much as I used to have…every day.A bear shit in my campfire pit one time.I am guilty of involuntary bear-bopping.I drink milk.I once got drunk and ate a batch of chocolate covered smelt.I once threw up chocolate covered smelt.I no longer cover my smelt in chocolate.I smell smells.I hear sounds.I used to hold my breath underwater for one minute.Have come to the conclusion that being on oxygen sucks.Tried to go without for a while…sucked waaay more.I have written several poems.I was elected “Mr. Firefly” in high school.I was also ASB Vice-President, Kelso High.I headed the project to construct a giant “K” on Starlight Hill in Kelso in 1972. It’s still there. You can see it from I-5.(Those three only count as one) I have a pulse.I know CPR.I watched Mt. St. Helens erupt from the roof of my house. (It didn’t erupt from the roof of my house, that’s just where I watched it from.)I met Pres. Jimmy Carter when he came out here after the eruption to see what all the hub bub was about. (Well, met for like 3 seconds)I have a cell phone.I used to collect the eggs from my Dad’s chicken coup.A couple times he let me chop off a chicken’s head and watch it run around headless.It was fun, but then I had to pluck the damn thing before Mom would take over.I like a good Mai Tai.I’ve climbed to the top of Diamond Head. More than once.I have smoked pot. A lot of pot. A whole…what was I saying?First time I smoked pot I was 15 years old.I have smoked pot that came from Columbia, Mexico, Thailand, Jamaica, Afghanistan, U.S.A. and my own grow room. (Geez, I could have gotten a lot out of that one!)I’ve been busted for smoking pot.Best pot I ever smoked was Kentucky Bluegrass I got from an Army buddy back in Georgia, ‘74. Second best- the real Kush from Kush mountains in Afghanistan. [before the California green bud started the American market] Right close behind that would be the original Hawaiian Sinsemia. Oh so sweet and…hey…I got carried away!Should I be telling you all this? I’m a night owl.I love hiking through the woods at night with a flashlight, looking for ‘eyes’.One night my son and I spotted what we thought might be a deer, but when we got closer, we saw it had 3 eyes! Never saw the ‘thing’, just the 3 eyes….spooky.He and I once had Bigfoot throw rocks at us. (Hey, I know, you want facts. But this is very likely a ‘fact’) See: Udo Andre's answer to Do you believe that Sasquatch still exists? Well, something threw rocks at me.I have volunteered for a staff position at Hempfest for the last 5 years running. Gonna do it again, one last time, if physically able. 8/17–19.Damn, 2 again! I used to climb trees.I’ve taken showers.I wear socks when I have to.I have eaten bananas.I know how to count.I can keep my answers short if I really apply myself. But I gotta really make an effort ’cause sometimes it just takes words and then more words to make myself understood. Understand?I’m really straining under the conditions of this question.I drink water.I can make bacon and eggs.I’m bigger than I was when I was little.Still, I cannot dunk a basketball.I played football.I play guitar.I can play “The Ballad of John and Yoko.”I have studied philosophy.I have studied psychology.I have studied history.I have studied comparative religions.I have studied physics.I have studied math.I have studied English.I had a dog named Yoda.I sang in a choir.I watch TV.After every 200 facts about myself that I type out I need a break. Oooooooh, I need a break.zzzzzzzzzz. I’ve worn a Stetson.I prefer coconut leaf headbands. I weave them myself.I have woven hundreds and hundreds of headbands and given them away.I’ve been to Hawai’i over 20 times.I was the self-appointed Beach Master of Waikiki.I would lay on the beach for a month at a time.I would build sandcastles and sand beach signs every day.I have broadcast NFL playoff games on the beach. Hawaiian style.(Changing the number on my beach signs after each score.)I have broadcast over 10 Super Bowls from Waikiki Beach.I know how to talk.I know how to ride a bike.I saw a wolverine in the wild.I use underarm deodorant.I am the unofficial World Record holder, having picked up 20,001 cigarette butts off the beach in 30 days.I have picked up an average of about 700 cigarette butts off Waikiki Beach every day for a month.I have picked up over 300,000 cigarette butts off Waikiki Beach.There are 1000’s of pictures of me and my beach signs on every continent in the world, except Antarctica. (Maybe Antarctica, too,…no I doubt it.)218. I get free boat rides on the Kepoikai II.219. I get free Mai Tai’s on the boat.220. I swam with a shark.221. I swam with a sea turtle.222. I swam with a rubber ducky.223. I have picked my nose.224. I’ve seen the world famous ‘Wolphin’. (A cross between a killer whale and a dolphin.)225. I have never dyed my hair.226. I have had a bat in my hair.227. I have batted at a hairy bat.228. I have sneezed more than once.229. I have hidden quartz crystals all around the base of Manoa Falls and watched the kids find them. (For years)230. I was dared to surf the big waves at the Pipeline, North Shore. (Took one look and said, “You fuckin’ crazy!”)231. I’ve been to the Polynesian Cultural Center many times. (It’s where I learned to weave headbands from coconut leaves.) Doh! 2!232. I took Ukulele lessons.233. I took Hula lessons with my son.234. I decided to keep my day job.235. I know and am known by most of the street performers on Kalakaua Ave.236. I’m an inch taller than Nikita Khrushchev was.237. I’m an inch shorter than Vladimir Lenin was.238. I found a trumpet fish in the surf one day.239. I had a trumpet fish on my beach display for most of a day. (Until I got complaints about the smell.)240. I spread my Dad’s ashes on Waikiki Beach.241. I spread my Mom’s ashes on Waikiki Beach.242. I have smelt-dipped in the Cowlitz River.243. I have stacked a 17 rock totem.244. I can recite Nietzsche’s “Genius of the Heart” verbatim.245. I I have picked strawberries for a living. [When I was just a kid.]246. I have done some ‘cow-tipping’.247. I went on a volcano tour on the Big Island.248. I’ve seen Rainbow Falls.249. I’ve seen Kilauea.250. I have caved the Thurston Lava Tube.251. I have hiked far enough into the tropical jungles to get lost.252. I have been happier coming out of a tropical jungle than going in.253. I have fallen asleep floating on an air mattress and wound up almost in the shipping lanes.254. I was rescued by the K-II catamaran but not allowed on board. Got towed in as punishment. (another 2, grrr.)255. I have been to more than 10 NFL Pro Bowls.256. I have met dozens and dozens of All-Star NFL players.257. I caught a pass thrown by Dave Krieg on the beach.258. I retrieved a volleyball and handed it back to Thurman Thomas.259. I like iced Frappuccino.260. I had a praying mantis named Rabbi Bob.261. I kept Rabbi Bob in a cage with a mirror which I labeled‘The Wailing Wall.’262. I bought my 1st house in 1976.263. I paid $38,000 for my 1st house.264. I lost a shoe once.265. I was on a liverwurst and pickle sandwich kick for a while.266. I hated spinach as a kid, now I love it.267. I walked from Manoa Falls to the Royal Kuhio, once.268. I found a sea urchin in the surf at Waikiki Beach.269. I had a sea urchin on my beach display.270. A rogue wave took my sea urchin away while I was out getting a shave ice one time.271. I used to sit behind my beach display and throw seashells into the surf so I could watch the tourists chase after them.272. I made palm trees out of twigs and seaweed for my beach display.273. I made faces out of shells.274. Every “Last Day” before going home I would turn over my beach display to a new worthy ‘Beachmaster’. (The kid would have the biggest smile on the beach, every time.)275. My main job was to ‘spread the Aloha’. And I took my job seriously.276. I came in 2nd place at a Hawaiian food eating contest one time.277. I go barefoot whenever I can.278. I believe in ‘Grounding.’279. I fell asleep standing up once.280. I woke up falling down once.281. I woke up at 3:00 A.M., in the passenger seat of my truck once, crashing through small trees going down over a cliff…my wife asleep behind the wheel.282. I ate half a watermelon once.283. I used to roller skate.284. I’ve played “Mensch Argere Dich Nicht.”285. I would find the best shells for my beach display way down by the Hilton at my secret spot.286. While down there I would feed the little fishies in the lagoon that contained ‘Gilligan’s Island.’287. I had to cancel a trip to the Big Island once, ’cause it was flooded.288. Each time I went to Hanauma Bay, I would go to the pkg. lot at 1:00, wait for the Japanese tour bus, then when they came off the bus and tossed their meal containers in the trash, I would ferret some out. Most never ate the fish. I would gorge myself before returning to the bay.289. I had more fun at the restricted area known as the ‘Toilet Bowl’ than at the Bay itself.290. Rode all the way to Hanauma Bay from Waikiki on a moped once, only to have to turn around and go back. Bay closed due to jellyfish.291. I’ve been to Sea Life Park on the North Shore more than once.292. I have pulled my own teeth when I was a kid. Later on, I had an adult do it.293. I prefer roll-on underarm deodorant to the spray kind.294. I shave with a 4-blade razor.295. I had more hair when I was younger.296. And it was blonder. (Blonder?) Aw, you know what I mean.297. I’m far-sighted and need reading glasses.298. I buy reading glasses at the Dollar Store.299. I’ve changed my pants.300. I’m gonna need to cut my fingernails before I get to #1000.Thought I would start over counting after every 300 so it won’t seem like so much. I play games in my own mind, with my own mind.When asked to come up with a joke on my own, never having heard it before, I thought for a minute then said, “What does 3 day old Crack look like? Answer: No one knows.”When asked to use the word ‘pathos’ in a sentence, I wrote:”Pathos oythers, Ma, them’s good!”I graduated from Kelso high in 1972.I got an A.A. degree 13 years later.I got married on Waikiki Beach.I was together with my wife for 20 years.I have a 38 year old son…wait…38? OMG!I was 38 years old.When I was 38 years old I owned my own business.Life was good. (at 38) [For a year.]I’ve seen a rainbow.I’ve seen a double rainbow.I know a rainbow does not have purple in it. Nope.I like rainbows anyway.I got up at 4:15 A.M. to start building my last beach sign of the year. It was 20 feet long.I put 10 plumeria leis on the sign.I put 10 of my best headbands on the sign.I left 30 ‘Homies’ on the sign, all for the next Beachmaster.I spent over 5 hours making the sign. It said, “New Beachmaster Wanted” and “I gotta go. Aloha and Mahalo”.I took video of the ritual of me turning over Beachmaster duties to this 13 year old kid from Australia.I got a sitting ovation and cheers from the Malahinis present for the ceremony.The K-II crew kept replenishing my Mai Tai’s to the point that I was sloppy drunk by the time I hit the airport.I had encounters with 4 separate security guards over 4 separate incidences at the airport before my flight.I have video of 3 of them.I was escorted onto the plane by an overly friendly female security guard.I haven’t been back since.I saw 2 mongooses (mongeese?) trapped in a bunker on top of Diamond Head.I crawled through the opening and dropped 4 feet to the floor to get better pictures of them.After my wife stopped screaming, I decided it probably wasn’t such a great idea. I scrambled out.Didn’t get a scratch from the mongooses but had some bruises from the inevitable domestic violence attack I suffered.I snuck into a restricted area along a razor-back ridge on Diamond Head and had my picture taken standing on a small cement platform, arms outstretched, hundreds of feet down on three sides, Waikiki in the background.I had a poster made from the picture.Probably should have wrote this good stuff earlier, by now there’s only two people still reading this. I know how to read.(See what I did there? Still got my fact in!) I have a knife.I like smelt ’cause you don’t have to clean them.I eat turkey on Thanksgiving.I eat horse at Christmas.In between, I eat whatever is available.I like lentils soup.I dislike pea soup.I gag when I eat pea soup. And you know what happens when I gag, if you’ve been paying attention.My mom had a sister that I called Tante. Yeah, Tante Trudy.I have a cousin named John. (Tante Trudy’s kid.)I considered John my best friend growing up together.Did I mention, I’m an only child?I’m not going back through to see if I mentioned that. I know how to dance.I have a black leather jacket.I’ve been bitten by a Hobo spider.I don’t wear most of the clothes I have in my closet.I’ve never realized how tiring it is to talk incessantly about myself.I do now….I have a scar.I got 3 stitches in my head from a bike wreck when I was 10.I got 5 stitches in my head from a car wreck when I was 16.I totaled by beautiful 1958 Triumph TR-3.I had a ’69 Mustang Mach 1.I build square campfire pits, just to be different.I got stranded on what turned out to be a small island during a flash flood.I got stuck climbing a rock wall. Had to back down as it starting raining.I almost died on that wall more than once.I camped under a mountain lion high up in a tree.Found out a mountain lion was high up in a tree when, after several hours, after dark, it leaped down and ran through our campsite. I learned I could scream like a schoolgirl.I learned 4-part schoolgirl screaming harmony with my fellow campers one night.I collect turds. Udo Andre's answer to What is something unusual that you collect as a hobby?I have watched “The Wizard of Oz” more than once.I like French cut green beans.I can make sound come out of my mouth.I used to customize my cell phone ringer. Now…not so muchI use Germ X hand sanitizer.When I was in Junior high I wore ascots.And Beatle Boots.And tight stretchy jeans.I can do that, right? List different apparel separately? I have a belly button.I sometimes wear a belt below it.I write on paper with all capital letters.I have never been in a helicopter.My hat size is the same as my shoe size- 7 1/2.How ’bout that? I think too much.I thought I knew what I thought…now I’m not so sure.I have a large DVD collection.I never watch DVDs anymore.I have shoes I never wear anymore.I know if I throw them away, the next day I will have occasion to wear a pair…and they’ll be gone.I have a sneaky suspicion that I will be the only one reading this.Still, I refuse to proof read this for editing purposes.My veins are blue.My blood is red.Why is that? I cough sometimes.I am having second thoughts about this endeavor.But I am stubborn.I have been to St. Francis hospital twice this year.My dog had puppies once.I have been so hopelessly lost in the woods I ended up spending the night huddled under a tree in the rain.Next day I found out I was only about 100 feet from a trail that would take me out.I have been both happy and pissed at the same time.I have a sliding glass door that sticks sometimes.I never used to lock my doors at night, now I do.I had an hysterical girl burst through my door one night and run to my bathroom and wouldn’t come out.I have roses that are blooming right now.I need to take another break…My nose itches sometimes.zzzzzzzzzz. I usually don’t hear my alarm lock.I had a ’67 Camaro RS.I blew the transmission doing cookies at the beach at my graduation party.I drove from Long Beach to Kelso in a ’67 Camaro RS in first gear.I got a flat tire on a mountain road, then blew out my spare a couple miles later.I drove almost 10 miles on the rim and took pictures when I got back to civilization.I had a tire come off completely on a Subaru one time.I had a landscape trailer come unhitched going down a hill once. It passed by me and crossed an intersection. Good times.I have used Comet cleanser for over 50 years.I really miss plain flavored Doritos tortilla chips.I like marshmallows roasted over a campfire.I drink one cup of coffee a day.I used to drink a pot of coffee a day.I like toilet paper. I think it comes in handy.I think 5-Hour Energy drinks are better than Meth.I’ve had Morphine and was glad to have it.I have a football helmet autographed by Matt Hasselbeck, meh.I used to have a red ’69 Triumph GT 6+. Can’t remember what happened to it…I painted a roadrunner on my Dad’s ’58 VW. with house paint!I used to burn incense.I had a pamphlet of poetry called “Moments in the Life of” printed and copyrighted back in 1974.I had a kitten named ‘Socks” (For obvious reason)I performed surgery on an iguana for a local pet shop back in the ’80’s. Also nursed other lizards back to health.I invented the extraordinary drink I coined, The Mai Papaya Tai.I have a cordless mouse.I occasionally use “Mane ’N Tail” horse shampoo. I find it works better than the stuff meant for humans.I have used stale beer as a conditioner.I have more Tee-shirts than regular shirts.Most of my Tee-shirts were bought in Hawai’i.My favorite juice is grape juice.I like pineapples. Especially soaked in Mai Tai’s.Luddens Honey-Licorice cough drops are my favorite.I have ridden a horse.I have ridden a mule.I have been attacked by a beaver. (True story!)I have encountered many bears in the wilds. Only bopped one. (On the nose)I have caught trout.I have caught salmon.I have caught steelhead.I have caught sharks. (Dogfish)I have caught flounders.I have caught bass.I have caught many snags.I have caught cold.I have dug razor clams.I have dug giant gooey-duck clams.I have dug oysters.I have dug steamer clams.I have dug holes.I have found starfish.I have found crabs.I have found wallets.I found a gun.I found a robin’s nest.I found my Mom’s keys in her freezer.I found a ten dollar bill in the surf.I found an unexplored cave. (Now known as the Udo Tube.)I found a Sand Boa at Mt. St. Helens.I found scorpions at Mt. St. Helens.I found a silver dollar on a Reno street.I found many a lost hiker.I found a six pack of beer in a dumpster.I found a a pair of sunglasses once.I found a map showing the way to Bat cave while out in the lava flows….looking for Bat cave!I found a neck chain with a crystal on it that the guy I was digging crystals with had lost the year before!I found a baby deer hunkered down in the brush.I found another baby deer not 20 feet away. No Mama in sight.I found a camcorder at the bottom of a cave sinkhole.I found the skull of a cougar hanging in a tree.I found a nest of ground hornets…and wish I hadn’t.I found my hemp wristband in the surf after having lost it in the ocean the day before.I found a broken fin from a surfboard and stuck it in the sand by my beach sign. Looked just like a shark fin.I even found a foundry. (Or the remnants of one) deep in the woods at Snoqualmie Pass.Looking for more filler…I still have a record album collectionI have the original Beatles ‘Butcher Cover” album.I have the original 1st Beatles album, “Please Please Me” on Parlophone , 1963.I have the “With the Beatles” album, ‘63.I have the “Beatles for Sale” album, ‘64.I have the “Help” album.I have the “A Hard Days Night” albumI have the “Rubber Soul” album.I have the “Revolver” album.I have the ‘Magical Mystery Tour” album.I have the “Sgt. Pepper’s” album.I have the “Yellow Submarine” album.I have the “White Album”.I also have the “White Album” in white vinyl.I have the “Abby Road” album.I have the “Let It Be” album.I have the Beatles’ “Red Album”.I have the Beatles’ “Blue Album”.I have the “Beatles at Hollywood Bowl” album.I have the 3 “Anthology” albums.I have the “Let It Be…Naked” album.Now, let’s see…Paul McCartney albums…oh hell, I got a shitload of Paul McCartney albums.I got a bunch of John Lennon albums. (His 1st 3 were the best.John Lennon was my favorite Beatle.I got a couple George Harrison albums.I have 1 Ringo Starr album.OMG, I’m only halfway thru! You know, let’s just split this in half. This was the first half…like the “A” side. Now for the 2nd half, the “B” side. Just flash scroll through the next 500 to the end. (See I’m optimistic that I’ll make it to the end.) so…I’m optimistic.That little fish dangling from my headband is a water finder. I made them for headbands and programmed them to find water. Just align it directly ahead in front of you and follow it in a straight line. It is guaranteed to lead to water, no matter what direction you go. (You are, after all, on an island!)I taught many kids (and adults) how to weave coconut leaf headbands on Kalakaua Ave.I can say “Peggy Babcock” five times fast. (Can you?)I have spit in the ocean.I like bananas.I snorkeled in Hanauma Bay.I swam with a moray eel.I got sunburnt on a cloudy day.I saw whales spouting.I have used palm fronds to guide the boats in.I know how to play “Hands and Foot”.I’ve gone to church.I’ve gone to Temple.I’ve gone to an Ashram.I’ve been an agnostic atheist for as long as I can remember.I know how to peel an orange.I’ve traveled on a bus.I’ve traveled on a train.I’ve been trained to kill.And I’ve bussed tables.I have worked at “Skippers”.I used to have a hedgehog.I have thrown a grenade.I have been homeless.I have lived in my truck.I have lived in the woods.I have fired a belt-fed M-1 machine gun.I have planted trees.I have tended my own garden.I have raised praying mantis’ from the egg.I can take an M-16 completely apart and put it back together…blindfolded.I used to raise Pythons. (From the eggs.)I used to raise Boas. (From the pups)I used to raise a variety of snakes.I have helped build a fireplace, brick by brick.I used to have a Fiat Spyder.I used to have a Lincoln Continental with suicide doors.I drove a Lincoln Continental from Massachusetts to Georgia.I have raised iguanas. My favorite was a 4-footer named Gandalf.I had a Nile Monitor named Alice.I had a Burmese Python named Fluffy.I had a Reticulated Python named Monty.I have raised Tokay Geckos.I have raised Legless Lizards.I had a Legless Lizard named Legolas.I used to have a 1-ton truck with a hydraulic lift.I’ve had several chameleons over the years.Chameleons were my favorite lizards.I would take a chameleon on a stick out to the yard and let him pluck spiders right out of their webs.Did I mention I’m afraid of spiders? I had a roommate who had a tarantula.I had an opossum. It ate my roommate's tarantula.For a long time, my opossum was my favorite pet.I’ve been gassed.I’m a good pool shooter.I played pool in a league.I know how to hop on one foot.I used to raise rabbits to feed my snakes.I used to raise guinea pigs. Sometimes to feed my snakes.I used to raise chinchillas. (NO, not to feed my snakes!)I had a Degu named Frodo.I have been to Reno.I have been to Lake Tahoe.I have set up tent cities in IndianaI have been to New York city 3 times.I have raised skinks.I used to have a millipede named Sauron.I have had walking sticks. (Phasmatodea)I have carved walking sticks for various people.I know how to bowl.I know how to play foosball.I have picked beans.I can run a forklift.I operated an inductive welder for the Weyerhaeuser High Tech Center.I have worked in a warehouse.I have mowed lawns for a living.At one time the business I owned ran three landscaping crews.I worked in a grocery store as a checker.I was a Produce Manager.I worked in a Pres-to log plant.I chew my food.I don’t like sipping through a straw.I can stand on my head.I have had an earache.I was a pirate for Halloween once.I have sold portraits, door to door.I worked with the developmentally disabled for 5 years.I played clarinet in junior high.I had an Amway business.I played ‘kick the can’ when I was a kid.I move through the air when I walk.I have seen the moon through a telescope.I have seen Jupiter through a telescope.I have seen 4 moons of Jupiter through a telescope.I have seen Mars through a telescope.I have seen Venus through a telescope.I have seen a telescope get run over by a truck backing up.I like Whoppers. (the hamburger)I like Whoppers. (the candy)I tried playing the mandolin, without much success.I need to take another break. I like lemon-aid.zzzzzzzz. I try blowing my nose while squeezing it tight in order to pop my ears.I like broccoli when it’s cooked right.I have smiled in the past.I have had sex probably around 10,000 times.After never having seen an episode for 14 years I binged watched 14 years of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.I have never seen an entire episode of “Friends”.“St. John Green” is one of my favorite albums.I was spanked as a child.I have a C,S,N,&Y record collection. (And, no, I will not list them all, Tsk.)I have Led Zeppelin albums.I have Grand Funk albums.I have Jimi Hendrix albums.I have Janis Joplin albums.I have Doors albums.I have 4 Black Sabbath albums. (1st 4, the rest, meh.)I have an extensive Simon and Garfunkel album collection.I have an extensive Paul Simon album collection.I have 1 Art Garfunkel album.I have The Animals albums.I have Edgar Winters and White Trash albums.I have James Gang albums.I have Eva Cassidy albums.I think Eva Cassidy’s version of “Over the Rainbow” is one off the best.I love Eva’s blues songs. Such heartfelt vocals.I still mourn her loss. To die in her 30’s from cancer when she was just starting a promising career is so tragic.I’ve played marbles.I can open my mouth without even trying. (Yawn…)I have a reflection in a mirror.I have a left hand at the end of one of my arms. Did I mention that before? I can do pull-ups.I once threw out an anchor whose rope was not attached to the boat.I was once yelled at by my Dad. (For throwing out an anchor that was not attached to the boat.)I get excited when that little bell on the fishing pole rings.I don’t eat at Taco Bell.I have fasted…involuntarily.I have climbed mountains and slid down the other side.I have climbed up Rockhound Gulch in the snow in just under 4 hours.I have slid down Rockhound Gulch in the snow in just under 6 minutes.I have seen things no one else has ever seen.I can close my eyes.I have a brain that I have never seen.My fingernails are not really nails.I have eyelashes.I have eyebrows which I do not pluck.I have many Ivan Rebroff albums.Ivan Rebroff is my favorite vocalist. I believe he had the greatest vocal range of any singer, ever. From F1 to A5, that’s 4 1/2 octaves!I have Ozark Mountain Daredevils albums.I have Arlo Guthrie albums.I have Traffic albums.I have Yes albums.I have Nilsson albums.Harry Nilsson is one of my favorite singers. (What a voice!)I have The Bobs albums.I have Steppenwolf albums.I have gotten lost in Boston.Oh, I have Boston albums.I have Bob Dylan albums.I have Pete Seeger albums.I have The Who albums.I have The Guess Who albums.One of my favorite songs is “Friends of Mine” by The Guess Who.I have National Lampoon albums.I have Pink Floyd albums.I have The Rolling Stones albums.One of my favorite albums is “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.I have B.B. King albums.I have Howling Wolf albums.I have Stevie Ray Vaughan albums.I have Silver Apples albums.I have Ted Hawkins albums.I have Leonard Cohen albums.One of my favorite songs is “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. Although, Jeff Buckley’s version certainly rivals it.I have Jeff Buckley albums.I have Joni Mitchell albums.I have Linda Ronstadt albums.I have Billie Holiday albums.I have Etta James albums.I have Black Fooss albumsI have Fever Tree albums.I have Sonny and Cher albums. (Yes, I have Sonny and Cher albums…Got a problem with that?)I have The Monkees albums.I have Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes albums.I have 1 Olivia Newton John album.I have Beach Boys albums.I have Little Feat albums.I have many, many Grateful Dead albums.I have Stephen Stills albums.I have Neil Young albums.I have Joe Walsh albums.I have The Eagles albums.I have Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention albums.I have Lynyrd Skynyrd albums.I have Doobie Brothers albums.I have Allman Brothers albums.I have the Zombies albums.I have Zager and Evans albums.I have Ten Years After albums.I have Pacific, Gas and Electric albums.I have Emerson, Lake and Palmer albums.I have Frijid Pink albums.I have Iron Butterfly albums.I have It’s A Beautiful Day albums.I can float.I have Queen albums.I have Randy Newman albums.I have Rick Wakeman albums.I have Cazimero Brothers albums.I have The Band albums.I have Jerry Garcia albums.I have The Turtles albums.I have Lydia Lunch albums.I have Uriah Heep albums.I have The Youngbloods albums.I have The Rascals albums.I can touch my ear with my index finger.I have Bob Marley albums.I have 1 Badfinger album.I have Chicago albums.I have Dion albums.I have Country Joe and the Fish albums.I have The Cowsills albums.I have Cream albums.I have Eric Clapton albums.I have Electric Light Orchestra albums.I have many Cat Stevens albums.I have Elton John albums.I have Peter, Paul and Mary albums.I have Smothers Brothers albums.I have David Bowie albums.I have David Essex albums.I have The Electric Flag albums.I can burp.I have 1 John Denver album.I have 1 Genesis album.I have 1 10,000 Maniacs album.I have 1 Kansas album.I have 1 Rush album.I have 1 Montrose album.I have 1 Metallica album.I have 1 Thunderclap Newman album.I have 1 Michael Jackson album. (Yeah, Thriller)I have 1 Hayseed Dixies album.I have 1 Tiger album.I have 1 AC/DC album.I have 2 knees….and they both bend.I can close one eye at a time. Or both at once.I can blink. You see, that’s different. No? Oh, I have cleaned my ears.I used to put together models of dinosaurs.I like doing crossword puzzles.I like putting together jig saw puzzles.I have dusted the furniture before.I waxed and buffed floors in the Army.I can bluff when playing poker.I often win at Blackjack.I have won money on a slot machine.I have been escorted out of a pizza parlor.I have painted a house.I have mixed cement.I have mixed paint and painted cement.(Damn, there was 2 again!) I sit on the toilet when I think I have to.I do not believe in your God.I am extremely doubtful that anyone has read all the prior facts about myself, yet continue on. (Did I mention I was stubborn?) I can write words.I am alive. And just hope I can say the same a year from now.I have had a pimple.I have had a zit.I have had a rash.I swam across the Cowlitz river.I have soaked in the Goldmeyer Hot Springs.I can whistle.I can whistle “Winchester Cathedral.”I can play a kazoo.I can play “Deal” by Jerry Garcia on the guitar.I like coleslaw.I have a specimen of coal in my rock/mineral collection.I turn bananas upside down to peel them.I can make soft boiled eggs.I can make hard boiled eggs.Sometimes, when I make soft boiled eggs, I wind up making hard boiled eggs. Go figure.I like scrambled eggs.I like scrambled egg sandwiches.I like scrambled egg sandwiches with mayonnaise. (Does that count?) No?I drink tea.I have jumped into a quarry.I got bit by a goose.I have had a black eye.In first grade I sang “Oh Tannenbaum” in German in front of the whole school. I was a rock star.I have peed my pants without even intending to.I have rappelled over 100 feet.I gave money to a beggar.I have begged for money.I have been bit by a dog.I have been bit by a cat.I have never been bit by a snake.I know some Roman numerals.I have been to the Kehlsteinhaus, (Hitler’s ‘Eagles Nest’) in Berchtesgaden.I have seen the ‘Spear of Destiny’ in the Hofburg museum in Vienna.I have seen the Eiffel Tower.I have strolled the ‘Champs Elysees’.I have seen the castles along the Rhine river.I have walked the spiral stairs to the top of Cologne’s Kolner Dom.I was an honorary member of the Rhein Armee.I got drunk in a bar in Dusseldorf.I have passed through Berlin.I have seen Mozart’s tomb. (More than one of them.)I have gotten drunk in the biggest beer hall in the world. (In Munich)I have worn Lederhosen.I have a picture of me standing in front of the biggest free swinging bell on earth.I rode a donkey to the top of the Drachenfels.I have smoked a real Cuban cigar on a train.I went to a carnival in Vienna.I have had my head shaved.I used to be 18 years old. My whole life ahead of me.I have been to a zoo in Germany.I have been to a zoo in Portland, Oregon.I have been to a zoo in Honolulu, Hawai’i.I have been to a zoo in Tacoma, Washington.I much prefer Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, where the people are in cages and the animals run free.I have chewed gum in my life.I saw two porcupines up in a tree once.I came face to face with a porcupine in a tight crawlway in a cave once. I crawled backward and did a somersault coming out. (Got video.)I have seen a Nene goose in the wild.I have both an upper lip AND a lower lip. (I know, huh?)I can bounce a basketball.I played ‘army’ when I was a kid, then later on, for real…not much fun.I recovered my own fumble in a junior high football game.I have gone deep into the woods for days on end, by myself.I have never tasted a simple cheeseburger as good as one after coming out of the woods for days on end.I have laughed in my life.I have seen ‘treeples’.I have squished a cockroach.When playing baseball I catch with my left hand, but I throw with my right. (I think it has something to do with the mitt.)I got laid at my high school graduation party.I like popcorn.When I have an itch, I scratch it if I can.I have scratched another person’s itch before.I had a truck catch on fire before.I had a girlfriend once who took off her pants so that she could fill them with concretions to get them back to camp. (True story)I can recite “Behold the Hippopotamus” by Ogden Nash, verbatim.I was in a few plays in high school. Even played the lead in one. As ‘Malvin Larkfield’ in “Caught in the Villain’s Web.” Yeah.I have fallen off a riding lawnmower.I have fallen off a roof with a backpack blower on my back.I have fallen on my butt trying to learn how to ice skate.I have fallen off a tree.I have fallen into trees, from off a cliff. (Yeah, Rambo style)I have fallen into sleep without even trying.I have fallen for more than one girl. (Again, without even trying)I have explored over 70 caves (lava tubes) on Mt. St. Helens. I will not list them all here.I have explored Ape Cave.I have explored Ole’s Cave.I have explored Lake Cave.I have explored Little Red River Cave.I have explored Gremlin Cave.I have explored Little People’s Cave.I have explored Flow Cave.I have explored Spider Cave.I have explored Bat Cave.I have explored Beaver Cave.I have explored Prince Albert Cave.I have explored Dollar and a Dime Cave.I have explored Hunter’s Cave.I have explored Trail Cave.I have explored The Pillars of Hercules Cave.I have explored Indecision Cave.I have explores Thermal Cave.I have explored the Power Line Caves.I have explored Surprise Cave.I have explored Railroad cave.I have explored Helium Cave.I have explored Salal Cave.I have explored Christmas canyon Cave.I have explored Twenty-Four Cave.I have explored Breakdown Cave.I have explored Moss Cave.I have explored Arch cave.I have explored Lava Spring Cave.I have explored Wram Spring Cave.I have explored Perseverance Cave.I have explored Blue Ribbon Cave.OK, 30 is enough filler. I know how to work a clutch.Knowing how to work a clutch, I can drive a car with a manual transmission. That’s right. A manual transmission!I know how to wrap a present.I like Gouda cheese.I can make up names for stuff.I have an IQ.I have a Wishbone Ash album.I have battled a relative over a wishbone and won.I have battled a relative over a wishbone and lost.My mind wanders. For example: The two sentences on wishbones have the same words except for the last word. Now the first sentence has a 3 letter last word, and the second sentence has a 4 letter last word. And yet, the first sentence takes up more space than the second, which has more letters. My mind wandered and marveled over this seeming paradox until finally admitting that I need to take a break and simply acknowledge the power of the “w”.I know when something is sour.I have seen the Statue of Liberty.I like having my back massaged.I have been lost in an underground maze for more than 10 hours.I have run an obstacle course….more than once.I have left Reno with more money than I came to Reno with. (And that’s saying something!)I have been to Lake Tahoe and passed off my hangover as altitude sickness.I have cut my foot on coral.I thought I was finally dying once but turned out my oxygen hose was just crimped. Tsk.I have stayed up past my bedtime.When asked, “What are you against?” I reply, “Whadda ya got?”I know how to turn the water main off outside my house.I know where my fuse box is.This is my 900th fact. (Yes, I know you think it’s only my 400th, but it is really my 900th…do the math.) I cry sometimes.I can make a ring out of a dollar bill. Through the power of origami.I don’t get paid for writing on Quora. Not even for 1000 facts!I’ve been told, “Boy, You got some balls!” But I really only have 2.I am a male. But I check the box marked “sex” with ‘OK’.I quit eating white bread. Wheat and multi-grain only now.Sometimes I look at my phone even when it’s not ringing.I have broken into more than one vug.I have spent hours cleaning out a vug, collecting hundreds of crystals and dozens of plates.I have found some of my best crystal specimens just laying on the surface.I have crawled through a tunnel over 40 feet long, dug by my crystal hunting buddy.I have found a pocket of Singers (Diamantine crystals) in that tunnel.I have broken hard rock and extracted many an Amethyst Scepter.I have over 1000 double-terminated crystals in my collection.I have dozens of ‘free-floater’ clusters of crystals in my collection.I have dozens and dozens of crystal plates in my collection.I have climbed to the top of Katie Belle Ridge.I have sat on top of Katie Belle Ridge and thrown the smaller crystal scepters over the edge, yelling, “Decadence!”I have raided the claims at Pedro Pipe.I have raided the claims at Spruce Ridge.I have raided the claims at the Garden Slug.I have received a phone call from a detective telling me to quit raiding claims. (true story)I have given away 1000’s of crystals.I have a jar filled with nothing but crystals found in parking areas.I gave a clear crystal to a girl who had breast cancer. She wore it around her neck and within a week it turned dark.I have ‘planted’ crystals in holes and directed kids to the ‘hot spots’ and watched the kids find them. Their excitement was heartwarming.I lost over 300,000 crystals when my storage was actioned off.I have crystals with air bubbles inside them that move as you turn them.I have crystals with various inclusions, from pyrite to what may very well be gold.On my way down a steep section from the ‘purple pit’ one night, carrying a 3/4 full 5-gal. bucket of crystals, I slipped, took a tumble, and sent hundreds of crystals flying. I picked up some, but just left the vast majority of them spread all over the slope. Meh.I have traded crystals for pot at Hempfest.I have left a trail of crystals over 100 feet long leading to the edge of cliff.I have spelled my name in crystals at the entrance to a good hole. (Needless to say, they were gone the next day.)I have hung crystals from trees to mark a trail.I have placed nice crystal specimens behind people busy digging and then while passing them on my way up, getting their attention and pointing out, “Hey, you missed one!”I have crawled out of a crystal digging hole and within less than one minute witness it completely collapse.I had a tree fall over my crystal digging hole and bury some of my choice specimens under tons of rock and boulders.While raiding a claim one time, I had to dive for cover when a blast from above sent a wave of debris flying down slope.I have many crystal ‘dumbells’- with scepter heads on each end.Tired of hearing about crystals? I could go back to my album collection, you know! I have had a nosebleed.I collect these fanciful shaped rocks called concretions. I’ve glued these ‘crazy eyes’ on some making them look like creatures.Over the years I have piled up my rejected concretions at one spot in the woods.I have kept count of those rejects, and to date there are 50,500 of them!I find most of my concretions either in the water or along the gravel banks.I have found that the better concretions have to be dug from out the clay banks along the river.I have had a crawdad latch onto my toe while I was hunting concretions.I have 10’s of 1000’s of concretions.I have created borders along walkways with my concretions.I have created mosaics with my concretions.I have drilled through select concretions and made workable pipes from them.I listen to the radio, but only when it’s on.I firmly believe that everybody has a right to my opinion.I have read most all of Nietzsche’s published works.I have read the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, more than once.I have the hard copy of “Yale Shakespeare- The complete works”, but have read pitifully few of it’s 1,517 small print pages.Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” is still one of my favorite books.I have been stung by a bee. I survived…the bee didn’t.I have sprayed a hornet’s nest.I lost my red ball when I was 5.I have squeezed through a 14″X14″X14″ inch triangular orifice and free fall rappelled 85 feet to the bottom of Hellhole Cave.I have rappelled into and made it to the end of Danger Cave on Mt. Snoqualmie.I have dropped onto and slid down a 20 foot stalactite in Cascade Cave.I have never made it to the end of Newton Cave, despite rappelling more than one drop.I have had more than one toothache.My last name now is not the one I was born with.I have read Julian Jaynes’ “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.”I have my own private copies of “Dave Barry’s Guide To Life” and “Dave Barry Turns 40”.Yeah, I know I could have gotten two out of that. But I like to splurge.I’m getting confident that I can finish this ordeal, barring a computer glitch. I have had computer glitches.I suddenly feel an anxiety attack coming on…something to do with computer glitches. I have elbows.I can focus on unfocussed objects.I can make a square out of two triangles.I can make a Mobius strip.I have food that I will never eat.I have drooled on my pillow before.I have seen ‘the wolves’ rise up on Snoqualmie Falls.I have gone ‘skinny-dipping’.I can lay down on a floor when I’m not standing up.I have used a metal detector.I have gotten an 8-ball break more than once.I have been exempted from jury duty.I have been arrested more than once.I have had my house raided by over a dozen cops and FBI agents over a bank robbery that I knew Nothing about.I am a good ‘Spades’ player.I have thrown a dart. (More than once!)I worked at a bar for a while.I traded an SKS for a shotgun.I broke a lamp one time.I spent over an hour blowing down leaves one day, the wind picked up and blew enough leaves off the trees to cover everything I had done.One of my boa constrictors escaped one summer and after two months, I found him up in the gutter of my garage.I can’t think of any more facts, I’m just gonna quit….Ha! Just joking. I like to joke.I slipped and fell one time before reaching a banana peel that I was going to pick up. How ironic.I have the same face that I had when I was two years old, only, somehow…it looks different!I can stick out my tongue, but only when I want to.I cannot lick my elbow. I know, ’cause I’ve tried.I know I can lick someone else’s elbow even though I’ve never tried.I have had more than one haircut.I have a box full of red clown noses.I have water skied on New Year’s Day in freezing temperatures.I have kissed a pig.OMG, OMG, OMG…for all of you (And that’s probably all of you) who have flash scrolled to the end of this thinking I’ve only written 500 facts- Wrong! I had a problem with the automatic numbering function on my laptop and had to resort to improvisation. Just do the math.And those of you who are sticklers and point out these have to be interesting facts- phooey! It’s a judgment call. They are interesting to me. So fact #1000-I got way, I mean waaaaay too much time on my hands!Thought I should add one more just in case there is a dispute over a previous one. Doesn’t hurt to be redundant. 1001- I believe in redundancy.MIC DROP…..WALK AWAY…………….