BS: OTHER FACTS (about you)

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From: MARINER
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 07:03 PM

Ileft school at age 14 and went to sea. After I was retired(age 44) I did a course in the National University and obtained a history qualification, of which I'm secretly very proud.I also write on local nautical history for a small local publication

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From: Homeless
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 08:28 AM

Part II

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From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 12:42 AM

How are you with finding mushrooms? We have a lot of vegetarians, here, (grin) I am gonna start part II OK?

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From: Amergin
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 12:29 AM

So, Bonnie, on this trip...who do I get to paddle?

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From: Spud Murphy
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 12:26 AM

I know I'm just a cheechako here, but I've got a lot of experience providing camp meat. I lived in Alaska from 1950 to about 1974 and subsistence hunted while I got my degree in civil engineering from the University of Alaska. I'm an easy keeper and would try hard not to slow any body down.

Spud

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From: Noreen
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 12:25 AM

Post 100 (?):

I am a founder member of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.

Noreen

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From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 12:12 AM

JAB, lol, are you an Aries, by any chance? My friends always ask me to start and tend the fire..they thnk I am good at it from being a "fire sign"!

When I was about 3 years old, I decided to give my best friend, Kelly Johnson, across the street, a haircut. we hid the cutoff hair under the bed, thinking we were so clever, that our mothers would never notice the odd bald patches all over his head!

Almost everyday, I played dress-up and had quite a flare for acting out all characters from my imagination with appropriate accents, as well as entertain my parents with dancing. Still danced quite a bit until a few years ago.

Stones talk to me, too, like the houseplants, when I am beading, esp., but also when I arrange my collection.

kat

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From: GutBucketeer
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 12:04 AM

Here are some other little facts:

I loved playing with fire when I was a kid:

I once came down from the attic after we had been throwing gunpowder (we undid a bunch of black cats) into a candle with no eyebrows and my bangs burnt off. My mom simply asked me what I had been doing, and what the smell was. Then I got it.

We used to make our own fireworks.

Got into a match fight with my twin the day my dad went into the hospital for cancer surgery. We were supposed to be doing our homework and waiting to get picked up for swim practice (We were in 5th grade). We couldn't find one match in the laundry room. Later we saw smoke coming from the vents. We put it out before the firemen came. However, when my mom came home from visiting my dad in the hospital the neighbor offered my mom a stiff drink BEFORE she went down the street to our house. I think he saved the family from additional disasters and breakdowns.

Of course I was always the one up at 5:30 in the morning when we went camping to start the campfire and get it going real good. I love to chop wood too.

So, If I can come along can I please be in charge of the fire building! I now know fire safety! :-O I promise that no autoharps or banjos will go up in flame.

JAB

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From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 11:09 PM

...and, since canoes are being mentioned... My HighSchool had a river beside it, so we had canoeing classes in Gym class...I don't do it regularly, but I can still paddle a canoe pretty well..(bow OR stern)...I can lay a fire pretty well, too.

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From: GUEST,Art
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:58 PM

Sorry folks, that's me in the previous post.

Art Thieme

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From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:56 PM

I have no navel. (The ultimate rejection of motherhood.)

Art Thieme

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From: bbelle
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:40 PM

Won a Shirley Temple lookalike contest when I was two years old. At five years old, spoke English, French, Italian, and Japanese fluently.

BGB

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From: Jimmy C
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:25 PM

I can remember someones face even if we met only once,i will still remember when and where years later, but not the name.

I love to cook and am quite good - basic no nonsense meals.

I can drill a square hole with a round wood bit - no kidding - it can be done.

I have memorized hundreds of songs just like others here.

I have met Bill Monroe, Sonny Bono, Ginger Rogers, The Dubliners, Billy Connolly and Joe Clark when he was Prime minister of Canada.

I am a complete romantic, I rented a castle for my wedding reception, even though I was nearly flat broke at the time. But I have been married to the same women for 33 years and we are still in love, that is my greatest achievement.

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From: Allan C.
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:04 PM

Ah, yes. I believe I recall seeing Mario working on a knitted piece when I met him at Old Songs. It looked good to me, but I don't know much about such things.

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From: MMario
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 04:13 PM

Sinsull - thread or yarn?

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From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 04:12 PM

I crochet beautifully. During unemployment times, I sell and survive.

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From: GUEST,Ickle Dorritt
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 03:43 PM

I am a good calligrapher but keep it quiet because otherwise every man and his aunt wants their wedding/christening albums done and I haven't got the time or frankly the inclination.

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From: black walnut
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 02:36 PM

my lowest marks in high school were music and english. after university, i taught music and english in high school.

~'nut

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From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 02:34 PM

I speak French well , Italian less well and Urdu a bit. I can knit anything and made both my own wedding dresses and Geoff's tail suit. He wanted bright blue and the tailors wanted £500 so I learnt tailoring quickly, even made my own pattern! Also made the waistcoat and if I ever have enough money to give up teaching would love to do that full time and sell at folk festivals etc.

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From: LR Mole
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 01:33 PM

I make a helluva good meat loaf. Mac and cheese too;add tuna and it's called TC, slice a half dozen hot dogs crossways and it's called polka-dot casserole. Good for filling kids up with. Don't eat fruits or vegetables (except the holy potato--my favorite food). Didn't cut my hair for ten years once after being hassled about it. Haven't seen my chin (assume it's still under the beard, and probably has more of itself) since 1971. This caused a student of mine once to say,"Your beard is older than I am." Spent six years in a four-year high school.

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From: Metchosin
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:40 PM

Fibula will be pretty busy digging holes if we have a vistor little Neo, I'm scared s**tless of bears and I don't do guns anymore.

I'm a wonder with wire though, did all the electrical stuff for our house 25 years ago and I must have known what I was doing because you can flick the lights on and off and the heat still works.

I'll volunteer to string the electric fence around the camp at night so people can sleep easy and seeing Allan C's so strong, he can carry the canisters of bear stop, my case of Single Malt and the solar collectors and ancillary equipment.

Mind you, we won't tell the rest of the group that the fence won't stop a determined bear and we'd better warn them to be careful where they take a whizz in the dark (personal experience) or someone besides me is going to get the nickname of Sparky.

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From: CamiSu
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:30 PM

Here I am (late to the party again)as well.

I can sail (much to the surprise of my brother in law--even though my sister makes her livin sailing. Where does he think she learned it?)

I once got a carpentry job building a sauna in a trailer, because I am short. After I got done with the sauna I learned how to repair Wood-and-Canvas, and fiberglass canoes.

I had all three of my kids at home.

I have 4 letters after my name--NDGA (No Degree, Good Anyway)

English Jon, what form does your Synesthesia take? I just read about it in the newest Smithsonian. It sounds (Iknow this sounds odd) really quite interesting, and like something I wish I could experience. (People do sometimes look at me funny when I say something tastes round, but I would really like to know how it feels to have a letter be purple. Sounds really rich.)

CamiSu

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From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 11:15 AM

well, Bonnie, I'd be honoured to keep track of ya'll, so long as ya stick close...my O2 tether reaches 50 feet and that it!**BG** I reckon we can portage my concentrator, along with Ricks' assemblage, and Rog has it rigged to run off of batteries.:-)

I forgot to mention, I could also help Skarpi as I was one of the first in Colorado to get an EMT certification way back in 1976! I am really, really good in emergency situtions...very calm and capable, take charge...

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From: English Jon
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:53 AM

English Jon: lives and breathes music, is 26, about 5'11", collects instruments (Guitars, fiddles, melodeons, concertinas, dulcimers, keyboardy things, hurdy gurdies, whistles, tabor pipes etc...) Used to be in National Youth Choir of Great Britain. Thrown out for having finger stuck in ear (his own). Recently broke up with girly, so currently looking for new accomodation (long story), works in Cambridge UK doing something Audio-ish with computers. Likes Cats. Cats like him. Working on solo album, and trying to make career in English Folk. Big fan of Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson et all. Has Synesthesia (look it up). BMus (Hons) degree. Likes painting.

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From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:35 AM

You got me right, Bonnie. We still have one working fireplace and in the winter have an open fire at weekends (even if we have to turn down the central heating!) so I do chop a lot of wood. Almost all the exercise I get these days. Have handled a paddle occasionally in my youth as well.
RtS

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From: Kim C
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:26 AM

Thanks all for your tips on the rice. Usually I just let Mister cook it. He can get it right just about every time.

Mets, I want to learn Highland Dancing. I am 33, in good shape and getting better. But you're scaring me! ;) (A few years ago I got a bad case of bursitis in my knee learning Irish step dancing, because I overdid it. I am more careful about it now, but I am in better shape than I was then.)

While we're on the subject I ought to tell you a few fun things about Mister. He is tall and thin but don't let him fool you. He can easily carry my 120 lbs up the stairs and back. He is hands-down the smartest person I know, because he reads a lot. He can tell you almost anything about American history, and almost anything about any firearm ever made, especially muzzleloaders.

He sews his own reenacting clothes and does a fine job.

Like Kendall, he can fix just about everything.

In his early 20s he lived in a tent in the woods and actually trapped for money.

He can play a little Flamenco guitar. Will say he's not very good but he lies like a rug.

Only Shakespeare he knows: Yea, though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty... :)

Bonnie I am SO down with a canoe trip! I do know how to cook over a fire. I been wanting to go canoeing for EVER! Haven't been since I was a teenager and goshdarnit I live right across from the feckin' lake. When do we leave?!!?!

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From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 10:10 AM

AllanC - an outhouse fire? This has all the indications of a song challenge.
Lil Neo - I don't do windows or cut wood. I'll handle the hotdog concession. In fact, screw that! I want to ride in the rescue helicopter. I flew in the helicopter over Niagara Falls the day before it crashed. Thst should be qualification enough.

Another fact:
I took flying lessons out of Midway Airport in Chicago until I was almost rear ended by an American Airlines jet. Could probably still fly one (Single engine Cessna) if I had to.

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From: Jim the Bart
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:47 AM

Here I am (late to the party again):
I can almost always figure out how to do what needs to be done - elegantly

I am tremendously interested in everything except how your day went

I always ask how your day went and listen politely to the answer

I love music more than anything except my boys

I will discuss politics, religion, philosophy and social issues for hours on end, but at heart, I'm an anarchist (the ultimate solution to any problem is to blow the whole thing up)

I can be somewhere for days, months & years at a time without anyone noticing, if that's what I wish

I don't make friends easily but have a lot of old friends

I am a hopeless romantic

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From: GUEST,jaze
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:38 AM

Although I can forget someone's name I just met 5 minutes ago, I can remember the lyrics to hundreds of songs. Once I've learned the words, I never forget them. That would probably be a really useful skill if I were a performer. Alan C.-Have you read the No-Eyes books? Amergin--You also have a great sense of humor and are witty. Don't forget the positive things.

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From: Peter T.
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:32 AM

OK Bonnie now you are on to something!! A Mudcat camping trip!! Can you imagine Rick with his trolley and 5 different guitars for different kinds of campfire songs portaging? We have to do this.
yours, Peter T.

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From: Allan C.
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:24 AM

And just in case the campfire gets out of hand I should mention that I have fought two forest fires (Montana, 1967-68), a brush fire, and (chuckling because it is true,) an outhouse fire.

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From: dwditty
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:21 AM

Good one, Matt.

I can roll my eyes up into my head so only the whites show. My 5 year old thinks I am looking at my hair. The others (up to age 23) don't fall for it anymore.

dw

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From: alison
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:21 AM

I can touch my nose with my tongue....., get my big toe into my mouth.. and do a full lotus position.......

I dread to think what job any of those qualify my for......

slainte

alison

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From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:02 AM

Hurrah - I have an official role!
I'm big into camping and survival stuff as well, so I'll help out in that aspect too. I have a Girl Guide pack which we could bring along to do all the heavy work.

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From: JulieF
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 08:56 AM

Little Neo - I'm afraid that would only work if we were comming bakc - i never claimed to be good at getting there.

Julie

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From: Little Neophyte
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 08:16 AM

Okay Julie can be in charge if we get lost and Fibula Mattock can make the executive decision on where to dig the crap hole.

Little Neo

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From: JulieF
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 08:04 AM

I have a friend - who does much the same with Gas Holders - although he has been working with mobile phones for years now

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From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 07:57 AM

Julie - your talk of sewage plants just reminded me. My digging days have left the legacy of me peering into every hole that's being dug by workmen to see what's in the section face, just in case I spy a nice bit of pottery or something.

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From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 07:57 AM

Glad you got me chosen for that particular task, Bonnie, cuz I'm really good at getting wood.

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From: JulieF
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 07:49 AM

I once spent the summer working at the largest Sewage plant in Europe - and still have a tendancy to to look at swage plants as I pass to see what type they are . And to sniff the air and say things like - "it must have rained heavily - the storm tanks aren't working well"

I have an ability to find my way back no matter how difficult it was to find my way there.

I spent a fair amount of time working with the student charities in Edinburgh years ago and I have been taken down the Royal mile in a carriage pulled by agricultural students trying to mow down the pipe band in front.

I have lost 4 stone in weight scince last June and I am working on the rest. This is the first time I've admitted the actual amount to any one other than Tim as I hate a fuss. I was astounded when someone chatted me up last week.

All the best J

Julie

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From: Little Neophyte
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 06:48 AM

We should organize a Mudcatter's canoe trip. That would be a hoot.
Allan C. can help carry the weight being that he is so strong.
Peter T. can be our environmentalist and no trace camping instructor
Bill D will be in charge of the map being that he is so great at measuring distances.
Kat can keep track of all the campers since that she is so good with numbers.
We can use CarolC as a tent pole being that she is so flexable.
JustaPicker will take the photos.
Skarpi can take care of our Wildness First Aid man. Bring lots of boo-boo strips & congnac Skarpi,
Catspaw can rig our sails when the wind picks up in our favor.
Kendall will be our repair guy. Remember to bring lots of duct tape Kendall.
Metchosin can scare off the bear if we run into problems.
Harpgirl can do all the water rescues.
Kim C, Guest petr, Audi, Seamus and dwditty can be the cooks. Seamus we will definitely need your chili recipe.
Mooh can catch us some fish. Mooh how are you with beer batter?
Rick can do our duck calls.
We can rope our beer to chill on floater Capt Bob.
Bert can facilitate the campfire songcircle.
Melani can be one of our sternmen.
Night Wing, Aggie Bethie, Fibula Mattock, Matt, Mary, SINSULL, MMario, Sorcha, Harpgirl Roger the Skiffer, Amergin, Reen, Murray, Big Chuck and Lepus Rex can help collect wood and paddle
Hope I didn't forget anyone.

I promise not to make the menu too high in fiber. Although it is good to eat healthy, out in the woods sometimes that isn't such a great thing for those who are not use to it.

Little Neo

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From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 05:56 AM

I have double-jointed thumbs and knees.

I read at an extraordinary rate - not speed reading, just extremely fast normal reading.

I like digging holes. Real ones, not metaphorical ones. Big ones. With mattocks and shovels.

I cannot ever be embarrassed by crude jokes, but will cringe when watching soap operas.

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From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 05:44 AM

My skills and achievements listed below:
1)I've emptied bigger rooms than this
RtS

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From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:28 PM

Allan reminded me..I 'used' to be able to do a headstand, and flip my legs into full Lotus posture upside down...no hands...them days are gone.

I also was once able to sit on the floor in full lotus..(ya gotta imagine now)...and slip each arm down thru the spaces at the inside of the knee..(oh yes there ARE spaces if you're thin enough!)....THEN...I would fold my arms upthe outside of my shins and bend over and lock my hands behind my head!...It was a people knot!

I can also shake my eyes rapidly back & forth

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From: GutBucketeer
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:28 PM

I think that might be paddled our asses all over Europe.

Honestly, that was before shammy bike pants were in style, so we wore blue jean cutoffs mostly. Now the problem with jeans is that they have this little ridge running down the middle of the crotch. Even though we "trained" we could barely walk the first week of the trip... until it toughened up down there. :-)

We were so young that we wondered what the round toilet looking thing without a seat was. We ended up using it to cool down our "Vin Rouge Ordinar". Later on we found out that it was a B.D.

JAB.

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From: harpgirl
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:18 PM

...yeah Bunch...I heard you pedaled your ass all over Europe!!!! *wink* (just kidding!!! don't be mad) hrpgrrl

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From: Lepus Rex
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:46 PM

Hmm... I once went several weeks (almost a month) without food, when I was 18 or so. Mainly because I refused to do any work that was 'beneath me,' which meant I had no money (And when I got money, I spent it on books). Unfortunately, those were the only places hiring. Boy, I was a catch, eh? I had a girlfriend at the time, too, heh.

Damn, I must be able to do something POSITIVE...


...

God, I can't think of anything. Mostly done stupid things...... Yup, I'm the human camel. That's it 'til I remember something better. :)

---Lepus Rex

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From: Amergin
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:30 PM

Well, let's see....

I am a slave to the muse...when she calls I must act...

I have a hot temper and I suffer from the magic of mood swings.....

I have a tendency to hurt those I care about the most....especially in retaliation....

I am an asshole who sits in front of his computer all day, ignoring the world around him...or at least trying to escape that world...

I use anger and/or humor to cover up for my own feelings of inadequacy....

I could go on...but it would take a novel to fill....

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From: GutBucketeer
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:17 PM

Let's see... Things that I haven't mentioned in threads before this....

I have broken more bones than anyone I know :-)

I have a twin brother that lives in Atcheson Kansas and plays Sax and Bodhran. He teaches Business at Benedictine College. So if you are in Kansas and you see me. It's not.

I'm married to a twin too!

I built a Kayak and bicycled through Europe while in High School.

I have two more months of being a Webelos Scout Leader, then my Friday nights are free again (after 4 years!!!).

JAB

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From: Mooh
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:47 PM

(Little Neo, ever been to the Armstrong area? I'm dying to go back but it's been 25 years. Great fishing and canoeing back then...)

More to the topic... I can walk and talk and fly, do anything I try, but never never never, never ever will I tell a lie...(now where was that from, I forget?)

Instructed occupational health and safety courses, negotiated collective agreements, gardened, built furniture, worked in demolition and construction, been stranded in a blizzard while ice-fishing, dropped water on forest fires from the air, written music, recorded music with at least 6 artists or bands, slept under the stars on the beach and in the woods, sung in church choirs most of my life, caught a 27 lb carp, caught a 16 inch perch (it was 1969 or so), helped organize a folk festival, wrote a badge qualifications for the Girl Guides (weird eh?), met Bob Rae by chance in Ottawa early one morning and had a great chat, shook Trudeau's hand, and

saw the Wrigley Sisters play a fantastic concert once, which should be enough to qualify me for supreme enlightenment but I'm not swift enough to comprehend...man, they were good.

Otherwise I've pissed away my life. Mooh.