40 things about me

Since I am now an old man and I will soon start forgetting things, I thought I would write down 40 things about me.

1. I am married to a wonderful woman and have an 11 yr old son Aidan, and a 9 yr old daughter Gillian.  My wife is Fae and we’ve been married 14 years.
2. I have never been to Japan but it is the first place outside of the country I want to go.
3. I am right handed.
4. I met my wife Fae playing a role playing game called a MUSH over the internet in 1993, before online ANYTHING was around.
5. I have been studying martial arts in some form or another for the last 17 years.
6. I have a 2nd black belt in Tae Kwon Do.  I was an instructor in it for over 3 years and I really found out a lot about myself.
7. I am the youngest of three.
8. I have lived in NY, NJ, TX, & VA and not counting dorms, I’ve lived in a grand total of 8 different places.
9. I like playing video games almost as much as my kids.
10. I collect comics and baseball cards.
11. I listen to everything from the Eagles to Velvet Revolver to Chopin to Ludacris.
12. I’ve never learned to breakdance and I never want to.
13. I am an accomplished air drummer.
14. I love good food – Risotto and Sushi are probably my two favorite things.
15. I don’t like confrontation.
16. I love my job, but there is so much more I would like to do with it.
17. I actually love that I can say that I like my boss.  He’s 8 years younger than me and so much smarter than I am
18. I like the fact that I do Kendo with my son and my daughter is joining next week.
19. I need more money.
20. If someone told me I could have any dessert, I would say Chocolate Cream pie – graham cracker crust, chocolate pudding, cool whip on top.  That’s it.
21. I’m afraid of getting old, but I am fighting it every step of the way.
22. I like Top Chef, Lost, and Heroes.
23. I participate on a ride to help a care center in NYC for Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, and Transgendered.
24. I would move to Japan in a heartbeat given any opportunity.
25. I was born in the wrong country in the wrong century.  If I could choose?  Feudal Japan.
26. I like chewing gum.
27. I fart quite a bit, and for some weird reason, it usually doesn’t smell.
28. I don’t drink, smoke, or do drugs.  It took a large toll on my life, see 29.
29. It took me 11 years, 8 different attempts at degrees and 4 different colleges to get my degree.
30. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting.
31. I lasted all of 6 months as an Accountant, I was good at it, but I didn’t want to do it for my whole life.
32. I would like to move all the restaurants I loved in Houston to Bridgewater.
33. I am still amazed that I grew up in Long Island hating NJ and now I live here and love it.  IT’S NOT ALL GARBAGE DUMPS AND REFINERIES!!!
34. I am sore as hell right now because I finally got to start wearing the Kendo Bogu(armor) and it made it SO much harder to swing my shinai(bamboo sword).
35. I need to oil my shinai.  Yeah, take that one however you like.
36. I love the fact that I am friends with people I have never met.  Terri, RagingDad, Mike, Movin, MammaDawg, and Mrs444 are way cool, please go read them.
37. My best friend is my wife.
38. I would step in front of a train to protect someone I love.
39. I’m a nice guy, and people like me.
40. I survived getting hit by a 26 foot truck in my little Honda Fit and rolled my car three times.  Somehow, I walked away from it to be able to say to you all – take every day as a gift and reach out to the ones you love and care about.

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