Our friends over at JKLMNOP blog put up a post that asked that I list seven facts about myself. It sounded like fun, especially when I read our friend Karen’s list. I knew about the pianos, the cooking, and the quilting, but I was way impressed when I found she is swimming five days per week! So here goes:
- My mother found my first job in the robotics (machine vision) field in 1984. I have been working in machine vision ever since.
- I wet my bed until I was nine years old.
- The first time I ever ate hummus and pita bread was in a small Arab restaurant on the side of a hill in Nazareth (Israel).
- I have eaten Mexican food in Brno, Czech Republic (Hacienda Mexicana – Ok) and Malacca, Malaysia (Renaissance Malacca Hotel – Awesome!).
- I have a black belt (1st degree-shodan) in Kodakan Judo with certificates to prove it. I started playing judo at age nine.
- When I was in college, I wrote funny poems that I sent to my sisters who were in high school at the time.
- One of my greatest memories was when my cousin Merle bought my brother and I five scoop black berry ice cream cones at a little homemade ice cream store in Oakridge, Oregon. I think I must have been about eleven years old at the time.
The main people I would like to see do this are: H|esoteric, Lyle W., and Charlie. They are supposed to list seven things about themselves, strange or mundane, if they are so inclined. If they do so, they need to ask seven others to do the same.
Karen
Thank you! It is always more fun to read others than to decide what to admit to ourselves! :0)!
All of us enjoyed yours a lot. It was pretty fun trying to come up with a list that was at least nominally interesting. It is funny what you think about when you are considering interesting things from your whole life. If I would have just concentrated on that kind of thing when I was younger rather than hardcore materialistic goals, life might have been more interesting. I hope my buddies contribute theirs, too.
I will have to think a while. this is the type of thing I have a mental block about.
Well, blame Karen. It took me an hour to figure out what I was going to put and it STILL came out fairly obnoxious.
That was interesting. How fun. I must start one of these with my friends. Oakridge,Oregon…..My aunt and cousins lived there for years.
Beautiful place to grow up. Have lots of family in Oregon on my father’s side, though many are migrating back to Colorado (back to a place they all were before winding up on the west coast). My children all have their brownbelts in an Okinawan originated type of Karate
called Shorin-Ryu Karate. My eldest daughter will test for her blackbelt hopefully in October.
Tell Kelly I am enjoying her comics immensely. She definitely has a knack for it. I am thinking about Gretchen this afternoon….wondering how she is doing with the hurricane in her area.
Ruthie
Thanks for the note Ruthie. I will try to get word on Gretchen, but I know she is pretty far inland from the coast. My wife, Lorena’s parents are just a little bit south of their in Monterrey and they are just getting rained on–not even that hard, but pretty consistent. Kelly really appreciated your note on her comics… we have all (including Kelly) been quite surprised with how she keeps up on the content.
I knew some guys that did Shorin-Ryu in college. The thing I remember most about them is that they worked out very, very hard. It is quite an accomplishment that your eldest will get her black belt. I know it takes a ton of practice and effort.
Tell Kelly I am enjoying her comic strips!
I will Julia. Thanks! She has been doing great on them.
Ruthie, when we were growing up, we moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon from Cottage Grove. Oakridge was just about half-way between the two places so it was great that there was an ice cream place there. It is truly a beautiful town. I think I remember they called it the “Tree Planting Capitol” of the world. There was a big foam statue of Paul Bunyan and a drive-in A&W restaurant there that we also enjoyed.
1. My first and second vertebrae are offset from the rest of my spine by about half an inch.
2. I began to learn Spanish at the age of 11 so I could use it with my Mexican aunt.
3. I have a number of friends today who are my age and who I have known since I was born.
4. Since I began writing down my dreams in high school, I’ve developed a relatively high degree of dream recall.
5. I was a college radio DJ for 15 terms (more time than most people spend in college itself).
6. By next year I will have spent a combined total of nine months in Latin America.
7. I can’t get enough ragga jungle
EXCELLENT Charlie!!! I especially love the one about the Mexican aunt, but the dream thing is pretty cool, too.