I get emails and tags on Facebook occasionally asking me to participate in this or that. I didn't pass this one on, but I decided to complete it nonetheless. Anyway, it came with the following instructions.
"Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose at least 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. (To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish."
So, here goes:
1. I have many small and large desires which I subvert to practicality. If I had it to spend, I could spend a $200G in a heartbeat, and still probably find a lot more to add to the list.
2. I love my wife Elaine more today than when I first fell in love with her. She is my best friend forever.
3. I sometimes fancy myself a musician, but I really have to work at it to get better, and that frustrates me.
4. I would like to live near a picturesque river or lake before I get too old to enjoy it.
5. I enjoy travelling with Elaine more than I enjoy racing.
6. I typically do for others before doing for myself, but that doesn’t make me noble- just good breeding combined with life’s lessons learned.
7. I regret not having cultivated more lasting relationships with friends I made over the years, but then it’s such a gas when we can reconnect.
8. If granted the opportunity to do it all again, I would have paid others to do the things I attempted to do myself and wound up injured.
9. I’m ready for the day when the kids move out and are on their own.
10. I’m very self conscious about my teeth. I wish I could have afforded to have my teeth fixed when I was first told I needed to have them fixed, because I would have a handsome smile again and I would be able to whistle a tune.
11. I really like pit cooked NC barbecue, Lexington style, with red slaw.
12. My wish for others is for them to be as richly blessed as I have been.
13. I want my children to experience joy and success in their lifetimes.
14. I want to apply myself and once and for all, learn to read music.
15. When my tonsils ruptured at the age of five, and they took me to the hospital in an ambulance in the middle of the night, I thought I was going to die.
16. I have enjoyed hiking with Elaine to the waterfalls and Sentinel Dome in Yosemite, Eagle Lake in Tahoe, Cat’s Bells in England, the summit trail to Mt. Mitchell, Cadillac Mountain on Mt. Desert Island in Maine, Roan Mt. in TN, Blackwater Canyon in West Virginia, and many others all over the Blue Ridge in North Carolina.
17. I would like to do more racing. I have had the good fortune of having driven some very fast and expensive automobiles during my membership in the Sports Car Club of America, I have the skill and ability it takes to win, and have won a regional championship driving my own car in competition. I have instructed other drivers who went on to become competitive in our sport, and I lead the solo safety program with our regional Club.
18. When I was a kid I pretended to be a cowboy, a race car driver, a secret agent man, a civil war hero, a knight of the round table, a green beret, an astronaut, Superman, Batman, a steam locomotive engineer, the Lone Ranger, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Rifleman- but mostly, the Singing Cowboy, Roy Rogers.
19. I shot a bird with my BB gun when I was 10 or 11 and after, I cried all the way home.
20. I want to learn to speak French.
21. I wish Harry Chapin was still alive.
22. My favorite whiskey is 12 yr or older Oban Scotch, single malt. I have sampled most of the others and none can compare.
23. I have begun writing a book I hope to someday publish.
24. I think I would enjoy kayaking the lake region of the Florida panhandle someday.
25. I want to travel Scotland with Elaine and a few musician friends.
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