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1. My eyes are brown.
2. I really think bacon makes anything better.
3. But I don’t have high blood pressure.
4. My cat’s name is Nina.
5. She came with that name and I hated it at first.
6. Now I don’t.
7. I grew up in Noblesville, Indiana.
8. Now I live in Chicago.
9. I met my wife on our first day of freshman orientation at St. Joseph’s College, in Rensselaer, Indiana.
10. She doesn’t remember that.
11. We were married on July 16th, 2004, same day as ThirtyBefore30.
12. We went to Hedo III for our honeymoon.
13. But we told our families we were going to Sandals.
14. I am 6 credit hours shy of my bachelors degree.
15. That used to bother me.
16. But I’m ok with it now.
17. But it still bothers everyone else for some reason.
18. I grew up Catholic.
19. Sometimes I feel like I’m still recovering.
20. But I do believe there is a greater power out there.
21. I just don’t pretend to understand it.
22. My hair grows freakishly fast.
23. So do my fingernails.
24. I miss my motorcycle.
25. I used to drive a Porsche 944 in college.
26. I hope to own a nicer Porsche some day.
27. I was the “God” kid in high school.
28. Subsequently, I didn’t have many friends.
29. In college that changed.
30. I used to not like Scotch.
31. Now I love and appreciate the complexity it can have.
32. Same goes for Wine.
33. And beer.
34. And most other spirits.
35. But I don’t think I’m an alcoholic.
36. I shot the window out of a moving car with a water balloon launcher once.
37. I ended up on house arrest for a month.
38. And 6 months probation.
39. And 30 hours community service.
40. And narrowly avoided Juvi.
41. I was 14.
42. I love the Cubs.
43. They were a big part of my decision to move to Chicago.
44. I used to love working on computers all the time.
45. Nows its just part of what I do for a living.
46. I appeared, with a headshot, in the November 7, 2003 edition of the Chicago Sun Times, in an article about male implant birth control.
47. I was quoted as saying that I would be willing to do it.
48. I still would.
49. Cause really, who likes wearing a condom?
50. I use GMail for ALL of my emailing needs, work and otherwise.
51. I used to do a lot of LJ.
52. Now I don’t, but my wife does.
53. I learned to play guitar in 2003.
54. I did it because I was jealous of a co-worker who was doing open mic nights.
55. Now I do them.
56. I’m definitely a ’spender.’
57. I wear a size 9.5 shoe.
58. And a size 33/32 pant.
59. Saying those two made me think of Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back
60. I never realized how much knowledge my dad passed on to me.
61. Until I started to apply it.
62. I used to race go-karts.
63. I even ran a race at Road America in Wisconsin.
64. 100 m.p.h. seems a lot faster when you are 4″ from the ground than it does in a car.
65. I once road my motorcycle from Chicago to Virginia Beach in one day.
66. I’ve never been to a strip club.
67. I always thought of them in this way, “If I’ve got to pay to play, I shouldn’t be in the game.”
68. Same reason I couldn’t ever be with a hooker.
69. That and, you know, I’m married.
70. I’m really into the Counting Crows right now.
71. I used to be a rap fiend.
72. I still listen to the mid-90s rap from 2 Pac, Snoop, Dr. Dre, E-40, Coolio, ect.
73. I can’t STAND U2 or the Smashing Pumpkins.
74. Pearl Jam isn’t far behind.
75. There is no number 75.
76. I was a philosophy minor.
77. I am definitely a night person.
78. I am easily entertained.
79. My office is at the south end of the “Magnificent Mile.”
80. I wish it were closer to home.
81. We plan to leave Chicago within the next couple of years.
82. But we don’t know where to yet.
83. I used to develop black and white photos and love photography.
84. I really want to get back into it one day.
85. I go back and forth on if I want to spend my days traveling, or relaxing in one place.
86. I try to send an email response to most comments on the blog.
87. But some times I’m lazy and can’t think of anything to send, so I don’t.
88. I often expect people to be considerably more intelligent than they really are.
89. I feel really arrogant when I say something like that.
90. I am a bit arrogant.
91. But I’m also very kind hearted.
92. I am adopted.
93. I’d like to have a child one day.
94. But not any time soon.
95. My AOL IM name is Huricane53.
96. Hurricane was a nickname from High School Football.
97. No, it wasn’t because I was any good.
98. In fact, I was really really really bad.
99. But I had fun anyway.
100. I wish there was a Steak and Shake closer to where I live.
101. And a Chick-Fil-A.

If you got this far, you get a Gold Star! I must admit though, I did steal the idea from someone else. Hopefully it wasn’t too boring to read.

Some of the things up there, you could have found in my archives…but really, I don’t anyone that comes here is going to start going back through my old entries unless you are looking for a good flank steak pinwheel recipe, or how to strip white spaces from a text file using bash scripting. Its eclectic, but then, I guess, so am I.

Happy Thursday.