What is this?
Well, you’re supposed to bold the things you’ve done so readers can find out how you’ve led an awesome life so far.

Here’s what I have done:
1. Started your own blog Ummm, yeah
2. Slept under the stars camping when I was a kid
3. Played in a band (Rock Band: start a band, rock the world)
4. Visited Hawaii(honeymoon 2000)
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland(twice)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo (Rockband again)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (7-eleven, egg-salad sandwich)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables every year
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort It was quite impressive…or so I remember.
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (To Victoria)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language HTML?
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke(Rock Band counts)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater Ahh the good ‘ol days
55. Been in a movie (Return of the Lin-Kwai) I think I was an accidental bystander, running to get out of the camera angle. Does that count?
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bonestrong> leg when I was 3
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (sitting on Santa’s lap)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (trout)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby (Does my wife count?)
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit  I won.
98. Owned a cell phone  Still do…cool, huh?
99. Been stung by a bee too many times
100. Read an entire book in one day

Hmm, I’ve got a lot of stuff I need to do.

1. I paid $400 for my first car, a 1980, red Buick Century. After working on it for over a year, it was “road-ready” (for the most part) and was dubbed by my friends, the “Bunzlmobile”.

2. I build computers for fun. May sound like work to others but I love buying components and assembling them into a working (and of course ridiculously high-powered) PC. In fact, I’m typing this blog using a “G-machine”.

3. I love hot food. Tacos must have hot sauce, Thai food must be at least 3 stars (5 being the hottest) and I put Frank’s Redhot or horseradish on almost everything. Jenn jokes that I’ve burned off all my taste buds. Oh, and I loooooooooove this stuff.

4. Not sure how weird this is…but Jenn’s commented on it. I tap my toothbrush on the sink after brushing to expel excess water, before putting it away. I do this because my dad did and the funny thing is, all our kids do it too. Watch out world…a new generation of toothbrush-tappers is on the way!!

5. I like to run the tank down to “E”. Jenn hates this. While I’ve heard this can be bad for the car, and often do this out of laziness, I have this idea that you actually get better mileage doing this. Makes sense since a lower tank weighs less right? While I’m sure the benefit is nomimal at best, I needed another weird thing to add.

6. I have a horrible phobia of bees, spiders and scorpions. I’m cringing just typing this.

7. I have a plastic, yellow chicken toy next to my work computer. This is part of a farmhouse toy set (Fisher Price I believe) that comes with several other farm animals. Doesn’t sound too strange in itself but it is actually a monument to Nick’s toddler-hood and learning to talk. When he was 2 or 3 we would ask him what it was, to which he replied “a quaw-quaw”. Then we would point the red “comb” on top of it’s head and ask what it was. His reply was “um….hai-wuh”, as in “hair” with a “w” instead of an “r”. Jenn and I thought this was so cute and were amused by it for many months.

Most of my friends aren’t bloggers so I will tag Jonspach and Tim.

Okay so the rules are…

Link to the person who tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, we all want to know them.
Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Some jobs I€™ve held:

Fast Food Cook (Taco Bell)

Steward -fancy word for busboy (Zoopa)

Rough and Finish Carpenter

Payroll Wrapper (basically a mailroom clerk)

Mainframe Computer Operator

Software/Website Support tech

Four movies I can watch over and over again:

Tommy Boy

Any from the Die Hard series

The Empire Strikes Back (thanks Jonspach for prefilling this answer for me)

Ronin

{these are all the places I€™ve lived – for at least a year} places I have lived:

Tacoma, Redmond, Maple Valley, Bothell, WA

Silverton, OR
Four TV shows I watch:

24

Heroes

Lost

Four the places I€™ve been on vacation:

Hawaii [honeymoon] (thanks again Jonspach)

Disneyland (and again)

Victoria, BC

Canon Beach, OR

Mammoth Lakes, CA

Four of my favorite foods:

Pizza (yep, again)

BBQ’d salmon burgers (they’re phenominal)

Burritos (last time, honest)

Baklava (my dad made the best!!)

Four websites I visit:

I am passing this along to€¦

Well, no one else I know has a blog, but I’ll say Chris. He could post it in a comment…maybe that will finally break his silence in comment posting…not likely though!

Made me think back to my carpentry/construction days when I used a tool called a roto-hammer. What took 20 minutes and gave me sore hands couldv’e been done in about 2 minutes. Oh well, the umbrella is up and working great. I have also been working to get our gardens in order. Weeds seem to be rather prolific this year. I’ve already had to rip a ton of them up and was out on Saturday with my trusty Roundup sprayer.

We’re hoping to get some good stuff out of our veggie garden this year. Last year about all we got were tomatoes (albeit many) and some herbs such as dill and cilantro. This season I planted more tomatoes; 2 varieties of grape (love those) and 2 varieties of the traditional large round ones. I also planted sweet peas, carrots, 4 varieties of lettuce, and more cilantro, dill, basil, parsley and marjoram. Phew! The only problem is, in planting all these items, it makes me realize how small our garden is.

I think because it was such a wet Fall and Winter I’m tired of being cooped up inside and am particularly excited and appreciative of Spring. The dogwoods along our driveway are flowering, tulips are out and the heather is exploding in color. Spring is here…bring on Summer!