100 things

Well here it is, the long awaited 100 things list so I can be cool like all of the other bloggies.

1.I was 9 weeks old when Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated a few miles from my crib. Literally my crib.
2. I play six musical instuments.
3. I taught myself 4 of them.
4. If I could be anywhere it would be the panhandle of Florida-on the beach.
5. I've had surgery twice-once when I was less that 6 weeks old and once when I was five to have my baby teeth removed. I need another one- a herniated disc is giving me fits.
6. I was in the restaurant business for 23 years. I've been an owner of 2 restaurants.
7. I will not open another restaurant unless I have alot of money and someone else to run it.
8. I knew I would marry my wife after our first date and I told the guy we double dated with that I would.
9. I was 17 & she was 16.
10. We shook hands on our first date.
11. I do not hate. I do not have the time or the energy.
12. I do not know what to answer when someone asks what religion I am. I believe the Bible-what does that make me? edit(rhetorical)
13. I live in a city that is VERY Catholic.
14. I qualified to be on "Who wants to be a millionaire" but missed the phone call to go to New York.
15. I was talking to a guy playing pool at a music club in Memphis and a week later he drown in the Mississippi river. RIP JB.
16. My biggest fear is getting everthing I want and losing it.
17. I'm not keen on spiders or small spaces either.
18. Christmas is very hard on me.
19. I was married the day after Christmas.
20. My grandfather died 2 days after I was married.
21. We buried him on my birthday.
22. I will happily go into debt to send my girls to any SEC school-except Kentucky & maybe Bama.
23. I am hoping and praying (& soon to be applying) for scholarships.
24. I had 3 sets of teeth when I was born. Hence one of the surgeries.
25. I once shook Les Claypools(bass player for Primus)hand. I did not know it was him.
26. The only fan mail I have ever written was to Kristy McNichol circa 1979.edit ( I've never told anyone this and now some one finds my website because of her and rips me a new one-check comments)
27. As I have matured I find out that I actually like broccoli, cauliflower & salads-especially spinach.
28. I don't like fast food as much as I used to.
29. I am not sure I like starting every line of this list with "I".
30. I sell cars at the moment and I am terrible at it. It is fun though.
31. We do not say these words in my house; dumb, stupid, butt, idiot, suck and any & all cursewords.
32. I slip a banned word in now and then. Especially while watching the presidential race.
33. I knew what I would name my daughters before I met my wife.
34. We had trouble with some of the middle names.
35. I dislike live theater-alot.
36. I detest musical theater-more than alot.
37. I would rather play in the band than be in the audience.
38. But, I will go to any concert, any time. especially if it is Guided by Voices, R.E.M. or Larry Carlton.
39. I want to fly planes one day. Hopefully by 50.
40. For a summer, when I had a restaurant and a catering business, I carried a pistol everywhere I went.
41. I bought it from a homeless rastaman.
42. My favorite car was a '72 cutlass supreme convertible.
43. I helped my grandfather with stone work at Rhodes College.
44. I have recorded over 500 songs that only a handfull of people have ever heard.
45. Music plays in my head constantly.
46. It is usually something good or that stinkin umberella-ella-ella song.
47. I am 5 foot 8 inches of goofiness.
48. I would be height/weight proportionate if I were 6 foot 2.
49. I have lived in Ohio for 12 years and I still dislike the buckeyes.
50. I have vivid dreams every night.
51. I rarely have nightmares or headaches.

I will post the other 49 or so another night. So keep on checking back and you can see how all this turns out. Oh the anticipation.
SF