Twenty-five things about me.

1. I walk with a limp. My knee is not entirely healed from when I fell & snapped my quadriceps tendon .
2. I want to see Land’s End, the Lake District and Robin Hood’s Bay again before I die.
3. I when I was about 11 years old I got acne, braces (orthodontics) and glasses all at the same time.
4. I once nearly sat on a large live sleeping diamondback rattlesnake. I am deathly afraid of snakes.
5. I much prefer Dr. Pepper to Coke and Pepsi. I drink a lot of it.
6. At the age of 12 I was bitten by a dog while delivering newspapers. The tetanus shot nearly killed me. I'm allergic.
7. I believe that being radically liberal politically is a form of insanity.
8. I have money my wife doesn’t know about.
9. When I was young my brothers and I built a tree hut that was 60 feet, six inches off the ground. We measured it.
10. I wish I owned a cherry red Porsche Carrera Cabriolet. I would sell it and spend the money on trips to England.
11. I love flying. I would like to fly around the world. (First class, please.)
12. The worst thing I have ever eaten is chocolate covered grasshoppers. Yes, more than one. Why? Adventure.
13. I love real English fish and chips with mushy peas. Cod is best.
14. I loved the smell of my first boss’s pipe tobacco smoke. It smelled like slightly burned fudge
15. I wonder what the government will do when they have ALL the money. Taxes are gonna go up folks!
16. I once shot a jack rabbit between the eyes from a distance of 30 yards, quick-draw, from the hip, with my Ruger single-six, frontier model, .22 cal. revolver. I was proud then, now, not so much. I don’t shoot anymore.
17. Oswald acted alone. The conspiracy theory is silly, for reasons that should be clear to any thinking person. (Jack Ruby acted alone too.)
18. I will start jogging when joggers start smiling.
19. The worst pain I have ever felt was when my physical therapist bent my knee 90 degrees for the first time after it had been straight in a splint for six weeks following surgery.
20. Gradual global warming is real but is part of a natural cycle. The idea that it is human-caused is an alarmist conspiracy invented to bilk money out of the gullible.
21. I can’t stand broccoli.
22. I love roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Doesn’t everyone?
23. Bowling is the greatest game ever invented. Anyone can play; no training is needed; it can be played any time of year, regardless of the weather; and there is no need for referees, umpires or scorekeepers. My average score is 180. I haven’t bowled in nearly 50 years.
24. My wife is the most selfless person I know.
25. My greatest treasure is my family.