OK. My turn at 20 questions since mpphoto was nice enough(!) to tag me.
1. Im younger than I look and have been for as long as I remember. I grew a (bad) beard and mustache when I was 13 and started getting grey hair when I was 23.
2. Ive not had good luck with father figures. My biological father divorced my mother when I was 9 months old and took a $3,000 payoff from my step-father to walk away and never see me again when I was 5. My step father was a violent sociopath who brutalized me until I left home when I was 16. I still have physical scars from his attacks, though the mental scars cause me the most problems.
3. Ive majored in Mathematics, Music and Art, but my degree is an Associates in Electronics Technology with an emphasis on Optical Electronics. While in the electronics field, I had jobs that allowed me to travel to Paris France and the Virgin Islands and all over the country while getting paid. I was also the Chief Engineer at a television station.
4. Ive been in a couple of bands that toured around the western US and played dive bars. I learned that I really hated playing in bands that toured. Thats when I went to Electronics College.
5. I started smoking regularly when I was 8 and drinking semi-regularly when I was 10. I first smoked weed when I was 12 and cocaine when I was 14. I have a very addictive personality and have had problems with drinking, prescription drugs and illegal drugs. I dont know if I can ever quit smoking.
6. Ive been in a lot of fights and lost most of them due to my penchant for drinking too much tequila and calling the biggest man in the room a pussy and picking a fight with him. Ive done this a lot. So much so that my family and friends put me on tequila probation and would not be around me if I drank tequila.
7. My birthday is on Halloween. Ive never had a birthday party that wasnt a /Halloween/costume party. Ive always felt that people enjoyed having the Halloween party more than my birthday party so I havent had a birthday party in almost 2 decades. The last cake I ate on my birthday was the one my mother left on my doorstep with a six pack of beer on my 21st birthday. The cake still had the reduced price sticker on it. It was decent beer, though.
8. Angeluca is the only woman Ive ever had an orgasm with.
9. I didnt know what an f-stop was 24 months ago. I feel like an imposter when people compliment my work because Im so new to photography. My camera is a prosumer Fuji that doesnt have interchangeable lenses and I feel embarrassed when I take it out in front of other photographers at a shoot.
10. I come from a family of redneck Mormon sheepherders and grew up doing ranch work. Ive trailed sheep, been on cattle drives and drove horses. The last time I worked as a professional cowboy I was 18. People who wear cowboy hats indoors make me uncomfortable because I got whacked whenever I did it.
11. I met my wife on the internet.
12. Im an Atheist. I tried to be a Jehovahs Witness for my first wife, but it didnt take. Ive read the bible cover to cover 3 times. I was raised Mormon but that didnt take either. Neither did Methodist or Presbyterian. I even tried some occult religions like Satanism and Wiccan, but they turned out to be just as ridiculous as the xtian religions to me. When I die, Ill be all dressed up with no place to go.
13. Ive played guitar since I was 14. I currently make a living teaching others to play guitar. I find it amusing that I guilt my students about practicing but I dont practice nearly as much as I should.
14. I used to be a professional artist. I made all of my income from selling watercolor and mixed media paintings for about 5 years. I was in 6 galleries and some of my work was featured in museums and traveling exhibits. Ive had newspapers do articles on me and my work and Rosanne Bahr wrote me a letter asking if I wanted to donate a piece for a celebrity charity action at the playboy mansion (which I did). My work was of Colorado landscapes and abstracted landscapes that sold well and I was getting a good deal of commissioned work. What I really wanted to paint was nudes, though, and the commissioned work stole the soul out of my paintings and out of me so I stopped.
15. I have a 13 year old stepson from my first marriage that was diagnosed with type 1 Juvenile diabetes when he was 6. After what I had to deal with as I child, I had a hard time giving my son insulin shots because I hated having to hurt him and making him cry. I admit that I made stupid excuses not to help with that as much as I should have. I tried to make up for it by doing all of the 2am testing and most of the other diabetes related chores.
16. Im afraid of spiders.
17. Im very shy and have an awful time going to parties. I dont have any close friends other than my wife.
18. Im a High School dropout.
19. I get chronic headaches. In 1998 doctors tried treating the headaches with psychotropic drugs like Paxil and Zoloft and others. They had a bad effect on me. They kept switching meds and doses about once a month without a break in between. I became depressed and psychotic to the point where I couldnt sleep and was having dream like sequences play out while I was awake. I was referred to a psychiatrist and psychologist who both diagnosed me with bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive) and started me on an ungodly regimen of pills. At one point I was taking as many mood suppression medications as a low functioning schizophrenic. In 4 years I was forcefully and voluntarily admitted to psych wards over 12 times at 4 different hospitals and institutions because of attempts to harm myself. I can only remember 2 or 3 times. Each time they upped the meds. In 2000 I added a pain medication dependency to the list. In 2001 I secretly stopped taking all medications and all of my symptoms went away. I cant remember much of the whole ordeal. I still get the headaches.
20. I lied about #8.
I'm tagging SamanthaKayne, FoxyBrown and Elvgrenink. Make your list and tag 3 more peoples.
Daniel
1. Im younger than I look and have been for as long as I remember. I grew a (bad) beard and mustache when I was 13 and started getting grey hair when I was 23.
2. Ive not had good luck with father figures. My biological father divorced my mother when I was 9 months old and took a $3,000 payoff from my step-father to walk away and never see me again when I was 5. My step father was a violent sociopath who brutalized me until I left home when I was 16. I still have physical scars from his attacks, though the mental scars cause me the most problems.
3. Ive majored in Mathematics, Music and Art, but my degree is an Associates in Electronics Technology with an emphasis on Optical Electronics. While in the electronics field, I had jobs that allowed me to travel to Paris France and the Virgin Islands and all over the country while getting paid. I was also the Chief Engineer at a television station.
4. Ive been in a couple of bands that toured around the western US and played dive bars. I learned that I really hated playing in bands that toured. Thats when I went to Electronics College.
5. I started smoking regularly when I was 8 and drinking semi-regularly when I was 10. I first smoked weed when I was 12 and cocaine when I was 14. I have a very addictive personality and have had problems with drinking, prescription drugs and illegal drugs. I dont know if I can ever quit smoking.
6. Ive been in a lot of fights and lost most of them due to my penchant for drinking too much tequila and calling the biggest man in the room a pussy and picking a fight with him. Ive done this a lot. So much so that my family and friends put me on tequila probation and would not be around me if I drank tequila.
7. My birthday is on Halloween. Ive never had a birthday party that wasnt a /Halloween/costume party. Ive always felt that people enjoyed having the Halloween party more than my birthday party so I havent had a birthday party in almost 2 decades. The last cake I ate on my birthday was the one my mother left on my doorstep with a six pack of beer on my 21st birthday. The cake still had the reduced price sticker on it. It was decent beer, though.
8. Angeluca is the only woman Ive ever had an orgasm with.
9. I didnt know what an f-stop was 24 months ago. I feel like an imposter when people compliment my work because Im so new to photography. My camera is a prosumer Fuji that doesnt have interchangeable lenses and I feel embarrassed when I take it out in front of other photographers at a shoot.
10. I come from a family of redneck Mormon sheepherders and grew up doing ranch work. Ive trailed sheep, been on cattle drives and drove horses. The last time I worked as a professional cowboy I was 18. People who wear cowboy hats indoors make me uncomfortable because I got whacked whenever I did it.
11. I met my wife on the internet.
12. Im an Atheist. I tried to be a Jehovahs Witness for my first wife, but it didnt take. Ive read the bible cover to cover 3 times. I was raised Mormon but that didnt take either. Neither did Methodist or Presbyterian. I even tried some occult religions like Satanism and Wiccan, but they turned out to be just as ridiculous as the xtian religions to me. When I die, Ill be all dressed up with no place to go.
13. Ive played guitar since I was 14. I currently make a living teaching others to play guitar. I find it amusing that I guilt my students about practicing but I dont practice nearly as much as I should.
14. I used to be a professional artist. I made all of my income from selling watercolor and mixed media paintings for about 5 years. I was in 6 galleries and some of my work was featured in museums and traveling exhibits. Ive had newspapers do articles on me and my work and Rosanne Bahr wrote me a letter asking if I wanted to donate a piece for a celebrity charity action at the playboy mansion (which I did). My work was of Colorado landscapes and abstracted landscapes that sold well and I was getting a good deal of commissioned work. What I really wanted to paint was nudes, though, and the commissioned work stole the soul out of my paintings and out of me so I stopped.
15. I have a 13 year old stepson from my first marriage that was diagnosed with type 1 Juvenile diabetes when he was 6. After what I had to deal with as I child, I had a hard time giving my son insulin shots because I hated having to hurt him and making him cry. I admit that I made stupid excuses not to help with that as much as I should have. I tried to make up for it by doing all of the 2am testing and most of the other diabetes related chores.
16. Im afraid of spiders.
17. Im very shy and have an awful time going to parties. I dont have any close friends other than my wife.
18. Im a High School dropout.
19. I get chronic headaches. In 1998 doctors tried treating the headaches with psychotropic drugs like Paxil and Zoloft and others. They had a bad effect on me. They kept switching meds and doses about once a month without a break in between. I became depressed and psychotic to the point where I couldnt sleep and was having dream like sequences play out while I was awake. I was referred to a psychiatrist and psychologist who both diagnosed me with bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive) and started me on an ungodly regimen of pills. At one point I was taking as many mood suppression medications as a low functioning schizophrenic. In 4 years I was forcefully and voluntarily admitted to psych wards over 12 times at 4 different hospitals and institutions because of attempts to harm myself. I can only remember 2 or 3 times. Each time they upped the meds. In 2000 I added a pain medication dependency to the list. In 2001 I secretly stopped taking all medications and all of my symptoms went away. I cant remember much of the whole ordeal. I still get the headaches.
20. I lied about #8.
I'm tagging SamanthaKayne, FoxyBrown and Elvgrenink. Make your list and tag 3 more peoples.
Daniel
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done:
Sorry I was a jerk to you. Reread some of things I have said...wow, the shit that comes out of my head.
megze:
Guess what time it is? Time to update.