25 Random Things About You

Gaer said:
Hm. I'll try.

I have 16 to 20 Holy Angels of God around me at all times. I know their names, what they look like, sound like. They have healed me, touched me, saved me countless times.
They have been with me my whole life and I communicate with them through thought transference. (extremely specific)
I remember myself before I was born. I remember Heaven.
I am not religious. I am spiritual.
I do transcendental deep meditation.
The Maharishi walked into a huge audience once and gave only me, a long stemmed red rose. I was astonished! (Maybe he saw my angels)
I have two wonderful grown children.
I adore literature, philosophy and metaphysics.
I LOVE blue flowers and clean, cotton fresh sheets.
Sometimes, I HAVE TO sit by a stream or a river, all alone. (something for my soul)
I love rain and thunder.
I love early rock and roll! (Platters, Fleetwoods, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, Buddy Holly, Righteous Bros.)
I write songs and poetry.
My lifetime goal is to evolve my soul and expand my consciousness.
I love to sculpt for bronze.
I only read non-fiction.
As a child, I wrote backwards and read books backwards. (???)
I don't think I even possess a temper. If so, I'm awful slow to anger.
I used to teach dance.
I have felt many times, the most incredible, unexplainable, sustained blissfulness, beyond description! Beyond words!
I remember incidents from past lives. (especially my deaths)
I paint in varied styles; completely different styles! (Odd, even to me.) Love Art Nouveau!
I'm a widow, extremely alone and fine with that. Happy alone.
My nocturnal dreams are INCREDIBLE! (never had a nightmare)
I'm left handed. (Well, both hands, really.)
I think I'm courageous and adventurous. Not afraid to take chances.
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You have an amazing life, @Gaer! I have read your books and am blessed to have met you on this site.
 

25 Random Things About You​


Born in Oregon
Traveled
Now live in Oregon

Been;

knocked out
shot
incarcerated too many times

Short tempered
But, never harbor ill will

Rode the rails

17 (or 19) grands

Wood/word butcher

Most my friends are renegades

Lived in the mountains for six years off grid, in our cabin we built

Hate snakes

Love;
bear
big cats
and moon dogs

Love to fish for;
salmon
trout
steelhead

Married to the love of my life for 54 years

Love God
Hate no one

Going blind
 
Okay........... here goes.

Born in NYC
Married smart (don't know what she saw in me)
Have lived in the city, in the country and in the burbs.
Have lived in a hearse
have been dirt poor and have lived amongst uber rich
been jailed in Hampden county prison, Springfield Mass. (the nasty old one, not the newer one)
been locked up in the Burlington VT. correctional facility (nice as far as lockup's go)
have owned 166 different vehicles (cars 59 driven, 31 trucks or busses,
27 race cars, 12 motorcycles, 4 boats, 15 unfinished project hot rods, 15 misc. tractors, trailers, etc.
Have been burnt beyond recognition (clinically dead 3 times)
At one time got a speeding ticket in every state from Georgia to
Vermont, except Conn. (heading to Nam so who cared)
Have seen all I want of South East Asia (Army grunt)
have killed people. (still haunted)
been cut by a suspected VC and carry shrapnel in one leg (our artillery)
have had prostate problems (another gift from that rich uncle)
have built many, many hot rods
have built and raced circle track (dirt and asphalt)
have had at least 11 different jobs
have owned 11 houses
have built a house from ground up plus built a tiny home (I called it a cabin)
have lived in 6 states (several more than once)
converted a greyhound bus to an RV
have rescued more dogs than I can recall.
Been to every state but Oregon (maybe visit Gary O' someday) :)
 
Gaer said:
Hm. I'll try.

I have 16 to 20 Holy Angels of God around me at all times. I know their names, what they look like, sound like. They have healed me, touched me, saved me countless times.
They have been with me my whole life and I communicate with them through thought transference. (extremely specific)
I remember myself before I was born. I remember Heaven.
I am not religious. I am spiritual.
I do transcendental deep meditation.
The Maharishi walked into a huge audience once and gave only me, a long stemmed red rose. I was astonished! (Maybe he saw my angels)
I have two wonderful grown children.
I adore literature, philosophy and metaphysics.
I LOVE blue flowers and clean, cotton fresh sheets.
Sometimes, I HAVE TO sit by a stream or a river, all alone. (something for my soul)
I love rain and thunder.
I love early rock and roll! (Platters, Fleetwoods, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, Buddy Holly, Righteous Bros.)
I write songs and poetry.
My lifetime goal is to evolve my soul and expand my consciousness.
I love to sculpt for bronze.
I only read non-fiction.
As a child, I wrote backwards and read books backwards. (???) What does that mean?
I don't think I even possess a temper. If so, I'm awful slow to anger.
I used to teach dance.
I have felt many times, the most incredible, unexplainable, sustained blissfulness, beyond description! Beyond words!
I remember incidents from past lives. (especially my deaths)
I paint in varied styles; completely different styles! (Odd, even to me.) Love Art Nouveau!
I'm a widow, extremely alone and fine with that. Happy alone.
My nocturnal dreams are INCREDIBLE! (never had a nightmare)
I'm left handed. (Well, both hands, really.)
I think I'm courageous and adventurous. Not afraid to take chances.
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My older sister can always sense when family members that have passed on are around. She will let me know when I visit her and their around. I can hear them sometimes when I'm in a quiet mood. I don't know who it is. When I tell her about it, she finds out somehow and lets me know later. But what impressed me the most? You mentioned the name of Buddy Holly! I miss Buddy. He was only 22. I have been listening to his music all of my life.
 
-Oy- said:
25 Random things to help hackers guess your security questions :)
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Only place I use that screen name is here and don't remember any security questions to join SF.
And other sites were I did have to set up security questions, also require 2-step authentication.
Someone would have to know an awful lot more personal information than I listed in 25 random things for me to get even a little bit concerned.
 
  1. As a baby played in the Pacific Ocean surf and sands at Santa Monica.
  2. Had a loving mother and father.
  3. As a tyke crawling under furniture, stuck a metallic object into an ac wall socket and due to the shock, learned to never repeat doing so.
  4. Learned how to tie my shoe laces at age 3.
  5. Went to kindergarten in Cupertino, CA at an early age of 4 and was often the smallest youngest kid in each subsequent grade.
  6. Liked pushing kindergarten girls on swings and ever since, my heart has been strongly attracted to females. And yes I had a wonderful sister.
  7. In second grade school, was banned with my neighborhood friend from playing marbles "pots in dirt" because other parents complained I kept winning all the marbles they bought for their kids,
  8. Climbed endless oak trees in outer Sacramento suburbs and never once fell.
  9. Caught myriad green sunfish in creeks.
  10. Several years played short stop or second base in Little League.
  11. As young grade school kid, caught chicken pox and decades later yes came down with shingles.
  12. A friend and I sat in a red wagon then rode down steep steep Peerless Avenue without killing ourselves.
  13. If it is small and moves or creeps or flies, as a kid probably caught whatever with my fast acting hands, including countless grasshoppers for fishing bait, dragonflies, crayfish, frogs, lizards, snakes, butterflies.
  14. As a teen in San Diego, rode my 10-speed bike miles to the seashore Belmont Park then would ride the Giant Dipper, also known as Mission Beach Roller Coaster.
  15. During the Viet Name War was in the USAF and while stationed a year at Biloxi, MS endlessly played pinball machines with quarters.
  16. Have caught rainbow, golden, eastern brook, and brown trout species using dry flies all on the same day at Bear Creek.
  17. Have danced to a long list of famous Classic rock groups while attending SFBA rock concerts. This next Saturday will attend the 2023 Jerry Day at McClaren Park in SF dancing to jam bands.
  18. Over several years carried a heavy 4x5 view film camera into wilderness areas backpacking.
  19. Have negative opinions of the warmongering Military Industrial Complex and Neoconservatives.
  20. Was highly experienced using a wide range of complex electronic test equipment used in electronic hardware engineering.
  21. Have impressive recently taken Gopro POV bump skiing videos on Youtube.
  22. Yesterday, secured a wilderness permit at recreation dot gov for an upcoming solo 5 night backpacking trip carrying about 60 pounds.
  23. For lunch today ate a Trader Joe organic coleslaw salad kit.
  24. A couple weeks ago spent $1.3k to have my 2007 Forester brakes serviced.
  25. Over decades, have walked through many immense pristine expanses of spring wildflowers.
 
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1. I've never known a cat well, I'm in awe of them. I did meet one once that seemed to like me, her name was Cotton. We lived at a remote old salmon cannery at the time.
2. I was born in Kodiak, Alaska during WWII.
3. I remember my uncle driving down main-street Anchorage in a horse and buggy. It was just a narrow dirt road.
4. I have visited seven states and four foreign countries.
5. I was my father's only child, but I had three half siblings, may they rest in peace.
6. I used to be very good, deadly good, at pinochle and poker, and I expect I still am.
7. I remember having my tonsils out when I was three. I thought I couldn't count backwards, and was very upset and humiliated, but I could!
8. I have p*ssed in the Yukon River and, from behind a mosquito net, I've seen mosquitos you could put a leash on. I have committed to memory 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' by Robert Service
9. I, too, have eaten breakfast in a jail cell. It was oatmeal, no raisins, no milk. I hadn't been arrested but was a minor being held for safekeeping. One of the prisoners aimed me at a top bunk, but no-one said a word.
10. I remember my first day at kindergarten. The teacher pointed me to my desk. My name was on it. It was long and had too many letters. It was not fair.
11. I remember digging a hole and running from it, afraid that the devil would jump out.
12. I remember as a child overhearing someone say that somebody got 'fired'. I was shocked.
13. I too was once confined to a wheelchair. You don't ever want to go there.
14. As a child, I thought I was not very bright, but then, later, I saw that I was okay.
15. My superpower is that you can't (personally) insult me. I don't register or react at all.
16. My dear mother was an alcoholic, may she rest in peace.
17. I like to eat, and read, and play the piano.
18. I love dogs. We always had Staffordshire bull terriers. I can't have a dog now --I'm unable to care for one.
19. I grew up in Anchorage, during the forties. It was a dangerous place for a child. Bob Hope said that it had the longest bar in the world, called fourth avenue. My 'claim to fame' is that I was the first Anchorage paper girl, barking my way up and down Fourth Avenue. And it was many a five -dollar tip that I made too.
20. My ancestors were Norwegian, English, Irish.
21. I have had many broken ankles and wrists.
22. My first dog was Johnny, an enormous part Husky-part wolf, a celebrated fire dog at the Anchorage Fire Dept. Much later, Cinder, Cindy for short, a Dalmation, was the Kenai, Alaska fire dog, and my dog.
23. I too am spiritual, but not religious. I do respect my Lutheran background.
24. I went to school in a quanset hut. There were no school buses then, and girls were not permitted to wear leggings.
25. I have lived in the same house since 1967.

Thank you, Naturally. It's fun to remember, and it's good to be here with all of you.
 
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I'll play.....a little.

I was born w/my mother's umbilical cord around my neck. We both survived.
I weighed 5lbs when born.
I had a 2" nail on my little finger when younger. It's in my jewelry box now.
I've been to San Quentin to visit my ex-husband #1.
I used to play volley ball w/gloves on, so as not to break that 2" nail.
I love to play Pac-Man. ETA: and drink beer.
I used to clean apartments.
I only wear blue mascara-no brown or black.
I have a clutter problem. Sshhhh
I have seen an apparition/ghost.
 
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gruntlabor said:
1. I've never known a cat well, I'm in awe of them. I did meet one once that seemed to like me, her name was Cotton. We lived at a remote old salmon cannery at the time.
2. I was born in Kodiak, Alaska during WWII.
3. I remember my uncle driving down main-street Anchorage in a horse and buggy. It was just a narrow dirt road.
4. I have visited seven states and four foreign countries.
5. I was my father's only child, but I had three half siblings, may they rest in peace.
6. I used to be very good, deadly good, at pinochle and poker, and I expect I still am.
7. I remember having my tonsils out when I was three. I thought I couldn't count backwards, and was very upset and humiliated, but I could!
8. I have p*ssed in the Yukon River and, from behind a mosquito net, I've seen mosquitos you could put a leash on. I have committed to memory 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' by Robert Service
9. I, too, have eaten breakfast in a jail cell. It was oatmeal, no raisins, no milk. I hadn't been arrested but was a minor being held for safekeeping. One of the prisoners aimed me at a top bunk, but no-one said a word.
10. I remember my first day at kindergarten. The teacher pointed me to my desk. My name was on it. It was long and had too many letters. It was not fair.
11. I remember digging a hole and running from it, afraid that the devil would jump out.
12. I remember as a child overhearing someone say that somebody got 'fired'. I was shocked.
13. I too was once confined to a wheelchair. You don't ever want to go there.
14. As a child, I thought I was not very bright, but then, later, I saw that I was okay.
15. My superpower is that you can't (personally) insult me. I don't register or react at all.
16. My dear mother was an alcoholic, may she rest in peace.
17. I like to eat, and read, and play the piano.
18. I love dogs. We always had Staffordshire bull terriers. I can't have a dog now --I'm unable to care for one.
19. I grew up in Anchorage, during the forties. It was a dangerous place for a child. Bob Hope said that it had the longest bar in the world, called fourth avenue. My 'claim to fame' is that I was the first Anchorage paper girl, barking my way up and down Fourth Avenue. And it was many a five -dollar tip that I made too.
20. My ancestors were Norwegian, English, Irish.
21. I have had many broken ankles and wrists.
22. My first dog was Johnny, an enormous part Husky-part wolf, a celebrated fire dog at the Anchorage Fire Dept. Much later, Cinder, Cindy for short, a Dalmation, was the Kenai, Alaska fire dog, and my dog.
23. I too am spiritual, but not religious. I do respect my Lutheran background.
24. I went to school in a quanset hut. There were no school buses then, and girls were not permitted to wear leggings.
25. I have lived in the same house since 1967.

Thank you, Naturally. It's fun to remember, and it's good to be here with all of you.
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Wow! You and I have the same heritage and our ancestors had the same religion.
and, I adore Alaska! I've driven up the Alcan many times alone and even lived four years up there.
When I drove into Skagway, I was home! It was 1880 again and I was home.

Anyway, What I wanted to say is you sound like an amazing woman! I enjoyed reading about you!
 
Spent a good portion of my life supporting the 'Warmongering Military Industrial Complex'
so that is what set up the rest of my life.

-grew up numerous places, as most here know.
-never caused much trouble, never arrested, etc.
-Not a Pet person
-Loyal to people to a Fault
-found something good about every place I've visited or lived.
-try to eat healthy, but don't obsess about it.
-My movie collection is made up of 98% Black and White movies
-A car was always something to get me to a place and back again.
If I wanted to 'feel the thrill', I'd rent one and return it; out of my system.
-Since my wife doesn't like my music, I own 4 Headphones, 3 earbuds and my hearing aids
are Bluetooth.
(I use a different headphone depending on the type of music I'm listening to)
-Usually read nonfiction books, but I'll jump into a nice fiction book to lighten the load.
-Love Airplanes, all types and sizes, but never really overcame my fear of flying.
-Like others here, the loss of my oldest son is a hole in my being I'll never get over.
-Lived through 3 major Earthquakes, one in Alaska and 2 in California.
3 is enough.
-Voting, is the Most Important Right we have.
-Still feel a little embarrassed by my military and VA pensions, healthcare when talking to others.
(then it passes as I remember the years...)
-Since my Dad's father and my Dad both had severe Dementia and with the Gene testing done in my
Alzheimer Study, my chances are always in the back of my mind.
I'll never forget my Dad saying "The nice lady who comes to visit, sometimes brings him treats"
it was my mom, his wife that he's known since they were teenagers, but he had no clue who she was.
It didn't know who I was. Hardest thing I've ever gone through.

So I'm Basically a very boring person, lacking in many Social Skills.
But I've learned over the years, with my wife's help, to appear normal in social gatherings.
 
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods, so he knew ev'ry tree
Kilt him a bar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.

Oops, sorry wrong me. I’ll list a few.

Born and raised in upstate NY.
Live most of my first years in the beautiful country.
Went on to join the Army in 1956.
Got married in 1956.
Had 3 wonderful kids that have gone on to be successful and God loving adults.
I hate cats and love dogs..sorry cat people, but I do.
I like almost all foods, foods that I hated as a kid are now delicious. I played drums in school band and a few years after school.
I play harmonica and strum a bit on my grandpas old guitar.
Most of my cars were big old Buicks during my working days. Now I drive a Kia Soul..:(:(
I love my golf cart even though its a relic.
 
1. I am not who I think I am
2. Although I may be
3 But probably not today
4. I was born in Army Navy Hospital Chaterouxe France
5. I am the oldest of three sons
6. I grew up in the south primarily Georgia, but lived in New Orleans and Tennessee.
7. Without question my mother, brothers and were expected to attend church so my dad would look good in whatever community we lived in
8. My senior year in high school, I was elected Most Courteous as high school Superlative
9. I was elected Georgia State Distributive Education officer junior year of high school.
10. I failed driver's education for not turning in assignments
11. I was diagnosed with Borderline Schizophrenia at age 25 after 7 years of psychedelics use.
12. My mind was crippled and shattered in a million different pieces.
13. Lost disability supplements and insurance because I was expected to work even though I quit working in a weeks time.
14. Due to working short term and still not fully recovered from first hospitalization, my SS benefits and medicare insurance was revoked.
15 With no insurance I was taken to a Georgia State mental hospital where I remained until my offered me a way by traveling cross country to Las Vegas. The trip was interesting not knowing the difference between imagination and reality, wait a minute my imagination was reality to me.
16. I slightly recovered enough to move from my parent's house for the second time and bought a trailer 50 or more miles away from my parents.
17 Went bankrupt for non-payment of a 3-wheeled motorcycle and the trailer I used bank collateral to purchase earlier.
18. mental illness symptoms flared again, I was in and out of hospitals sometimes just to take a break from the world outside.
19 By this time I stopped taking drugs and was doing ok
20. My brother and I were visiting a friend who happened to mention her coworker that didn't smoke or drink, a real goody two-shoes.
21. It was then I realized she was talking about my future wife because of her clean reputation
22. We were married January 1980 but not until we returned from our cross country drive from Georgia to New York State to Salt Lake City Utah and back to Georgia. We had $200 between us starting from New York to Salt Lake City, my wife got a job working in the kitchen for J. C. Penney and I got a job delivering flowers throughout Salt Lake City. I kept getting lost on the job because roads and addresses being in a grid layout.
23. Return to Georgia, found out my dad was using my SS check to pay for my car. but neglected to tell me.
24 Not yet married, she tells she is pregnant while I am in the hospital. I leave the hospital AMA and we were married January 1980.
25. First daughter was born in July and second daughter was born in September.
 
7) I used to go scuba diving every chance I got and it was stressed that you always dive with a "buddy". My most frequent scuba buddy asked me to work with him doing Underwater Search Salvage and Rescue, so I joined his team. We mostly searched for small boats that sunk shallow waters and cars that were accidentally driven into rivers and deep channels, and the only things we salvaged were identifying objects, like a stamped life preserver, or a VIN, or a license plate. By the time our team arrived, survivors had already been picked up by a rescue boat or managed to swim to the shore, so there was never a Rescue involved.

(still #7) The 3rd time I spotted a deceased person, it was a little girl. She was only 18-months old and didn't know how to get out of her car-seat. She probably couldn't swim, anyway. My job was to tag her tiny wrist with an underwater glow-band so the recovery guys could find her. River waters are always pretty murky, and I'm glad I couldn't see her face - she'd been down there over 24-hours, and water can really do a number on a body after a while.

8) I quit working with a volunteer Underwater Search Salvage and Recovery crew after having to tag a drowned child.

9) I feed homeless cats and build little shelters for them.

10) I was a licensed foster parent through CPS for a little over 4 years. I lived in a 1-br apartment so, by law, I could only take one child at a time, and they had to be under the age of 2 at the time of placement. I've been a foster-dad to a total of 3 little ones. When it was time to renew my license about a year ago, I didn't.

But I highly recommend becoming a senior-aged foster parent! It gives new purpose to your life. It makes you feel young and keeps you mentally sharp, and your age and experience is a huge benefit to temporarily displaced children.
 
Hummmmm...well I looked up one day and here I was like it or not, had a great childhood and adulthood ain't been too bad, I'm basically a lazy chump[ just ask my wife, hehe]but I never miss a day of work[I like having a roof over my head]God has been very good to me[I'm still here]so I ain't complaining....well that about wraps it for me...BYE!!!
 
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