Daily Archive for November 3rd, 2007

10 Random Things

Published on November 3, 2007 in Long Ago & Far Away and Thoughts. 5 Comments
  1. When I was in junior high, our family had a dog named Stonehead. He was dingy gray, and his eyes were barely visible. stonehead.jpgHe wasn’t very smart either (as his name implies). We adopted him to give him a better home and get him away from a drug house. I don’t have any actual pictures of him, but he looked sort of like this…
  2. I’m left-handed. My favorite computer utility (by far!) I spent $10 for, and it makes my cursor point to the upper-right instead of the upper-left. cursor.jpgIt’s awesome! If any right-hander uses my computer at home or at work, they experience the awkwardness I’ve always felt when the cursor points the wrong (or right) way. This should be an option on every computer!
  3. In college, I lived for about 6 weeks on my brother Ken’s 21-foot sailboat on the Columbia River. Oh man—was that damp and cold (it was fall)… and lonely.
  4. My favorite color is white.
  5. I made a font of my handwriting recently. I haven’t used it much though. I think I still can write faster than I can type!
  6. I was once robbed at gun-point. It was in Amsterdam, in 1985. It was not too fun, but strangely, I remember feeling completely at peace through the entire ordeal. I felt sorry for the poor desperate fellow, really. Later that night on the barge Youth Hostel, I cried.
  7. I am a cartoonist, but I don’t read the comics much. (I do like editorial cartoons though!)
  8. I have a particular fondness for the New Carissa. I even have a poster of it on my wall at work! Hey — the Peter Iredale got to stay, why not the New Carissa? You can find out more about the whole sorry episode here.
  9. I would love to be able to play the guitar, but I don’t want to put the time in. My brother Dennis once offered to GIVE me his Fender Stratocaster if I learned to play it! I didn’t. I should have. Maybe someday…
  10. I was once knocked unconscious by a punch in the face. It was in Newberg, in 1977. Again, not too fun. I was working at the Texaco, which had a car wash. A guy wasn’t happy with how “rough the car wash was on his car”. I asked him if he had left the car in neutral. He took that as an insult, and pow! I never saw it coming. I’m pretty sure he had been drinking.