Bad State Of Gruntledness

You know what I just realized? I can’t write unless I can come uo with a snappy title or first sentence for the piece. I can have an entire outline, know exactly where I want to go with it, etc. But I can’t get started until I’ve got that phrase or sentence that ties it all together for me. This is why I’m a terrible blogger, I just can’t write until I distill what I’m trying to talk about into one sentence.

I need that anchor to get going.

Never mind, just random musing.

This is all Zombyboy David J’s fault:

Seven things to do before I die

1. Learn to fly.
2. Live in Ireland for at least a year.
3. Start my own software company.
4. Restore a 1957 Ford Fairlane from the frame up. (Or a ‘63 Galaxie. I’m not picky.)
5. Learn piano
6. Make a bass guitar by hand.
7. Get my back belt in Kenpo.

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. Play piano.
2. Weld.
3. Speak a foreign language.
4. Dance. Not at all.
5. Skate. Not roller. Not ice. (Can’t skateboard anymore either, even though it was a major component of my misspent youth)
6. Drink gin.
7. Navigate in open water. (Not that I need to, but I can’t do it)

Seven things that attract me to… (foreign and domestic bodies)

1. Eyes
2. Butts.
3. Boobs.
4. A good sense of humor.
5. That spot right there where the shoulder meets the neck? Yeah, that.
6. Legs.
7. Smile.

Seven things I say most often

1. Fuck!
2. Oh, son of a…
3. Oh, fuck me harder. (I’m a sysadmin, I cuss a lot)
4. Wait, what’s this now?
5. Right, that‘ll work.
6. What the fuck?.
7. Groovy, Marsha.

Seven books (or series) that I love

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
3. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (All five books in the trilogy)
4. Starship Troopers, any of RAH’s early stuff. The rest gets patchier.
5. Inside Macintosh. An absolute marvel of technical documentation. I learned more about programming from IM than any other source.
6. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. All the Narnia books are great, but Lion just has that special bit of magic.
7. Roger Zelazny’s Amber books

Seven movies I watch over and over again

1. The Blues Brothers
2. Tombstone
3. Buckaroo Banzai
4. The Evil dead trilogy.
5. A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
6. Patton (”Rommel you magnifuicent bastard! I read your book!”)
7. TIE: Blazing Saddles and Holy Grail