25 Things About Myself

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Some things people may not know about me.


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25 Things about Myself!
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Here are things about myself people may have not known The first thing I type with

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two fingers and have been timed at words a minute
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Here s the rest
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My Name is not Al It s Albert Way to go Mom and Dad I was named after my

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father I preferred “Al” after I joined the Air Force
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I was born in Mississippi on a farm
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I am driven by one philosophy with very few exceptions Be Positive Life is too short

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to spend time being negative I learned that later in my adult years
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I have a wide range of a “sense of humour” but most people will never know that side

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of me Of course if we have a few drinks and I see you are a bit on the far side also it s

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on If you are reading this and do get the chance consider this your warning Some

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people have taken my reserved personality as cold arrogant and standoffish little do

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they know there is a freak within being held back from public viewing
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Lorraine My Wife is probably the only person who has ever been fully exposed to

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accepted and actually liked me for all my crazy ideas and weird eccentrics To anyone else

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reading this that “thinks” they know that side of me we haven t even scratched the

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surface
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I completely and whole heartily feel that I have the next $ million dollar idea tucked

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away somewhere inside my head Hopefully it will surface before the autopsy
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I regret that I did not do more with my three sons and daughter on a daily basis I feel I

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could have been a much better father There is no excuse just regret Nuff said and No

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I don t feel better now that I said it This is something I will change in my next

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reincarnation
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I love driving a car and have driven long distances without sleeping or stopping except

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for gas My longest no stop drive was from San Francisco to Destin Florida back in in

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a door New Yorker
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Lorraine and I can spend all day Sunday reading our favourite book in our housecoats

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together and only talk once or twice during that time We like it that way
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I literally do not like cell phones Mine stays unused of the time I have it only for

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emergency use There are very exceptions to this rule This is not a personal issue against

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anyone Just on my land phone I get at least calls to “Mr Gates” from Telemarketers

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just about every day and tire of telling them I do not need whatever service or product

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they are selling
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I read all my emails I get every day not counting spam I answer of them
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I own build and manage websites as of today None of them at this point generate

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enough income to feed our cat
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Call me an Optimist I tend to focus more on the positive side of an issue versus the

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negative side It s one of my personality traits The weird part is that even though I can see

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a negative side to everything I will enthusiastically discuss the positive
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It took almost years of my life to achieve a feeling of security and success in

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ANYTHING I tried to do I attribute both to the support and encouragement I get from

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Lorraine on a daily basis
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I kissed a Girl at
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and I Liked It
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I LOVE Helping others I have my own way of getting things done which at times

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does not follow the norm Cutting through a lot of BS seems to get things done quickly
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I was car hopping days week at and got so good at it that I could remember

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everything that people ordered without writing it down
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I still enjoy kissing my wife We may be completely different personalities throughout

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the day but when we touch I turn into a teenager again Shhh don t tell her that
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I love
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Chittlins They are considered a delicacy a special and desirable food in

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Mississippi and other parts of the South But chittlins must be prepared carefully
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Don t

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ask you might throw up
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My ex wife and I finally became friends when my youngest son insisted we both be at

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his wedding Weird
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I believe in and have my own relationship with God but stay far away from organized

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religion Let s not go there in this message
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To date on Facebook I have never been able to locate even one friend that I went to

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high school with in Gulfport Mississippi I have searched to the ends of Facebook and have

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come to the conclusion that I really didn t exist as a teenager

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I ve had one Nightmare in my whole life and that was in Korea back in I think I

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woke up the entire barracks with my screaming
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Finally the th thing about me that everyone needs to know This was seriously

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some long stuff to write down on this page If you skipped out of here without reading the

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entire thing I am hurt Now Where s George Carlin I need a good laugh