Stuff you probably could care less about...
- Draginol is a character in a series of unpublished stories I've been writing for the past 20 years.
- Draginol is the main villain in the stories he's in.
- My first job was taking out the garbage for my neighbors in the apartment complex we lived in for 10 cents per bag.
- I was 5 years old when I started the trash service.
- I will tend to lose my equilibrium on airline flights unless I take a prescribed drug.
- I was 33 the first time I got a cold serious enough to require me to blow my nose.
- My second job was working in a garage cleaning toilets, cleaning windows, weeding, painting the fence around the area in 100+ degree weather.
- I was 13 when I got my second job. I made $2 an hour under the table. (that would be $2.50 today).
- I was engaged to be married once before I met my wife.
- I met my wife in Electrical Engineering class.
- I lived with 4 girls at once in my junior year of college.
- I do not recommend living with 4 girls at once.
- My wife is currently expecting a daughter in August.
- No girl has ever been born into the Wardell family as far back as our family tree goes. This is the first one.
- I am an only child.
- I have had 3 dogs.
- The first dog got run over by a car 3 months after we got it. The second one we gave away because it was nuts. The third one we had for 11 years and died when I went to college.
- I have not gotten a dog since that dog died.
- I have a box turtle named Cuddles that I have had for over 20 years.
- The box turtle was estimated to be around 30 years old when I got it.
- My favorite author is Raymond E. Feist.
- Yes, Stardock is from his one of his books.
- I am not really a Republican or a Democrat. I tend to vote Republican but only because they are "Closer". I am what is known as a "Capitalist". Find out what you are here.
- I have no allergies to anything at all that I know of. I don't have any reaction to poison ivy, bee stings, or any other bites (i.e. not even a bump). I have no idea why.
- My biggest fear is something bad happening to any of my children.
- One of my missed ambitions is to write a screen play that is turned into a movie or at the very least to finish the stories I've written and publish them.
- I have learned that happiness can only come from within. That different people have their own furnace that provides joy.
- My furnace could work better.
- Loyalty is the trait I value the most in a friend.
- I have been told that I am sometimes blinded by my loyalty to others.
- I do not believe in ghosts or other "mystical" things but I am starting to believe in extra sensory perceptions to some degree.
- I am a big believer in cognitive intution
- I believe that the easiest way to be successful is to set things up so that other people are successful if you are successful.
- I was born in Texas.
- My favorite place to visit is Manhattan.
- My favorite vacation spot is the gulf of mexico.
- The closest thing to surgery I've ever had was tubed in my ears.
- I've never broken a bone though I came very close to breaking my foot (and it's not known if there was a fracture in there or not).
- The foot "incident" happened last year.
- I was playing jump to get the balloons in the living room and jump very high and into our large, heavy television in full Mary Katherine Galleger style.
- I really don't like to travel but I like being in different places.
- I type around 120 words per minute.
- I still look for approval from my parents for what I do.
- I love dove chocolate.
- Dove chocolate doesn't love me. It causes me to break out very quickly and very badly.
- I had a lot of Dove chocolate yesterday.
- I didn't know how to read until 2nd grade.
- My first grade teacher told my mom not to expect much from me, I was simply "slow".
- I went to a "special" school when I was 4 (not the good kind of special).
- I really don't like getting older.
- I am proud, and thankful, in hindsight that I had to buy my own first car by saving up from working very unpleasant jobs early on.
- I have a similar feeling about college. Working through college helped me appreciate things more.
- I don't really like cars very much.
- Cars are one of the only good things I can write off on taxes.
- My car is an upgraded Jaguar S-Type R (500hp).
- I only drive around 8,000 miles per year.
- I am suspicious about people who think other people are just "lucky" and that their own failings are not their own fault.
- I like to talk to people either in person or via text but hate talking to people on the phone, especially strangers.
- My first computer was a Commodore 64.
- One of my favorite games of all time was a text game called Planet Fall.
- I tend to be too wordy...