Sometimes it's all about Me(me)
Feb. 20th, 2004 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearI thought I would do something a bit different in this posting. Call it a meme if you want, but at the same time it's a way for me to let my LJ friends and readers know a bit more about me (or even more than thay might have wanted to know). Instead of a prepackaged cut-and-paste form, this is entirely freeform and without structure. It's also intended to be fun, embarrassing (for you or me), egotistical, shameful, but without a doubt informative.
Let the fun begin:
I have a terrible time remembering people's names until I get to know them for a while. Even then I will slip up, especially if I got to know them via an online nickname or 'handle'.
I have perfect pitch, but a difficult time carrying a tune. I can tell you when your guitar or other instrument is out of tune, of if a song is being played at the wrong pitch.
My name is Phil, and I was born on Groundhog Day. It is only coincidence that my name matches the famous woodchuck of winter weather-predicting fame from Punxsatawney.
I have an uncanny ability to spot spelling errors. Give me a newspaper, flyer, book, or anything with large amounts of text. I can casually leaf through the newspaper without spending more than 5-10 seconds between pages, just glancing over the text and not really reading anything. Quite often I will pause, back up a page or two, and put my finger on a misspelled word, even if it's buried in the core of the body text. Anywhere on the page. I feel I should be walking around mumbling "Two-hundred forty-seven. K Mart sucks. Gotta watch Wapner...".
I built the house I am living in, and the PC I am writing this on. Electrical, plumbing, framing, roofing, finish work, concrete, even the design of structures and additions. All of the work I do is praised by professionals as first rate, and often beyond what some of them are capable of. I have no formal training in any of this either. The same goes with automotive work, electronics and wood/metalworking. I save myself countless thousands of dollars in being the ultimate do-it-yourselfer.
I never use a spellchecker (see above), but I am a lousy typist.
I have a 22 inch neck. I also never wear ties for this reason.
I was once hit by lightning (this could explain some of the above!).
I can not be grossed out easily, if at all. I could eat a five course meal while viewing autopsies of mutilated corpses, the sight of blood or gore does not bother me in the least.
I can endure extremes of temperatures, especially cold. I have no trouble working outside in temperatures far below freezing. I only have problems when idle in the cold, especially when windy.
I have lifted small cars in the days before my severe injuries in an auto accident.
I will never eat Honeycomb cereal in any way other than by the handful, right from the box.
I don't like peanut butter.
I was only 6 pounds 2 ounces when born (Prematurely. And I don't recall if I saw my shadow or not.).
I am forgetful of names and dates, a bit better with numbers, an endless resource of trivia and I can disassemble just about anything even if I never did so before and can reassemble it a month later. No parts remaining, and it will work (even if it may not have previously.).
I have a grip strong enough to break another man's hand, but I can do very fine work like watch and meter movement repair. (The two guys' hands I crushed was a buddy in technical school and my one ex. I felt awful both times.)
I have never been on television, though my truck was. (DC Gay Pride, 2001. I was pulling a float for the Chesapeake Bay Bears.)
I demand perfection in the tasks that I do, yet dont expect it from others.
That's all I can think of right now, I might do a redux of this later on. I hope this lets people know a bit more about me. My wish? That others take this idea and run with it so I can get to know them better as well.
Cheers!
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Date: 2004-02-20 02:58 pm (UTC)What an odd size flip; you were six pounds at birth yet became rather large, and I was a ten pound baby and am now -- erm, not. :: laugh ::
Honeycomb cereal from box = goooooooooooood. I never eat cereal with milk regardless.
22 inch neck = woof.
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Date: 2004-02-21 08:04 pm (UTC)I have been electrocuted quite often doing electronic work and crazy 'experiments', so I guess I am used to it. Those arcade 'shock testers' cant go high enough to bother me.
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Date: 2004-02-20 03:49 pm (UTC)Would you and your cubbybear like to start a bear commune with me?
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Date: 2004-02-20 08:47 pm (UTC)I should write a bio for myself...
Thanks for sharing Phil (ooh...people named Phil are sexy)
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Date: 2004-02-21 03:00 am (UTC)You are the perfect perfectionist. I can see you pain-stakingly taking your time and making sure it's complete. An excellent sense of pride in ones work.
You put milk on Honeycombs?? I never have either!!
And you are the god of DIY!! May I bask in your glory? If I should ever get to your level of handiness, I should only be so lucky. Mind you!, I am a mean Jack-of-all-trades myself. Just different fields I guess.
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Date: 2004-02-21 08:18 pm (UTC)I ppromise just a 'firm' handshake, how's that? lol
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Date: 2004-02-21 03:26 am (UTC)We're more similar than I ever knew, even.
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Date: 2004-02-21 10:48 am (UTC)I will remember to shake your hand gently if I get to meet you! ;)
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Date: 2004-02-21 08:24 pm (UTC)I have learned to control my grip, BUT, if someone grabs my hand and really lays into it, I am not responsible for the reaction. ;-)
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Date: 2004-02-23 11:54 am (UTC)That particular double entendre gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "perfect pitch."
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