Zarephath

"Nothing can be redeemed unless it is embraced." -- St. Ambrose
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." -- Augustine

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I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm chemical engineer from Kansas, married for 13 years to a Jewish New Yorker ("The Lady"), with 6 children: Pearl and Star, adopted from India; The Queen, adopted from Ethiopia; Judah, adopted from Texas; Little Town; and our youngest, Little Thrills. I have previously lived in Texas, California, India and Kuwait. The Lady also blogs at pilgrimagetowardspeace.blogspot.com. DISCLAIMER: I have no formal training in any subject other than chemical engineering.

Monday, February 11, 2013

15 Things You Wish You Didn't Know About Me

1. I once returned a rental car because the cup holder did not fit my favorite coffee mug.

2. If there is a television on anywhere within my field of vision, I cannot help but to stare at it. It doesn't matter what is showing, or if it remotely interests me, or if I can't hear the sound, or if I'm trying to have a conversation with someone else - my eyes are drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

3. I had a very brief hip-hop career, consisting of 4 performances. The first one was in Compton, CA.

4. I have been drunk (and hungover) once in my life. It resulted from a night of smoking and drinking with a preacher and a missionary.

5. Although I'm from Kansas, I always pronounce the word "coffee" with a thick New York accent.

6. My sophomore year in college, I wrote a weekly opinion column for the school newspaper. I received nearly 200 pieces of hate mail (mostly email). A few of them were actually deserved.

7. I was fired from my first job after 6 weeks - by an assistant manager who was also a teenager.

8. I will still do almost anything for free food.

9. I watched the movie Spice World - with an entire house of guys who spent most evenings watching professional wrestling.

10. I hate chewing gum.

11. I have never purchased a television (and didn't even own one for 5 years).

12. The Lady and I like to joke about being polygamous. We decided that the plural of "spouse" is "speece."

13. In the past year I've seen only 3 movies and haven't been to a theater - but I continue to read several movie reviews every week.

14. There are few scenes more beautiful to me than wide-open spaces of ranchland.

15. I believe that coffee is a sacrament. I came to this conclusion in attempt to justify the amount of coffee spilled on myself, my clothes, my books, my cars, and our carpets - they have been baptized in coffee.

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1 Comments:

Blogger Kris Roney said...

I have just re-discovered your blog and will now be chuckling all the rest of today. And Im not making that up.... you are just plain funny

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