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Get to know the team: gbsothere
gbsothere:
Disclaimer: I took the lazy route, I'm afraid, and recycled an old "get to know" form I used on the Charter board, with minimal updating.
Name: Gid
Age: 60-something
Location: Nashville
Quote: "What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?"
Forum URL: I have several.
* Do you have pets? All that's left is an old cat who won't go away.
* What is your favorite color? Depends on what we're talking about. I like green but not on bread. I like blue but not on any of my extremities.
* What kind of music do you like? I'm old, so... Classic Rock. Classical. Folk, Jazz, Blues, Blue Grass, some Country, Alternative, Americana, etc.
* What do you do in your free time besides spending time on SMF?I'm retired, now, so besides keeping tabs on my forums, I hike, fish, read, do a little writing. Used to do a bit of climbing but I'm losing my nerve. *grin* I dabble with a bit of poetry and prose, which, somehow, relates to the upcoming question "Do you drink?", since one is the direct result of the other.
* What are your goals/dreams in life? I'm a new (Grand)Pappy. I want to be good at it.
* What got you involved in SMF? I chanced upon it, researching forum software when I wanted to create a place for some old friends to stay in touch. You see, I really am just a run-of-the-mill "forum owner". It's not just some self-deprecating statement of protest I make when something's over my head (and most things are).
* Who do you admire? Why? *thinking* Brett Favre. Tom Petty. Robert DuVall. Douglas Adams (RIP)... and others. (They all honed their particular skills to excellence.) I suppose I should have tried to impress you by saying Gandhi or Mother Teresa; it would have made me sound more profound.
* Are you into sports? If so which ones? I like NFL football and college football. I can enjoy other sports, i.e., baseball, basketball, etc., but not to the same degree.
* What is your dream job? I retired from my dream job. (It was music-related and now I'm done.)
* What was your first screenname?(I'd rather Google didn't pick that up, here.) *grin*
* Do you have any piercings? No.
* Are you a lefty/righty or ambidextrous? Right-handed for most things.
* Do you have any tattoo's? If not do you wish/plan to get one? One.
* Do you have any siblings? If so, how many of each? I have a brother.
* What is your favorite website? Hard to say. I like RatherGood.com when I'm in a weird mood. I do enjoy ghosting around on this site; I try to learn something by gleaning through old support threads.
* Do you play computer games? If so, which ones? I dawdle around with a few online games, but they're of the card/puzzle/word/strategy variety. I play them idly and absentmindedly, while dialing down.
* Do you play video game consoles? Which ones? Wii, when my son comes over and bullies me into it.
* Are you married or planning to get married? I finally went down the aisle in my old age.
* If so do you have any kids? Yes.
* How many kids? One. He's my buddy, the father of my granddaughter and a hell of a drummer.
* How many languages do you speak? If so which ones? Mainly English. Anything else gets me by as a tourist.
* Do you drink? Scotch.
* Do you smoke? Pipe.
* Did you play hookey from class? Oh, my, school.... I vaguely seem to remember that I did attend school. *grin* I'm sure I must have played hookey; everyone did.
* Do you have a license? Yes; driving, fishing, hunting...
* Do you own a car? Yes, several.
* Have you ever been stopped for speeding? I'm afraid so.
* Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily? No, and the older I get, the bigger an issue it becomes.
* How do you sleep? How? I start out on my back... *grin* Is that what this means?
* Have you ever been on an airplane? Yes.
* Have you ever broken a bone? Yes.
* Do you wear jewelry? If so what jewelry do you wear? Not since I retired; back then, the occasional pair of cufflinks or pocket watch. I'm sans-jewelry, now, with the exception of a wedding band.
* How do you dress? Happily, now, in jeans or sweats. I literally put my ties into a shredder. (I made quite a ceremony out of it.)
* How many keys are on your keyring? Eight
* What time do you go to bed? What time do you wake up? I promised the doc I'd try to turn in by 10:00 PM, but I lied. I'm up around 6:00.
* What's the freakiest thing you have done? Freaky? Well... I pretended to be a narcotics agent once in Nashville, when I got caught in a place late at night where I wasn't supposed to be. I flashed a "badge" and demanded to know why the person questioning me was there. I must have been convincing; he backed down and left. (Not exactly "freaky"...)
* Do you live alone? No.
* How many hours a day do you spend in the computer? I still have a few things I haven't retired from that require me to spend a few hours in the mornings and I confess, I linger, when that's done.
* How many hours a day do you spend in SMF? Not as many as I'd like, but I enjoy catching up when I'm here.
* What is your favorite beverage - coffee, tea, soda, beer, other? Scotch (Bowmore, Balvenie, so on and so forth). I do drink a lot of coffee and tea (since that's on the list of suggestions). One must.
* What do you hate? Noise. Crowds. Traffic. Television commercials. Boom boxes.
* What do you love? My new grandchild. *grin* Literature. Wildflowers (don't laugh). A fire in Winter, the clicking of my grandfather clock, a musty old book and my pipe.
* What is your religion? Protestant, I suppose.
* What is your hair color? It was dark, but I'm graying at an alarming rate.
* How tall are you? 6 ft.
* How much do you weigh? 175 lbs.
* What's the feature on SMF you can't live without?
* As an administrator? As an admin, I like the fact that SMF makes me look smarter (to my users) than I actually am.
* As an end user? I like the ease of navigation and a fairly consistent performance.
* If you had 2 things to change about yourself, what would they be? My temper and my foul mouth. I want to work on that before my little granddaughter realizes that Pappy is a jerk.
* If you had one thing to change about the world, what would it be? I wish that, in general, the world (it's populace) was not so overly sensitive. It seems that so many look for reasons to be offended. I wish we all had tougher skins and stopped demanding that everyone else censor their thoughts and expressions to accommodate us.
Doctor Deejay:
Nice to know you. :) Do you laik cookiez? :D
Kill Em All:
--- Quote from: gbsothere on October 02, 2010, 02:34:35 PM ---If you had one thing to change about the world, what would it be? I wish that, in general, the world (it's populace) was not so overly sensitive. It seems that so many look for reasons to be offended. I wish we all had tougher skins and stopped demanding that everyone else censor their thoughts and expressions to accommodate us.
--- End quote ---
You sir are my hero.
DoctorMalboro:
It's odd... my grandmother (R.I.P.) was able to sleep like 10 hours, and most people from her same age didn't sleep more than 4.
Nice to see you in the team. ;)
Joshua Dickerson:
You're from Nashville and listen to some country? Isn't that sacrilege?
NFL team? NCAA team?
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