OK here it is, my list of one hundred things you may or may not know about me:

100: I will be 34 yr. old on 4/28/68
99: I am frequently uncomfortably hot, even if it’s cool. Could be a metaphor.
98: I am the proud father of the most beautiful soon to be 5yr old girl I’ve have ever seen. Her name is Madison.
97: I love anything of the highest quality and craftsmanship, even if it’s something that I’m not into.
96: The sight and smell of disturbed poop makes me gag, be it baby, dog or what not.
95: I think talking about poop and pooping is funny.
94: I have been to about 30 states, I’d have to count, and four foreign countries; Australia, Canada, Mexico, and Holland.
93: I measure six feet and one inch tall, I weigh fourteen point six stone or two hundred and five pounds.
92: There is a motorcycle in my garage that doesn’t belong to me. (Don’t trip)
91: I love motorcycles, all motorcycles.
90: I love racecars, all racecars.
89: I always wanted to be a race car driver.
88: I never wanted to be a DSL technician.
87: I have lived in twenty-two different places; ten with my parents, twelve after moving out.
86: I have had fifteen cars and four motorcycles; two Datsuns, one with the roof cut off and spray painted flames, one VW Van and four Beetles, a Renault, an Austin Healey, a Mercury Capri with a performance suspension kit, an old Nova which was in fact a long term loaner from my brother, a Ford Ranger, a Ford F-150, a Mitsubishi pick up, and now my stately Volvo.
85: I have had six jobs and four careers.
84: For many years I have occasionally had the same dream of lying helpless in a dark gutter and getting shot in the back, but it doesn’t hurt.
83: At my current rate, I’ll not retire for at least thirty-one tears.
82: I have two siblings; one brother, one sister, both younger.
81: I was born a bastard.
80: My (natural) parents were wed when I was three months old.
79: I was born in Norfolk VA on April twenty-eighth nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.
78: Lived in Marion IN for ten years.
77: Moved to San Diego officially in nineteen seventy-nine, had spent much of my youth here w/ relatives before that though, consider myself a de facto native.
76: I am, for the most part not a porn fan.
75: I have some lumps and a bald spot on the back of my head due to a bad spill I took when seventeen.
74: I have a form of Muscular Dystrophy; that makes me a “jerry’s kid.”
73: I read Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, The Babe Ruth story, and started Moby Dick when I was in second grade because no one told me I couldn’t.
72: I love to read. Henry Miller, Paul Theroux (no relation) recently turned on to Jack Kerouac.
71: My dream job is an ex-patriot travel writer. See #72
70: I am not now, nor have I ever been “athletic.” See #74
69: I love bicycles. Especially high-end custom work. The type doesn’t matter, just the workmanship.
68: I think about Leo Ellis at least once each day.
67: Vocabulary is a passion for me.
66: I hate people who would scoff at someone’s quest for eloquence.
65: As a boy I wanted to be an engineer, a chef, a racecar driver, writer, a motorcycle racer, a bicycle designer, builder, racer, adventure traveler, meteorologist, I also wanted to be an astronaut until I found out those guys are in the military.
64: I am sometimes slow to jump on the bandwagon, i.e. this list
63: My only real aspiration I can recall is that I wanted to be great. Very relative term, “great.”
62: I sometimes set lofty goals for myself and rarely follow through.
61: I can at this point in my life say, ”I am in love” and not question myself about it as I’m saying it. One of the only times I have had such true resolve. Thank You Melanie.
60: I hate mayonnaise, catsup, and mustard.
59: As a boy, I never aspired to be a house cleaner, a plastics fabricator, a construction worker, or a telecommunications technician. The funny thing is that I have served in each of these capacities.
58: I love music, all sorts of music though I could NEVER tell you what my favourite song or band is. It changes with my moods.
57: I am moody.
56: I have a small “skin tag” on my right nipple, as a youth my friends called it my third tit.
55: My hair used to be completely straight until age nineteen when I shaved my head. I then decided to let it grow untouched for one year as an experiment. When it did it was the curly mess you see today.
54: I am an alcoholic. Though I don’t drink that much anymore.
53: I have regularly used substance of some sort since age nineteen.
52: I got drunk for the first time in ninth grade, the same day that I ditched school for the first time.
51: I smoked pot for about eight years, five of those were all day every day, quit cold turkey for nearly six years, started smoking again, and able to keep it in perspective, loved it more than ever.
50: I have done at one time or another most of the better-known drugs. Not a boast.
49: I am anal-retentive
48: I am a control freak.
47: I can seem pessimistic, though I’m not really. It’s a defense mechanism.
46: Bugs and spiders do not phase me for the most part.
45: I am “little girl” afraid of snakes and reptiles.
44: The moon moves me, always has.
43: Golden Girls is a show that I would never watch.
42: I grew up on Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley, Zoom, and Speed Racer.
41: My brother stayed home sick from school the day Ronald Regan was shot and he saw it live on TV.
40: I played soccer for one season when I was twelve. This is the only actual sanctioned form of team sport I ever participated in. My team came in dead last for the season. I hated it. See #’s 70 and 74.
39: I am a purported clean freak.
38: I love movies, all sorts of movies, though I could NEVER tell you what my favourite movie is. It changes with my moods. See #57
37: I have been SCUBA certified since age eighteen. I rarely dive.
36: I have parachuted twice.
35: I have bungee jumped once.
34: I am a major Elvis Costello fan.
33: Some people think Kirby is my first name.
32: I would rather take the stairs instead of the elevator. My cut off is about five stories, unless the elevator is crowded, in which case I will always try and opt out.
31: I have crapped in a dumpster in the City Gym parking lot, on the side of the Logan Heights exit from the Coronado bridge, on the side of a residence, and in my pants more than once as an adult.
30: I have never pee’d my pants as an adult, close though.
29: I recently scored 67% gay on an online gay test.
28: I am not gay.
27: Carne Asada fries from La Posta are my favourite food right now. Get’m at least once a week.
26: I love the sea.
25: I love to be alone. I do so occasionally.
24: Contrary to #’s 70 and 74, I won the blue ribbon at field day in fifth grade for high jump. It was a fluke. I saw a guy on TV who used a strange technique called the Falsbury Flop. I adopted it and it worked. I was able to clear the bar w/ ease compared to the other styles the more athletic kids used.
23: I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. Left the scene at age fifteen came back at twenty-five, left again at thirty. Religion is just not in my heart, as much as I wanted it to be.
22: I once failed a typing test for work. The failure point was twenty-wpm. I scored nineteen, I was allowed to take it again because it was so close. I scored sixteen.
21: My scrotum was cut after it hit the gooseneck of my bicycle on a failed jump. Sounds worse than it was.
20: I have a strange walk.
19: I worry WAY too much.
18: I say totally, and dude WAY too much. I hate it but it’s hard to quit.
17: I hate to fish.
16: I used to fill crushed aluminum cans w/ ants and float them in my dogs dish and pretend they were a navy of sorts.
15: Murder movies bother me. It could be real and that wouldn’t be very entertaining now would it.
14: I talk too loud and too much.
13: I once drove from Vancouver Wash. In a Datsun pick up w/ the roof cut off and a pvc pipe and shower curtain fashioned into a roof. It was the last week of Dec. It sucked. We had one tape, Devo on side one, Toy Dolls on side two. We did have a large bag of grass.
12: I absolutely love anything Disney, esp. Disneyland. Disney is in my heart.
11: I love Survivor and once considered it the best show TV has ever come up w/.
10: The Osborns is the best show TV has ever come up w/.
09: I don’t like pets. I don’t dislike animals, I just have no need to interact w/ them.
08: I have met Elvis Costello, Chrisy Hind, Mick Jones and the rest of the Clash.
07: I got my first pair of Nike’s in nineteen seventy-eight. They were white canvas w/ a baby blue stripe. I spilled red Kool aid on them the second day.
06: I have had my appendices removed.
05: I have never had my tonsils removed but I have no tonsils.
04: I am not a fan of cold rainy cloudy weather.
03: I can sometimes be impatient.
02: I wish a lot.
01: God damn that was hard.