Know Your Walrus - Week 1 - Topic: 41 Facts

June 12, 2012 - So as I mentioned last week, I'd be starting a blog project that Laela recommended to me. This is week one.  My assignment is this:  

Your favorite picture of yourself and one interesting fact for every year you’ve been alive.  

I couldn't narrow it down to one picture so I've got one from my childhood and one from adulthood.


Childhood: This photo was taken in 1983 on South Bass Island in Lake Erie.  It's probably the biggest fish I've ever caught.  Look at that shit eating grin on my face.  I was stoked.  I caught it right off of the dock in the background.

Adulthood:  So the above photo is Miranda and me at a Steak and Shake on our way to Cedar Point to celebrate Miranda's 12th birthday in 2008.  I think it's really representative of the relationship that we have.

And now on to the facts.  I'm not sure if it's supposed to be facts about me but that's the way I'm interpreting it.  I attempted to keep this about me as much as possible, but there were a few years that I couldn't come up with anything specific about me so you get random internet generated fact.

1971 - I was born in June. Face wasn't put together quite right, but the docs did a damned fine job of prettying it up for you to enjoy. Didn't get a dog.


1972 - My future old lady got bornded, spent first birthday in hospital getting prettied up. Didn't get a dog.


1973 - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed (you wouldn't be reading this without it) America's first space station, Skylab is launched. Didn't get a dog


1974 - Got a a sister....Didn't get a dog.


1975 - The Altair home computer kit allows consumers to build and program their own personal computers. Didn't get a dog.


1976 - United States of America's Bicentennial celebration. Didn't get a dog.


1977 - I started first grade at St. Clare, Star Wars was released. Didn't get a dog.


1978 - Transferred from St. Clare school to St. Bartholomew. Didn't get a dog.


1979 - My family moves to a new house and neighborhood. I miss Halloween because of the doctors had to  pretty me up even more. Didn't get a dog.


1980 - The Empire Strikes back was released. Didn't get a dog.


1981 - Atari 2600 for Christmas!! Didn't get a dog.


1982 - Pac Man released for the Atari. Didn't get a dog.


1983 - Return of the Jedi was released. Didn't get a dog.


1984 - Apple introduces the user-friendly Macintosh personal computer.  Didn't get a dog.


1985 - My family moved from Cincinnati, OH to Cape Coral, FL. My freshman year of high school in the fall. Didn't get a dog.


1986 - Discovered punk rock music and went to my first out of town concert, the Circle Jerks in Tampa.  I got my very first job making $2/hr straightening up a children's clothing store for 1.5 hours a day. Didn't get a dog.


1987 - Got my first car (a maroon1983 Datsun 310) and drivers license.  Got to see and meet my favorite band the Descendents in Tampa on my 16th birthday. Didn't get a dog.


1988 - Totalled my car after rear ending a friend's car....vowed never to drive again. Didn't get a dog.


1989 - Graduated high school. Didn't get a dog.


1990 - Skipped a college class for the first time to go skateboarding. Broke leg which would in turn result in me not being able to join the army....changed the course of my life. Didn't get a dog.


1991 - This was the year I moved to Columbus. Five months later I'd meet and begin courtship of Laela. Didn't get a dog.


1992 - Asked Laela to marry me on the anniversary of our first date...she said yes. Didn't get a dog.


1993 - Beanie Babies are introduced! Didn't get a dog.


1994 - Laela and I tied the knot after three years of dating. Didn't get a dog.


1995 - Laela and I bought our first home, a condo in north Columbus. I graduated from Columbus State and I started my first computer job as a technician for Incredible Universe. Didn't get a dog.


1996 - Miranda was born in August. Didn't get a dog.


1997 -Mike Tyson Bites Evander Holyfield's ear during a match and is suspended from boxing. Didn't get a dog.


1998 - Google is founded. Didn't get a dog.


1999 - George Lucas begins ruining the Star Wars Franchise with Jar Jar Binks and by releasing Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Didn't get a dog.


2000 - Y2K bug turns out to be a yawnfest. Didn't get a dog.


2001 - Apple releases the first iPod. Didn't get a dog.


2002 - Miranda picks up skateboarding as a pass time.  I in turn pick skateboarding back up after a few years absence. This would culminate with me meeting the men who would become my closest friends. Didn't get a dog.


2003 - Laela and I bought our current home, we GOT A DOG Indy, and I started what would by my final job as a network consultant with the Ohio Department of Job and Family services.


2004 -SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately-funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.


2005 - I take a man-cation with my buddies in Las Vegas, NV.  I rent a scooter while I'm there and this infects me with two-wheeled mania.


2006 - I buy my first motorcycle a 1983 Yamaha XV500 "Virago."  Laela lands her dream job as an associate children's librarian with Worthington Libraries.


2007 - The Final Harry Potter book is published Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


2008 - The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.


2009 - Trained for and ran the Columbus Marathon.


2010 - I was diagnosed with incurable stage IV lung cancer and given six to eighteen months to live. Took the vacation of a lifetime with my family and began my quest to ride a motorcycle in all 48 contiguous United States. (Too many things to mention this year...consult past blog postings if interested)


2011 - Finished riding my motorcycle in all 48 states. Miranda begins high school.


2012 - Still flipping the bird to the 1st 2010 fact
 
Edit: June 16, 2012 - I changed the title this morning to "Know Your Walrus - Week x" because I thought it sounded better than "Getting to Know Me." That just invoked the song from The King and I