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(i scribble too many random secrets.)
dating
i’ve dated too many models since i was 21; it only
confuses me.
i love the most beautiful woman whom i remember ever speaking to me;
a woman i love is speaking to me again.
impeccable women fascinate me;
intelligent women captivate me;
when an educated women speaks, it is like sunshine on my ears.
i terribly miss every past girlfriend; only when i’m not dating someone.
living
my children are the product of the time that i spend with them.
working at home epitomizes quality of life;
i’m home when my children go to school, every day;
i’m home when my children come home;
i go to the gym every day in the middle of the day; whether or not i
want.
i see my friends and family whenever i want;
i work when i want, i play when i want, i eat when i want, and i sleep
when i want.
i go eat out whenever i want, or i cook whenever i want;
i travel with my children whenever i want;
my recent trips were the caribbean, europe, and minnesota;
i’ve just returned from las vegas, salt lake city, and wisconsin;
i’m planning three trips in the next six weeks.
i'm in florida today.
i have a rare freedom.
The LORD blesses me for decisions i’ve made.
childhood
i’m the same age as brad pitt and johnny depp.
my parents stayed married; i’m not afraid.
i was raised in a loft apartment with cream brick walls and hard maple
floors;
i was raised downtown, in coffee shops, health food co-ops, and music
stores;
i was raised on the steps of the state capital, and political rallies in
the park;
my grandmothers let me play at their horse farm and lake house.
my mom made my wooden toys, stuffed animals, mittens, and my
lunch box;
my mom worked in a factory, and still she canned garden food.
my dad taught me to drill straight, paint straight, shoot
straight, and go to church;
my dad taught me to play chess, debate, and publish logically; and find wildflowers.
a newspaper interviewed me about the economy when i was 11.
i’ve snowmobiled, played hockey, and raced on a cross country
ski team;
i’ve ice-fished; i own my own snowshoes;
i’ve camped in the snow and listened to howling wolves while i
slept;
i’ve seen moose and bears in the minnesota
wilderness;
i can survive in the forest in the winter.
i’ve lived in my car, a car which cost $275;
i moved into an apartment flat with a lake view.
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as a child i always rode the city bus by myself for 10¢.
i’ve hitchhiked and picked up hitchhikers;
i give money to homeless people even though i know i shouldn’t.
i’ve been beaten to the ground daily by a gang of indians;
i’ve written advocating racial equality, gender equality, and economic equality.
i grieve over the loss of my dad; but my grandma and mom love me.
i talk to my brother almost every day;
i once shared an apartment flat with my younger sister.
marathoning
i ran a mile in about 4:30, two in about 9:30, three in about 15:30;
i ran five miles in about 27:30, and ten in about 60:00.
i ran a marathon last year; and will run one this year.
i won 6 conference championships;
i made it to state;
area coaches voted me all-conference three times;
my teammates voted me mvp three times.
travels
i've flown one thousand times;
i’ve been to the caribbean nine times in three years;
i’ve been to the ukraine, romania, hungary, and slovakia;
i’ve been to central america;
i’ve been to italy and mexico
very recently;
i’ve been on a bus, a taxi, a train, and an airplane all in rome.
i want to take someone to tahiti and paris;
i want to take my children to jerusalem and doubravka.
i’ve lived in minneapolis, st. petersburg, tampa, milwaukee, and kansas
city;
i’ve lived in voree and lake geneva.
i work from new york to california; most often in salt lake city, las vegas, and phoenix.
i believe that zion is in jackson county;
i’ve lived on mormon road.
i’ve lived where i had a grapefruit and orange tree in my backyard.
i’ve lived on the water.
i don’t like boats, swimming pools, or fishing;
i’m building a lake house;
i’m afraid to start.
guy-stuff
i own fine guns in the calibers of .22, .25, .38, and .45; 9 mm; and
12-gauges;
i have the equipment to make my own bullets.
i have my own drill press, table saw, and router;
i used to be a professional woodworker.
i bought my first suv in 1993 and my first vw in 2008.
i disproved carbon-14 dating when i was 14;
my adult i.q. was 150 when i was 15 and it has not been measured since.
i invented the electromagnet propelled and levitated train;
i didn’t invent the internet.
i have a beer label from a brewery named for my great-great-grandfather;
i have an oil painting of my great-grandfather painted by my grandfather;
i have a mainframe computer built by my father in the 1960s.
my favorite childhood smell was black rubber curing in our kitchen;
i like the smell of melting tin/lead solder on my electronic games;
i like the smell of the chocolate factory filling my hometown;
i like exotic hardwoods, quarried stone, fine metal, and handmade glass.
employment
i’ve founded a publishing company named after someone else.
i’ve been a doorman, bellman, and chauffeur at the “playboy resort & country club.”
i ran a bay-side sushi restaurant before sushi was popular;
i’ve taught wine classes;
i’ve managed
the top dance club in florida;
i’ve been a dishwasher, and waiter;
i’ve
been a director of restaurants.
i burn hardboiled eggs.
food
i’ve taken naps as long as i can remember.
i’m always hungry.
i eat breakfast at midnight.
i’m allergic to yeast, wheat, milk, and eggs;
my favorite breakfast is an egg and cheese sandwich.
my favorite dinner is wild-caught salmon, cooked medium.
i do not like vegetables, and i eat them anyway;
i do not like sweets, and i eat them anyway.
i dislike pork so much that i bought nopork.org;
i like blue jeans so much that i bought fitjeans.com.
economics
i’m an successful economist but not a respected
economist.
today’s economy scares me.
i wrote this before the economy scared everyone else.
i predicted the fall in oil prices and the rise in gold prices.
i have more money in the bank today than i’ve
ever had; i’m only thankful.
values
i read the king james bible when i was 11;
a playboy bunny had a crush on me when i was 18;
i reread the new testament in a broom closet when i was 18;
i played backgammon with a playboy bunny only when there was no work for us.
i’ve never stolen a library book.
i’ve estimated my expenses but still paid my taxes, and even skipped deductions.
it’s not that i date younger women; i’ve dated 29-year-olds since i was 21.
my best friend is more than a half century older than i am.
parenting is my most important quality.
i value marriage and i have integrity.
i have authenticity.
goals
i want to learn to play the piano on a michigan
island;
i want to learn to fly my own plane over lake michigan;
i want to learn to sail my own boat on lake michigan;
i want to shipwreck dive under lake michigan.
i want to run for congress in wisconsin’s 1st
congressional district.
i have no hope to do everything that i want.
i must finish writing twelve books.
i intend to surf in the next year in hawaii and never surf
again.
i’ll never have time for golf and similar pastimes.
i have inspiration, and a mission in my life.
satisfaction
i’ll never have time to finish everything that i’ve started.
i spend most of my time doing things for other people;
people always think i should do more for them.
i feel guilty for never doing enough;
i feel guilty for doing too much.
i text while driving; i wrote this while driving.
i’m content, but want more time;
my impatience has waned with each lost year.
heights
i roofed a church;
i restored a house built before wisconsin was a state;
i like the architecture of barns, silos, and windmills;
i fell airborne out of a hayloft.
i do not like air travel;
i missed a flight that later missed the o’hare airport for a foggy crop field.
people are curious about my expensive suitcases and transported artworks.
i like maps and gps.
my height is almost 6'-2".
hurts
i get hurt when i love a woman;
i get hurt when i give to people;
i still give to people when i get hurt;
Jesus blesses me when people hurt me;
Jesus rewards me for adversity;
my heart will always be shredded; at least i have a heart.
my heart has hurt so bad i thought it was unbearable;
my heart has hurt so much that i thought God had stopped listening.
i’m a different person today than a year ago but my integrity never wavers.
people who hurt me are never blessed;
someone who cheated on me is being cheated on now.
fears
i worry that someone will discover that i know nothing about
entertainment;
i know nothing about sports, music, television, or movies;
i know something about science, politics, religion, and geography.
i worry that stupid people will think that i am stupid;
i never care that professors constantly ask me to give them knowledge.
i worry every day about my son being accepted as bright and coordinated.
i want more children like the ones i have.
i don’t like sleeping alone anymore.
education
i was in college when i was 17 and grad school when i was 32;
i’ve researched at harvard, yale, and princeton;
i’ve sat for a week in the new york public library, and the boston public library.
i’m more likely to read a newspaper from 1838 or 1848 than 2008.
i’ve never had a college course in history, art, or literature;
somehow i’m famous for my knowledge of historical art and rare books.
a president of the u.s. did something personally for me;
i did something personally for a mayor of my city.
i have tens of thousands of books, manuscripts, and b&w prints;
i’ve bought a one million dollar book more than once.
church
i do not like defending myself.
i go to a church so small that it has 24 hickory chairs and an outhouse;
the true church is persecuted by people who think it is wrong to be so
few.
i think mega churches will have a mega gate:
“for many there be which go in thereat” (matthew 7: 13-14)
is monumental.
snowflakes and stars increase my faith.
i do not live for today, i live for eternity.
i believe woolly mammoths actually roamed north america;
i believe that jonah was actually swallowed by a whale.
my favorite scripture is: “if ye love me, keep my
commandments” (john 14:15).
paul does not make me unaccountable, according to the actual words of Jesus.
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