The Laughing Wolf

20 Random Things

Well, I've been tagged by Zammers to list 20 random things about myself. In no particular order:

1. I have been presented to royalty, a Queen, by a Playboy photographer
2. I have 5 static line parachute jumps
3. The reason I don't have a free-fall jump is that we had problems with repacking the chute after that 5th static line, and as I was starting to jump I was told "If it doesn't open, just reach behind you and beat the hell out of it with your elbows." I caught a handhold and went back into the plane
4. I only jumped chutes I packed
5. My very first jump took me through a cloud, and it was bright, moist, and peaceful -- one of the most wonderfull experiences in my life and over way too quick.
6. I was a virgin until my 20s
7. In high school, I played the trumpet and while in college was in a fortunately short-lived band known as the Devastation Hall Jazz Band
8. In middle and high school I was in the Chorus, as well as in church youth choir
9. By the time I was a junior, I was singing first bass, but was (and still am) flexible enough to handle most bass and baritone parts
10. I am sadistic
11. I will always regret not forcing Dad's doctor to get us the morphine patches we asked for instead of using the liquid the twit gave us
12. An aunt who lived on the coast could call the dolphins, and get them to come up to us.
13. Dolphins are wonderful, and I suspect many tursiops are smartass
14. As a pilot, I have never gotten sick in a plane
15. I am told that I did turn an interesting shade of green flying through some weather that popped up, but I did not get sick -- too busy.
16. It scares me that I only feel fully on and alive in a crisis, particularly a life or death crisis, but damn what a rush
17. I have seen more than one ghost
18. I was born allergic to almost everything
19. One of my fondest memories of a lover was simply holding them, inhaling their scent, and listening to the sounds of their body -- peaceful it was
20. I have yet to begin to live

I am not going to tag anyone, but do sort of throw it out as a challenge

LW