\n1. My first career aspiration,when but a wee lad, was to be a stuntman, largely due to the movie Hooper<\/i>. It is the only dream my mother ever openly opposed.<\/p>\n
2. In 8th grade, I won a national programming award from Apple Computers for an animated program of a dragon that would perform tricks on command, such as eat hamburgers or smoke a cigar. <\/p>\n
3. I would probably be a much better programmer today had I not discovered Girls shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n
4. I once got a sled-riding accident gash on my head so gross that a housekeeper screamed uncontrollably upon seeing me. I still have the scar, though it is invisible, hidden by my right eyebrow.<\/p>\n
5. I have never broken a bone.<\/p>\n
6. I held (and may still hold) the Fairfield Senior High School Pull-Up record (37 pullups). Being a scrawny, skinny lad, no one saw it coming.<\/p>\n
7. My middle name is Jay and my brother’s middle name is Ray, and my father thought that would be funny.<\/p>\n
8. I used to have a rule where I would not spend more than $1500 on a car. Inflation has gotten the better of me as of late, though.<\/p>\n
9. I have a mind like a sieve, and there appears to be no rhyme or reason to what things I do remember.<\/p>\n
10. In 8th grade, I got lost alone in Mexico City for about 45 minutes, and a shoeshine boy bilked me for what I later found out was the equivalent of $40.<\/p>\n
11. I knew absolutely no one in the entire state of Georgia when I moved here on August 28, 1996.<\/p>\n
12. Up until I bought some swank walking boots a few years ago, I had exclusively worn white ReeBok Club C shoes with one red shoelace and one blue shoelace since sophomore of high school.<\/p>\n
13. I like percentages.<\/p>\n
14. I have had a son for 4.2% of my life.<\/p>\n
15. I have been married for 12.8% of my life.<\/p>\n
16. I have been an engineer for 33.1% of my life.<\/p>\n
17. I have been an improvisor for 51.5% of my life.<\/p>\n
18. One summer I disassembled a department store with a man named Pat who told me that “in the mountains, sometimes it’s hot, but sometimes it’s cold.” And I’m sure he meant it.<\/p>\n
19. For most of my life, I thought my grandfather was extremely dumb, because when I was young he had told me he thought he lived in a grain silo after I patiently explained that he lived in a house. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I reassessed the reason I thought he was stupid and realized he had just been teasing a young child. Early impressions are so important.<\/p>\n
20. I have never taken any sort of illegal or recreational drug.<\/p>\n
21. I am a staunch supporter of the legalization of all drugs.<\/p>\n
22. A couple years ago I researched my ancestors and debunked my father’s belief that his great grandmother had been French.<\/p>\n
23. Ryan Lucas means, in those name dictionaries, Little King of Light<\/i>, which gave me no small ego as a child.<\/p>\n
24. I once woke up after a sleepover in junior high, opened up the fridge, and watched as a flap on a Coke carton opened and shot two grapes at me.<\/p>\n
25. I can waterski very, very well.<\/p>\n
26. Various nicknames I have had in life: Arj, RJ, Snoopy, Scoop, The Blond One, Rest Home Ryan, The Hacker, Dinoczar and Boo-Yacht.<\/p>\n
27. I absolutely hate shipping anything, and I have an irrational fear of UPS and Fedex forms.<\/p>\n
28. I find the idea of strippers depressing, but the idea of prostitutes comforting, and I have no idea why. With the exception of the Clairemont Lounge, I have been to see neither.<\/p>\n
29. Briefs, Boxers, and Boxer-briefs. To everything there is a season.<\/p>\n
30. I buy 20 pairs of the same style sock at a time, so that I don’t diddle-dally around trying to find a match.<\/p>\n
31. I have never cheated on homework or an exam.<\/p>\n
32. I took the LSAT for fun once, though I have no intention of ever going to law school.<\/p>\n
33. I have lived in four different states: Ohio, Illinois, Louisianna and Georgia.<\/p>\n
34. I never memorized my multiplication tables.<\/p>\n
35. I have broken up with 2 people. <\/p>\n
36. I have been dumped by 2 people.<\/p>\n
37. 3 relationships just fizzled out without any formal ending.<\/p>\n
38. The fire alarm once went off in junior high while I was dressed as a woman for a class skit.<\/p>\n
39. I worked as an extra on the set of The Babe<\/i> with John Goodman, but I never bothered to watch the film.<\/p>\n
40. A friend of mine once drove 14 hours to visit me because he claimed a horse named Popeye told him to.<\/p>\n
41. As I was driving in downtown Fairfield, Ohio one evening, I unexpectedly saw my father standing at the side of the road. I pulled into a parking lot near him, got out, asked him what he was doing. He answered “waiting for the chicken.” I nodded, got back in my car and drove home.<\/p>\n
42. I did not know Ronald Reagan had been shot until I saw the musical Assassins<\/i> a few years ago.<\/p>\n
43. I can make a pretty good stirfry if I put my mind to it.<\/p>\n
44. I am 5 foot 11 and three quarter inches. I never grew that last quarter inch, and it bugs me.<\/p>\n
45. I can draw and juggle reasonably well, though not at the same time.<\/p>\n
46. My favorite comic strip is Doonesbury<\/i>.<\/p>\n
47. Virtually every woman I have dated initially thought I was gay.<\/p>\n
48. People tell me I make a weird sound at the end of sentences when I’m nervous, but I’ve never heard it and they can’t imitate it.<\/p>\n
49. I do not like talking on the phone.<\/p>\n
50. I am very sleepy right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}