5 Things
Well, even though I kind of forgot to carry on the last meme I was tagged with (sorry, Shalini!), I will go ahead and make my way through here. The same disclaimer Epicanis supplied when he tagged me applies here.
Five Things I was doing 10 years ago
- Attending my sophomore year in high school
- This time of the year was district band season, so I was making the district honor band and actually practicing my euphonium.
- Joining the Cross Country team.
- Preparing for my drivers license examination
- Working on Driftwood (my one time pad encryption program written in QBasic – How embarrassing!)
5 Things on my “To do” list today
- Setup a meeting to get some data automatically fed into my system (done)
- Have dinner with my friend Tara
- Purchase sandwich bags at the store
- Check my ongoing Chlorophyll experiment to see where I’m at there.
- Check out an episode or two of this seasons’ Big Bang Theory.
5 Snacks I love
- Cheese and Crackers
- Popsicles (the sugar free ones taste better)
- No-bake cookies
- Sunflower seeds
- PB & J
5 Things I would do if I was a millionare
- Build a house with crazy home automation (and all those other goodies like a home lab, recording studio, two stories library, hidden rooms / passageways, observatory etc.)
- Get my souped up Mac Pro
- Visit New Zealand
- Quit work and get my doctorate.
- Purchase a Dodge Viper
5 Places I’ve Lived
- Osage City, KS
- Bennett Springs, MO
- Lebanon, MO
- Kansas City, MO
- Butler, MO
Hmm, that one makes me sad…
5 Jobs I’ve had
- Insulation Installer – I put the fiberglass insulation into private homes.
- Sheetrock Grunt – Yeah, carrying sheetrock from the lumberyard to the job site. While it was on the truck, all was good. Other than that… not so much.
- Work Study at the SOE – From my first day on campus here at UMKC, I’ve working in the same department.
- Web Developer – This was a shitty job and turned me off to ever developing for other people ever again. I still do it anyway.
- Audio / Visual Tech – My Current position. My actual job isn’t any like the title.
People I’ll tag. This means you have to do this same thing:

