1. Cadet for the Dept. of Public Safety, Eastern Kentucky University. That's sort of a security guard. What they were called by the students were "toy cops." This was, shock of shocks, my first job ever. It was the Summer of 1986. I did get to wear a uniform, and I worked night shift - 11pm to 7am. I walked a beat on campus between those hours with a set of keys for the buildings on that beat. If I found a door unlocked that shouldn't have been, I had to check the dark, creepy, empty building to see if anyone was there - fun. I once caught some bad guys - who were teenagers trying to sneak into a girl's dorm with a bunch of cheerleader camp girls in it. They were hiding under a bush and I made them come out and shined my toy cop flashlight in their faces. Niiice. Power. My call number was 206 - oh, mostly what was on campus at night in the Summer, were cats - and I'd take naps on benches with my radio up high. The rest wont' be this long I promise.
   
   
2. Temporary worker at such jobs as furniture moving, drafting, lumber yard worker and general flunky for a mine engineering shop. I once poked holes in the outside of that metal building while driving a forklift up next to it - woops! I didn't say anything - hey, it was just a metal building, crap. And the lunch call over the loudspeaker at that place was the lovely gravely-voiced supervisor yelling "BEANS MUTHER FU**ERS!" Haa! Classic.
   
   
3. Orderly at Patty A. Clay Hospital in Richmond, Kentucky. Both the last one and this one were early in mine and Liz's marriage. Again, I was on night shift as what is really a glorified Nurses' Aid. I grew up around a hospital so I was familiar with the territory. On that job I performed CPR on several dying people (I think I cracked a very old woman's ribs once), held towels on a bleeding gunshot wound in the head of a 17 year old boy in the ER, worked in the Operating Room one day a week cleaning after surgeries (Liposuction and C-Sections are nasty), and saw my first child, my daughter Katey, born.
   
   
4. Tackle Manager at an Orvis dealership - handled the fly fishing department ordering, buying, stocking, selling, etc. I worked in that store off and on for 4 years or something. I taught fly fishing schools, fly tying classes, sold expensive and very well made fly fishing equipment to many people and met some stars. We also sold gifts and clothing. I sold a shirt to Charlie Daniels once, nice guy. I met Albert Finney as he was wandering through the store with his friend he was visiting in Lexington. He was also a nice man.
   

1. I don't really set goals for myself. I suppose that puts this category down a bit doesn't it. I suppose if there is some kind of "goal" it would be to, as always, be more consistent in prayer and being who I'm supposed to be as a person, father, husband, and pastor. I'll start making up things if I talk any more on this.
   

1. The Quiet Man (imdb) - John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald
2. Jeremiah Johnson (imdb) - Robert Redford
3. The Shawshank Redemption (imdb) - Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
4. To Sir, with Love (imdb) - Sydney Poitier
   

1. Harlan, Kentucky - I was born here in 1966, as was my Father, his Father before him, and before him; last person in my direct family tree not born in Harlan was born in North Carolina in 1802.
2. Richmond, Kentucky - I went to college here at Eastern Kentucky University at age 17 in 1984. I lived there until after I married Liz and we had our first child. We moved to Lexington in 1990.
3. Lexington, Kentucky - That's it folks. I've only lived in 3 places in my life, all in Kentucky. I've lived in probably a few particular "places" in all these places but not many. I think I'm glad of this. I think, perhaps, as I see it now, I will live around here for good. Unless, of course, when I am old, God sees fit to send me to Ireland.
   

1. West Wing - I am a sad boy. This my now favorite show has been cancelled. In May I say goodbye to the Bartlet Whitehouse.
2. CSI - both the original in Las Vegas and Miami. Fascinating stuff.
3. ER - been watching it from the beginning, still a great show.
4. Boston Legal - All I have to say is.... Denny Crane.
   

1. Charleston, South Carolina - I have been vacationing there since I was a small child. I have relatives there and there's a beach. Liz and I had our honeymoon in a condo on the beach in Isle of Palms. I probably played on that beach when I was a kid.
   
   
2. 10th Anniversary road trip - Liz and I drove to Topeka, Kansas to visit our good friends Keith and Stacy Townsend. We then went South to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, stayed in a hotel there for a couple of days and prayed evening prayer with John Michael Talbot at his monastery one night while there.
   
   
3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Gatlinburg and Townsend, Tennessee. We have stayed in Gatlinburg proper and walked the tourist-trodden streets. I actually like it but not for a long time. We have camped in the Park on the Little River a few times.
   
   
4. Cape Cod - Liz and I flew up one year to visit our friends the Souzas who live there in Falmouth. We were able to go over on the ferry and stay one night on Martha's Vineyard. Martha was pretty cool. I didn't see any Great White Sharks (they filmed Jaws there). Very cool place. We drove up the Cape one day, as well, and stopped in Orlean and chanted the evening prayer in latin with the robed monks at the Community of Jesus there. We stopped and ate in a local seafood place in Hyannis on the way back and thought of the Kennedys.
   

1. Man, you want me to pick favorites!? What the? All the blogs on my list mostly. I don't know. I use an aggregator sometimes, reluctantly. I like actually going to the sites. To pick 4 out of like 40 though, I can't do it.
   

1. Chicken, that glorious bird, in many and various forms
2. Indian and Pakistani (almost the same) - grew up eating Pakistani food (yes, in Harlan!) I think I especially love Lamb Saag - aaaaaaahhhh - oh my - chapatis and dahl - I think I'm hungry now.
3. Chinese - and no, I've not eaten and snake hearts or fish heads. Just well made more than likely fairly Westernized Chinese thanks.
4. Grippo's barbecue potato chips - Oh, My, God! Cincinnati's finest - spIcy! Unique flavor - most amazing chips on the planet.
   

1. Home - I'm at work at the moment. I wrote most of this last night at home.
2. Fishing - even in the snow, on some nice Trout stream.
3. A Monastery - probably Gethsemani
4. Ireland - just generally I often think I want to go there. I always promised myself by the time I was 40, but that's soon approaching and I seriously doubt it will happen by September.
   

1. Liz - that's my wife.
2. Debi - have you done this already?
3. Chris Marshall - you're layin' around in a cast dude, you got time to do it.
   
4. Bryan Sherwood - I'm talking to you on IM right now - prying minds want to know.
   

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