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100 Things about Brian Painter

1. I was born on March 27, 1981.
2. I have lived in the same state for my entire life.
3. I have one sister.
4. People usually think she is older than me.
5. Actually she is two years younger than I am.
6. I had an imaginary friend when I was young.
7. His name was Michael Jackson.
8. I was excited when I heard his name on the radio once.
9. When I was young I enjoyed playing on “Bee Mountain” in my
   backyard.
10. “Bee Mountain” was actually an old tree stump.
11. When I was young I was fascinated by fire.
12. I still am.
13. I received many spankings because of it.
14. I have had the same best friend since Kindergarten
15. I scar easily.
16. When I was young I got my stomach pinched in a machine in
    a peach shed
17. It left a scar.
18. My first car was a Toyota Tercel.
19. I bought it from my uncle for $1.
20. I passed my driver’s test on the first try
21. Using a manual transmission car.
22. I would rather drive in reverse than forward.
23. I have had my picture in the paper.
24. I have never broken any bones.
25. I have never been in the hospital.
26. I am fascinated by sharks.
27. I am terrified of polar bears.
28. I was the State Treasurer for the Future Business Leaders of America in high school.
29. I get nervous speaking in public.
30. I do better speaking in public if I do not practice.
31. I have never raised my hand and asked a question in my college career.
32. Perhaps that is why I failed Freshman English.
33. I’m a certified advance open water scuba diver.
34. My two favorite books are “Hatchet” and “My side of the Mountain”
35. Both are about survival in the wilderness.
36. I have never run out of gas. (in a car)
37. I like vanilla ice-cream the best, but only if it has the bean specks in it.
38. I am not good at video games.
39. I usually drive 15 miles above the speed limit.
40. I have gotten several speeding tickets.
41. I got my first real job when I was 15.
42. I quit when I felt I had been discriminated against.
43. I learned this would not be the last time I felt this way.
44. I hated taking pictures until I got a digital camera.
45. I used to know how to play the saxophone.
46. My marching band in high school marched in Disney World.
47. I don’t like blue flavored things.
48. I have been outside of the United States.
49. I have visited more than half of the 50 US States.
50. My favorite state was Arizona.
51. I can drive a motorcycle.
52. I can also wreck them.
53. I say car” wreck” while most people say car” accident”.
54. I wish I could speak conversational Spanish.
55. I took two years of Spanish in high school.
56. Broccoli is my favorite vegetable.
57. There isn’t much food that I don’t like.
58. I also say “crank the car”.
59. Val makes fun of me for saying that.
60. I am not very good at listening without offering my advice
    or opinion.
61. Strawberry ice-cream used to be my favorite.
62. Orange Crème bars are also great.
63. I dislike talking on the phone.
64. I would much rather talk by email.
65. Or better yet in person.
66. Dilbert is my favorite cartoon.
67. Calvin and Hobbes used to be before it stopped.
68. I do not like to shop.
69. Unless it is online shopping.
70. Waffle House is my favorite place to eat.
71. Fried Okra is my favorite fried vegetable.
72. I’m running out of things to write.
73. Putting a wish list on my website was the best thing I ever did.
74. I used to be on the swim team of our neighborhood pool.
75. In one swim meet my swimming suit fell down around my ankles.
76. I stopped and was disqualified rather than finish in the nude.
77. Since then I always tie my bathing suits very tight.
78. I work on my webpage more than I work on my homework.
79. Hopefully I’ll still be able to get a decent job.
80. I took 4.5 years to finish college.
81. I forget good ideas if I don’t write them down.
82. AirWolf was one of the best TV shows when I was little.
83. Bud Light is my favorite beer.
84. I thought that if you could read directions, you could
    cook.
85. I learned that the timing of when things are done is the
    hard part about cooking.
86. I like to sleep with my feet sticking out of the covers.
87. If I don’t know the answer to something I’ll tell you my
    best guess instead of saying “I don’t know”.
88. I like taking online classes.
89. I don’t mind taking tests.
90. I don’t know if I can think of ten more things.
91. If I had to choose between summer and winter… I would choose summer.
92. I usually fall asleep on my side, and wake up on my back.
93. My dog ran away on Halloween 2003.
94. It wasn’t my fault (it was Andrew’s).
95. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food.
96. I enjoy trying to convince others that having a webpage is cool.
97. So far I’ve been able to convince two people to get one.
98. Three is my favorite number.
99. This was harder than it looked.
100. I finished this on 1/31/04, 26 days after I started.