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My psycho wife tagged me with this meme crap… and since I love her and bide by her every whim here it goes…

Seven Things I Want To Do Before I Die
(Hopefully MUCH sooner than later)

1. Get a degree
2. Join Mensa
3. Take my wife around the world to exotic places, but not do ‘touristy’ things.
4. Get back into excellent shape (be able to hang out in just shorts and not have to suck my gut in all the time )
5. Quit working for ‘the man’
6. Become known as the best at SOMETHING… I’m pretty good at a ton of things, but I want to be a freaking demi-god at something.
7. See my kids reach their goals/dreams

Seven Things I Cannot Do
(this is going to be really hard for me.. not bragging.. I just believe I can do anything given enough time/resources)

1. Give control to someone else (I need to work on this one)
2. Admit defeat
3. REAL programming/development (Have not had the patience)
4. Accounting (Don’t have the patience… never will)
5. Finish this category

Seven Things I Admire In My Spouse/Best Friend

1. Loyalty
2. How she sees the good in everyone
3. How she loves almost everyone
4. The way she does that thing with her… oh.. sorry.. I can’t say that here
5. How she is always in a good mood, or acts like it (this is also her Achilles heel since she never gets it out)
6. Her nurturing nature
7. How she always laughs at my dumb jokes

Seven Things I Say Most Often

1. It’s not Scottish (SNL.. meaning it’s crap)
2. Jackass (most people seem to fall into this category at least every now and then and it is SUCH a fun word to say)
3. Yeah, I’m going to have to disagree with you… (Office Space)
4. Why did you do that? (Usually to one of my kids for doing something I perceive as being stupid)
5. What? / Huh?
6. Was that my outside voice?
7. Yeah man, but it’s a dry heat (Aliens.. and appropriate a lot in Dallas)

Seven Books or Series Authors I Love
These are in order

1. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (no other book even comes close)
2. Dry Water by Eric S. Nylund
3. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
4. Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
5. Signal to Noise / A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund
6. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
7. The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (I don’t think any relation)

Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again
(back to being in no particular order)

1. Terminator 2
2. The Matrix
3. Groundhog Day
4. The Last of the Dogmen
5. A Fistful of Dollars
6. LotR: The Return of The King
7. Aliens

Seven Songs I Can’t Get Enough Of

1. Enter Sandman by Metallica
2. Reborn by Stryper
3. I Love A Rainy Night by Eddie Rabbitt
4. Paperthin Hymn by Anberlin
5. No One Like You by Scorpions
6. Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens as performed by Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel
7. No More Tears by Ozzy

Seven People I Tag With This Meme because I don’t want seven seconds of bad luck or some crap like that…

MaskedBlogger - because he’s being a thorn in my side
Buzz - because I’m betting that he dislikes memes as much as I do, but I bet he’ll do it for me.
cmhl - because she makes me laugh
Empress - because Buzz will try to tag her and I want to piss him off beat him to the punch
Etherian - because she needs to put some more stuff on her site
Wendi - Because I suck
solonar (dangit… somebody just tagged him)
Genuine - because I’m convinced he doesn’t like me anymore

Genuine and his stinking heart of chocolate made me do this.

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