DocAndersen
You are joining Fortune’s five random facts about your challenge today!
I won’t bore you with the ones you already know. Yes, I am a geek. I spend most of my time designing and building solutions that are 100% technology focused!
- I have been to all 50 US states. But, I have only spent two days in Alaska, and four days in Idaho. The states I’ve visited the most – Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin!
- I have lived outside the US (in Thailand), but did you know I was a member of a Global Team at work for four years and traveled all over the world?
- I was a professional cook many years ago and considered going to the CIA (the Culinary Institue of America! A cooking school)
- I have been married twice. I always tell people the first one didn’t take. I can say I had the same best man at both weddings!
- I only wrote poetry for many years. I started blogging in 2005 and branched out from there.
I won’t be sharing a poem today; I don’t like to share more than four posts ever (my issue). Thanks to everyone and please feel free to join the challenge.
The picture with this post was of my dad and me when I was tiny!
Hi, Doc, for a moment there I thought you meant the other CIA. Then could have swopped some corny cracks, from back in the day. The rest of what you wrote kind of more or less fits the mental profile I had of you. Except for the poetry part.
thanks pal! you are so right, which is why i spelled it out.
Now, I live near the other CIA>
Amazing. I did not know those facts about you. Thanks for joining my challenge.
i am glad you started it! i couldn’t find a link to the challenge on your profile sorry i would comment on yours as well!!!
You have really tasted the world by travelling to many countries.
I see you’re an expert in cooking. Sometimes I stay hungry because of laziness to cook.
i love to cook! i have been very lucky in getting to see a lot of the world!
Virily driving me crazy with this sensitive touch reply option
i get the duplicate comment error all the time!
Every time I scroll down with just one touch, I end up clicking on someone else’s reply.
it is truly annoying, but it is only one error of many
Oh yeah tell me about it. I cannot wait for the edit to come back. I have so many typos that I need to go back and fix, as well as removing certain images and videos that did not upload properly, smh.
Whenever I post something I cross my fingers that nothing fails. It’s always something though.
i do not think edit is coming back. In fact if we don’t see ads again soon I worry that Virily is coming back.
And I never noticed the ads were not posted like usual. The ads were one thing some of my outside readers complained about
they were the primary way this site made money. I don’t know what is happening right now.
Uh oh. How long has it been since they have not had them on.
about a week give or take (maybe a little more than a week). there could be a really good explanation for this.
I would love to go to Idaho and Wisconsin at some point but h*** no to Alaska
Alaska is amazing and has a number of really nice running races!
How are the temperatures in Alaska.
Fairbanks, when I was there (2 days), was roughly 48 degrees.
And what a coincidence because that is what our temperatures are today in Chicago : )
Fairbanks has the warm water flow from Japan and actually is very pleasant until the dead of winter when the nights are really long.
I have just submitted the 5 facts about myself. LOL
thanks for joining the challenge! always fun to learn about those writing on Virily!!!
I am not going to do this challenge but I will share an interesting fact about myself. I speak sign language because my parents are deaf and I also am a Sign Language Interpreter.
you should hang out with Ghostwriter who is also proficient in Sign Language.
And, good for you helping others!
This is great. I will tell her. But I am afraid American sign language and Spanish sign language are not 100% similar.
the action, rather than speaking at that point might be more interesting. Who do you work with (the two of you can share)!
I worked as Sign Langauge interpreter in many areas, education, health services, polices…I even did trials. I worked with deaf people of course and as my parents are deaf I always practice this language.
you honor your parents every time you sign!
that is an awesome thing to have done. I am really impressed!
Thanks a lot. It is a very beautiful language, I can say it is my first language it opens a new area of your brain. I recommend everybody to learn sign language but people are unaware of this language as deaf people are a minority.
my wife knows some, and of course, you can download the ASL application on a smartphone. It isn’t perfect but conveys a basic message.
Visiting the 50 American states must be a great experience. I want to do it too.
i did it over the course of 10 years, I didn’t think about it when I was sitting at 30 states. But a buddy of mine starting bragging that he has been to 35. After that, it was on! i hit 50 before he hit 40!
I would love to go to Idaho and Wisconsin at some point but h*** no to Alaska
Alaska is amazing, they have races in Fairbanks!
Beautifully said. Welcome to the Group Therapy. haha
i like that – it really is the introduction of each of us! thanks! you made me laugh this morning~
I just feel like we are in a group therapy. good to know that I made you laugh. Watch out with mine, I hope my revelations will not be too surprising.
i will watch for yours! thanks I do like the group therapy idea!
I will look forward for your comment on that. It is just that I am still figuring out which ones of my secrets are acceptable enough. haha
i am always concerned from a cybersecurity perspective, what I give out publically.
Yes that’s why I don’t like those gadgets, although I don’t have any information that would be very interesting to hack and find out.
so you have an interesting point and one that I tell people all the time.
if you don’t have something a hacker can turn into an asset quickly, you are not likely to be a target!
Spend an hour hacking Mavis123456 to get some money.
or hack a bank and get 10,000 dollars or more.
🙂
Haha I know upon reflecting I realised that they can hack my mylot and virily earning. Haha which are not even enough for payouts haha.
it is the sad reality of the world.
but that doesn’t mean someone won’t try just that you are more likely to be caught in a bigger scheme!
Thank you for sharing some trivia about yourself. Maybe you can have a part 2 of this.
things start getting scary if I share part II
My daughter is about to graduate from culinary school. I love to cook as well. Share some of your recipes with us.
happy to share some recipes!
i was just about to go to the CIA in West Baden Indiana but things didn’t work out.
thank you for sharing and nice to know more about you.
most of what I shared I have talked about before. I kept the dark secrets to myself!
I just cannot believe that you would have skeletons in your closet, Doc. I always compared my family in my first marriage as the Addams Family and also my second time around in Latvia but then I was content to be Morticia to his Gomez. We were an odd couple. And you should have seen his brother who could hardly come up to breathe so far he was into the bottle and met with an untimely death.
I have a few – there were times when I did some pretty stupid things over the years. My first marriage was a huge mistake.
Very interesting facts, dear friend ….. now I’ve learned a little more about you
i am happy to provide some more details!
It’s really nice to meet you, dear friend … I’ve got to put it together
i am glad you found value!
And I also value that value very much, my friend
that is very kind of you to say pal!
Awesome facts, some are new to me. Now I feel embarrassed to show my cooking experiments, haha.
But i was a cook, not the pastry chef. I am always amazed at your desserts!
I found out some new facts about you. You have a very interesting life.
i have been blessed with many special people in my life. thank you!!!
I knew some, and the others were a surprise about being a professional cook.
The photo is incredible.
i didn’t want to copy yours by saying I played keyboards in a band in college, and trumpet in middle and high school@
I knew some of these, while others I did not. This is a cool challenge. Always love that pic of you and your dad. Grandpa took that if I remember correctly.
you remember correctly! some of these things have been shared before you are right!
It’s good that I learned new facts about you Doc. Your father was a handsome man ..
yes dad was! thanks! fun challenge to get information about!
Can’t wait to read some of your poem 🙂
i usually post them on Saturday and Sundays probably more than 100 by now.