Feb. 23rd, 2005

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This was, actually, an interesting enough meme that I thought I'd do it. Trying to not be TOO specific, while getting uniqueness (at least among LJ friends) was quite some work.

1) Bicycled accross large chunks of western Europe. (Italy, Monaco, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.)
1a) Bicycled along part of the course for the Monaco GP while they had it repaved & resurfaced for the GP, and walled off from traffic, with the boards up and everything, but still let bicycles on it. That was the BEST road surface we rode on the whole bloody trip. Glass smooth.

2) Attended over 100 science fiction conventions.

3) Rode and dropped a motorcycle on the Shanonville race track. (The corner monitor figured I was doing about 80mph when I went down, I think I probably was a bit slower, I probably started braking at about 80, but managed to scrub a bit of speed before I locked the front wheel and went down.)

4) Achieved Air Canada Aeroplan Elite status. (Yes, I travel a fair bit for work.)

5) Played in a World championship Bridge event. Didn't win, but didn't disgrace myself either. I did learn just how damn good the world class players are, though

6) Dated a woman 14 years older than me. Hm... oops... that isn't unique, actually now that I think about it, since I think [livejournal.com profile] northbard's #7 might be related to an older woman if I remember the incident properly.

Maybe, instead, I should go with:
6a) Offered my motorcycle to a friend at an S.F. convention for escape from a jealous husband. :)

7) Jumped out window of my 2nd floor dorm room at university because my dorm-mates had "secured" the door shut from the outside.

8) Wheeled Fritz Leiber around an S.F. convention in a wheelchair.

9) Swam in a cold lake in Quebec on May 24 weekend. Repeatedly. Year after year.

10) Fixed bugs in a commercial operating system's kernel. If that's not specific enough, qualify it a bit more as, "in a commercial micro-kernel operation system's kernel".

11) Stayed awake for 68.5 hours straight. Then, went to sleep, got up 4 hours later, and walked home.

12) Bug-fixed and enhanced a character-graphics RPG game. (It was/is called Omega and is in the same family as Hack, Larn, Moria, Nethack, Ancient Domains of Mystery, etc.)

13) Took two partners to a work event. (Work summer BBQ one time, work Christmas party another time.)

14) Been mistaken, repeatedly, by several different people, on several different occasions, for [livejournal.com profile] thatguychuck.

15) Burned a book. Actually a bunch of them.

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