Have You Ever

Another of Sheila's #@$#@@*( memes.

Affirmatives in bold.

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink - Yeah, but the joke was there were two other people there.
02. Swam with wild dolphins - Yeah, that's a big sport on the Great Plains...
03. Climbed a mountain - I walked up a very, very tall foothill when I was in Colorado the first time. Being a lowland kinda guy, I think it counts.
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula.
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said 'I love you' and meant it
09. Hugged a tree - but only as a joke
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights. - That's one of the things I miss about autumn and winter in North Dakota.
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa - The Dom in Köln and the Cathedrals in York and Freiburg!
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables I have a garden.
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby's diaper - I figured about 12,000 of them.
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
31. Asked out a stranger.
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier.
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster - Once. I have a problem - if I ride a ride more violent than the bumper cars, I chunder. Every time.
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day - Many ways. I played Henry II in Lion in Winter, I've spent entire days speaking nothing but German when I was there (and I have always done the accent well enough to fool most non-Germans) - and when I was in England, Scotland and New York, adopted the local accent just to see if I could pull it off. By all indications, I could.
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors - Been to Scotland, England, Germany and France, so technically, sort of.
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer - Hah! I have THREE on my main desktop box! All your base are belong to me!
49. Visited all 50 states - 25 and counting!
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced - story of my life, in high school and college...
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country - At a party in Basel.
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving - Soon!
63. Visited Ireland - Ireland, Schmireland. I've been to Scotland. My anscestors pillaged their anscestors.
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love - Nope. Not with a person, anyway.
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight - Close, but no cigar.
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke - I do Bruce VERY well. And I once had an entire bar dancing to "Jump Around" by House of Pain. And I do an impeccable Johnny Rotten, although Sex Pistols are very rare at karaoke...
72. Lounged around in bed all day - that is so not me.
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better - Oh, Lordy, I dream about dumping Windows and going Linux at home...Er, I've just blown any chance for a date, haven't I?
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman - I didn't sully the purity of a swordfight with any such thing.
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight D'nD, Traveller, and Twilight 2000. I think the record was a weekend with two 11 hour sessions of Traveller in one weekend, back in college. Ooof - now I've really hosed my social life...
90. Gotten married - Oy, vey.
91. Been in a movie - Was a gaffer and an audio guy on a couple of indies. Suppose that doesn't count.
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy .
95. Gotten divorced - Double oy-vey.
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo- Came perilously close once. Long story.
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason.
106. Masturbated in a public place long long ago
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music - I have a four-track cassette player. Back when I had a band, I wrote and recorded demos for about 100 songs. We also recorded a five-song cassette in a real studio once. In a perfect world, it's what I'd do for a living.
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check - Oy, vey.
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country - Exotic? Well, I biked around Holland a lot...
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. ...more than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived.
140. Wrote articles for a large publication
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone's heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job - Many, many times. I was in radio; you never quit jobs in radio.
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being - in my heart, many times.
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced - someone stabbed me in the hand once. I bet that's not what they're looking for.
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol - All three, plus a submachine gun and a few assault rifles. Not simultaneously .
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon - Longtime goal.
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours - That is so not me.
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground - Gotta say, this is a bit down on my list of priorities.
169. Been a sperm or egg donor - only if you count conceiving two kids...
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime - Do they mean having had two healthy relationships that lasted more than a year? Or two healthy relationships at all, regardless of time? Or...oh, fugeddaboutit. I don't qualify in any case.
173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about- I changed a local politician's mind on concealed carry reform about five years ago.
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school - Taken classes, but ever "gone back" fulltime.
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch - Several musical instruments. Does that count?
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions - Are you kidding? I love my highschool reunions! But I doubt I'll ever attend a college reunion; at least, not for my own graduating class. Most of my real friends in college graduated a year ahead, or 1-3 years behind, me.
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language I
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you - Music!
195. Had a booth at a street fair .
196: Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ - At five radio stations, about 20 bars, and at weddings and parties.
198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199: Written your own role playing game - Not the whole game, but I wrote a character generation guide for Twilight 2000. I was going to sell it to Game Designers Workshop - but the company tanked. So I turned it into a website. It sort of turned into the default character generation guide for the game, worldwide.
200: Been arrested