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I like things in either pairs or in multiples of 5. Odd numbers not ending in 0 or 5 freak me out.

I HATE HATE HATE spoons... and those freakishly long salad forks for that matter, too. Give me the heebie jeebies.

My family and I have this long-running inside joke in which we steal silverware from chain restaurants. We have amassed a collection from Olive Garden, Red Robin, Chilis, and Macaroni Grill.... funny thing is, we never use the silverware.

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yes, Russian is a very hard language, but Chinese is harder! I will learn it too ))): Инга а кто тебе сказал что руский язык очень сложной и трудной.Ты как думаешь - справляюсь я или нет с этого трудного языка.Имей в виду - я не Русин.Вот ето мой второй талант - а первый ты наверника угадала - ЛЮБОВ к Лед Зерр.

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I'm somewhere in my mid 50s these days - so much for dying young and leaving a good looking corpse.

I'm an agnostic, tried religion for a while. Became a Wiccan high priest. Decided that it didn't fit.

I like drag racing and have been messing with hot motorcycles for about 35 years. My current rides are a Kawasaki ZX-14 and a turbocharged 1400cc Suzuki Hayabusa.

I'm on my third career. I spent 12 years as an automotive machinst & engine builder. Another 20 as a software engineer. Now I own a company that does spray polyurea coatings work. ( http://www.durablecoatingsystems.com ).

Now and then I mess around with cameras both below and above the water line. Some of my underwater photos are at http://homepage.mac.com/emarsh/PhotoAlbum6.html. I've posted some pics from a recent sailing trip at http://gallery.me.com/emarsh#100179.

I've got some pretty extensive musical tastes. My current new hot group is Pink Martini. ( http://www.pinkmartini.com/ )

Used to drink and party a lot. Went to AA and got clean over 25 years ago.

I'm a member of the Dale Volunteer Fire Department.

I own a 100 acre ranch with a lake in Central Texas (http://www.tikiacres.com)

I'm very interested in science, especially astronomy. There's lots of cool stuff being learned about the universe almost daily.

I've got an 1988 Fiero that I bought new. I made it into a project car and assembled and installed a 450hp 406" small block Chevy motor in it.

I love most all things Italian, especially their cars and their opera.

I'm a former board member of the Polyurea Development Association ( http://www.pda-online.org )

I keep an AK-47 on leaning on the wall next to the door to chase away coyotes and other irritants.

I started the Lake Travis Underwater Cleanup when I saw a bunch of beer cans on the bottom that were tossed out by boaters and decided that's just not right. ( http://www.keepaustinbeautiful.org/underwater )

I that wish I could compose music but just don't have that talent.

I've got eight or nine cats and a dog named Bodhi.

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i love books-and own close to 3000.

my favorite writers include hunter s. thompson, william shirer, peter maas, herman wouk, and edgar rice burroughs.

my local vinyl record store closed this weekend. i picked up some vinyl cheap-mostly dupes of moody blues, the who (on decca), humble pie, and some prince 45's. all zeppelin and beatles were sold out....

i've had many careers: broadcaster, jeweler, consultant, changing tires on giant earthmoving equipment, building sets and stages, chef, and ironworker.

i co-founded a theater company in chicago 13 years ago.

i watched katrina roll through my city whilst sitting on my back porch, smoking (something), and cringing everytime someone's carport hit my house. i survived!

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yes, Russian is a very hard language, but Chinese is harder! I will learn it too ))): Инга а кто тебе сказал что руский язык очень сложной и трудной.Ты как думаешь - справляюсь я или нет с этого трудного языка.Имей в виду - я не Русин.Вот ето мой второй талант - а первый ты наверника угадала - ЛЮБОВ к Лед Зерр.

Many years ago, I worked in an academic library for 6 months. Some books were titled in Russian, so I had to be able to translate the letters in the titles from cyrillic into English in order to shelve the books properly. I didn't actually learn to speak Russian, but in translating book titles I did learn some words :)

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I used to be Muse - I left for a while. I figured I'd pick a new name when I got back because, while the band 'Muse' are OK, I never listen to them and people kept confusing me with a super fan, when in reality I pulled the name from a Jethro Tull song, but that's another story.

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I'm crazy about Led Zep.

I'm crazy at all.

That's why you're here I suppose :P

well... I'm crazy too, I love draw, play, write and listen to music... I would like to go in Scottland (that's one of my dreams and maybe next year I will realize it) and learn to speak english wery well ('couse my english is very very bad now).

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I used to be Muse - I left for a while. I figured I'd pick a new name when I got back because, while the band 'Muse' are OK, I never listen to them and people kept confusing me with a super fan, when in reality I pulled the name from a Jethro Tull song, but that's another story.

Hi there Muse! I mean Metal Box--I'd been wondering what happened to you! :wave:

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