From: i	Date: March 3rd, 2002 05:10 am (UTC)		(Link)

quite a life!

	From: minn	Date: March 3rd, 2002 05:42 am (UTC)		(Link)

> 50. 'met my wife on the internet

I met Chris on the internet, too! We'll be meeting 'in person' this summer. And I have already said "yes." ;-)


> 17. 'was at the Salt Lake City airport and saw a woman I had never met before coming down an escalator and unconsciously yelled "OH WOW" loud enough that everyone within hearing looked. I asked her to marry me a week later and she said yes.

Aww, Ed! You are such a romantic! :-)


> 26. 'saw a ufo

Tell us this story in detail? Please?

	From: i	Date: March 3rd, 2002 05:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

wow! you've agreed to marry someone you haven't even met??? talk about being a romantic!

	From: minn	Date: March 4th, 2002 12:33 am (UTC)		(Link)

Sounds bizarre, huh?

As Pascal said: 'The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.

	From: laurelo	Date: March 3rd, 2002 08:52 am (UTC)		(Link)

What a great list, you are one intertesting individual!

	From: hisbeauty	Date: March 3rd, 2002 09:07 am (UTC)		(Link)

Wow .. what a life so far ...& you still have much more to live :)

	From: grammardog	Date: March 3rd, 2002 09:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

You know that no one else is going to attempt this after reading YOUR list, right?

:)

	From: nder	Date: March 3rd, 2002 01:59 pm (UTC)		(Link)

bah- we all ahve interesting lives, it's just a matter of how you relate the details :)

	From: grammardog	Date: March 3rd, 2002 03:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re:

I actually don't believe that to be true... our lvies are interesting to our selves, but not necessarily interesting in the grand scheem of things...

	From: nder	Date: March 3rd, 2002 05:00 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re:

i usually find the opposite- people find themselves to be ordinary, then i ask a few questions, and find that they're far from it- and I've had a quite over the top existence at times.

	From: edbook	Date: March 3rd, 2002 07:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I agree with Kieth, everyone has an interesting life... how you see your experiences makes them mundane or adventures and how you word them also... look at some resumes to see the really mundane become important. and then again, if one is looking for adventure it will find him/her––often more than what they bargained for...

Peace

	From: alphadiva	Date: March 3rd, 2002 10:26 am (UTC)		(Link)

My list would be severly boring in comparison to yours.

	From: jaarronn	Date: March 3rd, 2002 10:51 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Gee Ed....

I'm really sorry you've had such a dull and uninteresting life, but there's still time left - you should try to get out a bit more often, maybe take up a hobby, like photography... `;> )

	From: intuitivemotion	Date: March 3rd, 2002 09:54 pm (UTC)		(Link)

you are a regular James Bond. some of your experiences give new meaning to 'friends in high places'. :) amazing.

	From: anoisblue	Date: March 3rd, 2002 10:27 pm (UTC)		(Link)

</i>'was at the Salt Lake City airport and saw a woman coming down an escalator I had never met before and unconsciously yelled "OH WOW" loud enough that everyone within hearing looked. I asked her to marry me a week later and she said yes.</i>

You know you have all the women "aaaahing" in delight with this one, don't you? How romantic and daring and just - cool.

Your list was so exciting and unusual I found myself glad I hadn't done half of it! You're lucky to be alive! Phew.

	From: edbook	Date: March 3rd, 2002 10:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I just looked at my list again and counted quite a few of the things that I wish wouldn't have been my experience... maybe I need to make a list of things that I was glad to have happened or something like that... I got inspiration from some of the things you listed––I'm sure they were obvious to you. (it's lots easier to add to the list when reading the things on other's lists––they trigger lost memories to surface...
Peace

	From: anoisblue	Date: March 4th, 2002 09:09 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re:

"... maybe I need to make a list of things that I was glad to have happened or something like that... "

That's a great idea! I was also thinking of doing a list of all the things I've wanted to do but doubt I will ever really do. Like learning to scuba dive.

	From: aerynmoo	Date: March 7th, 2002 04:50 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Wow...

My life seems so boring in comparison. But then again, I'm not even 18 yet...

	From: edbook	Date: March 7th, 2002 06:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Wow...

and if you want to live to the ripe young age of 54, you'll avoid about half the things on the list.

Peace

	From: zasu	Date: October 16th, 2003 06:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

where's the part about when you lifted a big ox named babe over your head and carried her over the mountains or something like that? :P

hey, i think my father was a nuclear reactor operator - or safety .. guy - when he was 18 years old. shows you how seriously they took their safety back then.

	From: edbook	Date: October 16th, 2003 10:05 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: PS

the ox comes in the 100 list...

I think he may have been a little older than 18 because the schools are a couple years... and I think there was a mature crowd in the field then because they only took the top 4% of those testing which meant that most had some college if not a degree and we had only four surface nuclear ships... now, we have 15 nuclear carriers and many more other nuclear ships... a few less submarines but so many more people in the field... and back then there was a draft for the war that a lot of college folks were trying to avoid... now, with the volunteer military, it seems like most in the service are there to have a job... I think we were a lot safer then... and I worked in the nuclear field for 21 years after the navy and saw the change in the quality of operators... that we have been safe all these years says something about the safety requirements of the navy compared to the civilian nuclear program.

Peace

	From: zasu	Date: October 16th, 2003 10:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: PS

this wasn't for a submarine or in the military - he was working for battelle in ohio. i'll have to ask him the exact age, but seems to me we've talked about him being a teenager.

he has the mind of an engineer, but never the training.

	From: edbook	Date: October 16th, 2003 10:18 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: PS

that makes sense then, he probably worked as a radcon (radiation control) worker... just a bit more training for radiation safety than a regular worker... and all the civilian reactor operators are either ex-navy operators or with nuclear engineering degrees and better pay... much better... (in civilian nuclear power) but also the possibility of much higher radiation exposure... (didn't he tell you that's why your three ears are green?)

Peace

	From: zasu	Date: October 16th, 2003 10:22 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: PS

no, but he mentioned it was why he was rendered sterile before he married my mother :P