For some reason posting personal info about myself feels like standing on a 60 foot cliff at Hells Canyon. I see everyone else has done it and survived but it still seems scary.
I have decided to use the boilerplate intro with a few modifications.
How did you find CUF? I was on the original cougar-net email list back when everyone had either a AOL or .edu email address with a 2400 bit modem. I then was part of CougarBlue when Dick Harmon was still with the Daily Herald and eventually was sucked into the blackhole that is cougarboard. During one of my many whiny, whoa is me posts, about being suspended I asked what other boards BYU fans frequent. RC Viking (I had to go back to my old boardmail to remember who) told me about CUF. It was several months and lifetime CB parole that finally brought me over here.
What do you like about CUF? I really enjoy a more mature discussion, I enjoy the fact that good threads aren't lost with a page turn, I like that many of my favorite CB posters are also here, I like there isn't nearly the Zoobie-Yewt pettiness of other forums.
What don't I like about CUF? I could do without the vulgarity and I don't like how much time this has been occupying for me recently. Honestly, one of the biggest things I dislike is how I behave online. It is much too easy for me to be sarcastic, condescending, and generally immature. I am often much too quick to post fleeting thoughts or retell old stories that I would be wiser to left untyped. I worry I too easily regress into my pre-angel Alma the Younger days (90% of the movies I referenced in the 80s thread I wouldn't allow into my home now, yet from my posts I recall them with much too fond of memories). I need to work on having less of a desire to entertain and impress and more to inform or add something meaningful to a thread. I wish I could be more like PAC and make my comments less frequent yet more worthwhile.
How did you choose your moniker?
I always like Seinfeld and thought a moniker used by a fictional character was clever and original when I first joined cougarboard. However, when I went to use it as a nickname in other forums I quickly discovered I was not nearly as original as I credited myself for being.
What do you do (other than read CUF)?
It is safe to say that 90% of free time is in either church meeting or at one of my kids' ballgames or practices. I don't enjoy pickup basketball much anymore because my brain still thinks I'm 21 but my lack of quickness, hops, and reflexes reminds me otherwise. I generally come home in a bad mood for playing like a crappy old man so I have pretty much given up the sport I have always loved.
I like to golf, but don't make the time to go enough to play at a level I would like to. Every year I claim I will start taking my boys with me but somehow life and other commitments get in the way.
What goals do you have left to accomplish?
To have Tripletdaddy and/or Seattle Ute quote me in his signature someday.
How many states have you lived in?
I have lived in Oregon, Constant Confusion, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Virginia.
What are your sports loyalties?
BYU Football, BYU Basketball, and the Portland Trailblazers. I use to watch the NBA and NFL religiously. With age my passion has greatly waned, I watch parts of games on occasion but rarely devote 2 solid hours to the any TV viewing.
What's your standing in the church?
I'm sure by this board's standards I would be considered a mullah (a term I never heard thrown around so accusingly until I discovered LDS message boards). I wear a white shirt tie and suit every Sunday, I generally like most sacrament meetings, Gospel Doctrine lessons and even kind like hometeaching.
Neither my wife or I was raised, nor now has any desire to live in, Utah. My father is not LDS but is one of best man I have ever known. He supported 2 sons on missions and he and my mother stood outside 3 different temples without complaint while their children got married.
There is much I don't understand in relation to the Church's current and previous social policies, but try not let it take away from those things I do believe to be true. I don't know if I will always feel this way, but at this time I truly feel like I need the church, its programs and its teachings to deal with the struggles of raising a family. The LDS church would certainly do fine without me, but I'm not at a point where I would be fine without it.
Are you famous for anything?
Other than being one of the very first to rush the field after the Miami game and marrying a woman who dated the son of one of the more famous non-GA Mormons while in HS? No.
Are you looking forward to Wuap's welcome question and what do you think it will be?
Much like a pitcher with a filthy curve ball even if I know what is coming I will be lucky if I get enough bat on the ball to foul it off and hope he makes a mistake with his next pitch.
I have decided to use the boilerplate intro with a few modifications.
How did you find CUF? I was on the original cougar-net email list back when everyone had either a AOL or .edu email address with a 2400 bit modem. I then was part of CougarBlue when Dick Harmon was still with the Daily Herald and eventually was sucked into the blackhole that is cougarboard. During one of my many whiny, whoa is me posts, about being suspended I asked what other boards BYU fans frequent. RC Viking (I had to go back to my old boardmail to remember who) told me about CUF. It was several months and lifetime CB parole that finally brought me over here.
What do you like about CUF? I really enjoy a more mature discussion, I enjoy the fact that good threads aren't lost with a page turn, I like that many of my favorite CB posters are also here, I like there isn't nearly the Zoobie-Yewt pettiness of other forums.
What don't I like about CUF? I could do without the vulgarity and I don't like how much time this has been occupying for me recently. Honestly, one of the biggest things I dislike is how I behave online. It is much too easy for me to be sarcastic, condescending, and generally immature. I am often much too quick to post fleeting thoughts or retell old stories that I would be wiser to left untyped. I worry I too easily regress into my pre-angel Alma the Younger days (90% of the movies I referenced in the 80s thread I wouldn't allow into my home now, yet from my posts I recall them with much too fond of memories). I need to work on having less of a desire to entertain and impress and more to inform or add something meaningful to a thread. I wish I could be more like PAC and make my comments less frequent yet more worthwhile.
How did you choose your moniker?
I always like Seinfeld and thought a moniker used by a fictional character was clever and original when I first joined cougarboard. However, when I went to use it as a nickname in other forums I quickly discovered I was not nearly as original as I credited myself for being.
What do you do (other than read CUF)?
It is safe to say that 90% of free time is in either church meeting or at one of my kids' ballgames or practices. I don't enjoy pickup basketball much anymore because my brain still thinks I'm 21 but my lack of quickness, hops, and reflexes reminds me otherwise. I generally come home in a bad mood for playing like a crappy old man so I have pretty much given up the sport I have always loved.
I like to golf, but don't make the time to go enough to play at a level I would like to. Every year I claim I will start taking my boys with me but somehow life and other commitments get in the way.
What goals do you have left to accomplish?
To have Tripletdaddy and/or Seattle Ute quote me in his signature someday.
How many states have you lived in?
I have lived in Oregon, Constant Confusion, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Virginia.
What are your sports loyalties?
BYU Football, BYU Basketball, and the Portland Trailblazers. I use to watch the NBA and NFL religiously. With age my passion has greatly waned, I watch parts of games on occasion but rarely devote 2 solid hours to the any TV viewing.
What's your standing in the church?
I'm sure by this board's standards I would be considered a mullah (a term I never heard thrown around so accusingly until I discovered LDS message boards). I wear a white shirt tie and suit every Sunday, I generally like most sacrament meetings, Gospel Doctrine lessons and even kind like hometeaching.
Neither my wife or I was raised, nor now has any desire to live in, Utah. My father is not LDS but is one of best man I have ever known. He supported 2 sons on missions and he and my mother stood outside 3 different temples without complaint while their children got married.
There is much I don't understand in relation to the Church's current and previous social policies, but try not let it take away from those things I do believe to be true. I don't know if I will always feel this way, but at this time I truly feel like I need the church, its programs and its teachings to deal with the struggles of raising a family. The LDS church would certainly do fine without me, but I'm not at a point where I would be fine without it.
Are you famous for anything?
Other than being one of the very first to rush the field after the Miami game and marrying a woman who dated the son of one of the more famous non-GA Mormons while in HS? No.
Are you looking forward to Wuap's welcome question and what do you think it will be?
Much like a pitcher with a filthy curve ball even if I know what is coming I will be lucky if I get enough bat on the ball to foul it off and hope he makes a mistake with his next pitch.
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