Ask Michael K!

[kade]

nice somethin along teh lines of the se- pistols?

[M‡¢ĦÆŁ Ҝ]

what is your favorite Bible verse and why?

Romans 8:31 -  . . .  If God be for us, who can be against us?

The verse says it all.

nice somethin along teh lines of the se- pistols?

D.O.A, X, 999, etc.

[Tricia Lea]

what is your favorite Bible verse and why?

Romans 8:31 -  . . .  If God be for us, who can be against us?

The verse says it all..

[Sis]

I would like to be a curator at the Smithsonian.  I would love to not only see all the exhibits, but also spend time seeing the stuff the public doesn't get to see.

Which museum? The Smithsonian is made up of several of them spread over several blocks.

The Fenwick Gallery
The American Art Museum/Portrait gallery
American History Museum
Natural History Museum
Postal Museum
Freer Gallery
Sackler Gallery
African Art Museum
Arts & Industry Museum (Closed at the moment)
Hirshorn Museum
Air & Space Museum and the
American Indian Museum

Take yer pick! I guess Air & Space Museum.  

There is also the National Gallery of Art buildings, thought they're not part of the Smithsonian.

[Tricia Lea]

How did you and artic rose first meet, Was it love at first sight?

[newkris]

a question . . .  do you plan to retire in 4 years?  or re-up for a bit more?  what does your lovely bride want to do?

That was A question?  It looked more like three questions to me.   :grin:

it's hard to be blonde

do u like to answer questions

[MelodyB]

(Just marking my place... )

[Sister_Mom]

Is there anything you don't know that you can't find out? If so, what is it, and is there more than one thing?  :grin:

What's your favorite rose?  :grin:

[Sis]

  You know which rose he likes best! 

[MelodyB]

What injuries did you sustain while in Iraq?

[M‡¢ĦÆŁ Ҝ]

Which museum? The Smithsonian is made up of several of them spread over several blocks.

American History Museum, Natural History Museum, or Air & Space Museum

How did you and artic rose first meet, Was it love at first sight?

It was love at first sight for her, not for me.

We went to the same school, but she was four years behind me.  When she was 9 and I was 13, we first met at an open house at the school.  During the open house I met her and her parents (an incident I didn't even remember) and talked with them for a while.  That night she went home and told her mom she was going to marry me.  Her mom's reply was along the lines of, "Yeah, right."

Fast forward five years, when I was 18.  I started attending her church.  At one point I could tell she liked me, and I made the mistake of breaking her heart by telling her that she was not my type.  That, however, did not discourage her, she continued to pursue me.

One day, on my my 20th birthday, she rode her bicycle 5 miles to where I worked, just to give me a birthday card.  That was the moment that she caught my attention.  A few weeks later, I asked her parents if I could take her on a date.  They said yes.  We dated for a couple of years after that.

When I was 21, I asked her dad if I could marry her and he said yes.  Then I asked her.  It wasn't until after I had asked her to marry me that her mom finally told me the story of when we first met and when she first said she was going to marry me, eight years earlier.

In 1989, when she was 18 and I was 22, we were married.

do u like to answer questions

I don't mind.

Is there anything you don't know that you can't find out? If so, what is it, and is there more than one thing?

I sure there is a lot that I don't know and can't find out.  But if I don't know I don't know it, how can I know I don't know it, or know that I can't find out to know it?  Know what I mean?

What's your favorite rose?

I'm partial toward the Arctic Rose.

What injuries did you sustain while in Iraq?

Mostly shrapnel wounds and two bullet wounds.  The injuries were mostly on my right side as I was a passenger in a 5-Ton truck when we were hit with an IED.  The shrapnel was  mostly pieces of the truck's metal and glass that was ripped up and thrown around by the explosion.  The IED was set as a diversion for an ambush and I took two bullets in the firefight that immediately followed the explosion.

When it was all over, there was about 5 or 6 of the insurgents that would never bother us again and everyone in our convoy survived, some with more serious injuries than mine, but we all lived through it.  Because of my injuries, I was in Iraq for only about a month of what was supposed to be a four month deployment.

[Sister_Mom]

  You know which rose he likes best! 

Yeah, I was trying to give him the opportunity to do one of his favorite things, publicly expressing his love for a particular Arctic Rose. 

[titushome]

[Sis]

[kade]

is that true? ^

[Sis]

I didn't know, just spreading rumors!   

[kade]

really? id also heard that but from some other sources ya know

[M‡¢ĦÆŁ Ҝ]

is that true? ^

Yes.  But don't tell anyone.  It's a secret.

[Tricia Lea]

out of all the places you have lived where do you like best and why?

[Sister_Mom]

Is there anything you don't know that you can't find out? If so, what is it, and is there more than one thing?

I sure there is a lot that I don't know and can't find out.  But if I don't know I don't know it, how can I know I don't know it, or know that I can't find out to know it?  Know what I mean?

So if you can't know if there's anything that you don't know, because if you don't know that you don't know something then you don't know that you don't know it, how can you be sure that there's anything that you don't know that you can't find out about? Yeah, I know what you mean.  

[M‡¢ĦÆŁ Ҝ]

out of all the places you have lived where do you like best and why?

I'm not really sure I can name just one best place, but I'll try. . . .

OK, I know you can't tell, but I just spent the last ten minutes thinking about this.  I would have to say the the island of Terceira in the Azores.  The only drawback to living there is that I never got fluent in speaking Portuguese.  Life on the island was easy.  The people are extremely friendly, the culture is very laid back, and no one seemed to be in too much of a hurry to take the time to socialize with you.  Sitting in my house looking out my windows over the ocean and watching the occasional ship or fishing boat float by is something I'll never forget.  The climate is a very mild sub-tropical with a wide range of scenery on such a small, 18x10 mile island.  There were the old lava fields, beaches, mountain lakes in the forest, the sulfur pits, and farm fields.  Both palm trees and pine trees on the same island.  The open air produce markets and the fresh water straight from the mountain springs (we would fill water jugs from the springs to use as drinking water in our house).  The food is some of the best you'll find anywhere in the world, and I've tried foods from many different countries.  If you've never eaten alcatra prepared in the traditional Azorean way, you are missing out on a taste of heaven on earth.

So, I would have to say that Terceira was the best place I ever lived.

So if you can't know if there's anything that you don't know, because if you don't know that you don't know something then you don't know that you don't know it, how can you be sure that there's anything that you don't know that you can't find out about?

I will know what I don't know when someone who knows what I don't know lets me know what it is I don't know.  Only then will I know I didn't know what I didn't know I didn't know.  But then, I'll have the opportunity to finally know what I didn't know before I knew I didn't know it.

[Sister_Mom]

out of all the places you have lived where do you like best and why?

I'm not really sure I can name just one best place, but I'll try. . . .

OK, I know you can't tell, but I just spent the last ten minutes thinking about this.  I would have to say the the island of Terceira in the Azores.  The only drawback to living there is that I never got fluent in speaking Portuguese.  Life on the island was easy.  The people are extremely friendly, the culture is very laid back, and no one seemed to be in too much of a hurry to take the time to socialize with you.  Sitting in my house looking out my windows over the ocean and watching the occasional ship or fishing boat float by is something I'll never forget.  The climate is a very mild sub-tropical with a wide range of scenery on such a small, 18x10 mile island.  There were the old lava fields, beaches, mountain lakes in the forest, the sulfur pits, and farm fields.  Both palm trees and pine trees on the same island.  The open air produce markets and the fresh water straight from the mountain springs (we would fill water jugs from the springs to use as drinking water in out house).  The food is some of the best you'll find anywhere in the world, and I've tried foods from many different countries.  If you've never eaten alcatra prepared in the traditional Azorean way, you are missing out on a taste of heaven on earth.

So, I would have to say that Terceira was the best place I ever lived.

It was all sounding really great until you said you had to carry drinking water to the outhouse. 



Sorry, that was the way I read it. 

[kade]

wow i want to go there...road trip and boat trip anyone?

[M‡¢ĦÆŁ Ҝ]

It was all sounding really great until you said you had to carry drinking water to the outhouse. 

Sorry, that was the way I read it. 

OK, I fixed it.  I fat fingered the T instead of the R.

We didn't have to get our water from the spring, the tap water was just fine.  But that spring water was some of the best water I ever drank.  We did that because we wanted to, not because it was necessary.

wow i want to go there...road trip and boat trip anyone?

Keep an eye on the "Your Home Town Pictures" thread.  I'll post some pics there.  The quality won't be the best because we had a first generation digital camera at the time and it didn't take the best pictures, especially by today's digital camera standards.

[Sister_Mom]

I figured that. I was just messing with ya. 

I remember vacations to the mountains in Tennessee and we used to drink the water from the springs. Wonderful stuff.