Thursday, June 16, 2016

Who Me???

Who are you?.....Who are you?......Who are you?  Picturing Brian looking at John Bender with a pen shoved halfway up his nose in one of my all time favorite movies, The Breakfast Club.

Me that is a good question...... I am a man of many hats...
A husband....grumpy...but a husband none the less

A father (mine on the right)

Also a father of fur babies (x5)

A runner.....with a taste for expensive shoes and loving the finish of a hard run well done
A proud employee of a wonderful boss!!! Randy Perdue the best leader I have ever met....and adding a shameless plug as he is a leadership speaker certified by John Maxwell....he is the best!

A former law enforcement officer....and actually current too...I just switched from catching to keeping/securing/and caring for them.

A senior operator in Special Operations.


An outside the box thinker....this can often upset people, but I will always challenge anyone I come in contact with to think.

An aspiring leader.....






A sharer with an accomplished quilter.....

And the list can go on.  I am a lover of movies and 70's and 80's music... However I love some of the older music too... Glen Miller Band, the Andrew Sisters, The Beach Boys, Chubby Checker....and many more.  I am a bit of geek as I like to video game (though not near as much as I use too) I love Star Wars and Star Trek.  I love the movie "The Big Lebowski".  I was a US Sailor...am a proud son of a now late coal miner.  I miss him everyday and have been missing him for over 23 years now.  I had a great Father-in-Law who was as much a dad to me as my own father.  

I was a preacher, but have become more spiritual instead of religious as I get older.  I still have my faith but it is not near a finite as it use to be.  I am a Lead Trainer for WV in the law enforcement community and enjoy the ability to share my experience to keep new people safe.  I am a perfectionist, OCD, and a bit of a control freak.  I have many acquaintances, but a very very few I call a friend.

I am a golfer.....poor one at that, but I enjoy it.  I am a singer to my own tunes and unsuspecting audiences are forced to often listen.  I listen to self-help, leadership, and empowerment audio books and recording and am ALWAYS seeking to learn something new.  I will do near anything I can to help others accomplish their goals.....for what we sow we shall also reap.

And last but not least a fledgling quilter.  I am not the most fond of some of the terms used in quilting, but I am also not interested in rocking the boat in the matter...So I mentally will call a quilt top a "chassis" instead of a flimsy because I am a car guy and the chassis is usually a description of the strip down frame of a car.  I am a builder....not a "piecer"... And one last thing I am a dreamer of dreams (from the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)...I always wanted to be a train engineer of old fashioned steam locomotives (check out Cass Scenic Railroad in WV).....so here I can be a "Quilt Engineer".....




Stand by for my next blog......"Male Pattern Baldness"!!!!





28 comments:

  1. Great first post!! I feel like I've known you for like 19 years ;)

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    1. As we discussed prior who would have thought after all this time we would be sharing a hobby....let alone it being quilting

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  2. Well darn, she beat me to being the first comment! Well as your second 'mother', a job I happily share with Tish, this first post rocks! I learned so much about you, and find more than a couple aspects of your that resonate. Looking forward to seeing that quilt quilted by you, and to this next post, something I know nothing about... (I'm a lifelong learner too.) Welcome to QBL. :-) Oh, and my MacGyver is tickled you used one of his suggestions for 'flimsy'.

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    1. I hope to work on my quilt this weekend...depends on time...thanks for the help and letting me be a pattern tester....thanks for commenting....just thanks for being an encouragement

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  3. lovely choice of fabrics for your next quilt, are they all batiks? And the background of you and your life, challenges, changes, and is that Plexiglass down there? Adding you to my blog list!!

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  4. Welcome!! I am so excited you are building quilts and joining us in blogland. :) Also, as a former aerospace engineer turned quilter, I love that you are a Quilt Engineer. I am definitely thinking your terminology might catch on with a wider audience.

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  5. Great first post. Your opening line put an ear worm in my head, and now I'll be hearing Roger, Pete and Keith all day. Oh well, could be worse. It's great to meet you. I look forward to following your journey.

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  6. Great first post. Your opening line put an ear worm in my head, and now I'll be hearing Roger, Pete and Keith all day. Oh well, could be worse. It's great to meet you. I look forward to following your journey.

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  7. Welcome Dave! Excited to follow along! And, I'm waiting for the new name of what you call a quilt top! My husband also has done a little building in the past and flimsy has never been associated with anything good.

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  8. Happy Birthday! New Follower on Bloglovin'.

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  9. Now that was a fun read! I'm looking forward to seeing your engineerings. :) How lucky that you have such a great in-house consultant and collaborator!

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  10. Now that was a fun read! I'm looking forward to seeing your engineerings. :) How lucky that you have such a great in-house consultant and collaborator!

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  11. Don't forget the gadgets that let us follow you!

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  12. Well, how do you do! Great post! Welcome, not only to Blogland, but to the wonderful world of quilting! ~karen

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  13. I'm Kathy, great to meet you Dave. I follow your wife, so I felt it only fair to do the same with you. You & Tish have a great weekend.
    kfreddss@yahoo.com

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  14. Hi Dave. You are funny. I enjoy following Tish blog. Hope to read more of your quilting adventures .

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  15. Welcome to blogland! It was nice getting to know the quilt engineer. I hope to see many more flimsy's errr chassis in the future.

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  16. Welcome to blogland! I came over from your wife's blog.

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  17. That's some first quilt you made! Can't wait to see it quilted. Don't forget the label (I hate that part).

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  18. Welcome from England, I look forward to seeing your designs

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  19. Hello, Dave The Engineer. Great post, full of fun, inspiration and #CreativeGoodness.

    QuiltShopGal
    www.quiltshopgal.com

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  20. You are to funny!! Enjoy the journey!!

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  21. Welcome to Quilting Blogland Dave! Your first post was fun and interesting. I love reading your takes on the quilting experience and am hoping I can get my husband interested in making his first quilt too. Yours turned out great!

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  22. I see you got your gadgets figured out. :) Way to go!! I'm following!

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  23. Loved this post, Dave. Looking forward to seeing your progress. So Tish has participated in the NQB blog hop for the last two years... your turn next?

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  24. Hi Dave: Welcome to quilt blog land. I knew it was coming. I hate the term flimsy as well, but I won't call them chassis . I just call them tops. I met Tish during last years blog hop and she is one of my faves!

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  25. Welcome! Love your intro post and look forward to getting to know you and watching your quilting progress.

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  26. Hello Dave! Welcome to the clan! This was a really fun post. It's nice to get to hear a little about you. Looking forward to sharing in your quilting journey! I agree.... the Glen Miller Band is da bomb!

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