And yes, I’ve tried sweetened coffee. I once took a coffee mug that was less than half-full of coffee and added cream and sugar until the mug was full and the contents well-mixed. One sip, and it came right back out. I could clearly taste the individual components: the smooth cream, the sweet sugar, and the bitter, bitter coffee. The last killed the whole thing. I almost literally gagged.

Great post! It takes alot to open up and definitely makes you more human to some of us.

Thanks for sharing!

Eric. Sweetie. When your grandchildren and great-grandchildren come to you and ask, “Pop-pop, tell us what it was like in the old days- when you still had keyboards and hard drives, and some program called Doors or Rooms, or something… oh yeah, Windows. What was it like, Pop-pop?”

When that day comes, you get to say… “late in life.”

Unless you meant something else. If so, then, nevermind. ;-)

Like you, i played piano for 5 years, and i was so away from being brilliant … hehe … I am still capable of playing one or two tunes with my wife in 4 hands, but they are so basic, that i better shut up … haha =O) I was even singing for about 7 years in a choir, but i am a kind of ashamed of it right now, cause my singing abilities at the moment are close to the zero.
As about swearing, at the moment, there are probably no people in any country close to where i am living now, who would have any idea about the time when it happened, or how bad it was.
If you will ever come to Portugal, you better be drinking coffee, as here it is a kind of “social requirement”, actually more a tradition perhaps … =O)

Oh, and I missed the Rush reference. Well spotted Jemaleddin! And I gotta agree with you and Eric on Neil Peart.

I consider myself tagged by Eric Meyer so here’s my 5. I’m 20 years old my birth date is 16 March 1986. I’m married, just married at 28 June 2006. I don’t drink tea, coffee or any hot drinks. I…

Jemaleddin: I have occasional Rush references scattered throughout my books, in fact.

Ward: subjected to the same experiment, I might well require more anaesthetic to stop feeling the pain. I never said I didn’t feel pain. I only said I was pretty good at tolerating it.

Red heads suffer more pain

At first I thought it might explain your issue, but then your last line about having a fairly high pain tolerance through me for a loop. Anyway, I’m a red head as well and I have always noticed that I’ve never been able to hold cold (like ice cubes) or hot objects as long as other people can. It really hurts if I hold on to a couple ice cubes for more than a few seconds.

Oh well, enjoy!
Ward