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3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
Hi all... I am a complete newbie to poi, fire twirling and anything/everything related. In fact, I'll only even see it in real life for the 1st time next Friday (making it down to the Moon Fest on north side of Brissie).
Anyway, this is me...
Name: Pat... but Pogo to those that know me well.
Location: Logan City, south of Brisbane, QLD, Oz.
Hometown: As above.
DOB: 17/09/1969
Age: 36 and counting...
Sex: Wouldn't that be nice?
Occupation(s): Computer Programmer. Worked for myself from home for 2 1/2 years, but have recently had to get a "real" job.
Favorite Food(s): Hmmm... pretty much anything, really.
Favorite Color(s): Green
Toys: Acoustic guitar, Classical guitar, 3 electric guitars, 2 djembes.
Hobbies other than the obvious: Music, Reading, Keeping fit (hmmm, not so much of the keeping fit, actually)
Education: Did Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science and Pure Maths. Then Grad Dip Appl Computing... then started a research masters, but gave it away when life got in the way.
Favorite Book(s): Have to get back to you on that one... The Anarchist was the last book I read, quite liked it.
Favorite Movie(s): Lots... Fight Club, Snatch, Lock Stock..., Finding Nemo, Pulp Fiction, Pay It Forward...
Favorite TV show(s): Don't watch tv.
Plans for life in general: (i.e. what you want to do when you grow up) I really... wish... I knew.
Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Lately... Xavier Rudd, Jack Johnson, JBT, Blue King Brown, Donavon Frankeneiter, Rob Sawyer, The Waifs... blues/roots stuff.
Favorie ice cream flavor(s): Vanilla.
Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella? (please choose one...this is important as it is essentially this site's equivalent of stating your religion...we have religious wars, crusades, cathedrals to Nutella, all that.)
Definitely... vegemite.
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
Sillier than normal..... that would believe me to think that i'm constantly tiddly. Cause i'm always a little sillier than normal. Just ask that girl of mine, she calls me nuts all the time.
Oh yeah *dark* that's what i tell everyone too.....
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!! 
Homer rocks!!!! 
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
hehehe... don't have to ask geets... I'm in complete agreement...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Nice to be appreciated!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
'Night, Love.
Talk to you soon...I'se seepy.
See you in my dreams!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
mmm, I'm sleepy too... was doing that nodding head thing at work today... so not cool...
still... no time for sleep...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
I'd say g'night, but you must be just about ready to get back up again...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
You would be right!
Morning to me!
I got luck and woke up on time.
Actually forgot my alarm before going to bed last night!
First time I've done that in like...forever!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
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Location: The wrong place
Gotta take the munchkin to school!
Back by your 10:00!!!
(starting to figure this out...I think!)
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
I believe you are... it's going to take me a lil while longer... *shakes head @ self*
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Fourteen hours behind you, darlin.'
8:05 in the morning here!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
By the by...
Thanks for the lovely dreams last night!!!
Woke up with a smile on my face and a DM tune running through my head.
In fact listening to that tune right now!!!
(Oh,...DM would be Dave Matthews...in case you didn't know)
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
actually... the DM I knew... I've read your profile and (oddly for me) I remembered you like dave matthews... and godsmack (that one surprised me) and... someone else who escapes me...
speaking of your profile... have I ever commented on your interest in edgar allen poe? I have
'd his poems since I was a wee lad... my contribution to your lovely dreams is my pleasure (sounds like it is, anyway... )... couple days now of deja-vu(ish) memories of dreams... no clear pictures, just a vague feeling... more sleep would turn deja-vu into reality, I reckon --pogo (pat) [forever and always]
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'And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams,
Are where thy dark eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams.
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.'
-To One in Paradise- Poe
How's that?
Maybe I should go back and add a little more to the profile!
Yes...Godsmack, White Zombie, Alice in Chains...I'm a head-banger from way back...
Love driving rhythms...gets the adrenaline going...the blood pumping!!!
D***! I'd better shut up I'm getting *myself* excited!!!
EDITED_BY: fyrespirit (1159276062)
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
ahhhh, that was love-ly, bek...
I know it's a bit of a tangent... but have you seen/heard the simpsons episode where they do 'the raven'?
james earl jones recites the poem thru the episode... is fabulous... or... have you seen the vincent price movie, 'the raven'? his voice is uber-creepy when he recites the poem... I have a thing for the raven, can you tell?
I used to like the heavy, blood pumping stuff when I worked out... helped make me work harder... I still think that disturbed's 'down with the sickness' is the ultimate workout song... but I've not had much use for that in recent times... lazy pogo...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Not all that the rough rhythm's good for!
Yes to the other stuff...I used to be able to recite 'The Raven' from memory but..."Nevermore!"
I...umm...happen to wear a Celtic Raven pendant on a daily basis...can't find a crow and to me they're pretty much the same anyway...same magickal qualities of creation/destruction,
curiousity, inventiveness, outspokeness...
'Down with the Sickness' is a great tune! Have you heard the lounge version from the remake of 'Dawn of the Dead?'
It's hilarious!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
hehehe... "oh mind of one-tracked-ness, may ye never yield"
mmm, ye... I "used to" know the raven by heard too, but is long since gone... only so much room up there in this lil brain of mine... celtic raven pendant
very cool!!hehehe... no, I've not heard the lounge version... but I'm going to have to now
actually I might just hire the 'dawn of the dead'... the kids love horror movies and I've got em this weekend... we can paint our faces as zombies and be silly!! 
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
I've never been able to see why people like zombies.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia
I'll show you a pic of jess after I painted her face as a zombie, the last time we had silly face painting day, gidg... then you'll understand...
she's adorable...
--pogo (pat) [forever and always]
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
aww adorable little zombie, those 2 words really don't seem to go together all that well. But hey, who am i to judge. I cant wait to have a kid, so my sillyness and immaturity is projected in a constuctive manner!!!
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!!
Homer rocks!!!!
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
I guess a picture is worth a thousand words Pat, I'll have to wait and see.
Paul? You with a kid? Who would be the kid?
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
My kids got their love of horror movies from me, I'd say!
Both of them would rather watch a good thriller than anything else!
I have "Dawn of the Dead." Too bad that I can't send the tune to you.
It really is a riot!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
Gidg, they would be with regards to age. But i do pride myself on being a silly, it keeps me feeling young at least. And i really do, do a good job of it!!! I hope to be like Pat when i grow up, cause he is very similar to me.
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!!
Homer rocks!!!!
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place
Kids will make you even sillier(?) Paul!!!
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Paul I know that it can happen. I had custody of my niece and nephew for 10+ years. My 22 year old nephew asked me when I was going to grow up. I told him that I was about as grown up as I was going to get, he would just have to get use to it. He promptly threw me over his shoulder and jumped in the pool. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
Yeah see thats great. Thats what i'm hopeing for.
*stern look beks way* hey you, not sure if thats possible but if so then look out world!!!
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!!
Homer rocks!!!!
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Written by: fyrespirit
Kids will make you even sillier(?) Paul!!!
Isn't there a difference between sillier and insanity?
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
I promise i'm not insane, just a little twisted the wrong way.
:admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!!
Homer rocks!!!!
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
Twisted it twisted, there's no right or wrong way. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
2,303 posts
Location: Brisbane
true, true!!! :admires giant wooden aeroplane: Its about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing their like jerks!!!
Homer rocks!!!!
Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
*singing* Come on baby, let's do the twist.
Now I've got the silly song going through my mind.
*singing* Come on baby, let's do the twist
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
Proud member of the HoP DPS.
Sanity is a highly overrated state of mind.
I'm normal ... it's everyone else that's crazy.
Gidg
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