True facts about myself.

1.  I have been a longshoreman.

2.  I captured a rattlesnake with a rake.

3.  I have been stung by a jellyfish.

4.  I have been in a hurricane (Hurricane Marilyn, 1995).

5.  I had a black widow spider for a pet.

6.  I was on television (Lloyd Thaxton Show) in a rock-n-roll band.

7.  I have gone scuba diving at night on a wreck.

8.  Harry Truman was President when I was born.

9.  I have skated on a river smooth as glass, and could see the bottom.

10.  I have seen over 250 meteors in one hour.

11.  I have seen the Aurora Borealis from horizon to horizon and directly overhead, all colors.