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More Billstorical facts
Here are some interesting facts about me, based on what another subscriber originally said about himself.
 
01. nickname? Wildbill
02. Were you named after anyone? My first name is from an uncle who died in 1926; My middle name was my grandfather’s name
03. When did you last cry? Not sure
04. Do you like your handwriting….no!
05. What is your favorite lunch meat. Corned beef
06. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?.... Yes- 16 year old daughter
07. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?......not sure.
08. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL?….since 1996
09. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?.... Yes
10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?... Yes.
11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?.... No
12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Lucky charms
13. DO YOU TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU SIT DOWN?... No
14. DO YOU HAVE FRECKLES ON YOUR BUM?.....I have not been alerted to any.
15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?.... Banana
16. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Attitude!
17. RED OR PINK?.. red.
18. LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOUR SELF?...I have skin tags
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?.... Friends from the Islip FD, old girl frends
20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU?....It’s optional
21. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Blue/Black.
22. THE LAST THING YOU ATE? Baked chicken
23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Nothing
24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?....royal blue
25. FAVORITE SMELL?.....grass
26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?... My wife.
27. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?... I guess so
28. FAVORITE DRINK: Dr. Pepper.
29. FAVORITE SPORT: softball to play and baseball to watch.
30. HAIR COLOR: Black
31. EYE COLOR; Brown
32. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No- wear glasses
33. FAVORITE FOOD? Asian
34. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? Happy ending
35. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? On TV? Don’t remember
36. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Blue denim
37. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer
38. HUGS OR KISSES? Kisses
39. FAVORITE DESSERT? ice cream
40. FRIEND MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Not sure
41. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Not sure
42. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? History Channel
43. DO YOU HAVE PETS? No
44. WHO WAS THE LAST GUEST IN YOUR HOME? Brother in law
45. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SOUNDS? Silence
46. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Beatles
47. THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Guam
48. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Not sure.
49. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? NYC 50. HERE IS ONE JUST FOR FUN! WHAT IS YOUR STRIPPER NAME? Don’t have one
What is your salad dressing of choice? avocado
What is your favorite fast food restaurant? McDonald’s
On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant? DEPENDS! What type service did I get?
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? Lobster, Shrimp, crabs
What are your pizza toppings of choice? anchovies
What do you like to put on your toast? Don’t eat toast
What is your favorite type of gum? Any flavor
**TECHNOLOGY** 
Number of contacts in your cell phone? 5
Number of contacts in your email address book? 100+
What is your wallpaper on your computer? Baseball – today it’s the LA Dodgers
What is your screensaver on your computer? DaVinci
How many televisions are in your house? 2
What kitchen appliance do you use the least? we use all of them
What is the radio station you listen to the most? WBGO, WBAB & WAXQ
**BIOLOGY** 
What do you consider to be your best physical attribute? Nose
Are you right handed or left handed? Right handed
Do you like your smile? Yes
Have you ever had anything removed from your body? some baby teeth
Which of your five senses do you think is keenest? Smell When was the last time you had a cavity? 1 year ago
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? Nope
**MISCOLOGY** 
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? no
If you could change your first name, what would you change it to? Tom
How do you express your artistic side? On the computer
What color do you think you look best in? Blue
Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake? I’m sure I have
Have you ever saved someone’s life? I helped several times
Has someone ever saved yours? yes
**DARE-OLOGY** 
Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000? no
Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100? doubtful
Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000? maybe
Would you never blog again for $50,000? Probably not!
Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000? no
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? maybe!
Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000? no
Would you shave your head and get your entire body waxed for $5,000? Yes
Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000? most definitely!
 1. Can you cook? Yes, but my wife is better
2. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator? Figure out if it has an escape hatch on the ceiling, or call emergency.
3. What talent do you wish you had? The ability play sports better 4. Favorite place? New York City
5. Favorite vegetable? squash
6. What was the last book your read? A Great Day in Cooperstown by Rich Reisler
7. Are you dirty or clean? Clean
8. Any tattoos or body piercing? no 9. Worst habits? tearing nails, getting pissed too easily
HERE COMES THE FUN.......... 
1. Do we know each other outside of 20six? No
2. What is your philosophy on life? Live and let live 3. Negative or Optimistic? Negative
4. What was your dream growing up? To be a priest or a baseball player
5. Worse thing to ever happen to you? EVER? Getting fired from my “dream” job
6. Tell me one weird fact about you: I talk to myself.
7. Would you have my back or kick me when I'm down? I'd have your back
8. Would you be my partner in crime or my conscience? Conscience, unless it was a good prank
9. How do you fall asleep? quickly
10. Would you come over to yell at me or just call? Either
11. Would you go on a blind date if I set you up? Yes
12. If I only had one day to live would you be honest or lie? Honest
13. A million dollars....what would you do with it? Pay off house, buy a MINI Cooper and a Mets team jacket, and fly to London for a week’s vacation
14. What is your worst fear? drowning
15. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? The Internet
16. How many times did your curse at me while filling out this thing? None
17. Can you sing or dance? dance
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1- What do you like to be called? Bill or Billy
2- Is age an important factor in your life? yes
3- Single or taken? Married, with one child
4- Favorite place to hang out and get naked? Home
5- Favorite reason to have sex? I enjoy it
6- Favorite band or artist? The Beatles
7- Do you believe in love? Yes
8- Tell me 1 interesting fact about you! I have a pretty good memory. Some say too good. 9- Craziest thing you have ever done? Don’t really know
10- If you could change anything about yourself, would you? Yes. Be more patient, go into another career
11.What do you wear to bed? PJ’s
12- Favorite thing you like to do in the whole world? Play ball, hit the Internet.
13. When is the last time you went to the mall? Last summer.
14. Are you wearing socks right now? I always wear socks with shoes
15. When was the last time you went out of town? Does commuting to New York City count?
16. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days? Yes- saw Breach
17. What was the last thing you had to drink? Long Island wine
18. What are you wearing right now? Reeboks, jeans, denim shirt, Mets sweatshirt
19. Last food you ate? Baked chicken
20. Where were you last week on Saturday? Home
21. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week? No
22. When was the last time you ran? My last softball game
23. What’s the last sporting event you watched? College basketball on TV
24. What is your favorite class? history
25. Your dream vacation? To Florida where I can take my daughter to Disneyworld, and a Mets Spring Training Game in the same week; or else to London to take in a cricket match
26. Last 3 people’s houses you were in? Mine, my parents, can’t remember the others. Do fire calls count?
27. How old are your parents? 80’s
28. Do you miss anyone? Yes- my deceased friends from Isip FD, some old lady friends
29. Last play you saw? Chicago
30. What are your plans for today? Relax around the house and hit the computer
31. Ever go to camp? Yes- CYO Day Camp
32. Were you an honor roll student in school? No
33. What do you want to know about the future? Will any country or terrorist group use nukes?
34. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne? no
35. Where is your best friend located? Dayton OH
36. Do you have a tan? no 37. How old do you want to be when you have kids? I have one
38 Do you collect anything? baseball stuff.
39. Last time you got stopped by a cop or pulled over? In the USAF on Guam (military police)
40. How do you like your drinks? Ice cold
41. Do you like hot sauce? Yes- on everything
42. Last time you took a shower? This morning
43. Whot do you have a crush on? Women- young ones, middle aged ones, blondes, brunettes, redheads, big, small...
43. What is your mood? pessimistic
44. Are you someone’s best friend? I hope so
45. Are you rich? no
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3.3.07 20:17
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visiting the doghouse; St. Patrick's Day parade
I am glad that the weekend is here. It’s been rough at work. One of my coworkers accused me of screwing up on cash receipts sent to one of my clients. Apparently one of my clients, an investment fund, sent the firm funds to pay an invoice. Cash receipts informed me that the figures don’t match anything open on my client, and looks like an overpayment. I told that to my partner and he said that we should send the money back. After he prepared the memorandum to cash receipts we sent the investment fund back about $1,500. Then earlier this week one of the cash receipts staff e/mails me to tell me that I should research my clients more thoroughly, as it turns out that the is another client number for that same investment fund under a different partner and the $1,500 was meant for that client number.  Why didn’t they contact that person? When I worked in cash receipts at my first firm, way back in 1990 and 1991, it was cash receipts job to research the clients.  So I got the e/mail telling me to do their job, and all of management was copied. What I found interesting was the grammatical errors and misspelled words. Yet the supervisors did not say anything to her. 3 months ago I transposed a number in a date on an e/mail and was on the carpet being told that since my e/mails have errors (an isolated incident) management was worried that my bills for my clients may have errors. I always proof read my e/mails before I send them out. However,  I a bit dyslexic and that is a slight problem.
On a happier note, this afternoon I went with the Islip Fire Department to the Bay Shore St. Patrick’s Day parade and marched with the Department’s band. Not that many other local fire departments joined us, other than some of the ones located on Fire Island (such as Kismet, Saltaire, and Fair Harbor). There were several divisions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the parade, as well as Emerald Societies. An added treat were some antique car clubs, with cars from the 1910’s (a Ford Model T) to the 1960’s. I must be getting old because I remember the 1960’s cars when they were new. The groups marched down the High Street called Main Street (also known as Montauk Highway) from the eastern boundary of Bay Shore to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church before we dissipated.  After that we walked down Main Street to a pub called the Nutty Irishman, where I enjoyed one round of locally brewed beer (which was in the Department’s tab) before I called my wife to come and pick me up.
On the baseball front,  the Mets lost a spring training game to the Detroit Tigers yesterday, and today in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals. Luckily these are only exhibition games.
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10.3.07 23:00
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over sleeping; St. Patrick's Day on campus
Since it’s a workday I don’t normally write a blog entry since it’s usually SSDD. Today was a bit different. Since we all switched to daylights saving time on Sunday morning, my inner clock is way off the mark. So this morning I woke up at 7:20 AM instead of 6:15 AM. I missed my usual train, but still had time to get the 7:57 at Islip. I rush there and when 7:57 comes around there is no train. There were no announcements on their state of the art PA system either as to why it did not show up. Luckily a friend from the Islip Fire Department was there and we drove to Babylon, which is where the electric service begins (or ends, depending which way you are going). I just missed an express but the local got me in to Penn at around 9:45 and I arrived in the office at 10 AM. Luckily nobody said anything to me.
In the evening I went to St. John’s University to listen to a talk about careers in communications. I most likely would not change careers since at 50+ and no experience, I would not land a decent position. I still listened and after wards saw a poster announcing a St. Patrick’s Day Party sponsored by the University Gaelic Society. So I headed to the University Center and got in as an alumnus. There was some Irish dancing, including how to do step dancing, which was shown by members of a dancing school. Then a band came out and played some Irish folk songs, as well as jigs and reels. Then came the dinner: parsnips, beef stew, shepherds pie, cabbage, and a few other Irish goodies – all of which I would never make at home. There were also free green beads and green derbies on the tables, which I took for my daughter. Since I had called my wife to pick me up, I had to leave around 9 PM to meet her by the main gate.
I could have taken the Long Island Railroad home, but that would mean an unreliable ride on the bus to the Jamaica station. On the way to the campus, I took a bus from the Jamaica LIRR station, and besides the wait for the bus, it was a slow ride. This way by car we could all keep each other company for the 40 mile ride.
On the spring training scene, the Mets beat the Cleveland Indians, while the Yankees lost to the Reds.
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13.3.07 11:27
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sleet; Brooklyn; team photos; St. Patrick's Day plans
I am glad that it’s Friday.  The nice weather that we had earlier this week was too good to last, as it started sleeting this morning, and so far we have about 2 inches of the hard wet stuff.
Today I received an 8 x 10 photo that the coach sent me of my 2006 softball team – the guys who found new ways to lose but also news ways to have fun. It’s also been saved to the c-drive and hopefully will find its way to the various softball websites that I created. When that is done I will mentione the URL's and links. Right now I cannot seen to uplead the picture from my c-drive. In the 1990’s a man named Carl Prince wrote a book called Brooklyn’s Dodgers – The Bums, the Borough and the Best of Baseball. It’s about the almost symbiotic relationship between the team and the borough of Brooklyn. Right now I am only up to the second chapter, but it has my interest. It also is making me wish that I grew up in Brooklyn instead of next door in Queens.  However, I did go to high school in Brooklyn, and my first full time civilian job was in the Borough of Churches. My late mom-in-law was a Brooklyn Irish lady, and several of her friends and family lived in Bay Ridge. While the Dodgers are now in California, we now have the Brooklyn Cyclones. It might be Short Season A level baseball, but it is professional baseball none the less.
Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. I have no plans to go into Manhattan,   since it is going to be a madhouse. Besides, we have our St. Mary’s Bowling League in the evening. I have gone to the Manhattan parades in prior years, including actually marching in the 1976 parade in a County Tipperary club with my prior Irish born lady friend (before I met my wife).
Since we will be home, I plan to enjoy some Irish music by U2 and/or the Chieftains, and maybe read some of James Joyce writings.
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16.3.07 23:15
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the last few days
Since Friday evening I was busy around the house, went bowling, and visited my mom & dad. Friday evening we got hit with an ice & sleet storm, and by Saturday morning there was about 2 inches of the white stuff on the ground. The bad part was that since it was sleet, it was too hard to shovel, so the driveway did not get cleared out. I was able to do the usual errands in town, and in the evening the 3 of us went bowling at East Islip Lanes. Like last month, the other team did not show up so we had the two alleys to ourselves.  However, it was not my night and I only averaged an 85 in the 3 games. But we still had fun and plan to go back to East Islip Lanes on our own and not just with the St. Mary’s League. On the Internet I was able to find another free web site provider and managed to create another web page. The URL address is: http://www.ironmen8.1sweethost.com/ssbilly.html I am still trying to install a guest book. This page also pays tribute to the 4 Ironmen of baseball. Today we went to visit my mom & dad in Flushing. I managed to go for a walk in my old neighborhood and through Flushing Meadow Park. Even though the fields were still snow covered, I saw guys playing soccer under the elevated Van Wyck Expressway. They proved that where there is a will, there is a way. When I got back my wife and I went to dinner at an Afghan restaurant on Main Street, called Kabul Kabob. I had a beef stew and my wife had a beef shish kabob.  The service was quite good, considering that we walked in when several families were having dinner and taking up several tables. I recommend it highly and will try to write a review in Yahoo. I have been following the NCAA March Madness and am overjoyed that Georgetown University is in the Sweet 16. While I never attended the school, I have always admired the university, even before the son of a close friend and a nephew of mine attended there. So for me it’s Georgetown all the way.  On March 19 my daughter turned 17. Where did the time go? We missed a St. Patrick’s Day baby by two days. It's interesting in that she was born on St. Joseph's Day, which is an important Catholic feast day. In elementary school I had the Sisters of St. Joseph teaching me. Their motherhouse is in the next town north of Islip, called Brentwood. For 8 years I heard about Brentwood, yet never was there. In 1975, when I visited Brentwood for the first time to attend an Irish music festival, called a cailaigh [sp] at the motherhouse, I felt a sense of déjà vu as if I had been there before. On March 20, 2004 the Islip Fire Department marched in the Brentwood St. Patrick’s Day parade, which ended at the convent grounds. I got to talk to several of the nuns living at the motherhouse about my former teachers, most of who are either deceased or left the order.
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20.3.07 23:17
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Chicago; cricket; LIRR mess
On Friday (March 23) evening I met my wife and daughter outside my office building for a night on Broadway. We first had dinner at a Spanish restaurant called Mesón Sevilla on Restaurant Row (the 300 block of West 46th Street). We have eaten there before when at the theater and always liked it. After dinner we walked to the Ambassador Theater to see Chicago for the 4th time. It’s my daughter’s favorite and it was a birthday present to her (she was 17 on the 19th). This time the role of Roxie Hart was played by Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith from the TV show Cheers). We enjoyed the show and though that Bebe played Roxie as well as Grechen Mol and Robin Givens did in 2 of the earlier performances that we went to.  Getting home was an experience. We had to walk from 49th Street to Penn Station at 34th Street. It’s only 15 blocks, but on Friday nights Times Square is full of tourists, and they block the sidewalks and corners. To top it off, my wife and my daughter walk much more slowly than I do so it took twice as long to walk from Times Square to Penn as it does when I do it every day after work. Our train got to Jamaica and was canceled due to equipment problems, and they put us on a local to Babylon. It was quite crowded and noisy. On a happier note, one of the other people who had been on the canceled train with us was a teacher who teaches for the Suffolk County BOCES (Board of Cooperative Education Services) and was at two of the schools that my daughter attended (the Wing Learning Center in Islip and the Masera Learning Center in West Islip). She recognized my daughter after several years and said that she grew into a pretty teenager. We finally got in to Islip 50 minutes late.
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23.3.07 22:34
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It was quite tiring but I felt good afterwards because I passed the test this year. At 50+, I am the Department’s second oldest interior firefighter.
I just got e/mails from AOL Sports Alerts and also from