Biggest Life Changing Events For Me

frankly, i'd throw my BGE off a cliff in a second if it would save my kids...

i'd have to put kids and wife at number one, in a tie.

discovering scotch and sex, number 2. happened the same day, so i get to list them on the same line.

fe---t--, number three. (the guys know it's really number one, but for our families' sake we'll put it at three). and i'm talking receiving. the giving, not so hot. um, from what i hear, i mean.

seeing the Who perform "Tommy", discovering Led Zeppelin, and being of age for Pearl Jam, they land at four

aging beef like real men do, without bags or fretting over such girly things as bacteria, number five. the reason cavemen aged beef was to kill off the pansies who couldn't handle such things. i see that it has not taken effect.

six would be learning to drive.

seven would be learning to drive while receiving number three. it an be tough to work the gas pedal without alternately revving and slowing. you think it's hard to drive with a cell phone?

seven would be realizing that self-education and cultivating one's mind is as important as anything else in life. i try to read an hour or more a day. and i honestly feel that a day where you havben't learned something is a day wasted, and an insult to whatever god you believe in.

eight would be discovering that food needn't be some cr^p you make from a box or order in, that it can be something simple cooked at home and enjoyed as much for the process as it is the result.

nine would be discovering (being turned onto) the egg. which is really just an extension of eight.

ten would be, well. i dunno. mayube meeting rod, max, zippy, and sundown, thorough the forum. rrp, NB, woodoggies, etc.

my apologies to bacchus, who may find that a little off color. and apologies to judy also, for any misspellings or logical fallacies.

the jam with N.Y. has attained "perpetual loop" status here.

i put it on my 9 year old son's iPod even...

No need to apologize to me Stike, I like off color.
Fave Zep Song? It's a Toss up between "When the Levee Breaks" & "Gallows Pole" for me.
Good to see you post!

Ron

Don't forget Sylvan Song..Dream of the Archer

Dude, I didn't even know what scotch was when I discovered sex. Or maybe I have that backwards.

kids are a definite number one for me too.

i agree with most of your list, but learning to raise, slaughter/harvest, preserve, and prepare my own food ranks very high for me. Especially the part where I get to kill and burn stuff. Something about total self sufficiency makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside - you know - in case the country implodes or something I can disappear to the woods and live off the land. There's a sick sense of security in stuff like that.

I saw Pearl Jam open for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Eddie pitching in to sing "The Waiting" was an incredible experience- Joyful Ed is so much more fun than Dour Ed.

Very intriguing thread! The most life changing has to be kids for me.

Most provoking to me in the thread was the Led Zepplin discussion. There are way too many awesome LZ songs to pick a fav... The entire LZ-I was raw you couldn't predict one note to the next awesome every song, LZ-II was fully awesome end to end, LZ-III well not my fav but led into IV and immortality for LZ, and Houses (D'yer Mak'er), Physical Graffiti both Awesome. Honestly I couldn't / can't pick / it's going to shake me all night long... Well fav song is one of the ones between LZ I and Physical Graffiti..

Good stuff Dale!