About

UPDATE December 9, 2008: This is being updated…stay tuned…

Holding a cookie The Kid made at Disneyland

December 2008: Holding a cookie The Kid made at Disneyland

Name: Dave

Age: 35 36 37 38 39 40 (As each birthday passes I strikeout my previous age. I was 35 in 2004 when I started blogging)

Hometown: Wilmington, CA

Residence: Long Beach, CA

Occupation: Mail monkey

Childhood ambition(s): Baseball player, artist/cartoonist

Previous jobs: Ticket seller at Knott’s Berry Farm, photo lab tech, car lot porter, retail slave, magazine writer

Status: Married 16 years; one child

Started blogging: 2004

Hobbies: Writing, music, sports

Favorite foods: Chinese, pizza, Tommy’s hamburgers

Least favorite foods: Olives, mushrooms, Olive Garden, Mimi’s Cafe, seafood

Other random yet totally true facts about me

  • I used to be really, really fat
  • My name could have been Valentin Caballero
  • I was in a Pat Benatar video
  • I was on the field shortly after George Brett got his 3,000th hit
  • While waiting to see a taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Show, I rapped the Blu Blockers commercial with the man who made it famous, Geek
  • I’ve flown in the Goodyear blimp more times (over 5) in my life than I’ve flown in a commercial aircraft (twice)
  • I don’t drink, smoke or have ever used drugs
  • While Hispanic, my behaviors and lifestyle don’t fall into that of the stereotypical Hispanic dude (like the fact that I’m listening to The Alan Parsons Project right now)
  • My wife’s family lineage can be traced back to Abraham Lincoln

Much, much more to come…

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