1. My name is Charles Arthur Foltz. If you swap the first two names in the old English is means "marvelous man".
2. My only nickname as an adult is Chuck. As a kid, I grew to hate Charlie cause bullies turned it into Charliehorse.
3. I was born January, 1947; the year the Cold War officially started by Congress approving the Truman Doctrine to limit the spread of Communism. Fail!
4. My typing speed reached about 65 wpm when I was doing legals and editorial letters for the newspaper. Glad I only did that for a year and a half.
5. I started working with computers when all you could see on the screen were codes. So glad when WZYWIG (what you see is what you get) came along.
6. Graduated from Alhambra High in California after my family pulled me out of Pekin High in Illinois so Dad could get to the coast before he turned forty. He thought his opportunities would be limited if he waited. Dumb!
7. I was eating lunch at PCHS the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. They piped the newscast through the school and some thought it was a joke.8. My hair, such as remains, is Auburn color and my eyes are brown. My hair in grade school was so brilliant that the called me Carrot Top.
9. I'm 5' 10 1/2” tall, and near my marriage weight of 176 pounds.
10. I started toward a music teaching career up into university days, but got sidetracked into the oil business to support a growing family. Just ask me if you want to know what that first oil crisis was all about.
11. I was married to a beautiful redhead who bore me four striking redheads from her wheelchair. Our 42 years together still was not enough.
12. Never wanted to sleep alone, and never owned a twin bed until cancer took my bride.
13. Though I came from the Midwest with warm summers, I'm always cold. I loved to sleep under my grandma's heavy handmade quilts.
14. I love very melodic music, some country, early rock and classical. But I consider hard rock and rap to be only rudimentary chant and not real music. Beethoven probably has rolled in his grave many times.
15. I admire people who can play piano and guitar, but I wasn't dedicated enough to learn myself. I got a little keyboard when studying for my teaching cert.
16. By today's standards I might have been a “gifted” child. Someone thought up I.Q. (intelligent quotient) tests and they became the bane of my existence as everyone kept reminding me of my “potential” whenever I didn't want to apply my self.
17. The mechanical gene runs in my family. My dad and younger brother both were always crawling under cars, and I couldn't stand the grease under the fingernails.
18. As a very visual person, I grew to love epic films... especially historical and fantasy. Like “The Ten Commandments” and “Fantasia”.
19. My first major hobby was amateur radio. Loved talking to the world over the ether. However, I never was able to overcome my dyslexia with circuit diagrams.
20. My next interest became genealogy. I was the first, thanks to the Internet, in the family to locate our original progenitor who arrived in the colonies in 1751 from somewhere in Germany.
21. Current passion is sewing and wearing Star Wars costumes to help charities and make some appearance for LucasFilm Ltd. I love to see the faces of children and adults light up when our clubs show up!
22. I was born in St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia, Illinois. When I arrived, I was dyed purple by a drug my mother had taken, so they thought at first that I had been deprived of oxygen. Anyone who listens to my constant jabber now knows that is far from the truth.
23. I've had surgeries for appendicitis, tonsillitis, hernia and lately will have some parathyroids removed.
24. My most youthful proud moment came in passing the jocks at junior high to get to the front of the line for immunization shots. I spent ten days in a hospital for suspected rheumatic fever and got a tray full of hypodermics every day. So I have no fear of needles.
25. I am a dog lover. However, I do recognize the attention and training they need to be at home. The cats we had over the years were better behaved, but too independent and aloof for me.
26. Always enjoyed dancing of any kind. I did Ballroom, Polynesian, Middle Easter folk, Russian folk and even took ballet. Gave up Square when the caller wanted us to learn it on rollerskates.
27. Had the wisdom teeth out due to impaction after I was married. They didn't see the flared roots on x-ray, so had a pretty long recovery because of the large holes they left in my jawbone. Didn't seem to affect my wisdom though.
28. Only traveled outside the nation once to Victoria, Alberta, Canada. Planning to get a passport and have some items on my bucket list like cruising to the British Isles and maybe on to Israel. Might even takes some good friends along.
29. Have always loved riding bikes and graduated to motorcycles by college time. Our only son, Rusty, was killed on one, but I still have that desire to ride in my blood.
30. I've been blessed with some innate art talent, but frustrated my teachers by only doing well when I felt motivated. My best medium in college was charcoal. Got really mad when our professor at quarter end threw out everyone's work, so we had nothing for portfolio.
31. In female relations I was precocious. By junior high I was riding my bicycle to a neighboring town to visit my Sophomore girlfriend. Needless to say I lost her to a Junior with a car.
32. My belief in a Creator was spawned by my dad's mother during the summers I spent at her place. She made sure I went to church and bible school. I'm eternally grateful to her, but she would have fainted if she had known I followed my mom's mother in becoming a Mormon.
33. I am a meat and potatoes kind of diner using very little seasoning. I miss the flavors of food when they are overly enhanced by spices.
34. While I don't accept it myself, I've always been picked as a leader of groups. Probably it's due to my love of organizing things and that I talk too much.
35. I became interested in singing when I found the high school band director in California was such a dweeb. The choral department had a real director. I had so few credits to make up to finish school that I spent the extra free time joining choir, glee and even Madrigals. The conferences I sang in were wonderful experiences.
36. I take pleasure from sewing and dressing as characters from Star Wars. As a member of three of the world's largest costuming clubs, I'm able to help charities raise many thousands by just making photo appearances. Even LucasFilm Ltd. calls on us to appear.
37. I taught myself to sew since my wife didn't enjoy it even before ending up in a wheelchair. Repairing kid's clothes set the stage for my costume wardrobe.
38. My daughter brought the point that I was born under the sign of Aquarius which is a water sign for a dreamer, well that's for sure! I taught myself to swim by jumping from a boat dock into 20 feet of water after watching Olympic swimmers on black and white TV.
39. I never went through the little boy stage of hating girls. A youth counselor (shrink) told me that I'd always been seeking a wife even as a child. I spent a lot of time around the girls, because I thought the boy's conversations were a bit limited.
40. I learn in a linear (sequential) fashion. I have difficulty picking up a skill if it comes in pieces out of order. But once I've done something sequentially a few times I seldom forget it.
41. I'm very systematic in my thinking. I need to understand my part in a larger system before I'm comfortable. This has made more than one supervisor uncomfortable.
42. I too often expect other people to have the same values as I. The most I expect is for others to recognize the importance of integrity and honesty. Probably why I've never done well as a salesman.
43. My parents are from Pennsylvania “Dutch” farm stock. The irony is that I have no talent or desire to work with plants.
44. I was never considered and overachiever. Once in marriage counseling I found that I was a “Defeated Perfectionist”, meaning that I made lists of tasks that could not be completed in the time allotted, thus unconsciously sabotaging myself to exhaustion.
45. I knew how to cook, but loved baking as a youth. Now, I have little or no interest in preparing foods.
46. Trivia collection is one of my weaknesses. Anything I find interesting gets mentally recorded. Most of the time it's not practical information.
47. I love great minds and have become an amateur science and philosophy buff. From Aristotle to quantum physics, I'm your man.
48. Personal hygiene is important to me. I'd rather take a shower with a scrub brush than soak in the tube.
49. Maybe I'm a little empathic since I feel sensitive to other people's joys and trials. I find myself remorsing or cheering with them.
50. I'm drawn to photography, perhaps because my dad did portraits and had a darkroom behind the house. I love photo displays at galleries more than paintings. But I have no natural eye for composition. However, with the guidance of a close and talented friend I'm starting to learn.
51. While not overtly a courageous person, thanks to my mother's teachings I will stand up for what is right for myself and others.
52. My emotional responses to things like love and devotion are seated deep within. I don't take intimate issues lightly.
53. I drive a Subaru Forester with 100k miles on it. Might be looking for a new Scion x-B box since it has good gas mileage and lots of room. But also because it looks like an Imperial Walker without the mechanical legs from Star Wars film.
54. I love the sound of a mature female voice, not the constricted squeaky voice of young girls that I find annoying.
55. Music styles that are multi-tonal like Asian, Indian, Near Eastern, Polynesian and Russian choirs I'm captivated by.
56. It's difficult to ever quiet my mind completely. I'm unable to drift in thought.
57. My favorite color group is deep red to purple. Perhaps I'm a Sith.
58. I would not qualify as a collector. If an object interests me, I wouldn't leave wrapped on a shelf to preserve it's resale value.
59. I'm plagued by Tinnitus (ringing in the ears). It comes and goes in volume, but is incurable and never goes away.
60. Math and I are not friends. Anything beyond the basics is foreign to me. Any developed interest was crushed in high school with the introduction of the New Math.
61. I respect authority figures when they deserve that respect. I once lost a job by hanging up the phone on an abusive office manager who just happen to be the best friend of the head of our division.
62. I have a good ear for foreign accents, but no facility to learn languages.
63. I have no love for acquiring wealth. The only time I desire it is when I see someone's need I could fulfill if I had it. I think you have to be interested in it if you want to get rich.
64. People see me as an extravert because I go out of the way to interact with others. Most of the time it's really a safety mechanism to reassure my position.
65. The idea of competition is highly overrated in my view. Professional sports causes people to set aside integrity to gain unfair advantage in building prestige and wealth.
66. I'm considered a good teacher by many. Perhaps due to my love of organizing thoughts and watching the reactions of others when they understand what I'm trying to get across. I gear my ideas to the most easily understood concepts.
67. Fear has been my constant companion all my life. I don't remember every taking risks just for pleasure. Maybe there's some Anakin blood there.
68. Reading has been my doorway to places and things that I could or would never experience in person. This also includes my love of films.
69. I once attempted to sell Amway and HerbaLife to add financial support for the family. Not up my alley.
70. I like having fantasy reminders around me like my posters and toys from Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, etc. They enrich my imagination when life gets dull.
71. My heroes are Jesus Christ, Moses, Joseph Smith, George Lucas, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee.
72. I have a formidable sweet tooth. Unguarded it can get me into health issues.
73. Never tell a child what his potential is after an I.Q. Test when his actions don't measure up to the results. The person that invented this stuff should have been deported.
74. I've spent most of my life seeking reason.
75. Never satisfied with the status quo. There are always better ways to do everything.
76. Worked in school as a carhop for one of the finest businessmen I've ever known, Ted Xanos. He cared for everyone, including those who worked for him and set a healthy example for concern and fairness.
77. I always expect the best of people until they prove that trust unworthy. Without trust change is futile.
78. Never thought I would outlive any of my children. I've not gotten completely over feelings of guilt that I didn't give my son the attention he needed while growing up.
79. I miss my sweet friend and wife of 44 years. I don't expect to have that kind of intimacy again in this life.
80. Gifts and awards make me feel awkward. A kind word is so much more to me than any other recognition.
81. Graduated from community college with A.A degree to allow myself to pursue a career that was just for my satisfaction and not some necessity for advancement.
82. Dropped out of university when faced with a weak economy and a calculus class after a three and a half years invested. But the time was not a waste.
83. I miss old time live radio dramas that painted the stage in my mind.
84. Worked in an emergency alarm center and was complimented by a communications instructor from the phone company on having the kind of voice that would calm someone on the line in a crisis.
85. I over-analyze everything, but have trouble seeing myself through other people's eyes and perspective.
86. I appreciate visual beauty like any healthy male, but become most sexually aroused by physical touch. A beauty through the skin, not reflected in the eye.
87. My fantasy heroes are Obi-Wan, Yoda, Paul Atreides, Duncan Idaho, Commander Data and Captain Picard.
88. I spent two years of my life voluntarily sharing my love of the knowledge of restored truth to my brothers and sisters in the southern states. They in return gave me a college degree level education in Sociology.
89. Sandra and I were joined for eternity during the Viet Nam War. My change of draft status prevented me from serving in the military because of the care she required. I've often wondered what life would be like today if I'd taken the other path.
90. Never enjoyed formal education, but I can deeply enjoy studying things that catch my interest.
91. I don't laugh enough. When I do it is to abandon sometimes.
92. I treasure peaceful moods. The quiet in a distant meadow, the shelter of a thick forest, the sound of rushing waters and the endless changing forms in the clouds. These cause contemplation and centering for me.
93. A kayak has more attraction to me than a powered boat. It allows me to reach close to wildlife and see their perspective from a watery surface.
94. My best school skill was outlining. Trying to remember bits and pieces of a lecture was too confusing, so I listened for the elements of the lecture notes that the professor had written to guide his lesson. I left class with his notes in my book to study later.
95. My eyesight has always been excellent for distance. As a youth I had to wear glasses to prevent the muscles from crossing my eyes from close up strain.
96. My curiosity is insatiable. I will sit and look through family albums of people I don't even know.
97. Knowing what to defend is arbitrary until I fully understand other viewpoints. I could never condemn anyone's beliefs because they didn't see things the way I do.
98. I'm convinced there is no such thing as “relative” truth. Real truth stands alone in any context and cannot be destroyed by a change in perspective. Truth is truth wherever you find it.
99. Learning is endless. There are no final graduations from knowledge. To stop learning would mean the eventual loss of what had already been acquired.
100. I see all existence as a vast interconnected living network. All things have purpose and beneath apparent chaos there is order. It all depends on how close one is willing to look.
