Random facts about Draginol

Published on Thursday, June 15, 2006 By Brad Wardell In Life Journals

 

  • Draginol is a character in a series of unpublished stories I've been writing for the past 20 years.
  • Draginol is the main villain in the stories he's in.
  • My first job was taking out the garbage for my neighbors in the apartment complex we lived in for 10 cents per bag.
  • I was 5 years old when I started the trash service.
  • I will tend to lose my equilibrium on airline flights unless I take a prescribed drug.
  • I was 33 the first time I got a cold serious enough to require me to blow my nose.
  • My second job was working in a garage cleaning toilets, cleaning windows, weeding, painting the fence around the area in 100+ degree weather.
  • I was 13 when I got my second job. I made $2 an hour under the table. (that would be $2.50 today).
  • I was engaged to be married once before I met my wife.
  • I met my wife in Electrical Engineering class.
  • I lived with 4 girls at once in my junior year of college.
  • I do not recommend living with 4 girls at once.
  • My wife is currently expecting a daughter in August.
  • No girl has ever been born into the Wardell family as far back as our family tree goes. This is the first one.
  • I am an only child.
  • I have had 3 dogs.
  • The first dog got run over by a car 3 months after we got it. The second one we gave away because it was nuts. The third one we had for 11 years and died when I went to college.
  • I have not gotten a dog since that dog died.
  • I have a box turtle named Cuddles that I have had for over 20 years.
  • The box turtle was estimated to be around 30 years old when I got it.
  • My favorite author is Raymond E. Feist.
  • Yes, Stardock is from his one of his books.
  • I am not really a Republican or a Democrat. I tend to vote Republican but only because they are "Closer".  I am what is known as a "Capitalist". Find out what you are here.
  • I have no allergies to anything at all that I know of.  I don't have any reaction to poison ivy, bee stings, or any other bites (i.e. not even a bump). I have no idea why.
  • My biggest fear is something bad happening to any of my children.
  • One of my missed ambitions is to write a screen play that is turned into a movie or at the very least to finish the stories I've written and publish them.
  • I have learned that happiness can only come from within. That different people have their own furnace that provides joy.
  • My furnace could work better.
  • Loyalty is the trait I value the most in a friend.
  • I have been told that I am sometimes blinded by my loyalty to others.
  • I do not believe in ghosts or other "mystical" things but I am starting to believe in extra sensory perceptions to some degree.
  • I am a big believer in cognitive intution
  • I believe that the easiest way to be successful is to set things up so that other people are successful if you are successful.
  • I was born in Texas.
  • My favorite place to visit is Manhattan.
  • My favorite vacation spot is the gulf of mexico.
  • The closest thing to surgery I've ever had was tubed in my ears.
  • I've never broken a bone though I came very close to breaking my foot (and it's not known if there was a fracture in there or not).
  • The foot "incident" happened last year.
  • I was playing jump to get the balloons in the living room and jump very high and into our large, heavy television in full Mary Katherine Galleger style.
  • I really don't like to travel but I like being in different places.
  • I type around 120 words per minute.
  • I still look for approval from my parents for what I do.
  • I love dove chocolate.
  • Dove chocolate doesn't love me. It causes me to break out very quickly and very badly.
  • I had a lot of Dove chocolate yesterday.
  • I didn't know how to read until 2nd grade.
  • My first grade teacher told my mom not to expect much from me, I was simply "slow".
  • I went to a "special" school when I was 4 (not the good kind of special).
  • I really don't like getting older.
  • I am proud, and thankful, in hindsight that I had to buy my own first car by saving up from working very unpleasant jobs early on.
  • I have a similar feeling about college. Working through college helped me appreciate things more.
  • I don't really like cars very much.
  • Cars are one of the only good things I can write off on taxes.
  • My car is an upgraded  Jaguar S-Type R (500hp).
  • I only drive around 8,000 miles per year.
  • I am suspicious about people who think other people are just "lucky" and that their own failings are not their own fault.
  • I like to talk to people either in person or via text but hate talking to people on the phone, especially strangers.
  • My first computer was a Commodore 64.
  • One of my favorite games of all time was a text game called Planet Fall.
  • I tend to be too wordy...