My name is Mike England. I am a bus herder. Not a two-headed busherder or anthing so interesting as that, but I did used to sell double decker buses, I guess that's sort of interesting. . .
Well, well, everyone loves to talk about themselves, don't they?
Tedious as it seems, it IS rather a good way to become acquainted with our fellow travellers, I suppose. For example, if you read something I have said about myself and it sounds like something you would like to know more about the first thing you will probably do is tell me something about yourself and so on. . .
I'm just a simple bus herder in Denver Colorado.
I sit at a big desk day in and day out, counting forms and entering numbers into my computer and answering the phone and talking people into hiring our buses and browbeating drivers who don't fill out their paperwork correctly and like that. . .
I used to skydive. Quite a lot, in fact. And I plan to do some more of that soon. Had to put skydiving and convertibles and a few other things sort of on the back burner several years ago when I got married then started a business and a family. The wife took the money from the business, took the baby and left. Now my life is an endless quest to get to spend more time with my baby and when I can't I stay busy working more than is really necessary, watching James Bond movies and reading books and such - can't do too much fun stuff for the time being.
I have had some rather interestng adventures over the years.
Once, when I was in the National Guard, I got a phone call on a Thursday afternoon, the day before St. Patrick's day. I got on a plane Friday afternoon, and shortly after nightfall I found myself in a place called Dublin surrounded by people dressed entirely in green.
Spent the next three days in a big cave underground playing this giant wargame that was so big it took more than a hundred people just to play the game. It was rather an instructive game, I figger; as games go, at any rate. Sort of sharpened the skills of most of us who participated in the event, God forbid, we were ever forced to come together to repell the invaders from Kazakstan or some such vaguely Russian-sounding country who might want to fight a war over some minor islands in the North of Japan.
Another time I recieved a phone call on a Sunday afternoon, reported in on Monday morning, and didn't come homr for two years. Lived in a tent in the jungle in Jamaica, driving back and forth and up and down all by myself, like the Sergeant Major in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, whilst some enterprising young engineer soldiers built some buildings which I designed for them in my spare time. Beats the hell out of being in Saudi Arabia, I said. "I agree", said my pet parrot. That parrot was an agreeable sort. Made of wood, he was. I still have him. Mind you, he didn't talk much except when I'd had one too many Red Stripes or Two Guenneisses (Never could really quite get the hang of spelling that stuff, singularly, much less in plural form.)
well, anyway, enough for now.
I think I'll see what the guide has to say and see what my introduction looks like after I've pressed Update Introduction . . .
I suppose this 'Guide' provides for some sort of built-in email function so feel free to push the little button that says 'email me' or something of the sort.
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