Saving Kittens, Ending Marriages, and Wheeling with Willie: Howdy from Texas

Hello, SteemIt. Never thought I’d join a community with a name that sounds like a command to drop a turd on demand, but here I am. A coworker turned me on to SteemIt. This son of a gun urged me to buy Ethereum 3 months ago when it was at $12, and I balked because I’d never really heard of cryptocurrency.

Well, considering what Ethereum has done in the last 3 months, I jumped on the SteemIt train when he told me about this community. So far I’ve found some decent folks on here, but I’d like to harpoon some of the self-proclaimed whales.

The first thing you’ll probably notice in my pics is that I use a wheelchair for mobility. Back in 1994, I ran into a burning building to save a basket of kittens just as the roof collapsed. A crossbeam fell on my back and, well, now I don’t like cats.*

I’m not looking for pity though. Piss on pity. After losing the use of my legs, I earned a bachelor’s and master’s in literature, I taught English for 5 years at the college level, I slept with my first publisher at a newspaper job and ended her marriage, I met Willie Nelson and played onstage with his band, I won a dance-off challenge with a well-timed wheelie against the formidable Crazy Legs Lance in the barrios of Laredo, pushed a Charger to 143 mph racing a BMW (and won with a shoulder pass), I finished the Houston marathon in under 3 hours, won all kinds of 5k and 10k races, and learned to strum a mean ukulele from the West Texas legend himself: Jeffro.

Well, that’s just a few things. You get to have dabbled in quite a bit by the time you reach the ripe old age of 83. I'm also a pretty good shot, but I am from East Texas, so....

Expect to see a little bit of everything on my blog, but I’m going to stick to the original content. Hairy Kerry is my stage name, and I’m going by that. You’ll see quite a few uke songs sung to immaculate perfection for the music snobs out there. I’m also learning to play the fiddle again, so get out yer ear plugs.

I’m going to keep this short and sweet ‘cause I know the attention span of the average social media user ended after the first paragraph. While still longer than Donald Trump’s attention span, I doubt few of you made it this far. If you did, I’ll close by sharing that I currently work as a senior writer for an oil and gas company in Houston, Texas. Yes, I am part of the machine, but I’m looking to vacate that position ASAAPBJCATAMTWFHSICMBTTBB.

(This is where I'm supposed to beg you to follow me on SteemIt, but if you're already here, you can click on my handle and choose "follow." No reason to brow beat you with it.)

*Most of what I say is true, some is complete BS. But no, I don’t like cats.