So what's up with my first name? "Kem" is short for my middle name, which is "Kemater". "Donald" is my real first name. "Kemater" is my paternal grandmother's maiden name. Her siblings were all female so I don't think there are any Kematers around anymore. I've been called "Kem" my whole life. I never use my real first name unless forced to. While a search of the web turns up other people with the same first name, I've never once met anyone else named Kem.

A work in progress. For those who are really, really bored.
1. I was born on Christmas.
2. But I never felt deprived on my birthday.
3. I am electrical engineer who's lost his way.
4. I'm married to a high school teacher.
5. One son is at York College of PA, the other is at the University of Maryland.
6. The older son plays the clarinet, guitar, and piano.
7. The younger son plays the trumpet and guitar.
8. I play the radio.
9. I have one sibling, a brother.
10. Buying books is my favorite hobby.
11. Sometimes I read them.
12. I like classical music.
13. I'd like opera, too, if it weren't for the singing.
14. I teach Sunday School - Rite 13 - to middle schoolers.
15. I love it.
16. I've lived in Howard County, MD, since 1980.
17. All things considered, it's the best place I've ever lived.
18. I'm an ISFJ on good days.
19. I'm an ISTJ on bad.
20. I probably drink too much beer.
21. Dogfish Head is my preferred brew.
22. My wife thinks I drink too much coffee.
23. You can never drink too much coffee.
24. My favorite number is pi.
25. I've voted for 1 Republican in my life.
26. It was for Registrar of Wills.
27. Thanks to Ken Starr and W., I will never vote for another one.
28. I know Fortran, PL-1, and IBM 360 Assembly Language.
29. I now program in C++ and Matlab.
30. I skipped the second grade.
31. My favorite TV show ever is The Dick Van Dyke Show.
32. The Simpsons is a close second.
33. My favorite movie ever is Casablanca.
34. Some Like It Hot is a close second.
35. The first movie I ever saw was 101 Dalmations.
36. I dislike yard work; my thumb is black not green.
37. I've read The Complete Sherlock Holmes at least 4 times.
38. I belong to two scions of the Baker Street Irregulars.
39. I bite my nails.
40. My most hated food is eggs.
41. I can whistle really, really loud.
42. I'm a fair-to-middlin' juggler.
43. I'm a pretty good cook.
44. President Ford came to my college graduation.
45. I like to play backgammon and Scrabble.
46. I'm very good at both.
47. When I was 10 I met Muhammad Ali and got his autograph.
48. I still have the autograph.
49. I have zero interest in sports entertainment.
50. The Baltimore Orioles and Michigan football excepted.
51. I don't "get" any entertainment that requires an indoor arena and a dirt floor (rodeo, monster truck rallies, etc.).
52. I like to bird but don't do it nearly often enough.
53. I have over 300 birds on my life list.
54. I have about 60 birds on my yard list.
55. In July 2003 I was attacked by a blackbird while running.
56. I love driving across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
57. I would die if I had to walk across.
58. I'm the only person in Maryland who likes winter.
59. I think the Episcopal Church is a great spiritual home.
60. I own nine bibles.
61. I own four Books of Common Prayer.
62. I can run 10 Km in about 60 minutes.
63. In 1980 I could run 10 Km in about 40 minutes.
64. I was a Cub Scout den leader and cubmaster for 7 years.
65. I loved every minute of it.
66. As a kid, I once soaped my neighbor's car windows.
67. I felt so guilty I got up early the next day to clean them.
68. I admire George Washington and Richard Feynman.
69. I earned only 21 merit badges, the minimum for Eagle.
70. My favorite Scout outing was a 1971 canoe trip down the Sand River in Ontario.
71. I earned Boy Scout Lifeguard in 2002.
72. I've had tinnitus as long as I can remember.
73. I never went to my high school proms.
74. My first job was working in the snack bar of a roller rink.
75. I still get goose bumps when I hear The Victors.
76. I miss Michigan summers.
77. I lived in St. Louis for two years after college.
78. I never went up in the Arch.
79. I'm really tickled by palindromes.
80. "Redivider" is the longest 1-word palindrome in English.
81. "So many dynamos" is my favorite palindrome.
82. I never thought I would like New York City.
83. I visited there for the first time in July 2003 and loved it.
84. I gave up golf because it was too hard.
85. I own a vintage Trek 715 bicycle bought in 1982.
86. I have no tattoos or body piercings.
87. I think body piercing is a good thing. That way you can tell something's not right with a person right away just by looking at them.
88. I've never had a beard or a moustache.
89. I was 45 before I first lived in a house with a garage.
90. I would never do my job as a hobby.
91. I've backpacked the American and Canadian Rockies.
92. I've walked along the Athabasca River. It is one of the few rivers that flows north into the Arctic Ocean.
93. My first plane trip was from Buffalo to Philadelphia in 1963.
94. My first train trip was from Baltimore to New York in 2003.
95. My first car was a brand new 1978 Ford Mustang II.
96. I now drive a 2005 Toyota Camry.
97. I've donated 10 gallons of blood and platelets.
98. I am an orphan.
99. I'm going to hate it when my children leave.
100. I thank God every day for all the blessings in my life.