User:Mrpex

Well, I'm MrPex (pronounced "mister pex".) I was given the nickname "Pecks" in 1995 when I was an AMMO (US Air Force) troop. When I got out of the Air Force, since I was no longer "Airman Pecks", I took the online nick, "Mr Pex", and eventually shortened it to MrPex.

My three major contributions to Wiki have been the AMMO (US Air Force), IYAAYAS, and the Gallant Bess articles.

If you're an AMMO troop, give me a yell on the talk page for my user page.

I've hung my hat in California, Washington State, Texas, Colorado, Iceland, Guam, Idaho, and Saudi Arabia, and have visited Arkansas, Oregon, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Ohio, Nevada, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Utah, Canada, Germany, Ensenada (Papas n Beer!) and Bahrain.

I SCUBA dive, and have gone diving in Guam; the Persian Gulf; Monterey, California; and in freshwater lakes in California. I've run into World War II wrecks, Blacktip Reef Sharks, submarines, dolphin, bioluminescent jellyfish and algae, foot-wide conchs, and sea lions.

I've seen 6 hour sunrises; sunsets from a hundred feet under water; the Northern Aurora peek through billowy clouds of snow; 120 mile per hour winds; 1000 foot snow-covered cliffs in Isafjordur glimmer in the late-afternoon moonlight during near 24 hour night in the early winter; and coconuts get hurled through windows in the furious winds of a South Pacific Typhoon.

I've rappelled 300 feet into a pitch black pit in the ground and over a 100 foot cliff into the roiling Phillipine Sea, climbed more than 250 feet underground through tunnels so tight that I felt like I was reliving my own birth, and (purposely and legally) blown up enough explosives to flatten entire city blocks.

I've done a lot of things, been to a lot of places, and met a lot of people... But there are still many places to go, things to do, and people to meet.

On my wishlist are:

Places to go: Alaska, back to Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Australia, The North and South Poles, the Grand Canyon, the World Trade Center Ground Zero, outer space, and the Moon.

Things to do: Skydive, bungee jump, hold my breath for over three minutes, swim with a whale, read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; Finish reading "Atlas Shrugged", earn a rotary wing aircraft pilot's license, finish my engineering degree, (this one could go on and ON...)

People to meet: I've met David Prowse, Alex Trebek (I won't link to him because he was a dick), and Colin Powell (another linkless dick). If I cold CHOOSE, I'd like to meet Bruce Willis (I've been to a bar he owns up in Idaho, and he just seems like a cool guy), Stephen Hawking, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fischer, Story Musgrave, Bill Clinton (Seems like he'd be cool to have over for beer and poker), my Grandpa that they made a movie called "Gallant Bess" about, and Osama bin Laden.

I've got a long laundry list, I gotta go! IYAAYAS!