Tommy McQueeney:  

The Story of My Life The Expanded Form that Includes Every Exciting Detail... With some focused effort I could have reached a level of under-achievement that may have redefined my life. Instead, I have enjoyed a lapse of non-responsive mediocrity that has obscured my ambivalence. Upon high school graduation I set out to change the world, but found that I could not even change a tire. I entered The Citadel so that my parents knew where I was at night. Shortly after graduation, I married too soon, had children in short order and put everything on autopilot until I could get to a point of mindless nonchalance tempered by quiet boredom with a dose of skepticism. A north wind blew in and before you knew it, I was out of one non-comfort zone and into another. I bought a computer and learned MS-DOS by inserting floppy discs into a slot and then listening to what sounded like roaches moving in a frenzied scurry. That whole new world made me think that there was life on the other side. I was afraid to open my computer, but did spray a full can of Raid into that slot. My life had nudged up to the area of quiet degradation so I had to do something. I tuned into the History Channel, installed a water filter, and bought a sport utility. The rest of my life has been an aftermath - but before chemistry. That's happening now within the confines of the interim. I ...Expand for more