# Your proud, specific accomplishments **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432 "2015-01-20T23:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![pojimba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@pojimba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pojimba)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/81 "2015-01-23T22:02:46Z")
I once solved a Rubik’s Cube with my feet. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/82 "2015-01-23T23:09:50Z")
I got a novel proposal accepted by the game company I freelance for, and it’ll be coming out (as a real, dead-tree, you-can-buy-it-at-Barnes and Noble paperback) in April. This has been a bucket-list dream for a very long time, so I’m pretty stoked about it. I also wrote five novels in my original urban fantasy series, which I’ll be launching (or rather, re-launching, since I previously published a couple of them and had to pull them down to do some rewriting to fit them into the series) in March. The series will have an industry-pro editor and pro-designed covers. I’m very excited about getting them out there. Already working on the sixth. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/83 "2015-01-23T23:36:12Z")
My [quilt](https://www.flickr.com/photos/90868696@N06/14353112487/) in one of the fairs last year won a blue ribbon, Judge’s Choice and a Merit Award, for a total of $22 in prize money! I get double the amount because I do everything by hand. 🙂 (It would have won the President’s Choice silver plate for the president’s favorite arts and crafts item in the whole barn, but it was up against a tribute sculpture some kids made for their recently-deceased grandpa. You can’t compete with that.) Also, this one my mom left behind when she died, so I put it together for a quilting pal of hers whose family had been through a lot the last few years. She had no idea I was doing it, and it happened to arrive on their 50th anniversary (I had no idea!)! [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/7320/11658939803_bf0720038d_b.jpg "Quilt18a") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/90868696@N06/11658939803/) ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/84 "2015-01-23T23:37:01Z")
I rode and finished RAMROD twice. ([RAMROD = Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_Around_Mount_Rainier_in_One_Day)). Also, I have a doctorate of music in composition, and am a published composer. Compositions of mine have been performed all over the USA and abroad. Relating to the above, I am the composer in residence with our local professional symphony orchestra and was recently-ish awarded “Composer of the Year” by the state Music Teacher’s Association. Also, I am a tenured associate professor of music at the nearby state university. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/85 "2015-01-23T23:59:44Z")
It may be the depression talking,but not a thing. I do muddle through the day and at the end usually have not harmed any human or animal. Some days it’s close. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/86 "2015-01-24T00:21:36Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I got a novel proposal accepted by the game company I freelance for, and it’ll be coming out (as a real, dead-tree, you-can-buy-it-at-Barnes and Noble paperback) in April. This has been a bucket-list dream for a very long time, so I’m pretty stoked about it. > > I also wrote five novels in my original urban fantasy series, which I’ll be launching (or rather, re-launching, since I previously published a couple of them and had to pull them down to do some rewriting to fit them into the series) in March. The series will have an industry-pro editor and pro-designed covers. I’m very excited about getting them out there. Already working on the sixth. Very cool! Big congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/87 "2015-01-24T01:06:52Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Very cool! Big congratulations! Thanks, and to you as well! Let me know when your second book comes out so I can read it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432/88 "2015-01-24T01:30:01Z")
Lots, but here are two. ## I defeated my landlord and their two lawyers in court, by successfully having all my money order, receipts, and convincing the judge with all my evidence that I had paid and they accepted so therefore I can’t be evicted. It was a late payment in Nov, but I always pay on time and the manager accepted and only gave back two months later. Landlords should not accept payments if they file for eviction. I won! But it was a long story, not the typical landlord-tenant simple issue and I won’t go into. We are on good terms though. Second, I matched with a cute Asian American girl on Tinder, after running into flakes, we communicated for about a month on phone and she accepted my invitation to meet for coffee. So far so good, first time I have ever met a girl off of an app or online forum. Oh and my Tinder preference was set to Men, though it was as part of an experiment to see how well I do with the gentleman, NOT that I am into men. For some odd reason her picture came up among the men, and we both swiped right and matched. Smart girl, works for Boeing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-proud-specific-accomplishments/710432.md?page=4)