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Basic Stuff
Name: Scott "Skip" Concilla
Nickname vs. Real name: I use my real name for family and work, everyone else it's my nickname.
Age: 52
Height: 6'0" / 183 cm
Weight: 190# / 86kg
Ethnicity: Southern Italy 36%, Sweden/Denmark 21%, Germanic Europe 15%, England/Northwestern Europe 11%.
Sign: Cancer

Education
High School: North East High School, Class of 1988.
College: Valparaiso University, Class of 1993; B.A. in Music; B.A. in Broadcast Communications.

Family
Parents: Married since August 1969.
Siblings: One brother, 16 months younger.

Location
Born and raised: North East, PA (yes, that's the name of the town).
Currently: Rockville, MD (northwestern suburbs of Washington, DC).

Music
Sing: Tenor II in the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC.
Play: Piano, flute, and saxophone.

Pets
Cat: Tenor, male orange tabby, rescued January 2020.
Fish: 29 gallon fresh water tank, population varies.

Work
Employment: Senior Microsoft Certified Trainer at Planet Technologies, contractor for the US Department of Energy.
Current Certifications: Microsoft Certified Trainer; Microsoft Office Master - Office 2016.
Been teaching Microsoft end-user products for over 26 years.

Social Media
Facebook: Yes, but I only accept friend requests from people I've met/know.

tigbits (random bits)

Phone numbers:  Dots instead of dashes and parentheses.

Something interesting about my real name:  All three of my names contain a double letter somewhere.

If playing 'Wheel of Fortune' with my name:  Don't buy an "E" or "U"

Soda or pop?:  I used to call it pop, but after living in the midwest, it's soda.

Coke or Pepsi?:  Coke who?

Number of times I've been to Disney World:  3 (1984, 1987, 1990)

Favorite Disney animated feature:  The Rescuers Down Under

One of the coolest movies ever:  Tron

Still very cool after all these years:  Schoolhouse Rock (conjunction junction, what's your function?)

Boxers or briefs?:  Short trunks from bearskn.com

Underoos:  Are you old enough to remember those?  I had Aquaman.

What's still in my wallet:  A Canadian $2 and $5 from 1986, and several fortunes from fortune cookies.

My dream vacation would be:  To travel the U.S. and visit LEGO conventions.

When I was a kid I wanted to be:  A hockey player

Innie or outtie?:  Innie

Made out of rubber or springs?:  Much more rubber than springs (sing the song... maybe you'll get it :-)

Favorite shower gel:  Duke Cannon Accomplishment

Piercings:  I used to have two in the left ear, one in the right.  And I passed out both times I had them done.

Stopped wearing earrings:  August 2008 when I started a new job.

My front teeth are chipped because:  I had a bicycle accident when I was 7 (the rock in the road won).

Wisdom teeth left:  1 (bottom row, right side)

First cavities:  None until I was 23

First crown:  February 2014

Preferred metal:  Silver

Jeans size:  34x34

Handedness:  I'm right-handed, though I can do a lot of things with my left, most notably I can use a mouse in either hand without skipping a beat.

Physical feature I wish I could change at will:  Eye color -- I would love to have bright blue eyes!

Physical feature I hate the most about myself:  Skinny arms and that growing waistline

Gray hair discovery date:  20 March 1999

Do I cheat?:  Just For Men used to work wonders.  Gave up the habit a long time ago.  I'm learning to embrace the gray.

Birthmarks:  Three -- one under my left eye, one on my left hip, and the third... well....

"Official" coming out date:  11 December 1993

My first fling:  Summer 1994, camp, his name was Kevin (a fellow counselor).

Number of women I've 'slept' with:  Zero. I'm a gold-star gay.

Number of pillows on my bed:  Four.

If I were a dog, I would be a:  Chocolate or black Labrador retriever -- they're loyal, friendly, and fun.

Shoe size:  11

Favorite shoe brand:  Topo Athletic

Number of trombones in the big parade:  76

Coffee?:  Yes please, every day, but none of that expensive Starbucks crap.

Banking PIN:  XXXXX <-- scratch here to reveal

First versions of Microsoft Office I worked with:  Office 4.3

Favorite Office application:  Excel

Most annoying Office application:  Word

First car:  1981 Chevy Citation, tan - dubbed the "Skippymobile" by my friends.

Current car (#6):  2019 Kia Soul

Favorite car I owned:  2001 Chevy Tracker 4-door

My first home computer:  An Atari 400, with a 410 tape drive (tape recorder)

Most hated sports team:  The Pittsburgh Steelers

Dogs are:  Big animals that go "WOOF!" - not little things that go "yip, yip, yip!" (i.e. if my cat can beat it up, it's a rug rat).

I may be a computer geek but:  I am not a gadget geek.

Mobile OS:  Android

Ways to leave your lover:  50.

Furniture majority:  Ikea

Carnivore or herbivore?:  Definite carnivore.  Favorite prey are caribou, moose, and deer.

Preferred snack foods:  Popcorn, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, corn nuts

Favorite fruit flavor:  Grape, and just about anything citrus

Number of piggies who had roast beef:  1

The Philadelphia basic food groups:  Soft pretzels, cheesesteaks, and water ice.

Best candy apples:  From Fowler's Taffy at the Cherry Festival in my hometown.

It pays to read the label?:  Ocean Spray's Pink Lemonade contains "red cabbage".

Favorite DOS game:  Empire

Dig-Dug high score:  107,610

Preferred Monopoly token:  The hat

Preferred Clue character:  Professor Plum

Number of websites I design and maintain:  Three

Number of domains I own:  Three

The loneliest number:  1

Most expensive Tigger item I own:  My Tigger leather jacket.

Most obnoxious Tigger item I own:  A very bright orange Tigger NASCAR jacket

Rarest Tigger item I own:  A Tigger baseball cap produced in the mid-nineties. The initial release had an incorrect date listed on the cap and were pulled from the shelves shortly after their release.

Number of times I've read through the entire Harry Potter series:  Three

Character I am most like:  Probably a cross between Hermione (know-it-all) and Neville (a geek).

First Philip Glass Opera I Saw In Person:  Akhnaten, performed in Boston, MA, 30 January 2000

Furthest West I've been:  Honolulu, HI
Furthest South: Puerto Rico
Furthest East: Florence, Italy
Furthest North:  Banff, Alberta, Canada

Number of states I've visited or traveled through:  33

Canadian provinces I've been to:  Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia

Distance from my home town to Philadelphia:  435 miles (to the southeast)

Distance from my home town to Valparaiso University:  425 miles (to the west)

Interstate I've traveled the entire length of:  I-76

Best spring break ever:  Spring Break 1990 -- went on tour with my college choir for a week (our furthest point was Dallas, TX), then, returned to Valpo, and drove off to Orlando, FL with my friends for a week.  Total miles covered on land in those two weeks -- close to 5,000.

Language I took in college:  Greek.

Why Greek?:  Cause I figured any schmuck could take Spanish, German, or French, and my school didn't offer Italian.

Language I wish I knew:  Italian

I missed graduating cum laude from Valparaiso University by:  0.019

Best cartoon strip of all time:  Bloom County

On Facebook since:  August 2008

Pennsylvania counties I've lived in:  Erie, Crawford, Allegheny, Philadelphia.

Political party affiliation:  Democrat (DUH!)

There's a fine fine line:  Between love and a waste of time.

Most annoying thing to see in someone's online profile:  any adjectives claiming to be "hot", "cute", "sexy", "very good looking", etc.

My first Internet e-mail address:  SAC6400@exodus.valpo.edu

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:  ISTJ

Bettys:  Nothing but trouble.

I used to have too many friends named:  Mike or Greg (no offense guys!)

Music at my funeral:" The Funeral of Amenhotep III" from Ahknaten by Philip Glass

Cigarette-free since:  December 1998

What I hope you'll get out of this website:  pictures, info, and insights (with a side of humor) into a really great guy!

What I hope to get from this website:  more hits

And now: you may go to another page and continue your explorations.

Mischief managed!