Perette Barella: My Life in Bullet Points and Pictures

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What have I done in my life?

• Rode carousels and tractors
  
• Jumped in leaf piles, had birthday parties, and went sledding
  
• Grew up with hand-eye coordination issues probably related to Autism
• Looked at a teddy bear
  
• Wrote anti-consumerist propaganda (and made some videos playing on advertising macros)
• Went to a technical high school and studied electronics
• Ran a computer club
  
• Fought off a pirate
  
• Befriended the pirate and took him hiking
  
• Went hiking with my mom and spread my father's ashes
  
• Extended TRS-80 Color BASIC to support modem I/O, and had a dial-in BBS that I wrote myself
• Studied computer science, psychology, physics, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, and massage
  
• Had awesome friends who stood by me through hard times
  
• Butchered a deer & dissected a human while studying massage
  
• Eaten chicken, bacon, ham, beef, alligator, ostrich, venison and sushi
• Hung out with the Rocky Horror Picture Show crowd and opened my mind
  
• Cycled Prince Edward Island with my mom
  
• Had a sex change, but outgrew the infatuation
  
• Modeled both clothed and nude, vanilla and fetishy for artists
  
• Attended corporate functions with my sweetie
  
• Suffered a mental breakdown under capitalistic pressures
• Took a DBT class and pieced myself back together
• Worked in the sex industry as a dominatrix. Nobody should be forced to do sexwork, but for me it was a fantastic opportunity to study and explore human sexuality. I marked up my own website and advertising, too:
  
• Served on the board of the Rochester Kink Society
• Helped develop award-winning sex toys, and turned a broken arcade game into the world's largest sex game.
  
• Hit a fence because I was young, stupid and driving way too fast; got parking tickets and a speeding ticket, and later (when older, wiser and in less of a rush) acquired a commercial driver's license and carted school kids around.
• Built a cart for Pony Play, and won awards including Funniest Performance, First Place Traditional Equitation, and sexiest ponygirl.
  
• Been catheterized for fun (but mixed feelings about it)
• Bike toured from Montreal to Ottawa, to Mont Laurier and around with my mom
  
• Toured solo from Rochester through the Catskills, Adirondacks and around Lake Ontario
• Bicycled the Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive
  
• Been socially awkard, and made some mistakes that hurt or offended others. I feel bad about that, when I think about it.
• Wrote, directed, performed and edited sketch comedy:
  • Frendz
  • Burglary Bonanza
  • Vandalism Training Video
• Became an aerialist
  
• Written code in C, C++, Python, TypeScript, Pascal, Korn Shell, assembly and numerous other languages
• Went bicycle touring with groups and family in Ontario, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, the Nederlands, Wisconsin, Quebec, New York and PEI.
  
• Published all the articles on my website as well as a collection of short fetish erotica and a novel (under a pseudonym).
• Smashed stuff, built stuff, fixed stuff, and did stuff
  
• Developed a music server
• Worked menial jobs like cashiering, counting inventory, and developing websites
• Worked at a shipping company, moving an estimated 15 tons of parcels/day by hand and parking their well-recognized brown trucks within 6″ of each other in preparation for loading during holiday season.
• Building on my VHS skit-comedy experience, and working to improve my skills, made a video essay on indoctrination to car culture, and directed an laurel-winning short written by my wife, Opal.
  
• Watched a total solar eclipse with friends.

To do

• Cycle Georgian Bay & Manitoulin Island
• Try parkour Done.
• Cycle the St Lawrence—US section, Canadian section
• Cycle the Katy Trail Done.
• Bike the Delaware River to its headwaters
• Learn more Aerial—silk, lyra, static trapeze, pole, swinging Chinese pole
• Learn a foreign language. I'm not fully fluent yet, but I can speak some level of Dutch.
• Emmigrate to a new homeland. That fell apart when Nederland elected Gert Wilder, infected with the crazy that is spreading everywhere.
• Bikepack up the Rhine river into Switzerland.
• Backpack or bike Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Asia
• Explore the US West and Southwest Unachievable due to anti-Trans hostility.
• Bike to Ramblewood
• Try living in an intentional community
• Visit a certain fetishy store in the Kitchener-Waterloo area Done.

Observations

This page is full of stuff I've done and things I intend to do rather than junk I've owned and crap I want. I do appreciate items I own when they contribute to the things I do, and have few possessions that serve no purpose.

Looking forward to stimulating new experiences is a major contributor to my happiness.

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