8 Random Things about me
Tag, I’m it. James tagged me in this blogspheric get-to-know-you game; I’d hate to be a spoil sport and not reply, so here goes:
- I owned three cars before I even had a license to drive. All three were Ford Mustang’s from the 1960′s; my father and I used two for parts and ended up with a sweet ’66 that had a rare bench seat in the front.
- I essentially flunked out of college after two years. Personal quote: "Freshman year was the best two years of my life." I ended up taking a full-time job with the University and over the next five years, retook all of the classes I failed and was able to pull the GPA up to get right into graduate school.
- After several years of not training, I jumped into the Philadelphia Marathon with six weeks of ‘preparation’. I limped to the finish in around four and a half hours. Two years later, I finished the Chicago Marathon over 70 minutes faster. Amazing what a little training can do. ;)
- I grew up a New York Yankees fan: favorite player was Thurman Munson and I can still remember the day he died unexpectedly.
- Keeping with the sports theme I’ve got going: I went to high school with a guy who was drafted by the Cardinals in the NFL. I’ve been a die-hard (and miserable) Cardinals fan ever since. I also did a whirlwind, under 24-hour trip to Phoenix simply to attend Pat Tillman’s memorial service at ASU. He deserved my time and respect.
- Favorite books are the "Lord of the Rings" series. I read the books one summer in the late ’70s and I’ve re-read them at least once a year since then.
- I’m not a beach person, I think it’s giant box of cat litter. Barb and I tend to vacation in the mountains….bigger cats and no litter.
- I listen to music constantly…probably about 12 hours a day, or roughly the same amount of time I’m reading.
So, who would I like to know more about? How about:
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Hey, Kevin. Thanks for the tag. :) But Sumocat beat you to it! Read on here for my 8 random things: http://jezlyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/tag-im-it/
After I posted the list, I thought of at least 3 more random things I thought about posting in a continuation, but didn’t. :)
Thanks! Already got tagged:
http://thoughtfix.com/blog/
:D
Now we know your password 66080279lrings ;-)
Gee, can you tell I’m behind on my RSS feeds since I tagged you both when you already blogged your random things? At least my Inbox is empty…. :)
CTitanic could be tagged :)
Ah, crap not another one of these! ;) I have to think about my answers and where I’ll post them.
Actually few people have thoughtfix.com/blog on their RSS feeds as it is my personal/public/non-mobile-tech blog. Come on … I posted my experiences on “will an espresso machine pay for itself” and “the rules of strip scrabble” on it!