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March 3, 2008
tagged
Way back last week when it was still February, Salty tagged me. It was the first time I'd ever been tagged, so I had to give it some thought so's not to appear totally clueless about social-internetting. Also, I was too busy last week to think of much to say, except for 3 days' worth of whining about training. Anyway, I am under strict orders to take it easy after some dental surgery this morning, so I've got time to catch up on things.
The first rule of tagging is # Link to the person who tagged you, which I already did. Can you find the link on this page? I thought you could.
Rule #2: # Post the rules on your blog, which I am doing right now.
Rule #3: # Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog. hmmm...
- From the time I was 15 until just before I turned 38, I smoked between 2 and 4 packs of cigarettes a day.
- My mother's maternal family came to the US from Kiev at the turn of the 20th century. Their name got mangled into a very pretty French-sounding one at Ellis Island. After a short stay in New York, they started a socialist commune on some land near Aiken, SC. That land is now part of a nuclear power plant.
- I hate black licorice.
- I've always been fascinated by languages.
- I've played musical instruments of one sort or another since I was 4 years old.
- I am a really good draftsman. The old-fashioned kind, on vellum or mylar or linen, done with straightedges and triangles and splines and rapidographs. Drafting helped finance my engineering degree.
- oh, and I have an engineering degree.
Rule #4: Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. This is going to be difficult, because I don't know that many bloggers, and most of them have already been tagged by Salty. But here goes: Ray, Martin, roots, el duderino, Chelle (though she may have already been tagged), um, um, oh crap I've run out of people for now. I'll add more when I can think of more, promise.
Rule #last: # Leave a comment on their blogs so that they know they have been tagged. This I will most certainly do.
Posted by joe positive at March 3, 2008 2:48 PM
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Is this my chance to say, "harrumphy?"
Just kidding. Nice knowing a bit more about you. I too smoked, 10-15 Marlboros per day from ages 17-32.
What a liberation, being away from the habit. Keep running!
Posted by: roots at March 3, 2008 7:55 PM
#2 might be my favorite revelation of all time thus far--it's btw that and Adeel driving into a buffalo.
Did you know I was a Russian major as an undergraduate? Sad my language skills have gone to crap and I'd be lucky to read menu in Russian...Anyhow, do you speak other languages?
Posted by: tuscaloosarunner at March 4, 2008 5:34 AM
looks like this tagging exercise is aimed at trying to keep track of the complexity of life...
re. the barefoot pushups "bait", i would plainly beg to differ...
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at March 4, 2008 1:32 PM
looks like this tagging exercise is aimed at trying to keep track of the complexity of life...
re. the barefoot pushups "bait", i would plainly beg to differ...
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at March 4, 2008 1:33 PM
Joseph, I can offer one that's just as subversive as Karen's family. On September 29, 2001, we went and bought a birthday cake for my cousin Osama's 9th birthday. Someone iced it with the words "Happy Birthday Osama!" and was kind enough not to call the cops.
Posted by: Adeel at March 4, 2008 10:28 PM