16 Things

1. I split MY chin open (and knocked myself out) by attempting to jump from the top of one counter top to another across a hallway at my parents house when nobody else was home.
2. I had scarlet fever in first grade.
3. In pre-school another kid jumped off a jungle gym onto the top of my head and I bit through the middle of my tongue and required many stitches to fix it.
4. Some day I will summer in Montana and winter in Bora Bora.
5. If my rude parents hadn't given me crappy eyesight I would have joined the Navy and become a pilot and might have been the one landing that plane in the Hudson River yesterday.
6. The first time I met SC, I was trying to check my score on an 8th grade Algebra test in her 9th grade homeroom and she slammed the door in my face while making rude comments about 8th graders coming into her room. You can understand the immediate attraction...
7. I played ice hockey for Norwin in high school. I haven't skated in at least 15 years, but I would love to find somewhere to play again.
8. Mint chocolate chip ice cream with melted peanut butter on top sounds like possibly one of the worst things you could possibly eat.
9. I frequently consider quitting my job and becoming a driver for UPS. I'd rather be a bush pilot in Alaska, but since I don't have a pilot's license and I do have a driver's license...
10. SC believes that I have another wife and 4 daughters on the left coast.
11. I have been to 39 states and 11 foreign countries and am always looking for a reason to go to somewhere new.
12. I have a Microsoft Map Point map on my laptop where I keep track of all the counties in the US that I have been in. Keeping track of only states isn't detailed enough for me.
13. I have about 520 titles on DVD and yes, I know when one is not in it's proper place on the shelf.
14. SC sincerely believes that whatever I am doing at any point in time is orders of magnitude less important than whatever it is she has suddenly decided I should be doing.
15. Relating to #14, I am being dragged over to karate against my will even though they are closed to go through some farce of doing something I could easily do at home so I can get class credit. The fact that I can know my form and everything else I need to know for testing and not pass pre-testing until I get 18 classes in, but other people can pass by getting 18 classes in without being able to do their form irritates me beyond words.
16. The final half season of Battlestar Galactica starts tonight at 10:00 on scifi. If you haven't watched before, you can view the catch the frak up video at the top of my blog to get up to speed.