30 Things You Might Not Know About Me

First, my sister tagged me.  Then Kristina did.  Is this the next iteration of email forwards?  Blog forwards perhaps?  I sure hope not.  I’m not following the rules of the tag game, because I hate the idea.  So here’s my list of things you may or may not know about me, in no particular order:

1. I hate email forwards.  FWD: in an email subject/body is a good way to get yourself ignored in my inbox.
2. I like to clean the kitchen.
3. I wrestled in Middle-School and High School.
4. I wasn’t very good.
5. I also played: Football, Swimming, Track (sprints) and Field (pole-vaulting).
6. I played football in college, but only for 1 game.
7. I went 4 years without making a basket for the 2nd Lindy (my college dorm flor) intra-mural basketball team.
8. I played Soccer outside of school.  I even played in 2 tournaments in England.
9. I had 1 friend in High School.  I met 1 other guy in High School who I became friends with after High School.
10. I talk to our cats.
11. I laugh at my own jokes.
12. I like graphic design, though I’m mostly a “good hack”.  That means I can reproduce designs that I see and tweak them, but I’m not great at coming up with my own really cool look.  Sue says I’m more than that.
13. I worry about whether or not I’ll be a good dad.
14. I took 5 years of Spanish in Middle/High School
15. I don’t remember much of it.
16. My first mission trip was to Mexico.  It was 3 weeks after starting my DCE Internship.
17. I’d like to write a book someday.
18. My family has a rustic cabin in Tiona, PA.  I don’t get to go there much anymore.  I went a lot as a kid.
19. I like technology, especially gadgets.
20. I like computer and console gaming.  I’ve owned: Intellivision, Commodore 64, several PCs, a PS2 and a Wii.
21. I like playing cards, especially Euchre, Pinochle and Hearts.
22. I lifeguarded in High School/College.
23. I coached the swim team at our city pool.
24. I taught swimming lessons for 5+ years.
25. I first went “online” circa 1992 at “The Time Vault” BBS.  It was nothing like the internet of today, but it was pretty fun.
26. I watched the last episode of the Johnny Carson show while chatting with Jim Barry, the owner (we called them SysOps) of the Time Vault BBS.
27. I also frequented the Cleveland Freenet.  My User ID was bv571 (I think).  atteSmythe was be975.  We sometimes logged in as ted5, a college student at Case Western Reserve University.
28. I used to meet the people from Freenet at area Metroparks for picnics. 
29. I served as Secretary of our school government association.  I didn’t care for it.
30. I learned guitar in college because I (wrongly) thought DCEs had to know how to lead singing time with a guitar to be effective.

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