This one popped up in my memories today. Nothing I would change. My kids are older now. I have seen my brother Oscar since I wrote it.
Today’s challenge is to post 30 facts about myself. And you thought the bullet point my day thing was boring…
- I was born in Louisville, KY. I didn’t live there long. We moved soon after I was born. The city has been in mourning ever since.
- I grew up in Beaver Dam, KY. It is a small town in Western Kentucky. I really enjoyed growing up in a small town and a part of me wouldn’t mind living in a small town again. But, a small town where there is actually something to do…
- I was voted shyest guy for the senior superlatives in the yearbook. I’m not sure that was exactly accurate. I don’t know that I was shy necessarily. Just didn’t see the point of talking when no one cared.
- I drank so much in my first 2 semesters in college that I went from a 4.0 in high school to just over 2.0 in college. Looking back, I didn’t even really enjoy the partying. I was a very stupid kid.
- I went to college thinking I would be a teacher. I was one semester away from being an elementary school teacher when I realized that I didn’t really like it and I was really bad at it. I changed my major to communications.
- I was working at the university library at the time and my adviser suggested I consider a library science degree. I got my BS in Communications and then went straight to grad school for my MLS. I think it is defective. I should probably ask for a refund.
- I love reading about the TV and movie industry. Not the gossip part, but the business side. I sometimes feel like I should have stayed in communications with a focus on that area. I could be writing for EW at this point.
- I met my wife in at the Baptist Student Union at UK. She was actually dating someone else when we met. It took her a year to go crazy and decide to go out with me. She is still insane.
- I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 21 and still failed the test twice. Now, though, I am a very good driver and the only tickets I’ve ever received were from speed cameras.
- I have a double uvula. The only use I have found for a double uvula is to have another thing to add to these fact lists.
- I read about 100 books a year. I really hate when people respond to that with “I don’t have time to read”
- I have a brother and two sisters with whom I grew up. I have a half brother and two half sisters I never see. I last aw my brother Oscar in 1987.
- I wish I had a job I could do from home. Working outside the home is overrated.
- My nickname in middle school was radar. Some people today call me tater. Other people likely call me much less friendly names.
- The last several years I have participated in the dad’s dance at my daughter’s recital. I am probably the least likely person to voluntarily dance on stage in front of hundreds of people. I do like wearing costumes, though.
- I am a music lover and I love people who are musical. If you can sing, I automatically like you more. Unless you are an asshole. If you are an asshole you can sing like and angel and I still won’t like you.
- On a similar note, I wish I had some sort of musical talent. I would love to have a decent singing voice or be able to play an instrument. I was in band in middle school. You can ask the people who lived in my neighborhood when I was a kid and playing baritone how that went.
- I enjoy writing, so I have this pathetic little blog. I would love to write a book some day, but I know the only way I will ever have a book in me is to eat one.
- I spent 20 years in jail. I worked there, but some days it felt like a life sentence.
- I hate driving and if I ever won the lottery the one thing I would likely splurge on is a car service. One reason I love cities like NYC is that I never have to drive a car while I am there. I do enjoy listening to books and music while I drive. I believe me singing along to the music on my phone would be frowned upon on the subway.
- I have never been in a real fight. I punched one kid one time and his nose bled so bad I thought I killed him. My fists are lethal weapons.
- I suffer from road rage…and occasionally coffee line rage…and sometimes conference hall rage. I have problems
- I have had an odd assortment of jobs in my life. I worked summers in high school and college at the board of education unloading text books, stamping them and then delivering them to schools. In college I worked a semester at a campus grill, I was a houseboy at a sorority, I was resident janitor at the Baptist Student Center, I worked at the campus library, I worked at the correspondence course office and also the mail room. After college I delivered newspapers, worked at a public library, a market research firm and then prison.
- I have two kids who are 19 and 15. Being a dad is the best job I’ve ever had. My kids love my dad jokes(this is fact, don’t listen to them)
- I think I’m funnier than I actually am. I know this and I still post dumb stuff on Facebook. I can’t help myself.
- I’m a fairly decent bowler and would likely be a very good bowler if I did it more often. It’s in the genes.
- I love to travel, but airports stress me out. I’m fine on the plane, in cars, on trains, on buses, but I hate the airport. I don’t know why. I would rather be on a plane for 16 hours than in an airport for one.
- As you can see from the last few, I am struggling to come up with facts. I’m not that interesting.
- Really, there’s nothing else to say. You can probably stop reading now. I’m surprised you made it this far.
- No, really, go do something productive. There’s nothing else to see here.