I got tagged on Facebook to fill out 25 random things about me. So here they are in a non-prorpietary location.

1. I tried avoiding this meme, but 3 people have tagged me, so I’m going to fill it out to get it over with. I’m going to be anti-social and not retag others, though. Neener neener! I’m really going to make these as random as possible, too.
2. I wink with my left eye… it’s my non-dominate eye.
3. I used to sing "The wheels on the bus" to our youngest son after changing him, and I’d swing his legs back and forth when I did the "wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish".
4. I used to have long hair but shave the sides. My friends hated having to help me out with that one.
5. There was a pond by a house in our neighborhood. We used to trespass there and catch tadpoles and crawdads.
6. My dad built this cool fort for me, but my friends and I found and fixed up a cool tree fort in the woods instead.
7. I have this amazing capacity to call people randomly when I put my iPhone in my pocket. Therefore only my sister and my wife are on the speed dial anymore. Once I called my boss from a beach in Tampa. He wasn’t so pleased to hear how nice it was there.
8. On a flight back from France, I sat in the back of the plane and filled soda cans with the fluid from a lighter and lit it off. Methinks that wouldn’t go over too well these days.
9. Chris and I picked up our friend Deron at his house one summer day and drove into town (something like 12 miles). Deron commented that it was hot in the car, so we rolled up the windows and cranked up the heat. By the time we got to Subway, the keys were so hot I couldn’t get them out of the ignition.
10. I always hated the big box of misfit crayons but I could never keep my crayons in good enough order that they didn’t eventually end up in there.
11. I have a painting of a duck that I always hang above the toilet. I have done so ever since I got said duck painting from my uncle, who had it hanging over his commode.
12. I consider all colors of Silly Putty unholy versions of the One True Pink. I’d rather have no Silly Putty than colored.
13. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was pull out the big old dictionary my mom had and look at the list of first names it had in the back and use them for characters in stories.
14. I used to love finding random junk in the parking lot of the window factory next to my house growing up. Later, in college, I used to collect random plastic blobs from the dumpster at the plastics plant I worked at.
15. One day I asked my roommate Tom if I could borrow his pen. He gave it to me and I used it to stir my coffee. For some reason he didn’t want it back after that. I think I took the bigger risk of contamination on that one.
16. As a small child, I wanted to be a garbage man when I grew up so I could watch the garbage truck scoop all that garbage. As a small child, I decided this from inside the house where I could not smell the garbage.
17. Having wondered how my parents always knew what I was doing around the corner, I take great delight in using sounds, shadows and reflections to deduce what my children are up to.
18. While the events leading up to my sister falling through ice were reckless and irresponsible of me, I thought the handling of the events immediately following it were pretty heroic.
19. Sometimes when I’m walking through the house when no one else is home, I pretend I’m in the Matrix and practice all my cool shooting moves.
20. The best New Year’s party I ever went to was the one where we slid down the stairs headfirst.
21. One time, after getting yelled at by the Vice President of Interior Design (I’m not making that up), I spend an hour reorganizing all the chairs on the 3rd floor so they were in their correct location based on stickers on the bottom of each chair.
22. One of my most valued possessions is the Zippo lighter Joe bought for me on my 20th birthday. I don’t ever use it anymore, but it still means a lot to me.
23. When I was 8, I asked for a birthday cake that had double the regular frosting. Unfortunately, it was also a Dukes of Hazzard cake and the red dye of the confederate flag made it inedible.
24. My favorite Sesame Street Character growing up was Oscar the Grouch. My kids would contend I took his example way to seriously.
25. I once spent an afternoon playing in an Ag Lime pit. I thought my mom was going to kill me when she found out (assuming the Lime didn’t do it first). She made me throw away my favorite pair of jeans which I had been wearing that day.