Tagged

I thought I was going to make it and not get tagged after Load of Bright and Spanish Inquisitor bypassed me.  And then I get it twice from Evanescent and The The Anonymous Atheist.  Ah well…. 

Here are the rules:

* We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.

* Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

* People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

* At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

* Don’t forget to leave them each a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

 

1.  I am a sports junkie.  Especially football (American, sorry evanescent).  In the fall my wife knows that on Sunday I do nothing.  We have to get all of our stuff done on Saturday as I won’t move for about 10 hours starting at about 10am.  I will watch most other sports, but I am not as addicted as I am football.

2.  I rarely watch any TV shows other than sports.  The only two current shows I watch semi-regular are Scrubs and Lost.  And even with that I still have the last three episodes of Lost on my Tivo but haven’t watched them yet.

3.  I can tell I am getting older because I do not like most new music (just say no to the Strokes and Coldplay).  I prefer hard rock and metal, but not the serious thrash stuff-no In Flames or Biohazard, etc.  The hardest I get is pretty much Megadeth or Pantera, some Slayer also.  I also like pretty much all old rock and roll, doesn’t have to be heavy, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Beatles, Stones.  Thin Lizzy is one of my faves.  I also like a lot of the better 80’s metal bands like Scorpions, Van Halen and Tesla.

4.  I have bowled a 300 and an 800.  A 300 gets all the glory but I can tell you the 800 was much harder and is much less common.  Bowling is my sport of choice now since you can drink beer and eat nachos at the same time.

5.  I have a one year old son.  My other two kids are almost 11 and 9.  They were EASY kids.  Either I have gotten much older or forgotten the bad times with little ones.  He never sleeps through the night on a regular basis, is into everything and has a “look” that neither of my other two had, that says “I rule this house you just deal with it!”  I love him anyway    plus he it looks like he is going to be big and tall, so maybe he’ll be a linebacker or a power forward and take care of his dad in his old age–or at least get a scholarship and save me $60,000+. 

 

 

 

 

 

 6.  I have always liked hispanic women.  I grew up in Colorado, moved to Albuquerque, NM, then to Las Cruces, NM, and now reside in El Paso, TX.  I moved because of a previous job, but maybe not so coincidently I kept moving to a higher and higher percentage of Mexican-American women to choose from to be my wife    

7.  While I don’t watch a lot of TV, I do like movies.  Some of my favorites of all time in no particular order:  Memento, Goodfellas, Resevoir Dogs, Glengarry Glen Ross, Fight Club, Bladerunner, The Godfather I & II, The Matrix (first one only), any movie from Pixar.

8.  I went to college in the 80’s to become a systems analyst/programmer.  I had to leave after two years as my parents started going through a divorce.  Then I got sidetracked and got into sales and eventually owned my own business.  While doing this I got my degree (in business).  To come full circle I am now a Manager of Information Systems at a medium sized company.  The only bad thing is all my Fortran/Cobol skills went to waste.

 

Most of the blogs I read regularly have already been tagged.  I will attempt to tag these assuming they haven’t been already (I was real tempted to tag all the writers at aA-now de-Conversion’s site, but that wouldn’t be fair would it?  I’ll just have to go get a couple of the contributors):

Slapdash  (I know you’re new, welcome to the club!)

I wonder as I wander

Mystery of Inquinity

Religion and Politics (He’s a theist, a good writer and a good sport)

crimsonmai  I think she’s been busy but I am running out of candidates

seekism I haven’t seen roopster around lately, let’s see if we can get him posting.

Sailing to Byzantium same with Kullervo, although he has been posting some, one of my favorite blogs even if we are totally different

cwonder because her site is totally different then all the rest above