Monday, April 22, 2013

In Case You Didn't Already Know Enough

So, I've been lazy and/or uninteresting lately, thus resulting in a definite lack of blog posts, though I have added a few entries to my other online writing endeavor, Don't Feed the Hypocrite.  Over the past several weeks, I've been slowly assembling the next in my series of facts.  Here are twenty-five more, after the original sets of fifty and twenty-five.  If you don't care enough to read on, I'll understand.  No hard feelings.
  1. Geographically, my favorite state is Alaska.  Basically, I love mountains.
  2. I am a grammar and spelling Nazi.  Pretty much whenever I send out an email or text message, I read over it at least once to ensure it to be error-free.  It drives me crazy when I find out later that I missed an error.
  3. I am not materialistic, but I do have attachments to certain physical items, like cars and places I've lived.  I still miss my first car, even though I like my current car infinitely more.  If I had the space to store them, and a wife that would allow it, I just might hunt down each of my previous cars and buy them back.
  4. It would take me forever to grow a beard, if it would ever happen.  It grows slow enough that I only shave every week or two.
  5. Other than chocolate and peanut butter, my two favorite types of candy are cinnamon candy (like the "Fierce Cinnamon" Hot Tomales) and sour candy (like sour gummy worms).
  6. I sneeze quite loud.  My wife refers to it as "screaming while I sneeze."
  7. In elementary school, I once accidentally stabbed a fellow student in the hand with a pencil.
  8. I'm a decent tipper.
  9. I love chocolate and peanut butter together.  Growing up, chocolate was the more important of the two, but it has recently seemed quite possible to me that I like peanut butter more than chocolate.
  10. I once cheated on a test in school by writing answers on a pencil.  I've also cheated on tests by typing hints and answers into my graphing calculator.
  11. I was once threatened with expulsion from high school for installing freeware imaging software on school computers (a program I was using for one of my classes).
  12. I once gave a demonstrative "speech" in school where I stood in front of the class, folded a paper airplane, and then sat down, without saying a single word.  I hated speech class.  (I've always thought that I'd rather write a 20 page paper than give a 5 minute speech.)
  13. Despite my terrible shyness and social anxiety, I am surprisingly adept at smalltalk with strangers.
  14. I can't whistle.
  15. I love spicy food.  I'd like to try a ghost pepper at some point.
  16. When I was young (around 6), I peed my pants a few times during baseball games, at least once while playing catcher, leaving a puddle on or around home plate.
  17. I love games.  I've pretty much never played a game or sport I didn't like.  Even if I am not good at something, and get routinely defeated at it, I always thoroughly enjoy it.  While I am very competitive and like to win, it's the experience that ultimately matters, not really the outcome.
  18. When I'm driving alone, I sing loudly with the radio, with my head and arms bouncing merrily to the music.  I assume I get all sorts of odd looks from people.
  19. I'm a fiddler.  Not, you know, with a musical fiddle, but I'm often fiddling with something in my hands, like a pen or pencil or whatever happens to be lying around, especially when sitting at my desk at work.  This includes a small soccer ball I sometimes roll around my desk.  I also often sit with a pen in my mouth.
  20. When I was a teenager, I had a dream that my father was chasing me with a pistol, trying to kill me.  After I got married, I had a dream that I killed my wife's dog with a large fork.
  21. I've been to two proms and had two girlfriends (though calling one of them a girlfriend is kind of a stretch), and never once was it because I asked the girl out.
  22. I love roller coasters, but I'm not a fan of the smaller rides that just spin you around.  I once threw up after riding one.  Right at the exit gate.
  23. I love to laugh, and laugh often, sometimes at things other people don't find funny, and I then have no explanation for why I found it funny.
  24. I'm not really a private person.  I don't care what other people know.  This includes things like money - my salary, what I paid for my house or car, and so on.  Most people don't like to share such things, but to me, they're just numbers.
  25. I'm a computer geek who owns a cell phone that was outdated when I got it 3 years ago.  It has no data plan and no touch screen.  There goes my geek cred.