1. I think breakfast for lunch or dinner is the biggest rip-off. Breakfast food need to be served before 11 am and it doesn’t count as a meal thereafter.
2. I have a profound nostalgia for computers, books, and movies from my youth. I still find Speak and Spell, Intellivision, Apple IIs, _The Secrets of Alkazar_, and “Electric Dreams” to be high points in my cultural frame of reference.
3. Cats have an unnatural fascination in me, considering I have never owned nor do I plan to own a cat. Cats always are attracted to me, and I perfectly understand the psychology and physical language of cats and act accordingly.
4. I slammed my right hand pointer finger in the door of my Saab my sophomore year and the fingernail on that finger is permanently malformed.
5. I lost thirty-five pounds when, on a whim, I went to the doctor and found out I was borderline diabetic and on the route to burning out my pancreas.
6. I know pretty much everything there is to know about Macintosh System Software 6 and below. I still have my original Mac and was hired as a “technical expert” in 2008 because of this arcane knowledge.
7. I love bird watching. I used to live at the level of birds, and I miss easy access to their plane.
8. I love to drive, but I am enjoying not owning a car.
9. I have driven cross country eight times, including at least three times with Chris Oliver and once with my mother.
10. I was robbed at gunpoint.
11. The place I feel most perfect is Lopez Island, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, off the coast of Washington State.
12. The more I get to know my siblings the more I love them.
13. I am very interested in genealogy in my side and my wife’s side of the family.
14. I do not lie.
15. I spend too much time on the Internet.
16. I have a very eclectic music collection.
17. I am surprised I found my niche in elementary education.
18. I can watch the same movies and read the same books over and over again.
19. I love talking to old people.
20. I have vivid dreams that I often remember.
21. I love to cook and I charmed the woman who became my wife by cooking with her.
22. I constantly question why I moved to Connecticut. Then I look at my beautiful home.
23. I love to vacuum but I don’t do it enough.
24. There is nothing more invigorating than flying a kite, but it makes me nervous to see the other end of me at the end of a string.
25. I don’t forward Internet memes*

* cf 14

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