Okay, I was tagged by Salguod for a meme about eight things you may not know about me.
Problem is, I generally withhold information for the sake of continued employment and to protect certain folks. Lots of stuff from childhood and really obscure stuff. Here goes:
- I flunked out of college twice. I took classes at three different places, but only flunked out of NCSU. (I did not finish at NCCU or College of the Albemarle.)
- I wrote science fiction stories when I was a kid. My favorite was one where it turns out that Mars is the location of Heaven. (I wrote it at age 11.)
- I did computer projects for the science fair my last two years of high school. Both of the programs failed on science fair day because they would not load from the cassette tape.
- In college, a friend of mine and I managed to get fired from both school newspapers. My favorite articles were Budget Cuts (due to budget cuts, we could only use 35 vowels.) and Running for President (We combined our ages and ran for president as a symbiotic being. Our VP was a symbiont including a man that had a perfect score on the logic section of the LSAT.) In response, we started our own. I wrote an article on how to win a five dollar bet by cooking hamburgers on a coffee pot.
- I registered as a Republican in North Carolina in order to vote against George Bush, Sr twice. (Once in the primary where I voted for Alan Keyes, and once in the general election where I voted for Clinton.)
- I have had a street preacher stop their message and use me as a centerpiece of his message that the church I attended at the time was evil and godless. (Years later when I served on jury duty, he was preaching outside the county courthouse. He recognized me, stopped handing out tracts and left.)
- My friends and I once had a marathon D&D session lasting 36 hours. Near the end, the phrase “Grey furry giant” was inserted in front of every creature encountered. (Grey furry giant snake, grey furry giant kobold, grey furry giant banjo…)
- My wife and I’s wedding bands were purchased at a Renaissance Festival. She designed her own engagement ring, which she calls her ‘promise ring’ because I had to actually propose with an eBay fake diamond ring from British Columbia.