1. When I was little, a friend and I were wrestling and he pushed me down onto a bee. It stung me and the pain scarred me for life. I’m still deathly afraid of bees.

2. I started a blog last year but I haven’t posted there since August 7th.

3. The first computer program I ever wrote was on my Commodore 64. I saved it to a cassette tape. Yes, before there were disk drives, we used tapes. No, I’m not kidding.

4. The towels in our linen closet have to all be folded the same way and have the creases facing me… because Heidi says so. :)

5. I like to drive really fast, but if I’m riding with you and you go over 60 or so I get nervous. This is also why I’ll probably ask you if I can drive.

6. The last time I was in a fight was in the 6th grade. I won by throwing the kid into a wall (he wasn’t hurt).

7. I once hosted a party that had my house so full of people, I had to go out the back door in order to speak with the police.

8. The reason the police came to my house that night? The number of parked cars in the neighborhood was creating a traffic hazard. True story. Apparently there wasn’t a place to park within a half-mile of my house.

9. Since I got a subscription for Christmas in 1989, I have read every issue of the magazine Sports Illustrated.

10. No one ever answered the door naked, but I saw plenty of weird things in my time as a pizza delivery guy. The worst was probably the house where the entire place was covered in ankle deep garbage… and there were 2 kids were playing on the floor.

11. My chocolate chip cookies are better than yours or your mom’s. I guarantee it.

12. One of my favorite things in this world is karaoke! So if I ever ask you to go, please say yes.

13. I’d rather eat a chicken sandwich than a burger. Well… a FRIED chicken sandwich. And preferably a really spicy one.

14. My older brother is on TV… a lot. I doubt you’ve ever seen him though unless you’re into the stock market.

15. I had a paper route for several years when I was younger. If you want to improve the character of your children (or future children) you should make them work for their money, and believe me, a paper route is work.

16. Being left-handed is alright, but some things are just a pain. Take scissors for example… most of you “righties” would never know this, but it’s VERY difficult for a left handed person to cut straight with a regular pair of scissors. Knives too!

17. I’m a terrible flyer. Not “run off the plane screaming about how we’re all going to die” bad, but pretty bad. If you ever run into me at the airport there’s a very good chance that I’ll be in the bar having a drink or two to calm my nerves.

18. To my knowledge, I have never broken a bone in my body. And yes, I DID drink a lot of milk when I was a kid. Coincidence?

19. I never once drank while I was in high school.

20. Speaking of drinking, the first beer that I tried and liked was Black Butte Porter. Weird, right? I guess I’ve been a beer snob from the very beginning.

21. If I’ve ever crashed at your place you already know this, but I always sleep with a fan on in the room.

22. I don’t know what silence sounds like. I’ve had tinnitus as long as I can remember. That’s also why I sleep with the aforementioned fan on.

23. I love that I’m well educated and know how to spell words like aforementioned.

24. One of my proudest moments was when I received my 2-gallon pin from the Red Cross.

25. It took me well over almost 90 minutes to come up with this list. I think I might have put a little too much effort into this…