Billy Cripe from Oracle has put me and some other folks on “blog tag” notice. I need to write eight things about myself and then tag eight others. Unfortunately, I have to confess to not knowing too many other bloggers, so I think I am going to end up being a dead-end in the chain.
Anyhow here are eight things about me:
1. I’m a US Army veteran. I was in the reserves from 95 to 01 and had a kick ass job as a broadcast journalist. Despite being in the reserves I was actually pretty active and sent quite a few places(including a 7 month deployment to Kosovo in 2000).
2. I play the drums(poorly) and used to live in Baltimore, MD where I was part of a band called Modest Proposal.
3. My wife is a molecular biologist.
4. I once hosted an all request radio show in Panama(see Army in item 1). Panama was crazy for ‘Iris’ by The Go-Go Dolls in 1999.
5. Also Army related….I had the opportunity to briefly cross the border in to North Korea
6. I like many different types of music(except country), but if I need to get some work done there’s nothing better than the Beastie Boys.
7. My favorite author is Jared Diamond….I highly recommend “The Third Chimpanzee” and “Guns, Germs and Steel”.
8. I love Scotch, specifically the Isleys…Laphroiag is probably the most commonly available one. They have a distinctive smokey peat flavor.
So that’s a little about me…sorry again for my lack of other blogs to tag..I’ll have to work on that. Meanwhile Bex Huff has tagged 8 Minneapolis bloggers….wow…how many blogs do you read every day? Perhaps he could loan me some to tag:)
