I just got tagged by my buddy Bill.
So I'm the little brother he never had. Nice to know that I mean that much.
Any way, here are a few things I couldn't live without.
My wife Swann.
Many would consider this a cop out but seriously, without Swann I would be stuck in some behind a computer searching Lexus Nexus trying of convince myself that I like to practice law... not a pretty picture.
Plus without Swann as a grounding point, I don't think I would be a very nice person. She has really soften that serious anti-social edge I used to have.
Skittles.
About 6 years ago while getting my degree in MIS from the University of Alabama, I decided that I should cut down on my candy intake. Bad idea. After about 2 weeks Swann mandated that I never try that again. Have I mentioned that I can be a real ahole at times.
Sunflower Seeds.
See above. Replace Sugar with Salt and Fatty Acids.
Books.
I read... a lot. Currently my favorite author is John Ringo but I will read anything Military Sci-Fi that's decently written. At one point I would read anything but I've been forced to reduce my word intake so that I have time to do other things. Since Swann is the Community Relations Manager at Barnes and Nobles Edgewood, I get the benefits of a really sweet employee discount.
A Computer
I've loved computers every since my parents bought a little 33mhz Packard Bell with 4 megs of ram running windows 3.11. I spent hours on that thing hacking batch scripts and command files trying to tweak every hertz of power I could out of it. We didn't have network access to everything was trail and error. Anybody else remember HIGH MEMORY and LOW MEMORY. MOUSE.COM. Manually loading Sound Blaster 16 drivers. Ahh the good ole days... I really need to upgrade my home desktop.
TV
Network Television Sucks... but I'm addicted to the boob-tube and the state of currently television is surely destroying my braincells. I always find myself watching between 2 and 4 hours of TV a day. Most of the time I'm reading or performing some other activity while the TV is on but I will always catch myself vegging out at least a couple of times a week. Fortunately cable is getting really good. My favorite channel is Military History. Swann's is the Food Network. A safe compromise is The Discovery Channel. Having a Geek for a wife is great.
Now here is the hard part of being tagged. Tagging someone else. Well, this chain is going to stop with me. I've been online for a while but very few people know I exist.
So the couple of people that I could tag have already been tagged.