I've Been Tagged

Becky Isserman tagged me on her blog to list 10 interesting things about myself that others may not know.  This seemed to be  an ongoing thing in the Geekswithblogs community a couple of months ago, but since I was never tagged previously I'll go ahead and throw my list into the hat.

1. I once had to leave Wichita, KS, as quickly as possible due to an on-field fight that broke out during one of our rugby matches.  I was playing for the CMSU Warriors against the Wichita State University club when one of their players started choking one of the Samoan players on my team.  Needless to say, with 15 people on each team, a 30 person brawl ensued and the game had to be called with only 1:30 left - I still say we won since we were ahead at the time.
2. I've played a mean rhythm guitar for several years and am just now trying to get more into the lead guitar area.
3. I am a crack shot with a gun; I got my first rifle (not counting b.b. or pellet guns) when I was 8 years old and spent the majority of my childhood honing my skills as a marksman.
4. I am a country boy - I ultimately want to move back to my family farm.  There's something about the country that my soul finds satisfying and when I'm sitting on one of the hills watching the sunset, it's as close to God and family as I've ever felt.  The old cliche about "taking the boy out of the country but not the country out of the boy" rings very true to me.
5. I've recently been laying out plans to write my first novel.  I honestly have no idea how well the whole process will go, but it seems like something I need to do and I think now's as good a time as any.
6. My maternal grandfather landed on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion and fought his way through France until he was wounded by a Nazi machine gun ambush; he dove into a bombed-out Jeep and had his hip socket blown out.  They told him that he would never walk again, but he came home and with the scar tissue that formed continued to walk, farm, hunt, fish, and raise a family for the rest of his life. My dad was a US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) soldier during the Vietnam era.
7. I am a huge fan of ancient history and have traveled to Italy, Greece, Turkey, France, England, Mexico, and Canada.
8. I have the pleasure and privilege of working with Jeff Julian and John Alexander - two of the most talented developers and genuinely good people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.  (No I'm not trying to suck up!) :)
9. Until the summer of 1999, I drove a 1976 Camaro that my mother bought new and saved until I turned 16.  My parents completely restored it for me.  It's the '70s "hugger orange" color (think Dukes of Hazard).  I still have it.
10. I am a member of the Clinton, MO, and Liberty, MO, Masonic Lodges - the Liberty Lodge has been on the downtown square since 1840 and is right next to the bank robbed by Jesse James in the first armed bank robbery in the US during peacetime.

So, there's my list.  I think I'll decline tagging anybody since the majority of people I would tag are Geekswithblogs members and I've seen them do the tagging game previously.