I was tagged by Reya. I've never done one of these before. And when you blog, saying this is kind of like a musician saying, "I've never played a scale before." In the past, if I was tagged by somebody (sorry Mat), I would sort of pretend it never happened. It somehow seemed like too much pressure. Pressure to be unique or interesting, and in the case of this particular objective, weird.

Six Weird Things is the idea here. When I got this, I immediately worried that my six things would either be too weird or not weird enough. So again, my temptation was to ignore the request. But recently somebody reminded me that confronting my fears is the best way to get over them. Actually, it might have been a commercial I saw. In either case, it's probably pretty good advice. Besides, you can't say no to Reya. She's likely to give you the Reya Penetrating Look ^TM, which I've never actually witnessed, but I understand can be pretty intimidating.

So, I don't know if these are weird or not, but they're six things to remember about me:

1. Between the ages of five and eight (or thereabouts, it's getting kind of foggy in my mind), my best friend and I used to play a game called Can't Touch the Ground which, true to it's name, was a game that involved not touching the ground while traversing every square inch of my house. We had to climb on furniture, swing on doors, jump across wide chasms of floor and carpet, you get the idea. I'd really like nothing more than to play a game of Can't Touch the Ground again.
   
2. Realizing this makes me sad because I used to have an endless supply of imagination and could pretend and play and act at will. But as I've gotten older, it's harder and harder to tap that well. But you need that in life. And you need it in work, too. And when you lose it, you lose everything.
   
3. While I love olive oil, I'm not a huge fan of olives.
   
4. Someday, I want to be a dirty old man.
   
5. I consider knowing when to let go to be one of the most important things I've learned. And yet, I have to re-teach myself this lesson over and over again.
   
6. When I'm not on a low-carb diet, I can not eat cereal unless I'm mixing two or three different varieties together. One cereal at a time is freakin' boring.

Alright - I've broken my X Number of Y Things cherry. I know the idea now is to pass this on to other bloggers, but I'm not sure I'm ready for that step. Hopefully that's not bad karma or anything.

Have a good weekend.

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