Six un-interesting things about me

Thanks to my wife, Jill, I have now been "meme-ed." Its like a chain letter, fact-passer email, only by blog friends. While I normally avoid these kind of things like the plague, I might as well. I need some content and I'm in the mood for some self-disclosure...

1. In high school I had three jobs... working for my step-father's sign shop (just about everything EXCEPT screen printing), Wendy's (everything from salad and potato bar, registers, sandwich, backroom, or grill), and mowing lawns (a few in the neighborhood and one commercial yard that took FOREVER).

2. My favorite car of all time was my 1980 Mazda RX-7, solid black, with dark black tint, and Keystone mags. I only had it about 3 years. Mom took it away from me. Its one of those moments, when I look back, where I was too grown up to let her do that, but didn't know it at the time. She sold it to a family with a high-schooler, who wrecked it within weeks. I liked making the flip-up headlights "wink" at people, flicking the switch so fast only one would rise and fall.

3. In college, I didn't have a computer. So I built one from abandoned spare parts from my step father and from the engineering school. It wasn't the fastest, but it worked. This was, of course, pre-Windows. I still remember tons of DOS commands.

4. My college best friend introduced me to Frank Sinatra. I've been hooked ever since. Thanks Clay!

5. I love video games. Sometimes, when I can't hardly breathe from stress, or can't hardly think straight from having to many things bouncing around in there, I sneak downstairs for 20 minutes of Mario Kart or Guitar Hero, and life becomes bearable again. I guess its better than the drink or pills, yes?

6. The radio in my car stays on 680 the Fan, Sports talk radio, not so much for the content, but for the break from theological/political analysis of church, family systems, and relationships. Ahhhh... college football.