Five things you don't care about me
I hate this meme, but I've been tagged by Josh Simons,
so here goes... Five things you don't know about me (and probably don't care):
- In high school, I was an athlete. Those who see my 200+ pound girth today
probably can't imagine the 6'1", 140 pound, hurdler of my youth.
Even today, nearly 30 years later, my name is still on
the track and field record board at my high school. Luckily they don't
make you come back every few years to defend your records :-)
- I enjoy woodworking, and have done construction, furniture, turning
(vases, bowls and lamps), and clocks. A couple of my projects (my
roll-top desk and old pine cupboard) are listed on
The New Yankee Workshop
web page (although they managed to put the desk photo with the
cupboard description, and vice versa).
- In high school I seriously considered a career in writing. Then I
learned that a B-average engineer with a bachelors would make twice
the salaray that an A-plus writer with a masters degree makes, and
my future was decided: I'd be an engineer by day and a blogger
by night!
- My Mom died last year, after a very hard, two-year struggle
with cancer. Very few people I work with even knew she was sick.
Very few, as in two or three; I consider it a
personal matter. A co-worker and friend some years ago complained
how hard it was to maintain a personal life at work. I told her that
your personal life is that part of your life you choose to keep
personal. If you share everything about your home life at work,
then in effect you choose to have no personal life. I, on the other
hand, choose to have a personal life, and keep much of my life
personal.
- I have the smartest, most talented, and most beautiful three-year-old
girl that the world has ever seen. Funny how no one knows that about
me, especially the other parents of three-year-olds. :-)
Posted at
11:58AM Jan 23, 2007
by Robert Hueston in Sun |