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451 friend Catslyn over at SCA Life has recruited me into a game of meme tag. This particular game is the “Write Seven Unusual Facts About Yourself” version.

It’s kind of like Internet dodge ball except that you’re required to throw and hit yourself in the face with the ball.

…Then recruit seven other unsuspecting, soon-to-be-former friends to join in the merriment and frivolity.

Seriously, it’s all in good fun.

So, my List of Seven Facts, to be placed at the Tomb of the Unknown Last Kid Picked:

1. The longest I’ve ever lived in one house or apartment was the four years I lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan. At six feet, five inches tall, whenever I traveled outside of Tokyo I would be approached by little kids who wanted to get their picture taken next to a real, live giant. So, I’m probably in about 300 photo albums of people I don’t know.

2. I have an 8-year old son who is one quarter Scottish, one quarter Polish (my side) and half Puerto Rican (his mom’s side) - which means he’s tight with a dollar and will slash your tires unless it’s a really good Polish joke.

3. In high school I got the highest score in the state on the advanced placement Latin exam. This would continue to be a theme throughout my life where I did really well in things that interested me but had absolutely no practical value.

4. I spent most of my childhood in my own self-constructed world. In third grade I went to school and told the class that I had a pet monkey that I kept in the park by our apartment complex … in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. I went home that afternoon, got a stuffed monkey from my bedroom and climbed a tree in the park and put the monkey up in the tree. Just in case anyone decided to check.

5. I once lived in my car for nearly three months in New York City.

6. My very good friend Scott, was scheduled to attend a conference at the World Trade Center on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. He decided on Sunday he was too busy and, as was his usual procedure, would give the invitation to a junior partner at his firm. He forgot to hand out the invitation at work that Monday, so everyone on staff remained safely at the office in New Jersey that morning.
I commuted to work in Connecticut through Grand Central Station during that time and one of the memorials that was spontaneously put up in the station was a poster of hand prints from a group of school kids sympathizing with the victims and thanking the cops and fireman who worked the scene. I still can’t pass a poster of school kid hand prints without getting choked up.

7. When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and play basketball for a living. I never quite made it to the professional level but I managed to achieved an NBA lifestyle - I travel a lot, work at night and have a kid in a different city. I’m living proof the whatever does not kill you, will just piss you off.

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