Five things you might not know about me
I thought that I had dodged the five things meme, but Gene tagged me before it ran its course. So with no further ado, five things you might not know about me.
- The house where I grew up has been owned by my family since 1967, one of three adjoining houses held by the same families since that time. We didn’t realize that my father and the head of the family next door shared a birth day until a couple of years ago.
- Our house was half a block from the Dirt Trails; a mesh of undulating dirt trails on a vacant, triangular lot with sidewalks on two sides and a dirt road on the other. We would ride our bikes for hours on those trails, often in an improvised game of bicycle tag. A house replaced the Dirt Trails a few years after my initiation to them.
- I took a tax preparation class from H&R Block when I was in High School. A friend of mine convinced me that we could earn good money working for H&R Block once we completed the course. I forget how much the class cost, but I never prepared a return for H&R Block. If I read the search engine tea leaves correctly, then my friend is now a CPA, MBA, and Assistant Professor of Accounting.
- I am a fair cook, but a good baker. My failings as a cook stem from my mediocre sense of taste. And my successes come from an ability to follow directions and a good background in techniques. Baking draws upon my cooking strengths and avoids my weaknesses.
- I am addicted to caffeine. The smart thing would be to just feed my addiction. But I fight it by limiting myself to decaf and avoiding caffeine as best I can. Try as I may, I still suffer through the nausea and headaches of caffeine withdraw three or four times a year.
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