I’ve been tagged

Ok, I’ve been a slacker and not posted in a little while but I’ve got a few things to post so hopefully, I can sit down and write them out. The first thing I’m going to post though is that I GOT TAGGED. Cheryl, who is the wife of my BFF back in the States, decided I needed to be tagged. So in following the rules (I’m becoming a good German boy), I now need to share 7 random and/or weird facts about myself. Those of you that know me, know I had to narrow DOWN the list to just 7.

1. [Edited for personal reasons]
2. I use a Mac. Which might not be a weird fact except that I’m a computer professional and people think that “real” computer geeks only use Windows. Well, I’m here to tell you that there’s a lot you can do with a Mac and still be a real geek. Besides, with my Mac I can run OS X, Windows XP, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc. all on one box and it handles it pretty well. Now I’m not a “Oh, Mac is to die for and Steve Jobs is the ultimate” kind of Mac user. Depending on what you use a computer for, Windows may be the best solution for you.
3. My resume is the weirdest thing people have looked at. If I actually put down all my jobs since starting high school it would include (only a partial list): retail clerk for an outdoor equipment store, owner of a lawn mowing business, horse wrangler for a camp in Colorado, security officer for a theme park, sound technician, stage lighting technician, armed security officer for a private policing company, construction gopher, waiter, cook, bartender, dishwasher, host, busboy, customer service rep for an electrical motor repair company, computer equipment buyer, solutions designer for computer/telephony solutions, systems analyst for a software team, project manager for a software development team, Lotus Domino developer, Lotus Domino administrator, web developer, business owner of a Domino/web development company and now a missionary geek.
4. I like to dance when no one is looking. I’m seriously afraid that my wife will put in one of those hidden cameras and then post my dancing on YouTube or something. I didn’t say I CAN dance only that I like to dance (with no one watching is the key).
5. This goes with the dancing but I have a serious affinity to Techno, House and Dance music. I’m very inspired by the works of Andy Hunter and World Wide Message Tribe although Scott Blackwell and his Nitro label do good for me too. Its one of the few things that the French and I have in common.
6. Since moving to Germany, I have this strange habit of bashing the French. I mean its a beautiful country and I go over there quite often (its only 20 km away) but did you know that French people live there? The funniest thing to me is that you can tell this story about somebody doing something totally weird or ridiculous and then end it with – “oh, and they’re French” and that can be accepted as reason for them to act that way in my mind.
7. I’ve jumped out of a perfectly good airplane along with rock climbed, rappelled, kayaked, white water rafted, rode in a Nascar car at 130 mph, and other adrenaline junkie things. At amusement parks about the only thing I don’t like to do are things that go around in circles. That probably stems from the time I stayed on the “Swinging Chairs” ride for 10 cycles in a row (no one was in line). Oh, did I mention I’d just eaten?

Ok, so now I’ve got to choose the 7 people I’m going to tag:

1. Laura, a fellow eDOT’er and our web developer
2. Ted, another missionary who works with GEMStone Media
3. Kristi & Steve, GEM missionaries in Romania
4. Mutating Missionary, I just really like her pictures
5. John & Amy, some more missionaries with GEMStone Media
6. Kelly, a missionary in Slovakia
7. Matt, a missionary who focuses on missionary teens

I have fulfilled my commitment. I am finished.