Who, sir? Me, sir?
Tag, huh? Thanks, Michelle… I think… 
*reminder to self: must run faster in future – at least faster than Michelle — to avoid getting tagged*
List eight habits or facts about yourself, then tag eight more people
Eight facts about me… huh. And they have to be facts?
Hmmm. Here goes:
1. I love fresh coconut, but can’t choke it down in other form. Yuck!
2. I play two different instruments, and have been a member of various symphonies and wind ensembles over the years.
3. I have owned or ridden four generations of Morgan horses related to my late Morgan mare, Beth. I leased her granddam, trained with her sire, owned her, rode two of her siblings for various events, and helped train one of her daughters. Beth’s youngest foal, now aged seventeen, is owned by the National Park Service and was specially trained for and is used in a search and rescue operations.
4. As an undergraduate, I memorized the entire Linnaean taxonomy (for all kingdoms, phylums, classes, orders, families, and genuses) for an exam, and could reel off any portion of the tables. Now I can’t remember any of it!
5. I’ve visited or lived in 38 of the 50 States in the USA, but have never been outside the USA except for visits to Canada.
6. While I was working for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I supervised twenty-five undergraduate employees that worked for me on a multi-year project for the Institute for Research on Poverty. One evening, while on their way home from classes, one of my employees and her roommate were accosted by an ax-wielding maniac. My employee survived with minor physical injuries, thanks to another brave student who helped stave off their attacker, but her roommate was brutally murdered in spite of their best efforts to bare-handedly fight off the ax-swinging assailant with all they had at hand – their backpacks. To this day, the murderer has never been found or even identified, and no one has ever discovered a motive for the crime.
7. I haven’t eaten any chocolate or anything containing chocolate in seventeen years.
8. Although I have sailed in sailboats of various classes since I was six years old, I have never been in a motor boat or on any motorized ship except for a car ferry.
Geez, I think Michelle and FBL have tagged everybody – wait, can I tag Lex and SJS? Are they fair game?
Posted by JAS
On July 27th, 2007 under Unfiled.
Comments: 11
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Comment from lex
Time: July 28, 2007, 7:51 am
Well you can tag whomever you’d like. People who have tried it will tell you that tagging me is an exercise in futility, however.
The muse, she cannot sing under duress, like.
Comment from FbL
Time: July 28, 2007, 9:51 am
Oh Lex, I beg to differ on the futility. I seem to recall tagging you awhile back, resulting in one of the funniest versions of that tag I’ve read. 
But JAS, I have to admit that I chose not to tag Lex this time simply because I tended to think it would be futile in this case. I think he’s developed greater powers of resistance than he previously possessed.
Comment from Michelle
Time: July 28, 2007, 7:14 pm
I wanted to tag Lex, you know.
I really did.
In fact, I almost did.
But I remembered how strongly he always voices his displeasure with being *it* so … I decided to be nice.
Comment from JAS
Time: July 28, 2007, 9:12 pm
So, if the muse, she cannot sing under duress, like, is that, like, why you became a naval aviator instead of a creative writing major? Is it because a night landing on a carrier is soooo much easier than spontaneously writing 300 verses of haiku on the theme “Ode to a Pet Goldfish” for an in-class final?
(and yes, this is 100% tongue-in-cheek – it’s Saturday, my wine glass, she is not full yet, and I’m a tad spacey after spending the last four days worshiping the porcelain god because of this damnable stomach flu that’s been going around the Midwest!)
Comment from MissBirdlegs in AL
Time: July 29, 2007, 11:37 am
No chocolate? …in 17 YEARS?? Bless your heart! 
Comment from lex
Time: July 29, 2007, 2:19 pm
Thing about that night carrier landing is it is pretty much far the better alternative to anything else which offers up once you’ve pulled the trigger on that whole “night catapult shot” thing. Is all.
Writing what you’re “supposed” to?
Feels like homework. I’ve already got homework…
Comment from JAS
Time: July 29, 2007, 10:20 pm
LOL! Land or swim… land or swim… seems like a pretty straightforward choice, once you put it that way!
As the the homework… my hat is off to you, sir. Been there, done that. Now that I’m post-masters, prodding me to do anything that remotely resembles homework yields a response somewhat akin to what one would witness when trying to shove a cat into a tin bucket of water.
Comment from KrisinNewEngland
Time: July 30, 2007, 1:37 pm
No Chocolate? I can barely type the # of years here JAS. My god how do you get thru life?!
Comment from JAS
Time: July 30, 2007, 2:03 pm
Miss Birdlegs and Kris – I survive by feeding my beloved dark chocolate squares and then requesting a kiss! It’s the closest I can come to chocolate – eating it isn’t worth the massive migraines chocolate triggers.
The funniest part: the spouse can take chocolate or leave it – the only time he eats chocolate is for me!
Comment from Steeljaw Scribe
Time: July 30, 2007, 6:04 pm
Well, absent formal tasking I suppose we could take it under advisement I’ll throw something up on the website later this week…
-SJS
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