Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.
1. I'm a triplet. We are not identical. Yes, that is possible. Our names are in alphabetical order according to birth.
2. I used to be scared of the dark and thunderstorms.
3. When I was younger, I had a habit of biting my fingernails; now, I have a habit of not clipping them.
4. I tried out for the school basketball team in 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade and NEVER made it.
5. Throughout my lifetime, I've been to 12 Major League Baseball Parks; Braves, Rangers, Rockies, Royals, Cubs, White Sox, Reds, Tigers, Indians, Orioles, Yankees, and Astros.
6. I can put down more food that you can possibly imagine in a very short amount of time. I get made fun of at work and by my friends for this talent.
7. I have 3 bikes whose cumulative monetary value is greater than that of my car.
8. I love to compete at any sport. In college it was rowing and now it is triathlon and cycling. I'll race my first half ironman in September 2009 (Augusta 70.3) and my first full Ironman will be in 2010, probably Ironman Florida!
9. I am saved by grace through faith, not because of my works.
10. I've seen every single John Wayne movie; my favorite is Rio Bravo.
11. When I was little, me and my bros had this ballin' 3 man stroller that we rode around in.
12. I'll be entering the market for a house sometime soon.
13. I believe in personal responsibility, hard work, earning everything, and striving to be great as a means of success. I think a lot of people don't realize how much harder other people work in order to succeed. Anyways, don't be a pansy and suck it up!
14. I have gotten into politics in the last few years; I love debating liberals on anything from "global warming" and economic policy to affirmative action and other social issues.
15. I drive a manual transmission. It helps pass the time on long drives, and I think it's kind of cool because a lot of people can't do it. No, I will not teach you how to drive in my car because you will tear up my clutch.
16. I enjoy reading...just no fiction. If it isn't true, why bother? Value-added stuff only!
17. I love music. I do not listen to rap or country or anything like that. I like almost all classic rock (Aerosmith, Journey, Foreigner, etc) and a lot of punk and hard rock (Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Underoath, Just Surrender, Hawthorne Heights, etc). Apparently, my taste in music is bad though because I recently got made fun of for wearing a Linkin Park shirt.
18. My job is exactly what I want to do with my engineering degree: lots of data pulling, intense analysis, and computer simulation in order to produce an optimal solution for a given problem.
19. I have only made 1 C in my life since they started assigning letter grades back in the day. It was in Calculus 1 my freshman year in college. I got so mad that I never even came close to a C for the next 4 years.
20. I use the same user name and password for pretty much everything, unless there's some stupid unreasonably high minimum character rule for the password. Dang, I hope no one ever guesses it because they could probably ruin my life, haha.
21. I've been in a car a lot during my life. Long drives include to Philadelphia 3 times, to Boston 3 times, to Colorado once, and to Las Vegas once, to name a few. For one of those Boston trips we made the whole drive without rest (24 hrs straight).
22. I just had surgery to repair a torn labrum in my right shoulder. If you don't know what the labrum is, then google it. My two brothers and I have all had this surgery in the past 4 years. I've been asked a million times if it's a genetic defect, so don't ask.
22. I want to be as active 40 years from now than I am right now. I hope to someday win the 80-84 age group in a triathlon.
23. I would, without a doubt, stimulate the economy if my income tax rate or the capital gains tax rate was cut.
24. I always set my alarm clock on an odd time (4:57 am, 6:37 am, etc).
25. I can't stand people that are not punctual. 10 minutes early is on time and on time is LATE!
