Eight is great...this will make me lose a date

Thanks to my great friend over at INOTBB who felt bad for me because my mind is so gunked up right now he thought I needed something to try and get my blog started...so why don't we get to know each other.

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. (You’re not the boss of me!)
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

This seems almost like speed dating:

1) As a young lad...just a mere 4 years old I was playing "spray each other in the face with the garden hose" with my brother when I took a few steps back and fell into a box of old rusty barbwire. I still am afraid of barbwire.

2) After High school I jumped from college to college before ending up going to bicycle mechanic school to learn how to fix bicycles, suspension forks, weld bicycles, and how to fit and ride bikes. HAH I went to school to learn how to ride a bike.

3) **gulp** I used to play dungeons & dragons, Magic the gathering, and Warhammer 40k.

4) On a train ride from Eugene, OR to Santa Barbara before I lived here they were showing the movie Signs and I had twelve people on the train tell me I looked just like Joaquin Phoenix.

5) In my 11th grade year in High school I played "crazy old peters the hermit" in George M. Cohan's play Seven Keys to Baldpate. It was a huge success!

6) When I was about 10 or so I was hit in the mouth with a baseball...I started collecting baseball cards instead.

7) I am half Irish and half Mexican...which explains why I really like whiskey and cerveza.

8) I have actually hiked all the way to the crater of Mount St. Helens...and back!

and as for tagging 8 other bloggers...I don't think I know 8 others and when checking my first one to see if they had already been tagged and I noticed they had and subsequently tagged pretty much the remaining bloggers I know...oh well...thanks Esau! :-)

ooops...sorry!

I suck!

ahhhh ya think!

I read in the news a few interesting things today I guess good ol' Colin Powell is trying to act like he can still make a diffrence. It said this:

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba should close "not tomorrow but this afternoon".

and...

"If it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon," Powell told NBC's Meet the Press television program.
"Essentially, we have shaken the belief the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like the military commission."

If I was smart enough I am sure I could think of all sorts of things to write about this but alas all that comes to my mind at this point is...well duhhhh!