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! :-)