Ewww, I Stepped in a Meme...

In yet another shameless ploy to drive up my meager (read: pathetic) stats, I'm passing on a meme from the Ambulance Driver (who you REALLY need to be reading)...

Here are the rules: Each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write on their own blog about their seven things and add a copy of these rules. THEN, you need to choose 7 people to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!

Okay, so my seven are:

1. I have just a touch of OCD (those that know me will laugh hysterically at this part). I have to check for my wallet at least two or three times on the drive to work; I have to check once or twice to make sure I've closed the choke on my Harley; I've been known to drive back down the street to make sure I remembered to close the garage door.

2. While I am an absolute unrepentant and unabashed motorhead, I don't do any maintenance myself other than changing batteries and wiper blades. My free time is better spent playing with my children or shooting at the range than crawling underneath my car to change my own oil to save $15. NFW.

3. I am a "people magnet", by which I mean "weirdo magnet". For whatever reason, people feel like they can come up to me and strike up a conversation. If there's so weirdo walking around talking to the voices in their head, or the mother ship from beta-Gamulon, or praying to Vishnu, it's a safe bet they'll walk up to me and start talking to me...

4. I tell my kids that I love them at least 20-30 times a day. Even my son. In public. And will continue to do so until such time as I no longer draw breath. Life is too short to play macho bullshit games like "men don't kiss their kids" or crap like that.

5. Even though I have Bruce's "Al Gore Can Kiss My Carbon Footprint" bumper sticker on my gas-guzzling Dodge Ram, I try to recycle and conserve as much as possible. I rinse out and recycle all my plastic and glass jars; I return all plastic soda bottles and metal cans to the supermarket; I gather up all the circulars and magazines and set them out for the recycling truck every week. I'm skeptical that humans are causing Global Climate Change (or whatever they're calling it this week), but that doesn't mean I think we should shit all over the Earth...

6. (Update: Thought of a better one, but leaving the original below in italics). I firmly believe in G-d and His son Jesus Christ, but do not trust organized religion any further than I can throw the entire building they're housed in. I firmly believe that when flawed men try to explain G-d and His greatness, they are doomed to fail; and that in a great many cases organized religion is used as a tool to oppress people rather than express faith...

My dream car is a 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz convertible, black with white interior and white roof. There's just something about 6' tall tailfins designed by Harley Earl that just immortalize that car as the absolute pinnacle of American automotive design.

7. I've had my license for 20 years now, and in that time owned eleven automobiles (twelve if swapping cars with my wife counts). Five coupes, three pick-up trucks (all Dodge Rams, BTW), two SUVs, and one minivan. I've had my motorcycle endorsement for twelve years and owned three motorcycles in that time. I've never owned a vehicle manufactured by Ford Motor Company.

Okay, that oughta be enough random carp about me... ;)

I'm going to follow AD's lead and not specifically tag anyone else, but leave it open for updates should anyone want to participate...

UPDATE: Ricky has decided to play. Go. Read. The man is a rock. And that's literal as well as figurative. The dude knows his fitness...