My buddy Dave Wilson tagged me with the “25 Random Things” meme the other day and in the interests of playing along I’ve decided to bore all of you with twenty-five not so interesting facts about me. Ready, set, go…
- I read an average of five to eight books per week.
- In the time it takes to fly from Phoenix to Boston I can usually read two entire novels.
- I love dogs and have five of my own.
- I have strangely, and quite unexpectedly, developed a desire to race the Iditarod.
- My first book was written on a dare over a case of beer in college.
- My first car was a 1975 Plymouth Duster, brown with a faux snake skin roof.
- I have considered crewing for Cpt,. Watson of Whale Wars fame.
- I do not love to write like most writers I know.
- I do love to come up with story ideas, however.
- I would love to see Edgar Rice Burrough’s John Carter of Mars series made into an epic film on the scale of the Lord of the Rings.
- I am very unexcited about the upcoming Pixar animated version of the same.
- I suffered a limited form of amnesia in my youth and still do not remember the day of the accident that caused it.
- I’m a fairly decent singer.
- A TALENT FOR WAR by Jack McDevitt is one of my favorite novels.
- I own a Sony Reader and absolutely love it.
- I am trained in three different martial arts.
- I recently bought an automatic rice maker.
- I’m a Christian who believes in evolution.
- I run a very cool writing site called Storytellersunplugged.com
- For years I dreamed of climbing Everest. Now I have no desire whatsoever to do so.
- I am nearsighted and blind as a bat without my glasses/contacts.
- I thought Defiance was excellent.
- Making this list has been difficult.
- I have been to every state in the nation with the exception of South Dakota.
- I have no intention of tagging anyone else with this meme, so you are off the hook.
There you have it – 25 random things about me you probably could have gone your whole life without knowing.
