{"id":232,"date":"2009-01-20T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/25-things-you-may-or-may-not-know-about-me\/"},"modified":"2009-01-20T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T22:30:43","slug":"25-things-you-may-or-may-not-know-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/20\/25-things-you-may-or-may-not-know-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Things You May Or May Not Know About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a MEME kinda guy… but I’ll cave on this on because I’ve learned so many interesting things via the lists of others. Here is a link to the MEME room on FriendFeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. My favorite holiday is Valentines Day – What better holiday than one where you get to go completely overboard lavishing the person you love with attention.<\/li>\n
  2. My least favorite holiday is New Years Eve – The worst possible kind of party is a forced party.<\/li>\n
  3. My father passed away when I was 12 (he was 44).<\/li>\n
  4. I am the youngest of three children. I have two older sisters (one adopted).<\/li>\n
  5. When I was about 4 I distinctly remember going through a Minnesota winter in a jacket that didn’t zip. My parents couldn’t afford to buy me a new one.<\/li>\n
  6. The father and son who owned the restaurant I managed taught me how to be a man, father, and husband. I owe them I debt I can never repay and for which I am eternally grateful.<\/li>\n
  7. My favorite author is Raymond Carver<\/a> – I expect very few of you (who were not English majors) have ever heard of him.<\/li>\n
  8. I’ve read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich<\/a> 3 times. I believe it should be required reading.<\/li>\n
  9. I do not and do not care to understand Lost<\/a> – I mean seriously… when the complete obfuscation of plot becomes the plot it is just gibberish.<\/li>\n
  10. I once had an “affair” with my boss. She is now my wife and the mother of my 2 beautiful daughters – and the love of my life.<\/li>\n
  11. I was married on September 4th 2001 in Fiji<\/li>\n
  12. I was flying home from Fiji on September 11th, 2001. Our plane was turned around over Hawaii and we spent 6 more days in Fiji. I have a very different experience of that event than most people.<\/li>\n
  13. I have a tendency to be blunt. I firmly believe that we can not have a productive conversation about contentious issues unless we are willing to start by putting our cards on the table.<\/li>\n
  14. I LOVE to cook. On holiday’s the kitchen is MINE.<\/li>\n
  15. If I could have any job I’d be a Myth-buster<\/a> … I mean SERIOUSLY. I get to act like a dork, blow stuff up AND get paid. Deal.<\/li>\n
  16. I have a weird allergy to Rum. One shot (literally) and I will become completely inebriated, sick and pass out.<\/li>\n
  17. Don’t get any cute ideas about #16 – I will kick your ass (after about a week of recovery time).<\/li>\n
  18. I have silly, silly names for my children. Natalie = Nat Splat; Isabel = Izzy-Beaster<\/li>\n
  19. I don’t like cats… not even cute LOLCats.<\/li>\n
  20. I love dogs… all dogs (which would explain why the stray – now known as Max – still lives in my house).<\/li>\n
  21. The only thing that scares me (I mean really, really scares me) is not being able to keep my girls safe, healthy, clothed, and fed (see #5).<\/li>\n
  22. I enjoy American Idol – You have to admit, these people have talent and I enjoy watching them hone their craft.<\/li>\n
  23. I get called arrogant fairly often – I’ve stopped apologizing, trying to “correct” my behavior or adjust myself to comply with the needs of others (outside my family and closest friends).<\/li>\n
  24. If you leave your ice cream where I can access it you forfeit any right to complain when I eat it. You’ve been warned.<\/li>\n
  25. I’m handy. Not like change a light bulb handy. Like re-build an engine, re-wire a house, hang dry-wall, frame a house handy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    I’m not a MEME kinda guy… but I’ll cave on this on because I’ve learned so many interesting things via the lists of others. Here is a link to the MEME room on FriendFeed. My favorite holiday is Valentines Day – What better holiday than one where you get to go completely overboard lavishing the… Continue reading 25 Things You May Or May Not Know About Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[38,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}