Quirkiness

(originally written September 2008)

Right, so most of you know what this is about....here goes.


1. I play stupid games on road trips involving the lines on the highway. For instance: I'll pretend that there's an imaginary line continuously running beside the car which I control. Every time I tap my foot, blink my eye, or some other discerable movement, it moves between the lines. Sometimes I pretend the line is perpendicular to the car and I have to fill all the long breaks in the double lines due to intersections, turns, whatever. Kind of OCD, really.

2. Sort of related to the first one...I keep records of how many of those temporary reflector tabs I can hit in a row- you know, the ones they use for center lines in new road construction. It started in High school with my friend Corey- we kept beating each other's records every week- 32, 34, 36....then one awesome day I got 84. I have tried unsuccessfully to duplicate this feat since.

3. Every time I'm hunting and it snows, I imagine I'm in Narnia. I can't help it.

4. I am my dog. In every way. This is not an aspiration, just a demonstrative fact. Kind of hard to explain, but my friends will attest to this.

5. I honestly would trade any number of useful body extremities for a DB9 volante, a DBS, or a 1964 DB5. This is probably an unhealthy outlook, but I have no doubt I'd do it given the choice.

6. I want to build a house for my family on a huge chunk of land, and put numerous secret passages and a central hidden safe room in it. (A) it's totally practical in the event of a natural disaster, buglary or hostile takeover by the Russians or Germans, and (B) it's totally sweet. Think Webster meets Panic Room meets Clue meets a particularly memorable episode of Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers. That's RESCUE RANGERS, people. Right after Duck Tales, Tailspin and Darkwing Duck.