10 Random Things

1. I was born in New York and have lived in Burlington Vermont, Canton Ohio and Columbus.

2. The first album I ever bought was Get Lucky by Loverboy. My first concert was the Michael Stanley Band just like everyone from Northeastern Ohio.


3. I have two dogs, both mutts and 2 cats. My dogs are very spoiled and have trained me well.


4. My favorite Atari game was Missle Command and my favorite Nintendo game was Mike Tyson's Punch Out.


5. I have been taking Martial Arts for 15 years and have my Black Belt in Shuai Chiao. Never heard of it? If you go to Youtube and do a search for Shuai Chiao you can see some demonstrations.


6. After college, in an effort to avoid the grown up world, I backpacked in Europe for three months. My favorite places were London, Amsterdam, Venice and Prague. My only regret from this experience was that I did not go on the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg.


7. My first car was a 1982 Plymouth Horizon. It was a 4-speed, really hard to shift and would backfire when it rained.


8. My first job was at a local newspaper in Canton. I did the layout by hand by cutting the stories with an exacto knife and pasting them on the proofs. I used to have to make all of the stories fit on the page around the advertisements.



9. Every Tuesday after school my Mom would take me and my Sister to the library. We did this every week until 6th grade. My favorite books to check out were the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books. These were great stories about a woman that had alternative cures for behavioral problems.



10. My favorite TV shows are Seinfeld, The Wire, Law and Order (the original), The Shield and The Office. This year is rough with The Wire and The Shield both ending.