I keep getting tagged with these things.  For someone who exists almost exclusively in a blog vacuum I sure am popular.

The idea behind this one is to tell six things about yourself that everyone else might not know.  I will try not to get to personal...lol

This one has some rules, so I will include them here.  I am also supposed to pick 6 people to have do this meme.  I don’t think I know 6 people in person, never mind online.  So, if you feel like doing this, please, be my guest.  Don’t forget to link to me if you do.

The Rules:

1. Link to the person that tagged you (that's me!).

2. Post the rules on your blog.

3. Write six random things about you in your blog post.

4. Tag six people in your post.

5. Let each person know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

6. Let the tagger know your entry is up. 

Ok, here goes…

1. I have a patent.  It is for an optical memory chip.  The number is 6,873,560.  I tried to get funding to develop my idea but I was told that the idea was to advanced.  My patent has actually been referenced by another patent.  I guess it can't be to ahead of the curve. If anyone wants to buy it, drop me a note.

2. When I was 14 years old there was a fire at the house next door to mine.  I was watching tv and noticed the kids huddled outside in their pajamas.  I ran out side and they told me there was a fire.  I ran into their house and their grandmother was trying to carry a pot of water up the stairs, I think she was in shock.  I got her out side and called the fire department.  I wasn't very popular at school so all the other kids said that I started the fire just so I could see the fire trucks.  The upstairs of their house had to be gutted.

3. My grandmother died when I was about 7.  We were very close and I was extremely upset at her passing.  I did not attend the viewings or the funeral.  I asked to go at one point thinking that my parents would have to buy me a suit.  I always thought that wearing a suit was a very grown up thing.  Everyone who was important and grown up wore suits, even the Beatles.  My mom asked if I really want to go, because I could if I wanted to.  I thought about it for a second and decided that wearing a suit was not a good enough reason to see my grandmother lying in a casket.  I still remember her as being alive to this day.

4. I had a girlfriend in the fourth grade named Beth Johnson.  We used to talk on the phone everyday after school.  When I moved from North Carolina to Minnesota we promised that we would meet in Florida when we were 18 and sail away on a sailboat.  I still want to live on a sailboat, but I doubt Beth would remember any of that.

5. I have a foot fetish.  Not just any feet mind you.  They have to be female feet (sorry guys).  The foot has to be well shaped with a nice arch.  The toes have to be the proper length, I hate when the second toe is longer then the rest.  The pinky toe has to be well formed, no stubby twisted little things.  And they must be clean. Sorry, everyone has a dark side.

6. I have always has a fascination with flying.  I used to take a bed sheet and use it as a parachute while jumping out of a tree in the back yard.  I came up with a design for the X-Prize that used a modified F-5B Tiger.  Burt Rutan has a way of spoiling everyones dreams.

There ya go.  I bet you're sorry you read this one...lol

-P