TAG - I’m it! (10 more "weird or random things, facts or habits")
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Okay....  This is the third time I've been "Tagged," and I believe I might have revealed all of the most interesting things about me in my previous posts.  I do have a lot of relatively new friends, however.  So hopefully between the (now) three blogs, everyone should find something of interest.  Otherwise, I suppose I'll have to live a little more life!

If you're curious, feel free to check out my previous two "Tagged" blogs by clicking on their titles:

Eight funky, freaky, and/or fun facts about me
(September 14, 2007)

Behold the Man! - Eight MORE funky, freaky, and/or fun facts about me
(October 30, 2007)

It looks like this is turning into a monthly affair! 

This time, my friend Ninure da Hippie tagged me.  The rules of the game are a little bit different than before.  They call for "ten weird or random things, fact, or habits."  And so, without further ado, I offer you these:

1)  I'm 41 years old and I have 7 grandchildren.  Yet I've never been responsible for a pregnancy. 

2)  I'm a member of the Episcopal Church, the "pagan" Church of all Worlds, and our local SGI (Soka Gakkai International) Buddhist sangha - I've also been ordained to preach by the Family Radio School of the Bible.  Yet I haven't been active in any of these groups for several years, and in many ways I'm embarrassed to be associated with any of them.

3)  Automobiles I sported in the eighties include a lime green Volkswagen Rabbit, a beige Chevy Chevette, an orange AMC Gremlin with a brown racing stripe (that allegedly belonged previously to the Cleveland Browns' Lyle Alzado), a silver Cutlass Supreme my mom still calls my "Ace Ventura ride," and a shit-brown Plymouth Volare wagon.

4)  I was both the fantasy football and the fantasy baseball champion of Marion Correctional Institution at one point in the nineties.  Now I've largely lost interest in professional sports, although I did get a tad excited when the Cleveland Indians made a run for the pennant this year.

5)  Once a die-hard Ohio State Buckeyes fan, I didn't give a rat's behind about watching the OSU-Michigan game this year.  (If you're from either state, you'll realize that this is greater blasphemy than putting the title "Lord" in front of my name.)  I've completely lost interest in college sports as well.  I certainly don't have anything against those who are still into it.  I'm just thinking there are a lot more important things with which to concern ourselves.  But I'll admit to being a bit weird.  LOL

6)  I've probably read the Bible in its entirety 30 times.  I tried to use a different translation each time.  In jail some years ago, I led a series of 72-hour Bible reading marathons.  You can read the whole thing aloud, cover-to-cover, in 72 hours.  But it took 80 hours when we read it in Spanish - maybe because half of the readers that time were "gringos" like me who only knew Spanish from school.

7)  One of my favorite ten movies of all time is Vanilla Sky, although I greatly dislike Tom Cruise.

8)  This past weekend we took two of our grandchildren to the cinema and watched Game Plan, starring The Rock.  I had no interest whatsoever in seeing this, for a number of reasons - I only went along with it because that's what my wife and grandchildren chose.  But I must confess, the movie ended up making me CRY... lol.  Seriously!  Now you know why I avoid the cinema.

9)  We're vegetarians, my wife and I, though this has only been the case for the past few months... and she just came home from the store with two Thanksgiving turkeys!  Hmm....  And she's the one who first made the choice to be vegetarian (although I had considered it for years).  Talk about an ethical quandary... LOL.

10)  I don't really believe in Thanksgiving (the day), although I do believe in thanksgiving (the act).  Maybe it's the Native American in me.  I just can't imagine my Native ancestors being very thankful that the Pilgrims and my other "white" ancestors arrived on the scene and eventually demonstrated how "civilized" they were by taking over the whole freakin' continent and virtually exterminating anyone who stood in their way.  I don't totally understand those patrotic Americans who say "Wanna be American?  Speak English!"  Didn't the true Americans speak Cherokee, Lakota, Sioux, Iroquois, Navajo, Creek, et al?...  English is, unlike those I've listed, first of all a European language. 

I know we don't always agree, but I truly value all my MySpace friends, albeit to different degrees and in different ways.  I want you all to have a happy Thursday, as well as a happy Everyday.  If there must be a Thanksgiving, then let it be everyday.  No matter how sucky some of our lives may seem some of the time, we all have things, abilities, memories, and people for which and for whom we ought to be thankful.  I, personally, could list a thousand.  I'm not always the most happy camper in the world, but I am grateful for so many things.  It may not be "weird or random," but it is "fact."

And that's it for this blog.  And I'm not tagging anyone, though (as always) you can feel free to tag yourself. 

Please don't chop my head off... even if I can be a turkey.

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