25 things

I never do memes. I don’t know how to pronounce the word or how to explain it in non-technical metaphors. Unless, of course, a meme is like playing idea tag, where you have to answer a question before you can tag someone else. Or it’s like an ice breaker at a party (which I don’t like).

That said, both jenhames and chris brogan tagged me and so I will write. My version, however is to make five lists of five things.

5 things I was doing 10 years ago:

• going to soccer games for an 11-year-old son who still wanted to be a professional soccer player. (Now he is a writer. About sports).
• learning how to be 40. (never figured it out. Gave up after 10 years.)
• dealing with a daughter in second grade. (actually, she was dealing with second grade. She spent the next 6 years dealing with school. And then she got to high school and figured it all out.)
• helping figure out how to keep college students in college. (I gave up.)
• having no clue that I would be a pastor now. (Nope. No idea at all.)

5 snacks I like:

• orange slice candy
• honeycrisp apples
• corn dogs
• peanuts
• coffee (Hey. It’s a snack. and a food group.)

5 places I’ve lived

• New Hope, MN (went to the same elementary school as Rick Mahn).
• Carol Stream, IL
• Austin, TX (1982-85, UT-Austin)
• Fort Wayne, IN
• Goshen, IN

5 jobs I’ve had

• hauling the garbage at a camp (camp closed)
• operating an IBM 370/125 mainframe computer (1974-1980) (Yep. I was in IT before it was called IT) (organization closed)
• production helper for marketing department at company that made gravity-flow racks for coolers in convenience stores. (Company closed)
• college professor (College was acquired. Now it’s closing)
• late-night program host at college radio station (students don’t run it anymore)

5 updates on posts I’ve written

• Hope got her license and is now driving.
• I finished the deck.
• I finished the bondo-ing the car. Rust hasn’t showed up yet.
• I haven’t lost any weight
• I’m still not good at managing my time (but I’ve talk a lot with Chris since this post.

Okay. Time to pass on the tag: Paul Merrill? Five pictures. Rick Mahn? Five happiness reasons. Rob Hatch? Five of anything. Amy? Five family stories. Jim Hughes? Five things about visiting people in the hospital for non-hospital people.

Thank you for playing.