Virtual Onion Peeling – 8 More Things About Me

I oftentimes refer to the process of getting to really know somebody as “peeling the onion ” – meaning there are usually many layers to get through before you get to the core of the person (picture courtesy of the Greensboro News-Record).

Then there’s “virtual” onion peeling – the blogosphere’s effort to get posters to keep revealing things about themselves, through the time honored technique of the “meme”.

I’ve already put out there 10 things (or “layers”) in past posts here and here, so when my good friend Chris Cree tagged me with the latest meme going around “8 Random Things About Me“, I really needed to crank up the peeling, so to speak.

Should I dare let my readers get ever closer to my core? Sure, why not! Here goes:

1. My favorite color is blue – you need to see my closet; I think blue out numbers all other colors combined by 2 to 1
2. Starbucker is not my real last name. I bet you didn’t know that…..
3. I’m currently on a gluten-free diet – not because I have Celiac’s disease or a true gluten intolerance, but because I wanted to keep my immune system strong with all my traveling. How does gluten figure into that? I don’t have enough room on this post to explain- ask me at the next SOBCon.
4. Here is #1 of a “sublist” of three jobs I have taken on in my career: Ear piercer – now THAT was an experience – I actually pierced the ears of a two month old child – at age 17!
5. #2 – Garbage collector – I spent three summers behind one of those compacting trucks, tossing bags and cans into the back. We could cram 13,000 pounds in one of those trucks, and I lifted half of it each time. Great weightlifting program, but you smelled pretty bad afterwards. Maybe the gym was better….
6. #3 – Disc Jockey at a disco – Ask me to do my “disk jockey” voice sometime. My wife just loves it…….not.
7. As an undergraduate in college I won an election for President of the Student body by standing in front of the Law School library on election day, exactly one foot beyond the “election violation zone”, and begging total strangers to go over and cast a ballot for me. People still think that I bribed those people to get their votes, but I didn’t. All I said was I would make sure we’d keep enough beer at the campus pub. Gotta know your constituency!
8. My favorite movie comedy of all time is “Animal House“. I’ll throw in a bonus and add that I was in a fraternity in college about the time the movie came out, so I can shout out “Toga, Toga, Toga” as well as anybody, and that I’ll sometimes throw this immortal line out at a staff meeting – “What? “Over”? Did you say “over”? Nothing’s over until we decide it is!”

Ah yes, that #8 is a good memory……it makes me want to SHOUT………….

You’re right at my core now. Pure joy and love of life. Welcome aboard!

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