Some things

Take a while.

Roughly a month ago, I got a second generation tag from the Alliterates Seven Random Facts Meme. What made it particularly interesting was that both the “first gen” (to me) tagger, and the seven folk what he named are all in my list of daily reading.

Go figure.

I’ve played five questions so many times in the last 12 months, it’s hard to come up with truly random things. However, here’s my best shot. Having been so tagged by Subversive Puppet Show, I shall select 7 others to feel the touch of destiny following these revelations.

1). I have a near eidetic memory. It is tempered only by my inability to concentrate on things after a certain duration, brought on by death #1.

Simply put, I remember everything to which I pay attention. Consequently, I have spent most of my adult life looking for distractions.

Usually 12 oz at a time.

2) I used to remember everything. I remember almost everything since the accident, and almost nothing from before it. Snatches and pictures are all I can point to, but the “right brain” portions of those years are almost completely intact.

So, I can tell you pretty much exactly how I >felt< during periods of my life that I can tell you nothing about. Please reference #1 for my (former) solution. 3) I have three pieces of sculpture in my house, and 2 pieces of "art" However, I have literally thousands of toys. Some of them date from childhood. Some I have no memory of accquiring at all. 4) I am partially deaf. But the hearing I have left is exceptionally acute. It is different for each ear, and I almost can't have a phone conversation if the receiver is on my right side. However, I can't have a normal conversation if the speaker is on my left. This leads to some humourous jockeying for position when I walk with a co-worker who is Black on the LEFT side. 5) I have never caught a home run ball during a regulation baseball game. I have been as close as three inches away from 15. One time, a ball hit directly off my seat, while I was in the bar 25 feet to stage left and 30 feet down. I got free beer from the folks around me when I related this fact. 6) I cannot dribble a basketball. Especially while moving down the court. On the flip side, I don't think I've missed a free throw since 1990. 7) I haven't had a Big Mac in over 14 years. On the way up, I used to eat 4 at a time. In fact, they were the main reason I stopped my initial campaign of vegetarianism in 1991. I haven't had a cigarette in 7 years, and have gone without a beer for the last 18. I frequently dream about all three in some combination or another, and not a day goes by when I don't think about at least one of the above. However, these are promises I have made to myself, and keping them lets me keep promises made to others. Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck, GOOSE = Ryan Dancey, Norma Barrett-Lincoln, Honor MacDonald, teh Julz, Wilgar T. Cleric, Mr. Mhoram the Baker, Puck.