Kate tagged me with a meme (how could she?! ;) Ah well, fair enough.

The rules are:

1. Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share seven facts about yourself.
3. Tag seven people at the end of you post, and include links to their blogs.

So, seven facts...

1. If you're ever around me, you'll hear me go on about wanting life to finally calm down. While that's changed a lot since I became a father, that's still a little bit of a lie—I feel too strongly about the things I involve myself in to stop caring and keep my head down—that draws me into chaos like a moth to flame. To paraphrase Chuck Jones, Bugs Bunny is my goal, but Wile E. Coyote is my reality.
2. I'm a huge fan of the sandwich. Not just any sandwich, mind you, but a truly well thought out Sandwich. For example, today's lunch was homemade chipotle-garlic mayo, bacon, and fresh roasted turkey crisped on the pan after the bacon was finished grilled off on fresh local wheat. I'm convinced that the reason the panini took off is that it was the first real sandwich many people have had.
3. I'm generally what political bobbleheads would call a middle-liberal but, in reality, I'm more strongly a social progressive which makes me come off as a little conservative on rare occasions—I often get wary of promoting changes that look like they'll harm large segments of society in the long term.
4. I have an extreme aversion to dealing with fax machines. While most electronic toys bend readily to my will, some embedded evil magic of the fax seems to consistently thwart me. I'm certainly not the only technical type I know that has this problem, but I often wonder what the issue is.
5. I was born to a Catholic family but didn't identify with it until my late 20s. During my teens and early 20's I looked at many religions (and the non-religions as well). In the end, I found that the Catholic church, particularly as it is experienced by the Franciscans was a better fit for me than I had thought when I was younger
6. I've made it through umpteen years of education and written a book without being able to completely overcome the “its/it’s” issue. It's not that I don't know the rule, I just have to stop and think about it. If I do it at the time, I often have the flow of my writing break, so I've learned to to a global search on " it[']?s " to check everything before my writing goes out.
7. If you've followed the blog, you've probably noticed that I have a lot of interests, like film, textile art, psychology, technology, fashion, cooking, etc. While I'd love to believe this makes me a bit “renaissance&rdquo, odds are much greater that I'm just an over-amped information packrat ;)

So much for me, I'm tagging these seven:

1. Jason
2. Peter
3. Blaine
4. Craig
5. Ant
6. Dan B
7. Dan T