Got tagged for "the dread five things meme" by
Tangognat. Thanks, I think. Since I haven't been blogging long enough to extract a whole lot from my posts, here's fresh stuff. Maybe I'll try to work them all into posts in the coming year.
- When I was eight years old, I was the pop-up inside of a rolling jack-in-the-box in our town's Christmas parade, and learned that crepe paper is not colorfast on snowy days.
- I play concertina in an Irish pub band. Not that I'm fast enough to whip through the jigs and reels, but I do okay backing up the songs, can take an occasional lead break and love to play O'Carolan pieces.
- I spent a wonderful summer working as a porter in a monastery, and learned that monks make mean manhattans. I also sold masses, but left blessing bicycles to the professionals. And I've never been Catholic.
- I'm not fond of fresh goat's milk, preferring the pasturized and refrigerated bovine experience, which, on the whole, has fewer hairs per glass.
- I have this statuette of Neil Gaiman's Lucien the Librarian of Dreams, and I got Neil to autograph it. Not for sale, ever.
