Stuff You Didn't Know About Brother

Well, I guess I'll jump on this bandwagon.... although some of my ideas will be blatantly stolen from Sister's post.

1. I, too, am a poor housekeeper, although as a man who lives by himself, I'm part of a long and honorable tradition of such. I also insist that if you kill 99.9 percent of the germs too often, you eliminate the weak ones and thus facilitate the evolution of a stronger race of germs. By letting my place go so long between cleanings, I'm giving the germs a chance to become decadent and soft, so the eventual dousing with chemicals will devastate them all the more.

2. I drive just fine (if you don't mind the continuous grumbling and cursing at all the morons around me), but I can't navigate worth a damn. If there's a way to miss a turn, I will miss it. If there's a 50-50 chance of guessing which way to go, I will guess the wrong way 85 percent of the time (guessing and then going the opposite way doesn't help -- I think it has something to do with quantum indeterminacy).

3. I don't really get the whole "pet" business. I can see keeping a dog for security purposes, but pouring food into a bowl every day seems like more effort than a pet's presence is worth.

4. Somebody once asked me what fictional character I most resemble (in personality, not appearance). After much thought, I finally settled on Malcolm Reynolds from "Firefly".

5. All of my favorite foods are meats, except for eggs, which technically aren't meat. I especially like breakfast foods, such as bacon, eggs, and sausage. Outdoor-grilled hamburgers are another favorite.

6. Current exercises: weighted chins, pushups, squats, running down the road (tracks and treadmills are for sissies!), clean-and-press, weighted dips, and some grip work. My motivation tends to fluctuate on these, so I never have quite gotten back to where I was before I hurt my back a few years ago while keeping my father from being decapitated while loading our latest project into a truck.

7. I have over 3300 rollover minutes left on my phone contract. They expire in October, and I really doubt I'll use them up. However, the cost-benefit of having the cell phone is still equal to what I had with the landline -- the free long-distance calls take care of that.

8. I have worn the same blue shirt to work every Monday for months now. It's just become sort of a habit to use that as my "Monday shirt".

9. Things I have gotten in my eyes: leaf fragments, dirt, pepper, battery acid, bits of tree bark, lemon juice, motor oil, sawdust, some sort of industrial caustic whose name I forget, a wood chip, gasoline, miscellaneous combustion byproducts, WD40, various bugs (including some that stung or bit), spray paint, BreakFree gun cleaner, and rattlesnake urine. I've never been pepper-sprayed, but by this point I doubt it would do more than annoy me.