I'm Not Above A Middle School Game

Okay, I'll play the game. (Although this feels like something that should be done as a 12 year old at a slumber party at 3:00am when even the sound of the wall clock ticking is simply hilarious.)

7 Random:

1) I killed a squirrel in my backyard one day - by throwing a battery at it. Duracell, size D. It crawled at a rapid pace over to the small creek by our house and simply dropped its head in the water and drowned himself. I felt like I was the most evil person alive. I thought for sure I would miss him. I didn't. I had better aim than I thought.

2) I witnessed a car wreck one night, from start to finish. I saw an 18 wheeler enter the intersection in front of me. I was in the left turn lane and both lights turned green. I couldn't go -the truck was in the way, but in my rear view mirror I saw a car coming and not slowing down and that car had a green light. I told my dad who was with me, "Oh no dad, there's about to be a bad wreck!" Seconds later this car runs right into the cab of the truck at about 50mph. It was loud, very close and sad. The lady was on her way home from the hospital with her 80 year old father. Everyone, was okay in the end. But it was scarey.

3) Random experience both job and non-job related that I have been taught over the years.

• welding


• plumbing


• cabinet-making


• cattle raising


• chicken farming (60K chickens for 4 years in college) (That's some smart chickens!)


• installing ceramic tile - (Lance Burch taught me)


• tractor, front-end loader, and manlift operator


• bioreactors - (microbes for wastewater treatment plants)


• sound system set-up/repair


• computer repair and networking


• limited graphic & web design


• archery


• pastoring/preaching*


• cross-stitch

*This of course has the greatest gravity on my life.

4) I've never had an alcoholic beverage. Ever.

5) I was President of the German Club while in high school only so I could get a free meal at the local German restaurant. I didn't know any German then and still don't now.



6) One of my eyes is two different colors.










7) I once walked from the playground at my elementary school all the way to the cafeteria with both of my middle fingers screaming the "old man" to any who saw. My principal saw me out of his office window. It's possibly the longest flip-off in the history of elementary flip-offs.