the ‘bee log

So looks like Don “donxml” Demsak woke up in the new year and promptly decided I needed something added to my to do list. He blog tagged me. Thanks, Don, but couldn’t we have done the Funky Sock Exchange?! Anyway, five random things you probably didn’t know about me… hmm… here goes:

1. Musically I’m all over the board, but if I had to bring something with me on the proverbial desert island it’d probably be Nick Cave. As the whole experience would probably be fairly depressing (being on said island alone) after the initial “cool, me time!” / corona commercial honeymoon phase wore off; Nick Cave would be a good complement to that mood.

2. Like Don, I too left college a bit early. I almost made it but as I was finishing majors in Psychology and Religious Studies (Eastern), I had a bit of a “what-the-hell-am-I-going-to-do-with-this” moment.

3. My professional goal prior to and during college was to procure work in the intelligence community, though I was also interested in law enforcement at the federal level. No slight to anyone in that line of work, but I’m glad life didn’t turn that way for me.

4. In my senior year a crush lead me to try out for our annual high school theatrical production. I ended up landing a lead role and playing the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance (I know). Leading up to this I was “encouraged” to take voice lessons: a) before school, b) during lunch, and c) after school but before rehearsal. That should tell you something about the quality of my singing voice. Anyway, I took the theater phase into college and ended up acting in some “real theater,” stage managing a Mammet play, and co-chairing the student theater club, Phoenix Players. So, yeah, more of an actor than a singer…

5. In my first job as a coder, my primary tool was FoxPro 2.6 and, later, Visual FoxPro. This fact is mildly embarrassing but does serve to keep my smugness quotient in check. I will say, it will be fantastic to have LINQ back. :)

Okay, that should do it for now. According to rite, I have to select five people who have blogs I read and hopefully provoke them to do the same (e.g. “tag you’re it”) or just provoke them in general…

Andy Beaulieu | Chris Kinsman | Evan Hoff | Peter Laudati | Scott Watermasysk

Great. Backlog item complete.