Chas has been running an interesting post for several days, and although it took me a while...I came up with the following 'short list' of things that some people might not know about me:

In 1968, my 8th grade year in school, I wrote a research paper about the affects of Marijuana and Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on the human brain and body. The paper was condensed, made into a pamphlet, and became a part of the library. Coincidentally, later that same year, I embarked on a six year journey through drug use, smoking marijuana regularly. However, the information that I had gleaned from research for the paper kept me from ever using LSD.

I have (at last count) ten brothers and sisters…but I remain an only child.

Not only am I ambidextrous, but I can perform a wide variety of ‘functions’ with my toes.

Many years ago, I was at a party which had been held in honor of David Carradine. He was in our little town for the purpose of filming an episode of Kung Fu, in which he played the character ‘Qui Chang Caine’. Unfortunately, the police raided the party and everyone spent the night at the police station. Though I did get to experience the ambience of a paddy wagon…I did not get to meet David Carradine.

I once accumulated several dozen parking tickets in the glove compartment of my dad’s car. The ‘day of reckoning’ was ugly.

I was driving a car one time…at a speed in excess of 98 mph…when a passenger put the car in reverse. Never try this at home.

During the early 70s I logged a lot of miles on my thumb…yes I was a hitchhiking fool. (Fool being the operative word).

During the same period when I was hitchhiking, I also learned the ‘art’ of ‘spare changing’.

I once spent the night in the lobby of a VERY Cowboy hotel…in a TOTALLY cowboy town…with a group of hitchhiking pals…all of us long haired, barefooted, bell-bottomed hippies. We didn’t have the money for a room, and it was pouring down rain. For some unknown reason…we were not ejected, jailed, or beaten to a pulp.

I once stood before a poster of a very powerful and influential law enforcement figure…drawing a mustache and horns on his picture with a marker…when I turned to find him standing behind me. I smiled and shook his hand.