My friend Guy (a.k.a. The Short Fat Kid) has tagged me to share 8 random things about myself. I have two conflicts with this request:

1. If I shared eight oddities in one post, that would blow my blog material for about two months, and…
2. I have given Sarabeth hell about of all of the chain letters that she and her friends have passed around through email over the last few years, and I would NEVER hear the end of it were I to follow through with Guy’s request.

Well, I don’t want to be a jerk and not fulfill this invitation, so I’ve come up with an end-around: I give you, 8 things I’ve learned from The Short Fat Kid:

1. Old school video games + art exhibit = extraawesome.
2. There are several horrible ways to die.
3. Brass-Monkey is still that funky monkey.
4. D.C. is a haven for Tiny Ninjas.
5. I have a new parental insecurity.
6. Gladiators were people too.
7. My grandchildren will be confined to their rooms at all times.
8. How to blog.

I am out of words now.