Meme’d again (oh, my head) November 20, 2007
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I say, I say, my new blogging friend Bamboo Blitz tagged me upside da head with this here meme thing, so a-here’s wut ahm a-gonna rite ’bout it:
8 Things I’m Passionate About:
1. My family
2. Writing
3. Not being manipulated
4. Comic book heroes
5. Music
6. Toastmasters
7. Fairness
8. Leaving this world a better place that when I came in, even in a small way
Brain Broadcast – Meme’d October 25, 2007
Posted by markdykeman in meme.Tags: 3 Things You Can't Let Go, meme
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Oh dear, it’s meme season again. Today’s subject is 3 Things You Can’t Let Go. I’m assuming this means that I have to describe three things that I can’t let go, physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Hm.
OK, one of each:
1) Physical: my comic books. I probably have at least 1000 of them (although I’ve owned at least 2,000 others over the years – this is what’s left). Most of them have been sitting in long boxes for years. I just can’t bring myself to throw them out or sell them (mainly because I couldn’t sell most of them for very much money). It’s part emotional attachment, part stubbornness.
2) Mental: the desire to become a paid, professional writer.
3) Emotional: I’m going to generalize and say that there have been a couple of times, both personal and professional, where I feel that I was betrayed. Or naive. Or ignorant. Or all three. It’s almost impossible to forget. Actually, it’s impossible.
Today’s meme originally came from here
Site Insights tagged me with the meme
And now, Earthlings, I hereby pass this wonder of pop culture to:
(EDIT) Blush (my original choice was Mimzie but someone else tagged her first…)
and…
Let the wailing begin! 
Brain Broadcast – Meme’d September 2, 2007
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‘Chip’ Camden tagged me with the Random 8 meme.
This is the first time this Broadcasting Brain has been tagged as such, so… why not?
The Rules of this tag:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. Tag eight people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.
OK, 8 completely random facts about myself:
1. My living room floor and most of the furniture is almost completely covered by toys. Not mine, unfortunately – they belong to my kids.
2. The musical instruments that I’ve played over the years include: recorder, flute, tenor saxaphone, acoustic guitar, electric bass, drums, and keyboard. I wasn’t that good at most of them, but I did play bass in a band for a few months.
3. The first computer that I ever owned was a Commodore VIC 20. It probably had 5 K of RAM. The only way to keep programs to be re-run was to either buy them on cartridge or save them on a tape drive… after typing them in first. Yuck.
4. My family had a black and white TV until I was 15, I think.
5. I used to sell condoms. Well, I was a clerk at a pharmacy, what do you expect?
6. I was the student council president in my last year at high school. No one else would run!
7. The only time that I drove standard transmission in England, I had to drive down a steep hill in a snowstorm. That was a bit unnerving.
8. The most valuable comic book that I own is a copy of Adventure Comics #300.
Now for eight random (OK, not so random) tags.
Scott M., Agnes Mildew, Kali, Blog Cabins, Just Sayin’, literaryminded, sfgirl, Michael R.
Mea culpea!
EDIT: sorry folks, I put the wrong link in some of your comments.
