Eleven Pointless Facts About Me
I’ve seen these floating around in the different feeds I read lately, like Manu’s, Scott’s, and Kev’s.
Being one who has major fomo if I don’t join the fun, I had to share my own pointless facts. However, being the one-ups-man I am sometimes, I chose to throw in a bonus question eleven for your enjoyment.
Do you floss your teeth?
Most of the time, but some days I’m just plain lazy and will skip doing it. Then I’ll feel guilty all day.
Tea, coffee, or water?
This one’s easy… Coffee. I love coffee. Can’t get enough coffee. Sadly, I’ve had to cut way back on it over the last two years. So it’s two cups of “regular” coffee in the morning. If I drink any more through the day it’s got to be decaf. The rest of the time it’s water. Very rarely do I drink tea…like almost never.
Footwear preference?
Running shoes, though I don’t run. My current daily drivers are a pair of black Nike runners with a white swish that I just love. Once they wear out, they will be replaced by the same.
Favorite dessert?
Hands down, chocolate cake, but then I have a sweet tooth, so I will accept any dessert put in front of me. This too has been scaled way back over the last two years. For my sweet tooth fix these days it’s an apple, Mandarin oranges, or a handful of blueberries.
The first thing you do when you wake up?
I swallow a pill for my damned under-active thyroid. Every. Single. Day. Then I get dressed and walk the dog. Then have coffee, which I’ve been thinking of since the moment I woke up.
Age you’d like to stick at?
To me, 27 was my prime and was the age that being an adult just sort of clicked for me. I’d love to be that age again, but still have the wisdom I’ve gained over the last 34 years. I’d rule the world.
How many hats do you own?
Jeez. I don’t even know. A quick guess would have to be ten, maybe 15. I’ll get on a kick and buy a hat, wear it for a week and then it sits for months before I put it on again. I’ve got a box of about five in the closet I haven’t put on in nearly 10 years.
Describe the last photo you took?
A receipt for breakfast in the SFO airport when coming home from the Dreamforce conference last week. I take more photos of stuff like this than I do “cool” photos.
Worst TV show?
Keeping Up with the Kardashians, or Love After Lockup. Enough said. My wife enjoys both of them. I do not…at all.
As a child, what was your aspiration for adulthood?
I wanted to be a truck driver. Smokey and the Bandit was popular then. I thought it was so cool. I’m glad it didn’t work out that way though. I’m really happy doing what I’m doing now, even if it was all by accident.
Bonus question: What’s the scariest dream you ever had?
As a kid of maybe five or six, I once had a dream that my Aunt and Uncle (who owned the family ranch that was lost to fire recently), had a collection of combs in a rack. They were all different types of combs, with one of them being made from bone. It had jagged teeth and looked scary. My aunt warned me to never use the bone comb.
I somehow managed to lose all the other combs in the rack until only the bone comb remained, so I had to use it one morning. When I took it from the rack, the comb – which turned out to be possessed – jumped out of my hand and began tearing up the sheets on the fold-out sofa bed I slept on when visiting them for the summer. That’s all I can remember of it now.
That dream scared the shit out of me then, and I can still remember parts of it today. I’m sure a child psychologist would have had a field day with that one since there was so much turmoil in my life back then.
So that’s eleven pointless facts about me…
What are your answers to the 10 pointless fact questions? If you want to add fact number eleven, it has to be totally unique to you.