Thanks to a Social Media  post I am doing something new. I am succumbing to peer pressure.

7 Things you did not know about me.    ( the process)

#1  I was going to start with  'I am not very tall.'   But if you know me , that is obvious. So this is subject to change.

#2  I used to bowl A LOT more than most.  Another "duh".

#3  I drive A LOT more than most.   Another 'duh'.

#4  I've got a great big head and little bitty  ....arms.

#5  Toe hands.    That's correct. I used to practice writing with my left and right foot. I'd pick things up, and throw things with them.  My big toe works like a thumb and I can move my middle toes kind of like fingers.

#6   I can drive all those miles because it lends itself to my biggest strength and weakness. Driving is time to think.  I spend most of my life analyzing and reconstructing things. For example, everywhere I have ever bowled I have picked the tournament directors, the proprietors ,and the mechanics brain.
I ask about the restaurant, the promotions, The numbers. The staffing. The cleaning crew. The family life. The hours of business. ...Then I go home and google populations in the area, figure the demographics.    I like figuring out what makes things work and not work.

I have gleaned information for over 30 years from the best and brightest to the absolute worst, trying to figure out how they see things.

I go through this process with absolutely everything, but the bowling business is my passion.  Playing the  game,not so much. I would rather listen to NPR and sing to the radio than actually bowl.  I used to drive thousands of miles to tournaments just to work a couple of questions in to a few people I knew would be there.

Now.....that being said, this hangup of mine has created its share of problems.  I could have handled my own affairs a little better.(understatement) It has not produced a career in bowling either. Probably because I tend to lack tact when I see many a proprietor and business leader doing things that are obviously WRONG (to me) and costing us bowlers. Or maybe I am just not well liked.  ( life really is like high school. If you aren't one of the cool kids, you need one to like you to succeed.Someone has to like you or your idea has to be accepted by the masses.   Value.)

 Oops, I did it again. I could have said -

#6  I am kinda nuts, but everyone knows that. I was just a bowler. I am either the smartest dumb guy you ever met, or the dumbest smart guy. It  equals about the same thing.  It is like two guys arguing who had the better tournament when neither one cashed.

#7   Where were we?  Oh yes.
#7  I major in the uncomfortable with a minor in useless knowledge.  & I am allergic to red ink.