In the "Oh, by the way" department.

1. The first CD I ever owned was by Billy Ocean. I am still embarrased about that.
2. Never had Chinese food until I was 19.
3. I'd rather go west than east and north than south almost any day.
4. I don't paint very well. John and Tracie will testify.
5. I attended K-12 in the same building and got through right on schedule, thank you very much.
6. Oatmeal is a common late night snack for me.
7. I knew I wanted to marry Kelsey a few weeks after I met her my senior year of college.
   
8. My affinity for gadgetry was underdeveloped until I was in my 30's. It's this man's fault that I ever got started.
9. I have more than my share of strange friends.
10. I've been blogging since some of you were in high school.
11. My favorite days, hands down, are spent with my wife and kids.
12. My dream gig would be to write four or five days a week and speak once on a topic of my choice.
13. Sitting by a fire, elk steak tips in Steamboat Springs while listening to Lyle Lovett at midnight on a cold, clear January night was just about nirvanic for me.
    
14. My first name is neither Randall or Randolph.
15. I can back up a trailer faster than would seem prudent.
16. I did not like algebra in high school and it hasn't gotten much better.
17. If it comes down to TriBond, I will eat your lunch.
    
18. Every night, it takes five chargers to make my life work.
19. I wept uncontrollably at TheCall DC in 2000.
    
20. I once hot wired a 40ft rv because it needed to be done.
21. I am not a party person.
    
22. My iPod contains a 50/50 mix of music and spoken word.
23. I know how to use a satellite phone and am a repeat customer of these peeps.
    
24. Driving coast to coast in four or five days really sounds like a good time to me.
25. I once ghost-wrote a 40,000 word manuscript in twenty days.
26. If you find me at Mimi's, I'm eating fish and chips.
27. Kelsey and I have moved 17 times in 17 years.
28. The first time I ever remember dancing in public was 2005 at Adam and Taryn's wedding.
29. I regularly skim about 25 blogs and am ready to chuck 20 of them to find 20 others.
30. The outpouring of love towards Zoe - often by total strangers who have heard her story - has been a highlight of the last year of my life.
    
31. I can eat oranges like there is no tomorrow.
32. I once nearly lost a van in the Mississippi river while visiting this place.
33. I'm taller than my father, who was taller than his father.
34. I am not afraid to have the hard conversations.
    
35. I'm going to bed now.