I was tagged

Back on July 1, John Dorner tagged me. Here are my lists of 5 in response.

Five snacks I enjoy:

1.       Bread and (anything to put inside) to make a sandwich.

2.      Dove dark chocolate

3.      Chips

4.      Apples

5.      Gum

Five Things on My To-Do list today:

1.       Enter my "I'm tagged" blog entry

2.      Attend meetings

3.      Play v-ball at lunch

4.      Call Carla at the York office

5.      Kiss my wife when I see her tonight

Five Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

1.       Start a fund for my nieces and nephews for College (to attend PSU)

2.      Give money to Penn State DuBois

3.      Give money to the Alpha Zeta Fraternity

4.      Give the rest of the money to Laurie so she can do whatever she wants

5.   Go back to work on Monday

Five jobs I have had:

1.       Dairy farmer

2.      Produce clerk at grocery store

3.      Vo Ag teacher

4.      Taught electricity at Voc Ed retraining center

5.      Database Specialist

Five of my bad habits:

1.       Procrastination (thus this post after being tagged on July 1)

2.      The "Vince Look" when I get frustrated by myself

3.      Talk too loud

4.      Bull forward without considering others (I am a Taurus)

5.      Smile mysteriously at meetings causing people to question what I'm thinking

Five places I have lived:

1.       Hormtown PA

2.      State College PA

3.      Ephrata PA

4.      DuBois PA

5.      Clearfield PA

Five people that I've tagged: I tried to check your blogs to see if you've been tagged already.

1.       Peg Shuffstall

2.      Peter Fleck

3.      Mitch Owen

4.      Kevin Gamble

5.      Rich Phelps

Five Random Things:

1.    One of my favorite games as a small boy was to build a dam across a drainage ditch in our cow pasture after a heavy rain. Looking back, that may not have been a great idea. Of course, we didn't know about anti-bacterial hand sanitizers back in the 1960's. We just went out, in essence "ate dirt" and became desensitized to all the "bad" things in the environment.

2.    My step-daughters Lana and Lynn are 32 and 27 years old.

3.    I was on the task force that started Penn State's student alumni corps, the Lion Ambassadors, in 1981. The Task Force meetings were held at 8am, Very early for students, then as now I bet. But this was never an issue for me. 8am after all is halfway through the morning. And the fact that they provided coffee and donuts for us was a double plus.

4.    I've played soccer for 29 years now. My position of choice for past 15 is goalkeeper. This works since I don't need to run around very much. I'm also dumb enough to not worry about getting slammed into by the other players or the ball.

5.    I've lost 2 college friends to cancer. They were taken way too early. The world's light is dimmer because Peggy Frost Barrett and Donald Gephart Jr. are no longer with us.

There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of... there were loose threads . . . untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads . . . it had unraveled the tapestry of my life.

- Jean-Luc Picard, Tapestry