It's as good an excuse as any.

Yes, I am still alive. Yes, I know you're shocked. I'd like to say I've been living the life of privilege, but well, actually I kinda have. Maybe for a day or so. Sucks to be the rest of you that day, huh? I'll admit the rest of the days weren't as nice. I'll tell you all about those later. For now, I have a tag to respond to and I wouldn't be a good blogger if I didn't do that. I need to build up my blogger cred anyway since I kinda squandered all of it by vanishing for a few months. Here we go, responding to a tag from Alonzo Mosley (FBI)...

People who have been tagged are required to reveal eight facts about themselves and to post and obey the following rules:

Rules:

1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and that they should read your blog.

Eight Facts About Me:

1. I donated blood today. It was the 38th time I've done that in my life, according to the little sheet. Bonus fact: it only ever works when they use my right arm, and I've pretty much determined that as the root of all my continuing elbow problems.

2. There is only one reason I regret vanishing from the blog world for a few months... And that is the Golden State Warriors playoff run in May. Wow, so many things I would have loved to have written about. Oh well, such is life. I just regret the fact that nothing like that is ever going to happen again, and it's certainly not going to happen to my favorite team ever again. Ever.

3. After being a referee for over a year now, I can pretty much tell you every possible strategy for winning a game of dodgeball. It's sad, I know. But it's true. The sadder part is that if your team can't catch you're going to lose. Period. Learn to catch, dodgeballers!

4. I haven't watched probably 2/3rds of the DVDs I own and of those I'd say probably 1/3rd of them are still shrink wrapped. There's a reason I sold a whole bunch of them last year and barely ever buy new ones anymore...

5. I can rarely smell flowers of any kind, especially roses. If you tell me they smell wonderful I'm just gonna have to take your word for it.

6. The smell of shrimp makes me physically ill, as does looking at lobster or crabs. How people eat anything shellfish-related is completely beyond me. It's like the horrible 70s band Queen. The continued love and popularity of both shellfish and Queen completely baffles me. Both reek to high hell, people.

7. My favorite song and musical artist fluctuates on a daily (almost hourly) basis but the films on my personal top ten rarely change position. Bonus fact: My favorite song title right now is "Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down" by Interpol. Get the new CD, it's almost as good as Turn on the Bright Lights. Seriously.

8. I don't read your blog anymore. No, not even yours. Sorry.

At this point I'm supposed to tag 8 bloggers... So I'm just gonna take a random guess at who will actually read these and how long it will be between when I post and when they read this:

Neonalune - about 45 seconds
Kate - 1.15 days
Lindsay - 2.6 days
Beanerdog - 2.79 days
Jacob - 3.14159 days
Ed - 5 days
Melis - 2 weeks
Matty - somewhere between 3 months and never

I might be back. You never know, but I am kind of a busy guy and all.