ABFH tagged me (thanks!) with the 8 Random Things Meme which is, as they say, going around.
The rules: (again with the rules!)
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. [this tantamount to asking an Aspie to "go be spontaneous!" --ed.]
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
This should be interesting to all involved! 
1. I am allergic to oranges.
2. I learned to swim when I was very young, too young to have any memory of not being able to swim.
3. I have been way too interested in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien for far too long. Besides multiple copies of nearly everything JRRT put out and a great deal of the commentary associated with Middle Earth, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien himself, I have all of the books his son Christopher has put out concerning his father’s works. And I’ve read them all. That’s a muscle you don’t get to flex much…
4. I never know how to answer those coworkers and NT friends of friends that make some supposedly funny or ribald comment and then ask me, “You know what I mean?” I never know what they mean. I seldom know what to say, but I often know what to write.
5. By choice, I lived out of my 1961 VW Beetle in a tent and sleeping bag from 1981 to 1985. I was a field archaeologist and it was just easier to be a nomad.
6. I don’t miss the high humidity and mosquitoes I remember from the Mid-western summers in Kansas, Missouri or Illinois. I do, however, miss fireflies like crazy.
7. Few things are better on a hot summer’s day than sitting under a shade tree drinking iced tea in a mason jar. Add chilled ripe tomatoes picked off the vine this morning and it goes to 11.
8. I really dislike wearing long pants. With the exception of a stint from 2000-2004, I have been able to wear shorts to work since 1991.
I’ll tag eight other people, uh, soon.
