Me! I mean, Meme! Wait, what? Ahh yes, it’s that time again. I’ve been tagged once more, this time by the most elegant and charming, yet misguided (see below) Lady Jess. If you’re too lazy to click the link to Jess’s article, she said about me: “One of the first bloggers I read and just a really great guy 
” No, really: She said that! I wouldn’t make up stuff like that.
To quote Jess:
“This award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant.”
- When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided [emphasis added by Kestrel] soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real.
- Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.
- List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on!
So now I need to come up with 10 relatively unknown but non-boring things about me that you, in my wildest flights of fancy, might be interested in knowing.
- On June 22, Mrs. Kestrel and I will have been married 35 years.
- My granddaughter (4½) thinks I’m “silly all the way to Pluto and back!” (Until this month, it was “all the way to outer space and back” but she’s been learning about the solar system in preschool, so has determined I’m even sillier than previously believed.)
- I build my own desktop computers; I love Vista; I also love my MacBook Pro. I strongly prefer Intel to non-Intel, and nVidia over ATI.
- If I had my choice of where to live in the US (cost of buying a home not being considered), I’d probably pick San Luis Obispo, CA. Kailua, HI would be a close second. (Unfortunately for me, Mrs. Kestrel is perfectly happy in Rapid City, because…)
- …because our three sons are in St. Louis, Rapid City, and Brooklyn, NY, respectively.
- I am a gadget freak. I have (and use) both an iPod Touch and an iPod Nano. I wish I had an iPhone. Or a Blackberry. My wife, however, is not. This leads to conversations such as the following: Wife: “Why do you need THAT?” Me: “It’s not about need.”
- Twenty years in the Air Force conditioned me to hate the ringing of the telephone (landline). On my cell phone, however, I know it’s either family or friends, so I welcome the (few) calls I get.
- To keep this WoW-related, I really prefer pewpewing with my hunter to healing with my priest. There, I said it!
- I’m not afraid of the dark, or spiders. I don’t like spiders, but I don’t fear them.
- My favorite color is deep sky blue.
Now comes the fun part: I get to present an award to seven fellow bloggers (that is a LOT of people!) to respond in kind. So in no particular order, my awards for blog(ger)s whose content or design pleases me greatly go to:
- My favorite undead rogue, whose taste in beer is sorely lacking (maybe it has to do with being undead), Arrens Caltrains.
- Everyone’s favorite bubbly healer, Ambrosyne of For The Bubbles.
- Cadistra, the Canadian Tauren, and hilarious cartoonist, eh. (Well, her cartoons are hilarious, which leads me to believe she is at least amusing.)
- Dueg the Holy. Priest, that is.
- Kadomi, who tanks like a girl. She’s German, so think Panzer.
- Jezriyah, troll MM hunter, because one does not want to meet a troll MM hunter when enraged. Far be it for me to omit someone like this!
- Bellbell of 4Haelz fame, because she’s just.that.cool.
