I’ve been tagged. I’m supposed to tell you 8 interesting things about me. I’ll do my best….

1. OK, so this one is about my blog. I’m going to put an end to all the speculation and observatory guesses. The top three commenters on my blog (excluding me) are women:
   • Mrs. C (wytammic) with 65 comments*
   • her daughter Tieki Rae coming in at 51 comments*
   • Jennifer rounds out the top three with 35 comments*

   Chris Leavell (a man) is the #4 commenter with 25 comments*. No doubt people are looking at the top three and pondering on some interesting thoughts I’m sure, but I’m not going to speculate about that here.

   *=Counts are as of this publishing

2. I know two people that were recently published in a list in an Ohio newspaper simply because they each have concealed weapons permits. I’m not going to tell you who they are; they’ve already been published.
3. I have met in person 10 of the bloggers/web site owners on my blogroll:
   • A Work in Progress from michaelsbryson.com (former dorm supe)
     
   • Christian Joe (graduated from the same high school)
     
   • doubleshotoflife.com (roomies in college)
     
   • Heart Issues for LDS (met here in Cody last Sept., though his brother-in-law was my counselor at camp one year)
   • Leavell Trails (roomed with one of their sons in college)
     
   • Leavell Wilderness Area (college classmates; roomed with his younger brother)
     
   • Paucis Verbis (high school classmates)
     
   • Run of the Mill-ers (graduated from the same high school)
     
   • EverythingCody.com (met at the Shut out of Yellowstone Forum, though we have known each other on e-mail for some time prior to that)
     
   • Basin Beat Blues (met at the Special Ops Parachute event this lat May, but again, we knew each other electronically for some time)
4. I hung signs around the house when I was eight years old (1988) proclaiming my wish that those who saw them vote for George Bush. I had no idea why I was Republican, other than that’s what Mom was, and I thought she was because her favorite animal was the elephant. Now I know better and am Mom’s ballot adviser.
5. I’m secretly hoping Sen. Clinton (D-NY/AR) will get the nomination from the DNC. OK, it’s not a secret hope anymore. But if she is nominated, it’ll get Dad to the polls because he wants to vote against her.
6. I’ve lived in
   • Colorado
   • Wyoming
   • Arizona
   • Wyoming
   • Arizona
   • California
   • Arizona
   • Wyoming
   • Arizona
   • Wyoming
   • Arizona and
   • Wyoming.

   The Arizona living is because of college (’98-’03); the inter-dispersed Wyoming living sessions are summers, California is a summer staff position at a Christian camp (2000). In fifteen years of Wyoming living (fourteen of which are official residency since it takes a year to be a resident), I have lived in nine locales in Cody.

7. People say I should go into journalism or politics. I can’t say I disagree with either suggestion.
8. The farthest East that I have traveled is western Ohio; the farthest West that I’ve traveled is the Pacific Ocean.

And now I have to tag eight people. I’m going to have quite an interesting list I think, and that’s ’cause I’m an interesting person (at least that’s what I’m told, so I’ll believe it ). In no particular order, other than that which they are listed:

• We’ll start with my #3 commenter, Jennifer (e-mail me and I’ll let you have a guest post here)
• Chris from the Leavell Wilderness Area
• Tieki Rae
• Ruth on Paucis Verbis
• Matthew doubleshotoflife.com
• April Showers
• Neil over at 4 Simpsons
• And we’ll finish with pastor/blogger Greg Linscott @ irrelevant

Told ya’ it was going to be interesting! I’ve paid tribute to my top commenters (sans the top of the top, since she tagged me), equally dispersed between met and not met, men and women.