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I've been tagged!

Peter Kim at Forrester jumped on the "five things you don't know about me" meme; he tagged his new Forrester colleague David Frankland who tagged me. I generally keep this blog focused on business issues. But what the heck. In the holiday spirit, here are five things you don't know about me...

  1. I play the Scottish bagpipes. I started in college, played competitively for many years, achieving Grade 2 status in the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (yes, there is such a thing).
  2. I was a geology major at William College. How did it get from there into the advertising/marketing world? Buy me a drink sometime and I'll give you the whole long, convoluted story!
  3. I sing in my church choir. I'm more of a bass, though I'm trying to stretch my range into baritone. Our organist/choirmaster is amazing -- I have an OK voice but I've never had any prior voice training. In the past few years I've learned a lot and he has had us sing some amazing pieces.
  4. I'm a alternative energy nut: I drive a Toyota Prius, (which I bought in 2002, long before the recent run-up in gas prices) and put solar photovoltaic panels on my roof a year ago. Next, I'll probably put a solar hot water system on the roof, especially if I can track down the Swedish system I read about recently that uses hot water for air conditioning.
  5. At_the_end_of_a_hard_day5. I'm a dog nut. But I've had a really tough year. Two of my beloved girls went to doggie heaven this year: Sadie, age 16, last February and Gina (at left) age 13 this past Monday (I'm in deep mourning this week). We're down to one dog right now, but we'll add to the pack soon! (see the whole pack at petcentric -- Sadie is the little Sheltie mix next to Gina in the background; DeeDee the black lab in the foreground is now the lone dog in the household).

I would have tagged Pete Blackshaw, but someone got to him first! So my tags go to Jackie Huba at the Church of the Customer, Bob Liodice at the Association of National Advertisers, and Todd Defren at Shift Communications.

Posted by Jim Nail on December 21, 2006 at 06:02 PM | Email this post Permalink

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Hmmm...felt like I had your number...the bag pipes and the hybrid energy evangelism...but now the "dog" part. This is "new data."

Posted by: Pete Blackshaw | Dec 22, 2006 9:22:35 PM

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