Jeff Pulver requested that I participate in his blog-tag game party. Not only did he do this in his blog, but today he emailed from an El Al flight to Israel (using the soon to be discontinued WiFi service Connexion) about the "party" and life in general.

So here are the five things that most people would not know about me:

1. I pitched a no-hitter and a perfect game in high school (for those overseas I refer to the game of baseball).

2. I was on my college baseball team, but I was basically a practice pitcher as the next level of the game was shockingly better than what I had found in high school.

3. I served in both the Army Reserve and the Air National Guard - a real oddity to have been in two branches of the Armed Forces.

4. I have two dachshunds -- an 18 year-old named Winston and a 6 year-old named Emerson.

5. I proposed to my wife (of 37 years) after three dates over a two-week period.

Jeff asked that I get 5 other bloggers to participate -- hey Jeff - I am the only blogger who knows few if any bloggers!