I guess this is a status symbol: getting an e-mail saying “you’ve been blog-tagged” and instructing you to write five things nobody knows about you, and to blog-tag five more people. Like a chain letter without the threats of seven years’ bad luck for those who break the chain. Given that I’ve been blogging for 10 years, I can’t imagine I have many things that haven’t been written about somewhere or another — at least none I’d want known by my mom, who has been known to travel these parts in moments of weakness.

I got one last week from Winehiker Russ, who got one from Trout Underground. Yesterday I got one from Ken Spry, keeper of the Scouts Campfire blog. His five included Walt Underwood, Scoutmaster of Troop 14 in Palo Alto. Nice to have another potential local reader.

I think now that we’ve had our fun we can return to our regularly scheduled blogging tasks.