The Honest Scrap Award

Watch out! It’s a meme!

Grandpa Steve at Grandpa John’s has nominated this blog for an Honest Scrap Award.

Actually, “nominated” might not be the right word. I think it’s kind of automatic: if you’re named, you got it. Which means getting the Honest Scrap Award isn’t actually that big a deal.

But hey: here at The Trog, we’re so starved for recognition that even this is a welcome occasion.

Brief historical note: I followed the links back from Grandpa Steve’s to try and find out why it’s the Honest Scrap Award. Couldn’t do it. So if anybody knows, my email is in the sidebar, under the picture.

The Honest Scrap Award comes with three requirements: first, thank the person who gave it to you, and link. Thanks Steve! See you at Jerry and Cheryl’s Saturday?

Second: name seven others who deserve an Honest Scrap Award. Hopefully these folks haven’t gotten one already:

Obi’s Sister.
Steve Eggleston.
Pat Austin.
The guys at Letters in Bottles.
Mike at Cold Fury, if it doesn’t piss him off too much.
Bill Teach.
And Jimmie Bise.

I shall email them all, to make sure they’re aware.

Third: write ten honest things about yourself. This is harder than it looks, but here goes:

1. I’m looking at a lizard right this second. A leopard gecko. Named Nemo. There’s another one named Monster in the next tank over, but he’s sleeping.

2. I spent a few hours this weekend making sure my two younger kids hadn’t mixed up the pieces of any of my Star Wars Lego sets. Yes, my Star Wars Lego sets.

3. I’m gonna turn 40 soon. I’m looking forward to having an excuse for a midlife crisis, although since I already own (and worry about) several Star Wars Lego sets, you might conclude that I’ve been having one already. For the past 20 years.

4. This is the fifth blog I’ve been a part of, but my first full solo blog.

5. I’d like to be a novelist.

6. Like Dan Collins, any one of my four kids might be my favorite at any given moment, but my daughter is most likely to have “favorite” status, if only because I think I’ve got a better chance of scoring a really nice old folks’ home if she’s doing the picking.

7. I read the Bible in the bathroom.

8. My daughter just got her driver’s license. It’s actually kinda cool.

9. I’m addicted to coffee, but if the only coffee available is bad coffee, I’ll prefer to go without.

10. Every now and then – like yesterday – I spend a day or more away from the computer, just to prove I can.

Boy, that was a lot of honesty. I think I need a nap.