5 Things

1. I own a copy of the Warren Report. This is the official report on the Kennedy Assassination. I have read literally dozens of books on the topic and this is only a section of a large conspiracy theory library I own.

2. I didn't "really" start to read until I was seven. I was still very slow at sounding things out, very resistant and reluctant to read. Now I read four to five usually non-fiction books a month and have amassed a library that could service a small town. I got my undergrad degree in US History and am currently getting my Masters in Library Science.

3. I grew up in a conservative (and by conservative I mean in between orthodox and reform) Jewish family, who founded the local temple. I went to services every friday night, many saturdays, and sunday school every week. I studied hebrew for 7 years, culminating and an all hebrew bar mitzvah. I now celebrate a secular christmas and easter with my non-jewish wife and jewish son.

4. Red is my favorite color, which is partially explanitory of my beautiful red-headed wife, with whom I spend my christmasses with. My wife and I have been together for over sixteen years, eight of them married. For the first seven years our biggest annual knock-down fight was over christmas and my various efforts to resist assimilation and wreak sabotage.

5. I have a remarkably high tolerance for caffine. My typical workday consists of a quadrupal shot of expresso in the morning, a pot of coffee through the day, two cans of coke and an 18 ounce Rockstar energy drink. I started drinking coffee when I was three, sitting in my dad's lap. I didn't understand caffine jitters until I felt a slight tremor into my fifth pot of coffee one night in college.