Continuing the Trend

 A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. I am a selective perfectionist. Some things have to be absolutely right. (Anything that has a technically correct answer) Other things (fashion, pop culture) I place in the random trivia subset and do not bother with.

2. I basically have two modes of diet/exercise balance. The 'excessive' Nick (most recently - last year of college/first year of Charlotte - apologies to those that knew me then - I look back and think: yikes.) is when I eat whatever is good and don't really do much in the way of exercise - he is 215 pounds and generally rounded on the edges. The 'normal' Nick is the other state. It appears that no matter how much I try to watch the diet or exercise I will be about 202 pounds and not flabby, though not exactly toned either. Perhaps when I have time to deal with scheduled exercise there will be a 'fit' state, though even when playing sports my min adult weight was 190-ish.

3. I have come to believe HGTV needs to be content edited for accuracy. Home improvment is not as easy as they make it look. Damn 2.75 inch pipe nipples. (technical term. really) Yes, I watch HGTV. Yes, I am married. To a female.

4. I can never be late to anything, ever. This comes from my dad, who was absolutely never accurate with time. It drove me up the wall.

5. There is no such thing as the easy way. The only way to approach anything is the examine every option and pick the route with the most authenticity of character.

6. There is never a time when I am not thinking/examining something. I may appear distant/cold, but I'm really just figuring something out. Give it a few minutes.

7. I listen to music for atmosphere and flow. An album where I can press play and 74 minutes disappears whie I figure something out is a good album, in my opinion.  

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I should relate an example of numbers 5/6/7 - last night - I went to the Philosopher's Stone for dinner - by myself - because they have good onion rings, and Chimay Blue, and a good mix in the jukebox.  Ordered the beer, then food. Someone put on a string of songs - there was Velvet Underground, something I didn't recognize, and Phish... I had been thinking about how to make life work if a certain situation presents itself (more details later in the week, maybe)... by the time the song changed to something more pop and I snapped out of it, there was food in front of me and the beer was 1/4 gone, and I'm sure I thanked the server, but it was 20 min later with no acknowledgement of the outside world as far as I was concerned. 

Not that I was much closer to the solution, but I need to focus more... that is a rare event now and I miss it sometimes. 

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Also - the track when H binds to O - by Lotus - one of the best tracks, especially live, to come out recently, in my opinion.