I've been tagged!

Walter Smetsers over at Dutch Business Intelligence Blog tagged me as part of a kind of round-robin posting designed to stimulate traffic and provide insights into the Bloggers who have been tagged.

Here are the rules:

• Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
• Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

Here are the eight things about me:

1. For the first six years of my life, we had no indoor toilet facilities in our house. Instead we had an outhouse in the backyard.
2. For seven years, I commuted three hours each way to get to and from work. That’s six hours of travel each day if the train ran on time, which it often did not!
3. For eight years, I was an independent computer consultant and wrote applications for a wide variety of customers using several programming languages and tools.
4. In 1991, inspired by the work of ????????Grady Booch, I wrote a paper entitled Introduction to Object Oriented Theory and Concepts.
5. I have another Blog entitled A Layman’s Thoughts.
6. I became a grandfather at the age of 44 and now have three wonderful grandchildren, the oldest of whom is five.
7. I plow snow from my driveway with a little Farmall-Cub farm tractor that was built around 1947.
8. In July, I will have been very happily married to the most wonderful woman in the world for 30 years.

Now I have to tag eight other Bloggers. I tag:

1. Mrs. Meg Logan at Meg Logan’s Blog
2. Steve Mann at AbleBrains
3. Bill McCann at What Did We Learn Today?
4. Brian White at Background Exposure
5. Arthur Eiss at Art vs. God
6. Mickey Grackin at OIC Productions

Well, that’s all I can come up with, so I guess I’ve broken the rules!