Okay, I'm flattered to have been tagged by Stephen, so here goes. The deal is to list five things that other people don't know about me, then to tag 5 other people to do the same.

1. The two houses that I grew up in no longer exist. The first house was literally blown away by a tornado in 2003. The second, in which I lived from age 10 to high school graduation, was rendered structurally unsound by the same storm and had to be torn down.
2. I saw Anna Kournikova play in her first US Open at the age of 15. I was sitting too high in the stands for that number to have had any felonious associations for me.
3. I have discharged firearms in anger. I used to hunt and kill groundhogs. I also used to hunt deer, although I never actually shot at one.
4. When I was around twelve years old, my family's dairy farm was featured in some agricultural periodical, maybe Pennsylvania Farmer or Lancaster Farming. The reporter asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I gave him the answer he wanted to hear. Not too much later, I decided that I wanted to be an astrophysicist instead.¹
5. Many people know this already, but just to be sure that the news is out: we are in the process of adopting our second child from China. Our new son, whom we will call Christopher, is two. We hope that he will be with us by late Spring 2007.

Oh, 5 people is too many... Let's just tag Derek, Ted, and Jane. Anyone else who wants to jump on the bandwagon, feel free.