Somehow I missed this, but way back in November, I was tagged by John Cole for one of those "six interesting things" things. His link to me has been in the list of incoming links that WordPress gives me for three months, but I never looked at it, because I assumed it was attached to one the many comments I've left at BJ.

Oh well...

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Six random things about me:

1. The first concert I went to on my own was Judas Priest and Fastway. I was probably 13 or 14, and the ticket was $12. The first concert I remember being taken to was a bluegrass festival in Lenox MA. Doc Watson played. I was probably still in diapers.
2. I made my first Bolognese sauce, last night. I used a recipe that came in a box of pappardelle. The recipe starts out by having you saute onions celery and carrot in one pan, and browning the ground veal in another pan. But, it never tells you to combine the two. So, I improvised. It still turned out pretty good, and was exceptionally filling. Next time, maybe I'll add a little cream or milk, and maybe some ground pork, too. This was much better than the insipid chicken cacciatore I made last week.
3. I first met my wife on-line, at college. This was back in the day before the WWW, though. We met in the poetry forum on something called Notes, on VAX/VMS. It was a little like a web forum, but text-based, and all users were local to the college.
4. I once met Billy Joel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in NYC. My father and I had gone down to NYC, on a day trip, just to bum around, see some sights, etc.. It was a weekday morning, and the Met was empty. We were in a big room with a small Egyptian temple, when we spotted him. He was pushing his daughter in a stroller, accompanied by what I assume was a body guard, and we were the only two other people in the room. We stood there in awe - this was in the mid-80s, when he was still huge, and being from a small upstate town, we didn't get to see any actual celebrities. He noticed we were gawking at him, and walked over to us to say Hi. We didn't get an autograph because none of us had a pen, but he did compliment me on my hat.
5. My father's mother's maiden name is "Borden" and I am told this is "Borden" as in "Lizzie Borden". I haven't been able to verify this, though.
6. When I was four or five, I went on a trip to Nova Scotia with my grandparents. As soon as we got off the ferry, a bee stung me in the ear.
   

Whew. Six was tough. But at least it wasn't 25 random things.

And I'm supposed to tag six other bloggers? Man, I don't know six other bloggers.