Five Things . . .

A game of "tag" has been going on within the Blogosphere where the tagged person lists five things about themselves that are not generally known and then tags five more people to do the same.  As you are no doubt suspecting, I've been tagged this past Friday by Kent Blumberg.  It's rather interesting to follow some of the links -- whose blog does the blogger you like, like.  A kind of six degrees of separation thing.  So here are my five:

1. I've been to the mountaintop.  I've gone mountain climbing and bagged a Colorado "14er".  Made it Ma!  Top of the World!  I climbed it as George Mallory said "Because it is there."
2. I've hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon a few times as Gary Larson of Far Side captioned one of his cartoons "Because it isn't there".
3. I like classical music, Impressionist art and the Three Stooges.  Go figure.
4. I've willingly jumped out of a perfectly good aircraft.
5. I love old black and white movies (hence the White Heat reference in #1)

With that I now tag 5 other bloggers:

1. Jeffrey Phillips at Thinking Faster
2. Susan Strayer at Kaleidoblog
3. Scott Burkett at Pothole on the Infobahn
4. Will Weider at The Candid CIO
5. Grigor Ćorić at behind the glasses