Have you ever noticed how often your friends lead/wheedle/cajole/beg/push/drag-you-kicking-and-screaming into trying new things? Especially things that aren’t your thing! Scott Allen, whom I dearly love, over at Linked Intelligence is such a friend. Scott did all of the above and finally got me to start blogging, join the LinkedInBloggers yahoo egroup, recommended me to b5, taught me great ways to use LinkedIn (now I just have to DO it) and now tagged me for the current game of meme. That means I have to come up with seven random things about me that you probably don’t know, would find interesting and that I’m willing to share. The first two are easy; it’s the third that keeps sticking. OK <deep breath> here goes nothing…

1. I’m a Luddite wannabe. This is pretty hilarious considering that I run my company online and I’m content webmaster for both VC Taskforce and my own company.
2. I’ve never visited Facebook, MySpace (other than to register my email address after I read that they were being hijacked to use there) or Twitter and my infrequent YouTube visits are the result of links sent by my friends. I’m so far out of pop culture that I might well be from another planet.
3. I love to talk on the phone. Feel free to call me and say hi (866.265.7267), just please remember that I’m on Pacific time—5 am calls do not float my boat!
4. My first name is deeply buried; my middle name is Michael, hence Miki. In elementary school, when it was still spelled Mickey, they always assigned me to boys’ gym class, but I was too young to appreciate it. I changed the spelling with the rise of the Mickey Mouse Club (I really do hate that song).
5. For some unremembered reason I studied cosmetology, but after getting licensed realized that I couldn’t stand working with women all day (I’m older than you think and had nothing in common with the general run of beauty shop patrons back then—for which I’m eternally grateful), so I worked instead for a funeral home making dead people presentable for viewing. Believe it or not, the great State of Colorado required a full cosmetology license to do this.
6. I sold dune buggy kits, built, and occasionally raced, my own buggy, and even helped in the manufacture. We used layered sheets of fiberglass that were hand rolled to avoid air pockets and ended up a quarter of an inch thick, unlike the Corvettes of that era where the glass was chopped and blown into one side of a mold and then the sides were squished together. I loved demonstrating ours to skeptical buyers. I’d take a hammer and pound as hard as possible on the metal flake finish, and then let them do it. Try that on a Vette sometime.
7. When I lived in California I had eight aquariums ranging in size from 100 gallons to a custom-built 20 gallon room divider tank that was only six inches deep. I inherited my first aquarium from my nieces. What I didn’t know at the time was that they’re similar to rabbits—they multiply if you’re not careful. When I moved I donated it all to Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco.

Of course, the best part of playing tag is when you get to do the tagging. OK, guys, you’re it!

Buddies at b5

• Darlene @ Interview Chatter
• Geoff @ Knuckle Curve
• Celine @ Pimp Your Work
• Liz @ Successful Blog
• Brian @ Copy Blogger

And two very cool outsiders

• Raven @ Raven’s Brain
• Wendy @ eMoms as Home

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