Leaplings Have Birthdays Too!!

So apparently everyone writes a blog post on their birthday.  And despite the fact that I (Patrick) don’t have a birthday this year, which Kelsey keeps reminding me of, I thought it might be fun to write one.  I chose this topic because I probably see the readership of this blog fairly frequently, but you probably do not know much about me except what is directly related to Kelsey and the little person.  

I apologize in advance for the drop in quality but most of the things I write these days are of a technical nature.  A note about technical writing: not long after I started working someone mentioned that most of the things we write no one wants to read in light of this what we write should be as short as possible.  

Without further delay, three things you might not know about the guy who accompanies Kelsey and the little person on occasion:

1.       I like to read books, a lot.  I occasionally wander off, but mostly I stick to fantasy.  I have really enjoyed Glen Cook’s Black Company Books of the North, Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy, and even the occasional book about an Egyptian sorcerer, an evil clown, and time travel.  Oddly enough I have never read any of the J. R. R. Tolkien books.  This seems like something I might have to fix.

2.       I enjoy college football.  Every year at the start of college football I root for eight teams to go undefeated and for chaos to reign.  But for the most part that does not happen.  I know it is not shocking that someone would like college football, but I tend to be more interested in the administrative side than how my favorite team does.  Topics like should players be paid, how should a national champion be chosen, the difference between how universities treat coaches and players those are the things that interest me.  This could be because I am rather unathletic and never played football at any sort of competitive level, but that is the sort of fan I am.

3.        I guess we can stick with sports.  My favorite sport to play is tennis.  Don’t get me wrong I am bad at it.  I mostly concentrate on trying to hit the ball over the net and in play, as opposed to trying to score points.  But it has two things working in its favor.  First, it is not a team sport.  I realize that team sports teach us a lot of important life lessons blah, blah, blah.  But I don’t like team sports.  I don’t like having other people depend on how I do, and I don’t like it when I can’t control the outcome.  Second, it is fast paced.  You do not spend ten minutes waiting for the ball to come your way or three innings waiting for your turn to bat (here’s looking at you baseball).  I probably have not played in a year or two but it is near the top of my list of things I should do more. 

Well that concludes my birthday blog post.  If you can think of an interesting topic that I should write on for next year please let me know.  That is, if Kelsey let's me write another post...