First off, go buy JD's book. I pre-ordered a copy and am looking forward to reading it. Support your local noder!


I was going through some old military and contract engineering paperwork and read a few paragraphs from one of my military clearances. Apparently, they had actually found my old kindergarten teacher and she remembered me decades later. I was "always getting into trouble, but was always making (the teacher) and the assistant laugh all the time, so it balanced out. I was creative and smart but did have issues reading people, especially adults." That makes sense since I'm an Aspie, although the term didn't exist until a few years later.

I remember playing Red Light, Green Light and she was the one acting as the stoplight. Everyone was trying to sneak up on her fast, so they always got caught and had to sit down. I just stood still and never moved. Eventually everyone else had to sit down and I was the last one left. I guess it was like being on The Price is Right gameshow and bidding one dollar because everyone else was way too high. She remembered that incident.

Weird how time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.