Jay must have been desperate for five people for me to make his list.  As Eric says, this meme must be about burned out :)

1. I didn't graduate high school.  What would have been my junior year in high school was supposed to have been my freshman year at Simon's Rock College of Bard.  Instead, I started taking classes at a local vocational-technical school and later got special permission to take the G.E.D. early.
2. As a teenager I played a screaming electric guitar, had hair halfway down my back, and had dreams of being a jukebox hero.  Nowadays I pick fingerstyle acoustic for fun, play bass for the student ministry band at my church, have hair that is short and vigorously turning shades of gray, and my dream is that I will be a hero to my wonderful wife and five boys.
3. My first Visual Basic application (1995?) was taking data collected from an automated (robotic) fabric testing system, loading the data into an Access 2.0 database, and then plotting the data using Excel 5.0 VBA.  The last I heard, it was still in use.
4. Several years ago, Johnny Cash stood in line behind me at a Kroger's grocery store.
5. I was born at home in a bathtub.

Now I need to tag five more people...

• Josh Evitt
• Joe Audette
• Erik Lane
• Bob Yexley
• Aaron Conrad