The filthy blog tag pox

Reader Ayrdale has struck me with the Filthy Tag Pox, in which I'm supposed to post eight random things about myself, so here goes...

• I sometimes brew my own beer.
• One of the strangest duties I ever had in the Air Force was to fire rockets at fighter planes in flight...our own planes.
• I've visited 22 countries outside the US.
• I've been to Las Vegas at least six times over the last eight years, yet gambling is one of the few vices I don't have.
• You know that old-fashioned teletype punched paper tape? There was a time I could read the holes in it.
• I've been in IT long enough to have programmed in both COBOL and FORTRAN.
• I saw Aerosmith in concert...in 1974.
• I once traded seats on a plane with Henry Winkler.

Now it's my turn to pass the pox to Mark at Dangling Invective, Chuck at Front Porch Anarchist and Dave C. at At The Point Of A Gun.