Your top esoteric achievements.

I went bowling tonight and cracked 200 for the first time. 219!

 

Like he even knows what that means.

 

He and Trey should hang out.

 

Cold

 

-- I have solved the Sunday NYT crossword puzzle 16 times.

-- Two phrases I invented have been made into t-shirt slogans by local high schools.

-- My best friend, a pastor, used my first name as his first-born son's middle name. Another best friend, an athiest, used my first name as his first-born son's first name.

-- In high school, I had a base hit against a now-former MLB pitcher, clipped a former NFL player (it wasn't called; we scored a touchdown on the play, an option keeper), and played free safety while a former MLB player set his school's record for passing yards in a football game against us. (Infamous esoterica).

-- I once bought and smoked illegal narcotics (not proud of this, was during a horrible time of drug addiction in my life) on a street corner in a major U.S. city, and eight years later, crossed the finish line of my first marathon adjacent to the same corner (obviously drug, alcohol and tobacco-free, at that point).

 

Being able to spell "esoteric" correctly.

 

If only you could have gotten the girl's mother to join in, you could have checked off about five different milestones in one shot.

 

I know nobody likes Boom and maybe I'm a tad delirious but, Christ, that made me laugh.

 

I took a zipper of a line drive to the meat of my left tricep tonight. Did. Not. Cry. Yo.

 

Cut and paste is a beautiful thing, boom.

 

As is Firefox auto spell check.