So I've seen quite a few of my friends and family doing this "Random 20 Facts" thing on Facebook or on their blogs...so I thought that I would follow suit and put up my own 20 random facts about myself list...(this is Dave by the way)

1. I used to have a giant mole/birthmark thingy on my face until I was 13 years old
2. I’ve worn glasses since I was in kindergarten
3. I served a mission in the Canary Islands (owned by Spain, just off the coast of Morocco)
4. My brother Jim was the first person to convince me to read the scriptures
5. John convinced me to read novels (Thanks John!)
6. I first grew my goatee when I was 15 years old
7. In high school I played football, wrestled, threw shot and discus, and ran in a couple of 4X100 relays.
8. I was engaged after being home from my mission only 3 ½ months.
9. I was divorced after being married for 2 ½ years
10. My brother and I used to fight each other with various “weapons” (croquet mallets, sticks, steel bars, etc.)
11. I can play (to one degree or another) the guitar, piano, ukulele, saxophone, clarinet, and timple (look it up, it’s a real instrument).
12. I have been to the “Fire Swamp” and the “Cliffs of Insanity” from The Princess Bride.
13. I went to school at BYU Hawaii for a semester after my mission.
14. When I was a kid, I was rushed to the hospital, bleeding from my ear, because my sister Liz pushed my head into a rocking chair.
    
15. I have broken my femur, tibia, fibula, 2 vertebrae, several fingers and my big toe (John should remember the toe. I actually severed my big toe and had to have it sewed back together)
16. In 2007 I lost 70 lbs in 3 ½ months. Dropping my body fat down from 26% to 7%
17. In late 2008 I gained 30 of those lbs back.
18. I’m in the process of learning several programming languages (MXML, Actionscript 3.0, and Ruby)
19. My favorite food is Sushi
20. In high school I bench pressed 405 lbs. I weighed 192 lbs at the time.