Ido Samuelson's blog

Five things you didn't know about me

WOW! I am behind schecule...Ohad Israeli tagged me almost two month ago.  HOWEVER, I have a very good reason for not joining this blog-tag game.

In January my family and I came to the US. We are currently visiting my family in Reston, VA and having a GREAT TIME!

Since I love quotes here is one: "A picture is worth a thousand words."  So here are 2000 words :-)

Daniel (now 19 months old) trying to figure out if he likes snow.

Me, intreduced to snow and snow shoveling. I promised myself to get a snowblower.

To the Israelis who read my blog, the temprature was 15 degrees Fahrenheit which translate to closely -10 Celsius.

So here are the 5 things you don't know about me.

1. When I was 7 I was diagnosed with severe asthma and allergies. I grew up with medications, shots and weekly hospital visits.
   When I was 10 I decided I had had enough (it got to a point where I was on steroids) and started practicing sports.
   I worked hard on cardio. By the age of 13 I joined the local cycling team and within 2 years I was part of the 
   Israel Cycling national team. Oh, asthma and allergies were gone during this period.
   
2. I practiced Aikido for 9 years and have a sho-dan (black belt). Since my Master left the Union it is not official :)
   
3. I started enjoying computers when I was 6 with an Atari 800XL.  My first lines of code were on that computer using basic
   and our house TV. I used to love scripting; I remember having an AUTOEXEC.BAT over 8KB size and having it display a progress
   bar and some other textual effects of what is currently being loaded when I booted my 286. 4Dos was one of my favorite
   tools then. A few years afterwards I began to use what is now known as the internet.  I was addicated to IRC and used to write
   different scripts to the very populer IRC client mIRC.
   
4. I am autodidactic which means that when I finally decide to sign up for a course, I find myself already studying the subject before the course even starts.
   
5. My wife and I love to eat good food. And when I say good food I mean
   fancy and expensive resturants. We go on a monthly date to one
   of the chef resturants in Israel and it is excellent every time we go.

People am going to Tag are: Addy Santo, Tamir Khason, Zvika Peer, Jeff Pulvar