and, speaking of the criminally insane

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That brigand hannibaltaburss tagged me for that damn "six weird/strange habits about yourself" meme, then compounded his insult by challenging my manhood.  FIE ON YOU, SIRRAH.

1. I used to chew my nails.  Now i compulsively trim my nails so i don't chew on them.  It mostly works.
   
   
2. I compulsively trim my facial hair (see a trend?).  When i see a man with a moustache that curls over his lip, i have to restrain myself from whipping out my Victorinox and trimming it.
   
   
3. When i get into bed, i twist my lower body to my left to pop my lower back.
   
   
4. I crack my hand joints in a particular order: first i wiggle the finger to pop the lower interphalangeal joint, right pinky to thumb, left thumb to pinky.  Then i take off my wedding ring, lace my fingers, and squeeze tight.  Then i open my hands and flex my fingers.  Then i put my right fist in my left palm and crack the knuckles, then vice versa.  Then i crack my wrists, right, left.  Then i tighten both hands into a leopard fist.  Then, i twist my right hand outward, then inward; then the left.  Then i stretch my left hand upwards, then downwards; then the right.  After all that, i put my ring back on.
   
   
5. I will obsess over reorganizing our wine rack.  The Rhône varietals go together, see, and we have a zin-mourvèdre blend, so that and the other zins go in the next column, and that includes the primitivo, and since that's Italian, the sangiovese goes next to that, and, god, i have about a column and a half of cabernet sauvignon, what am i going to put in the other half?  Other Bourdeaux grapes, i suppose, but what am i to do with this merlot-carignan blend?  At least the whites have their own smaller, separate rack...
   
   Hmm, i'm stuck.  I'll have to ask Kim for help.
   
   
6. "Picking your butt zits."  Ugh.  It's true.
    

And there you have it.  Now get offa my lawn!