'Roundhouse Midnight

Yesterday morning, I arrive to work, noticing I have a text from former colleague Shay:

"Chuck Norris made Journey stop believing."

Recognizing the genre, I picked up the gauntlet, responding throughout the day [in between, uh,  important work], with the following, mostly song references:

• CN can check out from AND leave the Hotel California.  Anytime.
• CN messes with Slim AND Leroy Brown.  At the same time.
• CN CAN get satisfaction.  Always.
• CN passed The Point of Know Return, and returned. Twice.
• CN illuminated the Dark Side of the Moon.
• CN swam away from The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.  Wearing hip waders.
• CN completed the Boston Marathon AND the Gumball Rally in seven minutes.  Concurrently. On a unicycle.  Backwards.

In return, Shay responded with several additional entries:

• CN sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
• CN once urinated in the fuel tank of a semi truck as a joke.  Today that truck is known as Optimus Prime.   (I had to look up that reference.)
• CN doesn't have to flush toilets.  He scares the ____ out of them.
• All in all, CN is NOT just another brick in the wall.  (Wonder where he got THAT one?)
• The opening scene of Private Ryan was loosely based on a dodgeball game CN played in 3rd grade.
• CN lost his virginity before his father did.
• "The Most Interesting Man in the World" only has that title because CN was through using it.
• CN's tears cure cancer.  Too bad he's never cried.

Speaking of important work, I had to go to the courthouse yesterday - the one that, until my oldest son was about six years old, we referred to as "Walker's Courthouse" (since it was supposedly where Walker had his office).  Yeah, I had to run about 100 yards back to my colleague's car when I realized I had my penknife with me - one I've carried since about 1996.  No way I'm giving that up.  The security guy said he'd have done the same.