I sometimes participate in memes voluntarily.  Here's one that I've already done variations on from Hell in a Handbasket. I'll see if I can think of some new ones.

As James said, thank goodness these are only eight random facts, not interesting or admirable.

1.  I've never seen an ocean.  The closest I ever got was the San Francisco Bay.  (The Gulf of Mexico doesn't count).

2.  I used to play solitaire a lot.  So much that I was given a book of solitaire games for Christmas one year.  I used a lap table that my great-grandfather built for himself to play solitaire on.  And of course I used real cards, not the computer games.

3.  My sisters refuse to play Trivial Pursuit with me.  Anymore.

4.  I once had a close encounter with an alligator.  Since I'm still here typing this, you may assume that I won.

5.  I've never been involved in a serious car wreck.

6.  Although you couldn't tell by my last name, part of my ancestry is Scottish.  And I love the sound of a bagpipe.

7.  I was once prodded into performing a completely spontaneous stand-up comedy routine at a summer camp talent show, which apparently everyone thought was pretty good.  I think the audience wasn't very demanding.

8.  The first woman I ever dated, I married.