But is it my favorite song of the day? Maybe.

Today I met Kenny. Kenny scares me. He scares me more than any other person I've ever met.

I was on my way to obtain some good / bad part count tags on some GE / AB processors when we were introduced. Kenny moved kinda slow... turtle like (his words, not mine). I'm not quite sure how tall he is... maybe seven feet? He weighs about four hundred pounds... and he's something like a level 13 grandmaster of martial arts. Hmmm, I'm not sure how old he is... maybe 50? He's also quite... round.

I like to do this thing when I see people where I run them through a series of mental evaluations. One of the tests is their capacity for physical destruction. I've never ranked anyone higher than Kenny (well actually, Michael Corvin is pretty high up there... but I haven't come to a solid conclusion about his existence).

Kenny likes telling stories. I think he likes fighting too. One time a pickup truck hit him so he beat it up. I backed up as he told the story with live reenactments. He smashed in the hood with his elbow and kicked off a rear view mirror. He had a good ending too, "The guy just waited quietly in the truck for the police to arrive. A lot changes in 20 years. I used to be... less stable."

I guess he can do the splits and kick some eight feet high. It was really hard to imagine Kenny doing the splits. I came really close to asking for a demonstration in that clean room at ICU Medical. I chickened out and, in the end, contented myself to watching his demonstrations of beating down tongans, ultimate fighters, world grandmasters, etc... He spends his evenings giving private lessons to local fighters (which sounded more like people paying him a couple hundred dollars to come to their house and beat them up for a few minutes).

just tell me that given my exposure, I am justified in my trust

I think I'm sharing this because I'm hoping for some sort of confirmation that it's ok to believe Kenny. It just seems so odd to me, that these things could actually be true. I swear I'm not a gullible person; I know how to do that rational thing. But I really believe him.