Challenge: Three Fun Facts

(This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. You can find links to other writers' answers over at Long and Short Reviews.)

Prompt: Three Fun Facts About Myself.

Well, for starters, I've never broken a bone -- and this despite a brilliantly misspent youth that involved a lot of climbing. I do kind of feel like it's tempting fate to say so at my age, though: the gods might take it as a challenge. Still, for as long as it's lasts I'm happy to have it. 

Second, well... I talk to electronics: computers, credit card consoles, street lights, my car... I feel like they generally respond well to encouragement. And even if that's not really true, it passes the time while I'm waiting to see if {the update is going to succeed/the charge is going to go through/the light is going to turn green/I'm going to make it to gas station before I hit Empty}...

And finally, I have a tendency to collect things. Some are things I use, while others are more... whimsical. Romantic. Frivolous. Some examples: 

• Swords. I used to justify them by the fact that I was studying martial arts and writing Fantasy stories, but the first one isn't really true anymore and the second one more aspirational than regularly practiced. 
• Ceramic mugs. These, on the other hand, are both enjoyable and practical. I served Beautiful Wife a cup of tea in a mug shaped like an octopus this morning, and it did a fine job of simultaneously holding the tea and charming my wife.
• Dungeons & Dragons figurines: we use these when playing the game, of course, but also I just enjoy looking at them. Fires the imagination...
• Books. Duh. 
• Tarot decks. This was actually inspired by the current Dark Fantasy writing project, and I do sometimes use them for inspiration when I'm stuck in my writing, but like the D&D figures there's just an element of "I like to sort through an interesting deck and let the images tickle my brain."

There is a point at which collections start to exceed available space, which is why the Imaginext toys were occupying my desk at work. That one also started out as a project back around 2016-2017, but even trying to do it as simply as possible it was just too much to keep up with. And we did get rid of a lot of it, I just haven't managed to bring myself to get rid of the rest... even after the office caught fire and I had to move them back home in a box.

::sigh:: 

Anyway, very much looking forward to reading everyone else's fun facts about themselves. And if you aren't taking part in the challenge, feel free to drop your own answer in the comments. Or just wave and say Hi. Whatever tickles your fancy, really.