Friday, January 30, 2009

Potpourri

1. What time did you get up this morning? 6:30 a.m.
2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds. I don't look straight in pearls.
3. Last movie you saw? True Stories. Not recommended.
4. What is your favourite T.V. show? Current shows I try to avoid missing: House, Law&Order:SVU, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Knight Rider
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Mountain Dew
6. What is your middle name? Starts with A. I was named for a (literal) bastard forced to leave his native country at gun point by his legal father.
7. What food do you hate? Bananas and beets
8. What is your favourite CD at the moment? Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
9. What kind of car do you drive? A Chrysler Pacifica. It's a shame they went commie again. I won't own another.
10. Favourite sandwich? Most of them, but none with horseradish.
11. What characteristics do you despise? Dishonesty and manipulation
12. Favourite item of clothing? My "I make dead people" shirt that's no longer available. It's a Halloween thing, not a gun thing.
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation? Europe, not terribly picky about where. I want to see it all. After that, I would love to own a timeshare on St. Thomas. I love it there.
14. Favourite brand of clothing? Uhh, guy and straight.
15. Where would you retire to? St. Thomas
16. Favourite birthday? Do any of them matter after 21? Even 21 wasn't special. I was a suburbanite dad working in a corporate office by then.
17. Favourite sport to watch? Professional wrestling. I hate spectator sports.
18. Furthest place you are sending this? Where is google's server farm?
19. Person you expect to send it back first? No one
20. Are you a morning or night person? Night. Switching from the graveyard shift was one of the hardest things I've done.
21. What is your shoe size? 13
22. Pets? 4 cats, 1 dog, 3 kids
23. What did you want to be when you were little? Everything. A scientist, a soldier, a detective. Whatever was in the last book I read. Until I discovered computer programming, at 8.
24. How are you today? Software developer
25. What is your favourite candy? Something sugary. It's just candy.
26. What is your favourite flower? Geez. Do guys really like flowers? How about the tenacious rose bush I can't kill, no matter how hard I try?
27. What are you looking forward to? The weekend.
28. What are you listening to right now? My office-mate's angry typing.
29. What was the last thing you ate? M&Ms
30. Do you wish on stars?Yes, but Angelina Jolie has yet to grant me any wishes. Thankfully, I've seen most of those wishes in her various movies.
31. If you were a crayon what colour would you be? Errr....Infra red?
32. How is the weather right now? Cold as crap and windy.
33. Last person you spoke to on the phone? The school's automated attendance line for my sick son.
34. Favourite soft drink? Mountain Dew.
35. Favourite restaurant? I don't really have one. Most restaurants are for convenience. There is very little I can find in a restaurant that I can't make better and cheaper at home. The exceptions are usually seafood and oriental food, but that's changing.
36. Colour of hair? Brown
37. What was your favourite toy as a child?GI Joe!
38. Summer or winter?Summer
39. Hugs or kisses?Kisses
40. Chocolate or vanilla?Vanilla
41. Coffee or tea?Coffee, if I have to
42. Do you want your friends to email you back?I don't care.
43. What is under your bed? 10 years of crap we don't want to throw away. And a pair of roller blades.
44. What did you do last night? Nursed a sick wife and kid while entertaining two other kids.
45. What are you afraid of? I don't have phobia. I'm afraid of failing my family.
46. Salty or sweet? Sweet, until after. Then salty.
47. How many keys on your key ring? More than 10, less than 20.
48. How many years at your current job?3
49. How many towns have you lived in?4
50. Favourite seafood? Generic, but lobster.
51. Do you make friends easily? No, but that's my choice not their's. The Fremen have a saying, "Never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die."
52. How many friends will you send this to? Both of the people who frequent this blog.
53. How many will respond? Neither.

Picked up from the Cajun.

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