Friday 5 for November 6: Symbols

From Scrivener's Friday 5 blog:

1. Which of the standard keyboard symbols best describes your mood right now?

This: 

2. On your brand-new family coat-of-arms, created right now whether you already have one or not, what animal is the central figure, representing the spirit and character of your family?

It would have 3: Cat, Bear and Wolf.

3. In what ways is your vehicle symbolic of you?

My 1993 Toyota Corolla - cheap, thrifty, durable, old.

4. What charms, figurines, or objects do you keep at hand to remind you of something or someone?

Mostly photos for the special people in my life. Don't have any symbolic items that I can think of.

5. What song lyric best sums up your feelings heading into the weekend?

Right now... "Frustrated" by The Knack because I'm pissed at blogger! @#$!! - Had to do this post twice!!!!!

frustrated she's getting to me
frustrated do what you do to me
frustrated

Friday 5 for Octrober 16: Goings On

The following questions come from Scrivener's Friday 5 blog.

QUESTIONS

1. What’s an issue you wish more people knew about?
2. When were you last outraged about something?
3. When you were a kid, what was the first news story to make an impression on you?
4. What’s getting far too much media attention lately?
5. What’s a consumer product you’d recommend to others?

ANSWERS

1. Killing of unborn babies at Planned Parenthood and government funding for such atrocities.

2. I am still outraged about the general excise taxes we have to pay to support the city's biggest mistake of the 21st century: RAIL.



3. Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I was only 7 years old and the way it hit me was perhaps weeks later when a copies of Life magazine showed all of the photos from that motorcade procession in Dallas Texas. As a kid who did not know any better, the killing of the President of the United States was like someone had killed God. I also remember my Mom crying about it.

4. Gay rights.

5. Chromebooks for people who want a cheap, secondary computer. They are the best laptops for traveling since your data is not on the Chromebook but stored in the cloud. Nice!

Friday 5 for October 9: It's Time to Play the Music

I don't see what the following questions have to do with music, but here goes.... from Scrivener's Friday 5 blog:

QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about honeydew and other melons?
2. How are your little piggies?
3. What kind of experience do you have with scooters?
4. What animal frightens you most?
5. Apples, celery, and walnuts dressed in mayo and served atop a bed of lettuce are popularly known as a Waldorf Salad. What’s your favorite salad with a name?

ANSWERS



1. The only edible melon that I like is watermelon!

2. I'm just going to mention The Beatles' song "Piggies" which was written by George Harrison. This keeps it in the realm of "music" which is the strange topic heading for this.

3. None.

4. Dogs. I am not a "dog person".

5. Potato Macaroni Salad has no other name.

Friday 5 for October 2: Up and Autumn

From Scrivener's Friday 5 website:

QUESTIONS

1. Where do you rank October among the twelve months of the year?
2. What time is the sun coming up where you live, and how does it affect your life or schedule?
3. How do you manage to get enough fresh air and exercise in bad-weather months?
4. Holidays and weather aside, what are the best and worst things about the autumn months?
5. What are some good songs for the soundtrack of the season?

ANSWERS

1. 10th!

2. The sun rises at 6:23 AM tomorrow. For the remainder of the month it will be rising a little later everyday but well within the confines of 6:23 AM to nearly 7:00 AM. More information:

http://www.sunrisesunset.com/

Just look for the link to Honolulu or type in any locale in the search box.



3. Wake up early, walk, take pictures of the sunrise, sunset or the night. Picture taking is a motivator for me, sometimes even in the rain.

4. See below:

BEST THINGS ABOUT AUTUMN MONTHS

1. Sun rises later, sun sets earlier.
2. On the south side of Oahu I get sunrises and sunsets that climb out and set in the ocean... which makes for nice pictures.
3. Start of new fall TV season. Get to sample new TV shows and predict which ones will die before fall ends.
4. Cooler weather
5. Hurricane season ends November 30 in theory.

WORST THINGS ABOUT AUTUMN MONTHS

1. Sun sets earlier.
2. Daylight hours are shorter.
3. More traffic on the road since school is back in session.
4. Supposedly more rain during fall and winter months.
5. I hate flying in bad weather.

5. Good songs for Autumn soundtrack... hmm.. this can go anywhere.
Here are 10 of them that I associate with the autumn months for various unrelated reasons.

1. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney
2. Season of the Witch - Donovan
3. Fall Down - Toad the Wet Sprocket
4. Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) - Enya
6. Under a Violet Moon - Blackmore's Night
7. Magnet and Steel - Walter Egan
8. Everything is Coming Our Way - Santana
9. The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
10. The Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett

You can listen to all 10 songs here:

Friday 5 for September 18: Procrastination

Answering this now instead of putting it off for later.

QUESTIONS

1. What haven’t you framed yet?
2. What haven’t you thrown out yet?
3. What haven’t you repaired yet?
4. Whom haven’t you called or emailed yet?
5. What haven’t you seen yet?

ANSWERS

1. A picture.

2. Stuff that I have to throw out but haven't sorted yet. Want any mixed cassette tapes?

3. Dell Netbook computer a friend gave to me. Computer works. Hard drive is dead. I want to take that out, put in a small SSD drive and install Linux on this thing.

4. My cousin.



5. Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens

Friday 5 for September 4: Letter of the Law

The following is taken from Scrivener's Friday 5 blog.

QUESTIONS

1. What are the ABCs of dining out?
2. What are the Three Cs of dating?
3. What should you SHOP for in gift-giving?
4. What are the four Ps of petcare?
5. How do you go WILD in seeking a good time?

ANSWERS

I'll take a stab at this...



1. Affordable Beautiful Cuisine

2. Comfortable Cuddly Creativeness

3. Something Helpful Or Practical

4. Petting, Pampering, Playing, Perception

5. I don't. I'm not a party animal.

Friday 5 for August 28: Extra Medium

Media questions from Scrivener's Friday 5 site. Can't pass on these even 2 days late.

QUESTIONS

1. What forms of media consumption do you pay for?
2. When did you last read a physical newspaper?
3. What percentage of your television consumption is watched live as it’s broadcast, versus on-demand, via recording, or some other stored or streamed medium?
4. What’s been the big local story in your area this week?
5. What is the most recent thing you regretted clicking?

ANSWERS

1. At the current time only internet access. That is the most important because it gives me access to many free media resources such as YouTube, Hulu, Google Photos, iHeartRadio, various streaming TV stations, radio, news sites and blogs.

2. Today - Hawaii Tribune Herald. I'm on the Big Island to September 5.

3. Home in Honolulu I get live TV broadcasts for free via antenna. Mostly it is the local TV news, some sports and other special events that may be viewed live over the air. Online I get some local news events reported live on streaming media plus a few times that I am watching the Geek News Central broadcast live or TWIT TV. All free. Probably about 12%.

On demand and streaming stored media would be everything else... YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu free (not Plus), Local TV News on demand content, Smithsonian Channel, Pluto TV, Crackle many others. I will renew my Amazon Prime subscription at a later date.

4. Hurricanes Kilo, Igancio and Jimena.

5. Sidekick email monitoring app and website. Avoid this at all cost. Serious privacy issues involved with this. Excessive emails after registration. Hard to delete. You have been warned.