Friday 5 for June 24: Scattergories Part 6

What random letter was generated by the online random-letter generator (this doesn’t really count as one of your five questions)? R

1. What brand or model of car, whose name begins with the letter, would you like to get?

R is for Rolls Royce. Nothing but the finest for this letter!

2. What summer activity, whose name begins with the letter, are you looking forward to?

Rest and relaxation though I do that year round.

My 4 radios + Rolls Royce: iPod Touch, Insignia, Alcatel, Sony.

3. What’s an item in your desk whose name begins with the letter?

Radio!

4. What’s something, whose name begins with the letter, that you find frightening?

ROACHES! The Big B-52 ones that walk upside down on the ceiling and fly toward you when you try to kill them. Yuck!

5. If you had to get a tattoo on your upper arm, what’s something whose name begins with the letter that you could live with?

I'm not a tattoo kind of a guy but if I got one showcasing the letter R, I guess it would combine a Rolls Royce with a Rose... then you got a Rose Royce... oh that was a disco group from 1976.

Have a great weekend folks!

Friday 5 for June 17: A Week of Good Behavior

I am blessed to be alive and share God's gifts with you.

From Scrivener's Friday 5 blog: "Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5!  Please copy these questions to your webspace.  Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses.  Please don’t forget to link us from your website!"

1. What’s the dumbest thing you did this week?

Skipping my daily walk.

2. In what way did you save yourself time or energy this week?

Usually walking to the nearby places that I shop at. Saved energy by not using the car.

3. How were you wasteful of personal and natural resources this week?

Sometimes I flush 2 or 3 times per session.

4. When this week did you take advantage of the opportunity to keep your mouth shut?

When I am with my friend Daniel, I avoid the subject of rail. He is strongly pro-rail, I am anti-rail. Best not to bring it up if we want to preserve our friendship.

5. In what way this week were you blessed or fortunate?

After my heart surgery nearly 6 months ago, I am blessed to be alive each and every day. Plus God gives us daily natural gifts to enjoy -- flowers, sunshine, sunrises, sunsets, the moon, stars and more.

Friday 5 for June 10: Drama

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1. What was the last stage play you saw?

"Camelot" at the Army Community Theater in Fort Shafter 10+ years ago.

2. Which film genres do you like most, and which least?

Top 5 film genres:

1. Science Fiction
2. Fantasy
3. Action / Adventure
4. Drama
5. Comedy

Least: Pornographic

3. Why do some people seem always to have some kind of drama in their lives, while others apparently have very little?

A lot of the drama has to probably do with cost of living issues, drug use, disease, anxiety, unemployment, etc. It depends on how people live their lives.

4. One element of classic tragedy is the hero’s tragic flaw.  What’s yours?

Fear

5. What are some lines of a play’s or film’s dialogue you can recite from memory?

"We aren't in Kansas anymore"

"Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!"

"I am your father"...

"Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son"....

"There is another ... sky..walk...er"

 OK that's 4 of them. Not very good at line memorization.

Friday 5 for June 3: WordPlay

From Scrivener's Friday 5 blog:

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1. What’s a five-letter word describing the day you had today?

Sunny

2. What’s a six-letter word, ending with N, describing your plans for the weekend?

nothin

3. What seven words describe the last in-person conversation you had?

Helpful, hopeful apologetic rebuilding a lasting friendship.

4. How would you make an acrostic of the letters in SUMMER to describe your hopes for the summer?

Standing, waiting for the sunrise;
Understanding that clouds may block the sun.
My camera and I, we'll patiently wait;
Momentarily the sun peaks from behind...
Eureka! I press the shutter, take the shot.
Ready for the next image of summer to pop.

-- by Me! :)

5. What three rhyming words describe your most recent vacation?

Distant evident displacement

Friday 5 Extra - 26 Things About Me

Twenty-six things about me...



A- Age: old
B- Biggest fear: B-52 cockroaches, drowning, large earthquakes, severe inflight turbulance
C- Current time: 4:27 a.m.
D- Drink you last had: Water
E- Every day starts with: What time is it?
F- Favorite song: Too many to mention here.
G- Ghosts, are they real?: Skeptical about that but I'd believe if I got a photo of one.
H- Hometown: Honokaa
I- In love with: Cameras, Vinyl Records
J- Jealous of: Ugly guys who got a cute girl
K- Killed someone?: Nope.
L- Last time you cried? When my Mom died.
M- Middle name: "Ah" as mistakenly made by computers all the time.
N- Number of siblings: 3
O- One wish: Get tons of money
P- Person you last called: A friend
Q- Question you're always asked: How do you do this on the computer?
R- Reason to smile: I woke up, I'm still alive.
S- Song last sang: Hi Hi Hi with the Paul McCartney & Wings record
T- Time you woke up: 3:30 a.m.
U- Underwear color: white
V- Vacation destination: Molokai?
W- Worst habit: Swearing
Y- Your favorite food: The good stuff my doctor tells me I should not eat.
X- X-Rays you've had: Chest, teeth, arm
Z- Zodiac sign: Fish.

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Friday 5 for May 27: Good and Bad

From Scrivener's Friday 5 blog.


The pleasant warm weather in Hawaii is usually lovely.

1. What’s good and what’s bad about the weather lately?

Good - Here in Honolulu our weather is like 97% good. Clear sunny skies usually, light trade-winds, and an occasional shower or two.
Bad - The pleasant weather comes at a price - high humidity, heat.. which means running the AC in house. That can add to the price of your electricity bill. Otherwise the only really bad weather we have is the rare hurricane with destructive winds exceeding 75 mph.

2. What’s something that’s so bad it’s good?

I like old sci-fi B-movies. Those films had a lot of anti-nuclear paranoia or alien invasions in their story lines, most of them produced on a shoestring budget.

Some of my favorites include "Angry Red Planet", "Panic in the Year Zero", "Reptilicus", "Island of Terror", "The Man With the X-Ray Eyes",  "The Time Travelers", and "Crack in the World". From the horror genre, "Monster in the Closet", "Ssssss!" and "Night of the Living Dead" (the original 1968 movie).

3. What’s something that used to be bad but now is good?

Can't think of anything. Bad is bad, and good is good.

4. What are some of your pet words for very bad and very good?

Very Bad - "Oh shit", "crap", and of course "fuck" which is used in a variety of ways.
Very Good - "Cool", "Nice", "Love It, "Good, goood" and pretty much anything else that projects a positive feeling.

5. What’s your favorite song by Bad Company (or Good Charlotte, if BadCo isn’t your style)? *

BAD COMPANY - When I look at my iTunes music plays I have to say "Shooting Star". It has the most plays from all their songs. There are others that I also like including "Can't Get Enough," "Feel Like Making Love", "Bad Company" (album link), "Silver Blue and Gold", "Young Blood" (album link) and "Rock n Roll Fantasy".... yep pretty much stuff from their albums of the 1970s. Lost track of the band in the 80s.



BADFINGER - "Baby Blue" (always loved this song from way before Walter White met his fate), "Flying" (B-side of "Baby Blue"), "Day After Day", "Without You" (this is the original; later covered by Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey), "Come And Get It" (money!), "Perfection" and "No Matter What". They may have been "the next Beatles".

BENNY GOODMAN - I have a few tracks from him but can't remember the titles.

BAD BRAINS - I remember when some of their songs were played on Radio Free Hawaii... not really my cup of tea. Can't even name one song.

"Thanks for participating, and have a goooooooood weekend, and all the world will love you just as long as you are a shooting star!"

Friday 5 for May 13: How Did You Learn That?

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1. How did you learn to throw a ball?

From my Dad, neighborhood friends and school.

2. How did you learn to drive?

My Dad started teaching me how to drive at around age 8 and 10. We had/have a big place to drive without hitting anything. So I first learned to drive a 1960 Willys Pick-Up truck and later a 1967 International pick-up truck. When it came time for getting my driver's license, my Mom led me through most of that process (learner's permit) using her 1972 Chevelle. It was fun. Still is when there is no traffic.

3. How did you learn to swim?

Add me to the statistic "living on an island, not knowing how to swim".... how bad is that? Next....

4. What is the most recent thing you learned how to do from an online tutorial?

Learning how to sew on a button!

I also keep referring back to a couple of Unix tutorials when I forget how to do something in the terminal shell and also to the one on how to eject a stuck CD or DVD from your MacBook Pro. I find the terminal command to be the most useful in getting a stubborn one out: drutil eject


5. How did you learn most of your social etiquette?

I credit my Mom with teaching us good table manners. Back in the day we all ate at the dinner table as a family, and this is where, as kids we learned how to eat, behave and which fork was for the salad, which one was for the entree, etc. These are good skills to know especially after you grow up and get into situations where you just need to know this, like at corporate functions.

In the larger scope of other social etiquette skills I learned from school, church, friends and other sources of information.