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1. What’s your favorite kind of cracker?
What was my favorite kind of cracker... Hilo Macaroni Factory Brand Salon Pilots... long gone since 2003. Cracker factory went out of business. Sad. On another note visit this link to get my recipe for "Cracker Toast".
2. What part of your residence gets the best natural lighting?
The front of my building during the afternoon.
3. What song have you frequently listened to lately?
According to my Last.FM song tracker that would be "Heart of Stone" by the Raveonettes for this week.
It's 4:23 AM Hawaii time and the January 28 Friday 5 has not been posted. I'll answer the January 21 edition.
1. There are superheroes named Superman, Superfly, and Supergirl. Based on your performance this past week in whatever you do, what would have been your Super_____ name?
My super name? This past week it would have been Superoverworked.
2. This week, what has been superterrific and what has been superlame?
Haven't done this in weeks due to a death in my family.
Friday 5 for December 17: Excursions
1. Of excursions you remember taking in elementary school, which was your favorite?
JPO excursion to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park while in the 5th grade.
2. Of excursions you remember taking in elementary school, which was your least favorite?
Can't think of any - all excursions were good because we got out of regular classwork.
3. What seems like a really good school excursion destination that nobody seems to take?
Mortuary
4. Which of your recent activities might pass for an educational excursion?
Preparing and arranging for a funeral. Learned a lot from a recent experience.
5. When a sack lunch was needed for a field trip, what was most likely in your brown paper bag? How about now?
Generally food that I like.
Friday 5 for December 10: Rain
1. What’s the worst thing about really bad rainstorms?
Flying in a heavy rainstorm, flooding - damage to homes and businesses, loss of lives, catastrophic landslides, cars getting stuck or getting into a rain related accident, power outages
2. What’s the best thing about really bad rainstorms?
Perhaps staying home and watching videos - if the power stays on.
3. What’s your favorite (be honest!) way to pass the time when the power’s out?
Listening to the radio to find out if the power outage is localized or widespread, and find out what time the power may come back on. Also calling friends and relatives to see if they have power or not.
4. In what ways are you always prepared for a bad storm?
I live in a condo - I have food, flashlight, radio, videos, - I stay home if at all possible.
5. What’s your favorite song with the word “rain” in the title?
1. "Rain" by The Beatles
2nd favorite "Rhythm of the Rain" by The Cascades.
1. How far ahead of time do you begin packing for a weekend trip?
Usually the day or night before I leave. I only travel to one island usually, and I already have stuff there, so packing is minimal when it comes to clothes. Only additions are camera and laptop computer. Gotta have those.
2. What was your most recent purchase of a six-pack?
I've drastically cut down on buying anything in bottles or cans because of the bottle tax.
3. What do you look for in a good everyday backpack?
I don't own a backpack, and I don't like being near people with dirty backpacks.
4. Among people you know, who’s the worst packrat?
Myself.
5. How do you know when it’s time to pack it in each evening?
When I start cussing the computer when something goes wrong.
1. What has there been too much of in your life lately?
Junk food. Need to cut back.
2. In what areas of your life might you currently be overextended?
Keeping up with managing and editing several websites including this one.
3. What seems about to be going into overtime?
Lack of sleep.
4. In what way does your cup runneth over?
When I forget to turn off the faucet while filling up a cup.
5. What’s your favorite INXS song?
And this is the question I wanted to answer. My favorite INXS song? Easy - "Ordinary Sin" has been my favorite song by this Australian band since I first saw the video (posted above) on WTBS Night Tracks way back in around 1983! Boy does that date me. A lot of music that I like date me.
Anyways, my top 5 INXS songs just on a whim are...
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1. What gives you the heebie-jeebies?
COCKROACHES... especially the big, flying "B-52" sized American Cockroach just like the one pictured above. Horrible creepy creatures. I hate them when they fly. I hate them when they are on the ground. They give me the creeps when I try to kill them... stepping on them makes a horrible crispy cornflakes like crushing sound... and they still get up! And try to run. Repulsive sons of bitches these things are. They might as well be like that big Alien Ripley was trying to kill in those famous movies... yeach!
2. When were you most recently in double trouble?
Nothing recently or even in the not so distant past.
3. What puts you in the mood for some hanky-panky?
I'm a boring person. I don't engage in such activities.
4. What easy-breezy task is still a pain in the neck to accomplish?
Christmas shopping.
5. What area in your life seems especially rife with mumbo-jumbo?
Politics from the other side of the aisle. Some of those people on the other side are like cockroaches.
