{"id":457,"date":"2008-10-25T11:39:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/25\/another-senseless-survey\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T15:39:36","slug":"another-senseless-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/another-senseless-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Senseless Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>My friends rope me into these things, LOL<\/P><P>&nbsp;<\/P><P>1. Were you named after anyone?&nbsp; Nope, my older brother got all the family names<BR>2. When was the last time you cried?&nbsp; about a month ago<BR>3. Do you like your handwriting?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; They waived a required course in Junior High for me to take typing&#8230;<BR>4. What is your favorite lunch meat?&nbsp; sliced turkey<BR>5. Do you have kids?&nbsp; Yup!&nbsp; Two.&nbsp; Boy &amp; girl, both 33<BR>6. If you were another person would you be friends with you?&nbsp; You bet, the realization of this put me on the path to my recovery<BR>7. Do you use sarcasm a lot?&nbsp; Naw, me?&nbsp; Not a chance.<BR>8. Do you still have your tonsils? yup, probably the oldest man alive with tonsils&#8230; they used to yank them out at the slightest provocation, and I never gave them one<BR>9. Would you bungee jump?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; Couldn&#8217;t pay me enough to try it.<BR>10. What is your favorite cereal?&nbsp; I&#8217;m a simple guy, corn flakes are fine<BR>11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?&nbsp; Depends which shoes I&#8217;m wearing, can&#8217;t untie velcro<BR>12. Do you think you are strong?&nbsp; Oh yeah.&nbsp; I doubt many peope could have lived through my life<BR>13. What is your favorite ice cream?&nbsp; Basking-Robbins Pralines N Cream<BR>14. What is the first thing you notice about people? Their eyes<BR>15. Red or pink?&nbsp; GREEN<BR>16. What is the least favorite thing about yourself?&nbsp; My tendency to complain about things (working on it)<BR>17. Who do you miss the most?&nbsp; Maeve<BR>18. Do you want everyone to send this back to you?&nbsp; no difference<BR>19. What color pants and shoes are you wearing? Duluth Trading Co. blue jeans, black shoes<BR>20. What was the last thing you ate? I just had 3 fried eggs for breakfast, am drinking my morning coffee<BR>21. What are you listening to right now?&nbsp; Blue Indian by Widespread Panic, don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard this before&#8230; I just steal a bunch of music on the Internet and get around to listening to it sooner or later<BR>22. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?&nbsp; Green<BR>23. Favorite smells?&nbsp; Carnations, lavender<BR>24. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?&nbsp; Mike Paglia, who is house-sitting at my house while I&#8217;m house-sitting at SerpentStone Houe<BR>25. Do you like the person who sent this to you stole this from? Wish I knew her better, but she&#8217;s in my second level of online friends (not one of the ones I talk to all the time, but among those I pa attention to)<BR>26. Favorite sports to watch?&nbsp; NFL, but I like most sports&#8230; don&#8217;t watch anything &#8220;religiously&#8221;, NFL comes the closest<BR>27. Hair color?&nbsp; medium brown (never a selection option on those websites, ya know? they want either dark or light brown&#8230;)<BR>28. Eye color?&nbsp; Blue, almost baby blue but it&#8217;s a tad darker than it was when I was a kid<BR>29. Do you wear contacts?&nbsp; Nope, my eyes are too dry&#8230; they turn into corn flakes in no time<BR>30. Favorite food?&nbsp; I have 3 recipes, can pick any of them&#8230; that&#8217;s right, can ponly cook 3 things, LOL<BR>31. Scary movies or happy endings?&nbsp; I won&#8217;t watch scary movies&#8230; but I cry too much over happy endings, as I never get one of my own and the people in the movies are LOTS worse than I&#8217;ll ever be<BR>32. Last movie you watched? Serenity<BR>33. What color shirt are you wearing?&nbsp; white printed tee<BR>34. Summer or winter?&nbsp; Winter.&nbsp; You can always put more clothes on, but there&#8217;s a limit to how much you can take off.<BR>35. Hugs or kisses?&nbsp; HugsRUs<BR>36. Favorite dessert?&nbsp; don&#8217;t usually eat dessert<BR>37. Hot or cold beverages? no preference<BR>38. Favorite room in your house?&nbsp; living room I guess&#8230; <BR>39. What book are you reading now?&nbsp; Autobiography of a Yogi and the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda for me; I&#8217;m reading the last Fuzzy Planter book to my friend Frankie on the phone at night<BR>40. What is on your mousepad?&nbsp; I have a trackball, don&#8217;t need a mousepad<BR>41. What did you watch on TV last night? Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow<BR>42. Favorite sound? applause<BR>43. Rolling Stones or Beatles?&nbsp; neither, I have much better taste than that (this rolling Moss gathers no Stones)<BR>44. What is the farthest you have been from home?&nbsp; Define &#8220;home&#8221;.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve never been outside of North America though.<BR>45. Do you have a special talent?&nbsp; I have many, none of them exceptional but all of them special<BR>46. Where were you born?&nbsp; St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital, Long Beach, CA<BR>47. Least favorite household chore? picking up<BR>48. Most precious object on your computer desk?&nbsp; My precious objects are around the room, no room on my computer desk<BR>49. A special possession?&nbsp; My 130+ hippos and baby doll<BR>50. How many e-mail addies do you have? I lost count.&nbsp; 7 I check, probably forgot about lots more, and that doesn&#8217;t count all my website email addys (which I forward to one f my 2 main email addys)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends rope me into these things, LOL&nbsp;1. Were you named after anyone?&nbsp; Nope, my older brother got all the family names2. When was the last time you cried?&nbsp; about a month ago3. Do you like your handwriting?&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; They waived a required course in Junior High for me to take typing&#8230;4. 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