The Friday Fives

1. Which part of the Super Bowl are you most excited about?

It is the ads. They are usually actually entertaining.

2. What was the best Super Bowl half time show

You would think I would say Springsteen but I have go with Proince. That show was epic.

3. Do you have a favorite Super Bowl game that you can recall?

The back to back Denver Bronco wins. This is not up for debate.

4. Do you host/participate in Super Bowl viewing parties?

I go to Super Bowld parties on some years. It is fun to watch football on thee television with a lot of people.

5. What do you serve/bring for eats for the game?

In a past life chicken wings – the turkey and stuffing for the football meal. In my post meatt world I like Welsh Rarbit – a cheesy spicy gravy served on toast.

The Friday Fives

1. What would you do if you found $20.00 in your pants while doing laundry?

Maybe by myself a nice fancy pizza.

2. What would you do if you won $50.00 in the lottery?

Off to the liquor store for a top shelf bottle of Gin and some vermouth – a finely crafter martini is a sign of a decent civilization.

3. Ratchet it up. What would you do if you won $750.00 in the lottery?

Probably something boring like pay it towards some bills.

4. What would you do if you won $1 million in the lottery?

The list gets longer with more money.?Buy care and a house.

5. What would you do if you won the big Powerball $1 billion lottery?

Retire.?Start a charitible trust, a family trust and an LLC to sock the money in and then pay myself from the LLC.?Put a lawyer and accounting firm on retainer. Move and become off grid to keep safe from conmen, thieves, liars and Trump.

The Friday Fives

1. What is your Friday afternoon “work is over!” song?

“Take It To The Limit” by the Eagles.?There were a number of times high school that we would come home?after a day of skiing at Steamboat and this song was always playing in the cassette deck and has always been a fitting end of a good day song for me.

2. Which song would you want people to play at your funeral?

Springsteen’s?”the Big Muddy” a nice melancholy deep track from?”Luckdy Town”

3. What is you wake and embrace the day song?

Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy”?It is part of current life philosophy to fight sarcasm and work to be positve which is more work.

4. What is the best “treasure” you’ve ever found at a thrift store, garage sale, flea market etc?

My Resistol cowboy hat.?ought it for about $35.00.?new retails at about $300.00

5. How do you like your coffee?

Easy question probably answered on this blog.?Black from a from French press and fresh home roasted Kuahi HI beans.?(Better than Kona coffee and much more affordable.)

The Friday Fives

1. Have you ever met / seen a performance by a celebrity  before they hit it big?

The first one that came to min was Jamie Foxx back in college. He was really quiet and shy. This was before his TV show and movies.

2. Who is the most famous person you have ever met?

Franken. I met hi while working at a newspaper in Denver. Tomas Second place is probably Bob Dole at a political dinner while he was running for president.

3. Who is the last person you talked to out side of your home life?

I am at an RV show in Boise right now and the last conversation was with the hotel desk clerk trying to rustle up some AAA batteries.

4. You fall asleep and wake up in 2050. What would you search for on the internet first?

Have we invented the star trek transporter yet?

5. What are some of your personal life-hacks that you came up with yourself, not necessarily completely original ?

I shave and brush my teeth in the shower. One stop grooming.

The Friday Fives

1. What is your current main mode of transportation? e.g. car, bike, subway, walking, etc.

My ebike. A 2000W AWD monster of a cruiser mountain bike. During ths time of the year I am mostly homebound, borrowing my sister’s trunk for errands on weekends or occassional trips into the office.

2. Are you satisfied with your current main mode of transportation (answer to question 1)? Why?

-ish? March through the beginning November it is great, but times like the deathly cold weekend weather we are experiencing makes the bike kind of worthless

3. Do you think you’ll change your means of transit soon? e.g. buy a car, get rid of your car, walk more etc.? If so, why?

Yeah. I am looking for a used car, but kind of want something I really want – like an affordable late 1980s Saab 900 or something kind of quirky like that for those few days a week I don’t work from home or the winter weather days that are bicycling prohibitive.


4. If time, distance and money were not factors, how do you prefer to get from point A to point B?

Seriously, this bike is so much fun. It runs at about 33 – 34 MPH consistently on the Denver streets and has become my preferred ride (It is about a five minute longer commute than driving so not really much of a trade of.


5. What was your worst transit experience?

In Stuttgart, while in the Army i was pretty drunk downtown and while leaving a night club?I got on a train that was going the wrong direction from the barracks and ended up at the end of the line at about 3:00 am and ended up sleeping under a park bench in park in Germany not knowing how to speak or understand any German. Pretty much the worsr transit experience. Hell, I didn’t even get laid. i have had countless numbers of scary as hell winter mountain pass driving experiences but my lost on a Stuttgart train story still stays with me decades later.