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1. Besides common domesticated animals, what animal would you want as a pet.
Well, I am informed that genetically engineered miniature elephants or giraffes do not exist, to my chagrin.
So with that being said, I think a pet bonobo. Probably illegal and even immoral to own one but this is a fantasy exercise. They are adorable and very very closely related to humans and highly trainable. Sure a big mess and chaos would ensue but isn’t that the world we live in now anyway?

2. If animals could talk which one would be the rudest?
A mule. They have this tough working animal life and probably have a foul mouthed blue collar outlook on life.

3. Which one would be the sassiest?
An alpaca. Sassy with a South American Spanish accent.

4. What do you remember about your first pet?
The first family pet was a black dog named Rudy but I barely remember him. Then we had the stalwart family dog, a pure white Alaskan husky. A sweet super smart guard dog who watched us children to alert for any perceived threat.

5. What’s your best “unused” pet name for your next pet?
I have a few in the back pages of the Rolodex of my brain but pet names are pretty organic and are dictated by the actions and personality of the pet.

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1. How often do you typically shower/bath?

In work from home mode I go about two or so days between showering. In work in the office mode everyday.

So I guess four or five times a week.

2. Do you prefer showering or taking a bath?

Showers. I have a great shower and it has a steam room setting on the shower head that makes the whole process pretty invigorating.

3. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without a shower/bath?

In the army on an assignment went 6 days. I was pretty ripe.

4. What’s your favorite personal hygiene product?

My razor and the silicone strop I use to sharpen it. I can usually go about 14 or months between disposable razor blades.

5. Do you shave your legs and/or beard? If so, how often?

I trim my beard about every two weeks. I tried to grow it out to a big bushy beard during quarantine but it drove me crazy and I had to trim it back.

1. What is the best board game?

Risk is the bomb. Although I have seen it make friends seethe.

2. What is the best card game?

We have this card game that we play at family gatherings that we call 9 Card (I don’t know if that is its official name) it is a modified trick taking game that is quite addictive and can accommodate many players (we had about 12 folks playing together one Thanksgiving !)

3. What is the best video game?

I an not much of a gamer but back in the day as a teenager working at Safeway we would stay after the store closed and play Atari’s “Tempest” for hours. And also as a teen, I had a friend who’s family owned a laundromat and we would usually go there after a high school football or basketball game and play “Galaga” for hours on end.

4. What is the best word game

Scrabble. I was going to use this for answer number one as the best board game but I think it is more aptly listed here.

5. What is your earliest memory of playing a game?

Well the questions have no qualifiers so I am going to go hide and seek and grandmas house with my sister and cousins using our new clown flashlights that we all got in our Christmas stockings.

1. Have you ever stayed in a hostel? If so, where? Did you like it? If you haven’t stayed in a hostel, would you?

I have not, although I did get at one once in Stuttgart but I am not going into all those details because I am just a teasing minx.

2. What is your favorite airport that you’ve been to? Why?

La Guardia. It took several years and I flew through there a number of times during the renovations and it was a big ol’ mess. But two years ago I had a long layover there and it is magnificent. A great mall, great seating. great views of the bay and the runways and some spectacular people watching.
I did not get laid at the airport however.

3. What is the best museum you have visited on vacation?

This sounds lame or maybe quaint but there is this tiny museum and historic farm display in Dixon/Savpru, WY just a bit down the road to the east of Baggs, WY.

4. Have you ever made friends while traveling whom you keep in touch with on a regular basis?

No I haven’t. Most of my encounters on the road or random strangers at the bar stool or beach chair next to me and the conversation tends to be very superficial.

5. Have you ever had a conversation with a seatmate on a plane?

I have. The Southwest flights from Denver to Kansas City tend to have some of the same folks on them and occasionally you end up sitting next to them and have those “well look who’s here” kind of vibe. Coming back from Kansas City once I sat next to a kid from a small Missouri town going to Steamboat to mountain biking and climbing. He was full of amazement about being out ‘In The Real World.”

1. What is a genius item to bring to the in office potluck?

I had a coworker who would also bring a couple of dozen of basic McDonald’s hamburgers and cheese burgers and hands-full of ketchup and mustard packets.

2. What was your mom’s quick supper shortcut when time/money were an issue?

She kept a can of La Choy chicken chow mein – the two step can with the chow mein in one can and the dry noodles in a second can taped together.

3. What’s the best food hack you have learned.

I had a professor in college and his wife was a registerered nutrionist and she was pretty picky about food and sugar. She didn’t like to give her kids orange juice but instead would keep a tube off frozen orange juice concentrate in the door of her freezer and then simply scoop out a spoonful of the frozen juice and stir it into a glass or water. I always thought that was quite genius as it limited the sugar and was still really refreshing.

4. What’s a food/cooking hack you learned from a television show or a movie?

From “The Sopranos” Joey Pantaloon’s character always added some sour cream to his scrambled eggs. It works. It’s genius and makes them extra creamy and fluffy.

5. Did you ever buy a kitchen gadget from those late night infomercials?

I bought a set of non stick pans from Mirro that were nearly indestructible. I used for decades until the nonstick finally started to fail.