Kale. Especially in salads. I don’t get it. There are better minty/spicy leaf greens. I can handle chopped Kale in soups or stews, but that is about it.
2. What are the most clever/genius crimes ever committed?
The 1991 Father’s Day Bank massacre. James King was suspected of robbing the cash register building in downtown Denver, killing four guards, and walking away with about $200,00.00. He stood trial and was acquitted. The money was never found.
3. If driving stick-shift and writing in cursive are regarded as “Boomer skills,” and IT is viewed as a “Millennial skill,” what skill is almost exclusively associated with the Silent, Greatest, or Lost Generation?
Folks like my dad or my grandparents could walk out to a workshop in the garage and knock out a piece of furniture, pull out the transmission in the truck and pull it apart, fix it, and then replace it instead of taking it to the shop. I wouldn’t know where to start.
4. What free things on the internet should everyone take advantage of?
The public library. Steaming movies (Kanopy), ebooks and audible books (Libby), magazines, and research from Libby or Hoopla or even the libraries app in some counties.
5. What are you listening to right now?
I just finished listening to “The Undertow” by Jeff Sharlot. Nonfiction looks at Trumpland out in the heartland and how we got here. The current listen is “Thank You For Your Servitude” by Mark Leibovitz – a look at the GOP leaders and their cow-towing to Trump.
I love the idea of them and have owned a few but I am very hard on watches and at least the Samsung Fossiil brands of smart watches are just too dainty for my clumsy self.
3. What’s the most helpful career/workplace advice someone has given you?
Show up to work everyday. It is kind of surprising how many folks look at actually being at work is a challenging expectation.
4. How often do you get angry?
Usually whenI do something impatiently and it doesn’t turn out right or when I clumsily stubb a toe or something. I usually get angry at myself. For other anger triggering circumstances, I am usually just disappointed.
5. Your phone will suddenly be connected to the internet 5 years in the future, and you will have precisely 30 minutes to browse, but you can’t save or screenshot anything. What do you look up first, and how do you use that knowledge once you’re stuck back in the present?
Thirty secconds is pretty quick. Not a lot of time to track a fad or do deep research. I would find out the winners of the last two superbowls then on my return parlay a few bets in Las Vegas to walk away a winner.
1. The Mega Millions is currently worth well over a billion dollars. Let’s reduce this to a manageable, relatable question: What would you do with 8 million dollars?
Invest in a long term index fund and live off the interest. That is enough dough for me to simply retire early and life a modest life.
2. What is your TMI limit?
TMI for me is sounds – especially in the public restroom. I can handle most anything else but the sounds – that is what gives me the ughs.
3. When did you last see the sunrise? Why were you there?
Just over a year ago driving all night to Grand Junction after mom’s fatal hear attack.
4. if you were to restart your favorite hobby, how would you do it?
This is on my mind. Maybe a NewYearr’s resolution – a return to black and white 35 mm photography. I dug out my Nikon F3 the other day and got really nostalgic.
5. If you could go back to 2000 and give yourself advice, but it had to be a one-word cryptic clue, what would you tell yourself?
CDO. (Credit Debt Obligations – the financial tool that broke the world in the home credit melt down in 2007 .
2. Who is a person you met only once that had an impact on your life?
There was this Army Reserve Major visiting our basei n the Army in Germany. I think he was a teacher in civilian life and he had all kinds of life pro tricks. I learned to shave with a razor not my Norelco from him.
3. What is under your bed?
A box of blankets and important file box of papers really should be in a fireproof safe box thingy
4. What’s a story you know about your grandfather?
My mom’s dad worked as a telegrapher for the railroad in the 30s and 40s and was a master at morse code and telegraphy even up into his 70s. (And he played a mean game of gin rummy too.)
5. What do you see out of the window you look out of most?
A parking lot next an elementary school playground.
1. What is one food that’s basic in terms of ingredients and recipe, but you adore?
Basted eggs and toast. Just a bit of olive oil and butter in a non-stick skillet. Warm to about 3.5 setting on the stove. Let the butter melt but don’t let it burn. Knock in two eggs and about a tablespoon or less of water then cover to steam/fry the eggs. They are done when the whites are cooked but the yolks are set but still run. Serve with toast. The entire meal takes about five minutes.
2. What’s a hobby and/or habit you started during the pandemic(Ongoing or not)?
Bread baking. I have gotten good at artisan no knead bread, sourdough, beer bread, English muffin bread and biscuits.
3. What’s a childhood memory that still makes you laugh to this day?
One year at Christmas when I was probably four years old all of us (sisters and cousins ) got these flashlights that projected a clown’s face and we played lights out hide and seek in the grand parents house all day.
4. Not counting Die Hard, what is a Christmas movie that wasn’t released/marketed as a Christmas movie.
The Thin Man from 1934. Classic. Myrna Loy steals every scene.
5. if you could’ve stayed at one age for the rest of your life, which would it be?
I liked my little job at the newspaper in Craig and mostly the people I worked with. The publisher was a bit nuts and the small town politics were bothersome but writing up feature stories of the folks in and around the town was fun.
2. What is your current state of mind?
How. How the fuck did we actually re-elect that godless mad man again. I am currently searching all over Amazon for a chaos safety kit to use when the metaphorical shit hits the fan.
3. What is your most marked characteristic?
My quick wit.
4. When and where were you happiest?
In my 30s, freshly relocated to Denver and among old friends amid new beginnings. Broke as could be and happy.
5. What is your greatest extravagance?
I still pay for cable. It is so convenient to have all that stuff you want to watch in one place. I still have some streaming apps on the Roku but I still watch a lot of cable and network stuff.
Questions via Vanity Fair’s The Proust Questionnaire
