Category: Friday Fives

1. What’s something you bought as an adult because you weren’t allowed to have it as a child?

Oreos

2. If you were forced to watch a sport every weekend for the rest of your life, what sport would you choose?

Sepak Takraw

3. What meal you cooking for 2 with a $12 budget?

Homemade spaghetti with homemade pasta and a $7.00 bottle of zinfandel.

4. What phrase do you wish people would stop using?

“It is what it is.”

5. You’re offered $10 million to start your life over at age 10 — but you keep all your current memories. What’s your first move?

Take $9.75 million and invest in the nascent Microsoft and then live on the rest – $275,000 in 1974 dollars is a crap load of money.

1. What is your best kitchen hack?

This little timer for making the best, easiest soft boiled eggs that come out perfect every time.

2. You have 10 minutes to make a meal (PBJ doesn’t count) what do you cook up?

See above, although I add either a spicy szechuan chili sauce, or serve the eggs on a bed or medallion of polenta.

3. What is your secret traffic hack?

I cheat and don’t have a car but the hack, when the weather cooperates is my ebike through Cherry Creek reservoir trails to get to work..

4. What is your hidden streaming/TV delight?

I have been watching a lot of MotoGP, super fast motorcycle grand prix racing on TNT. Interest started during lockdown and I have kept it up. Watching those guys take all those corners in a pelaton that fast is thrilling

5. Off topic, what song are you listening to now?

Steely Dan – “Hey Nineteen” (it was on the radio, playing in the background

1. What’s a bad habit you’re currently trying to break?

Order out food instead of cooking at home.

2. What’s on task that you keep putting off?

Refolding and rehanging the clothes in my closet. It is supposed to be crappy all weekend so maybe this is the weekend !

3. What’s the last thing you waited in line for?  

About a year ago waiting to board a flight at the Raleigh/Durham airport.

4. What’s the last show your streamed?

Just finished watching “The Pitt” on Max. Damn, it is good and so intense.

5. Who’s the last celebrity you asked to take a selfie with you?

Colorado Rapids Goalie Tim Howard.

(Questions via US Weekly celebrity “How Much Are They Like US? )

1. What’s your favorite root vegetable, and what’s your favorite way to eat it?

Potatoes! (Although I stumbled on a recipe for Kung Pao rutabaga that I want to try.

2. What’s your favorite leafy green, and what’s your favorite way to eat it?

Butter lettuce used as a base for a Caesar salad

3. What’s your favorite legume, and what’s your favorite way to eat it?

Pinto beans – refried and served in a burrito

4. What’s your favorite vegetable to put on a pizza?

Sun-dried tomatoes.

5. What’s your favorite fruit to eat in a green salad?

Mandarin orange slices.

1. What movies come to mind when you think of great soundtracks?

One of my joys is listening to a Sirius/XM channel called Cine-Magic which is just movie soundtracks all the time. And John Barry of James Bond theme has scored some great soundtracks. Seriously, give the soundtrack to “Dances with Wolves” a listen.

2. What is a company perk that shows they really care about their employees?

Our office has a free soda fountain – unlimited Coke Zero is a win. We also have free roadside assistance which would be nice if I had a car.

3. If you woke up and it’s 2015 what would you do ?

I would pull out all the stops and do everything and anything to keep Donald Trump from winning the presidency.
The man is a soulless, jealous megalomaniac evil psychopath hell-bent on ending the modern world.

4. Which profession gets way too much respect for how little they actually do?

Land title abstract professionals. They get paid a lot to file some papers with local county clerks and courts to show that you own land. Kind of esoteric and could probably be replaced with AI and digitization.

5. What is one song that is socially acceptable to sing badly?

The Happy Birthday song.

1. What is an ear worm that gets in your head that you have found you kind of enjoy?

“China Girl” by Bowie. It was bopping around my brain last week and I caught myself whistling away to it.

2. What is the “Oh my God, make it stop!!” earworm?

“Wonderful Christmastime” by McCartney. It is no secret, I do not care for that song.

3. What are the top three songs in your personal Top 40?

“Rosalita” by Springsteen

“Heavy Metal Drummer” by Wilco

“Hey Nineteen” by Steely Dan

(I reserve the right to change this list at any time.)

4. What song is an immediate skip or channel change when it comes on?

Anything by Ted Nugent

5. What is a great song to celebrate Spring?

“Here Comes The Sun” by The Beatles

1. What is your greatest extravagance?

Top shelf gin and expensive olive oil.

2. Which living person do you most admire?

Joe Biden. Grandpa Joe is a pretty good dude.

3. What is your favorite occupation?

Elementary classroom teachers. They are doing the Lord’s work.

4. If you could change one thing about your household, what would it be?

Adding a pet. Probably a cat.

5. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Floating in a swimming pool with all the time in the world.

1. Pick an album you haven’t heard in a while. What’s a positive trigger song.

I have a soft spot for old school REO speedwagon and memories of listening to Keep On Lovin’ You in the high school parking lot.

2. Do you have a favorite condiment no one else you know uses?

PickaPeppa sauce. Delicious must have ingredient in a bloody Mary and pour it over a block of cream cheese for a quick dip and serve with Fritos. Yum.

3. What was the most difficult day in your life

About 18 months ago in the ICU and taking my mom of the respirator to let her pass. Saddest moment of my life.

4. What do we *not* know about the human body?

The Whys, Whens, Hows of the Cancer. Fuck Cancer.

5. What TV show did your parents forbid you to watch growing up and why?

Cinemax: After Dark.

1. What is the best breakfast?

I like a big breakfast buffet, like you find at a hotel. Lots of choices, bacons, sausages, omelet station, tray full of scrambled eggs, all the pastries, bring it on.

2. What is the dream meal?

Imagining I am back on the meats – a big slice of Prime Rib with mashed potatoes, au jus gravy and some green beans.

3. What is the quick lunch you can craft?

Ramen with an egg, fish sauce, sriracha, soy sauce and a bit of nutritional yeast to give it a cheesy like umami.

4. What was the favorite childhood food memory?

My mom’s pot roast for supper. Delish. She had that dialed in to perfection. Served promptly at 6:30 and despite any extracurricular school activities, you were expected to be there.

5. What are your thoughts on Spam?

In my meat eating days it was a great go to for breakfast. Fried Spam and eggs was pretty great.

1. What seemingly small injury can be extremely painful?

A paper cut when you are slicing/using citrus fruits, like a sliced lime or lemon.

2. You have a six -hour drive and you can only listen to one artist. Who are you listening to?

I have a couple of Wilco box sets that can keep me entertained.

3. What have you been genetically blessed with, and nerfed with?

A quick wit, inherited from my grandmother. And small hands/fingers.

4. What was the most bizarre conspiracy theory your high school had about a teacher?

I am not sure. There was a lot of teacher turnover growing up in a boom town and folks would be teaching one year then suddenly took a job as a coal miner or heavy equipment operator to make a lot of money. There were more conspiracies about students then there were teachers.

5. It is day 40 of the second Trump administration. How has it effected you?

Technically my life hasn’t changed at all yet but shit, we are barely in this thing. We still have three and a half more years a head of us and that is a lot of room for mass destruction. I fear none us will recognize the place by the end of 2028.