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1. Who is your favorite author?
With a degree in English Lit, this question is a bit unfair. However, if I pick a number of authors, here is my list:

Twain, Mark
Vonnegut, Kurt
Whitman, Walt
Trillin, Calvin
Murakami, Haraku

Each is deep, humorous and inspiring in their ability to twist a sentence.

2. What is your favorite book/series?
Jasper Fford’s “Thursday Next” series. It is like a child’s book written for adults, taking place in a great world of books.

3. Who is a book hero you most wish to be like?
Ian Fleming’s James Bond. D’uh!
Okay, there is also Atticus Finch from “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

4. Who is a book character that you envy?
Huck Finn. How can you not admire Finn’s innocence, his outlook on life, his wit and his ability to grow as a person.

5. Which book do you wished you lived in?
Sure it is dirty, smoky and disease ridden, but I have always wanted to live in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Victorian London.

1. When is the last time your phone rang in the middle of the night?
With about 75direct reports, this happens more than you will imagine. I start getting employees calling out for day beginning about 2 am. The last time was last week or so. I also have a service with Twitter called TwitterLit that sends a text of the first sentence frm a book on Amazon.com. It is amusing and entertaining, but sometimes a text comes through at 2 am. Needless to say, I try to keep the phone on vibrate at night.

2. Are you more likely to be caught humming, whistling or singing to yourself?
I am either a hummer or a a whistler – but sometimes I am a full on singer/songwriter. I burst into song with an old school melody and some sort of improv lyric quite often ; “Here comes Kevin in his truck, doo dah, doo dah. It’s been too long since he read a book, oh doo day day.”

3. Do you work hard or do you take the easy way out?
At home, lazy and easy way out. ’nuff said. At work, I tend to go in waves, Weeks of really hard working Roy – then a week of super, textbook slacking. That is my natural rhythm.

4. When is the last time you dressed inappropriately for a situation?
Jeans to a wedding? Oh wait, have I told you Germany wedding covered in Mud Story? Once, in Germany me and my Army buddies were out driving around in the 4X$ Jeep that James had just purchased. We were in a construction lot, full of mud and holes and wheeling around, having a grand time. We ended upon the tr burning out the fly wheel on the transmission and had to walk to find a garage and a tow. We found a restaurant and were told the pay phone was in the back. Walking through the room it turns out is was hosting a huge wedding – in progress. We traveled through the wedding party, covered head to toe in mud and got to the phone. We turned around and the entire village, it seemed, was looking at us. Mortifying, perhaps, but we were well beyond drunk – did I mention we were drunk when we ruined the Jeep? Yes, were were drunk at the time.
Any way, we were inappropriately dressed.

5. How much money do you have in your wallet right now?
$3.00. However it is pay day and I will toss $80.00 in it before the day is over – for a little walking around money, as my grandpa used to say.

1. Do you experience any seasonal allergies? Are you allergic to anything else?
I present with some small allergic symptomatic displays. Greg House doesn’t need to see me, but I do tend to get a stopped up nose.

2. What kinds of symptoms do you experience during your allergic reactions?
Snot. With an emphasis on a lot. A general plugged up headness.

3. How do you manage your allergies? (ie: medication, avoidance, alternative therapies, etc)
Zycam, Mucinex, Claritin and lots of vitamins. I attack it like a minor head cold to ensure nothing gets worse.

4. What is the strangest allergy you’ve ever heard of?
I still don’t understand the nuts and nut product allergies. It seems this allergy became huge prevalent in the last 10 years but prior there was little talk or mention of peanut or other nut allergies. It seems to have just popped up. Weirdest allergies? I have heard of sex allergies, that is folks allergic to the many fluids that are a by product of sex. That would be a bummer, but it might get you a guest spot on Maury!

5. How do you feel about school and social policies that banning peanuts and other allergens?
Well, there you go. See above. Since there is a real risk of anaphylactic shock, the warnings are real and the allergy seems to be more prevalent.