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1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

A quiet Sunday morning, a steaming cup of coffee, a crossword puzz;e and good book to read on my kindle.

2. What is your greatest fear?

Getting laid off at work. It has happened so many times at my current age I just can’t start all over again somewhere. (There are no rumors this is coming anytime soon at work – but …)

3. If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?

A house cat in a nice smal rural town. That would be bliss.

4. What is your most treasured possession?

Currently my bicycle.

5. What is your favorite journey?

Getting lost in a good book.

1. People who rarely get sick,what’s your secret ?

Allergy meds and herbal supplemnts (Chinese medicinals: Oregano oil extract and Astragalus Supreme)

2. Pretend is your last meal what are you gonna eat?

My mom’s lasagne recipe. If it is the last meal I am going out with a full, beefy, carb-rich tummy.

3. What’s a piece of technology you wish existed, and what would it do?

Well, I have covered this before – the Star Trek Transporter. Bringit on. If we had that we wouldn’t need flying cars.

4. What is the most American thing to do?

Buying lots of guns.

5. What’s the weirdest food combination you actually love?

Make a sandwich out of some iceberg lettuce leaves and basic Pringles potato crisps. Yummy.

1. How is this IT outage affecting you?

This is an oddly specific question. But Microsoft Azure is down nationwide so I am really just sitting here at work with virtually nothing today. Kind of a nice Friday after a very long busy week.

2. What’s a rich people thing that rich people don’t know is a rich people thing?

Establishing a personal LLC that holds the car, the house the money and pays a salary to the rich person to lower/avoid taxes and live the life of luxury. Most of us peeps don’t have that option.

3. How many pillows do you sleep with? Why?

Somewhere around six or seven. I like to create a bed womb to surround me in pillows and luxury.

4. What isn’t worth the money?

Name brand products when there is a generic or store label brand – for food and pharmaceutcals. Those private label/store label products are usually made by the same production company.

5. What would it be If you had the power to make one global law that everyone had to follow?

In the words of Bob Newhart (RIP): “Stop it ! ”

1. If someone came to your town for the first time what restaurant would you take them to to show off what your town has to offer?

In Denver, just take a drive down Federal Blvd. Tons of Asian, Asian fusion, Mexican, and Latin restaurants that really captures the town and metroplex.

2. What experience do you think everyone should have experienced at least once in their lifetime?

Army Basic training and military service. Made all the difference in my life i so did not have my act together at 19-years old but a drill sargeant barking at you will get you straightened out in no time.

3. What do you typically have for breakfast?

Two soft bowled eggs on a toasted English muffin or toasted English muffin bread.

4. What books have you been reading lately?

I started down a re-read of Edgar Alan Poe and his short stories.

5. What’s the worst holiday?

Columbus Day – Yay! Genocide.

1. What everyday item has a hidden feature not everyone knows about?

There is this smaller but still accurate speaker located on your cell phone that you can use by putting the phone up to your ear, and when people speak to you, the entire conversation isn’t being eavesdropped by the line in the grocery store.

2. What is something you used to live and breathe for years but now don’t?

I used to buy CDs and try to be an artist completist, needing/wanting to have an artist’s entire oeuvre. Spotify or other streamers can do that for me now.

3. What book have you read that really needs to be turned into a movie?

There is a series of books by Britt author Jassper Fforde about Thursday Next, who works in the fictional world as local law enforcement and keeps order in books so the stories aren’t ruined for the “reader” folks. It’s a fun series to drop into and would be great on film.

4. If you could dive into a world of fiction and live there, what world would you choose?

Gatsby’s East Egg. All the parties and celebrations. What a fun ride that would be.

5. For city-living folks, what is the craziest thing you have seen?

When I worked downtown in Denver in the middle ’90s, there was a guy who would walk up and down Colfax naked. He was quite mentally troubled, and hopefully, he had gotten help, but to say the least, it was always startling to come upon him while running errands or going to lunch.