Category: Friday Fives

1. What is your favorite board game?
Scotland Yard, perhaps. You seek out a mysterious Mister X on a board layout of London. I recently bought a new game that is all the rave in Europe but I haven’t played it yet – Settlers of Cattan. Game night, anyone?

2. What is your favorite card game?
Mom and Jim have several card games they play that I have never seen before. One of them is called Head and Foot – a canasta meets Gin Rummy thing. It is a lot of fun.

3. Do you like to play games on the computer or on a gaming system?
I am not a huge computer or console gamer. I have an old Atari Pong Game an for Christmas I got a cool Atari console system to play old school games of my youth, like breakout and pong. But I generally don’t play to many computer games.

4. If so, what is your favorite game to play?
I like computer chess and I recently bought a Microsoft Flight Simulator -here is a tip, the helicopter is nearly impossible to fly.

5. Do you like to play games with people or to play them alone?
Surround me with people. Along time? That is what porn is for.

1. Have you ever gone skinny-dipping?
Yes. In Germany and also on the coast of Spain.

2. When you’re home alone, do you strip down to get comfortable? Do you ever go out without underwear (bra and/or panties) because it’s more comfortable?
I tried a phase of “going commando” in college. Too much chafing.
Pants need that extra layer.

3. Have you ever/Do you use the bathroom with the door open? Are you comfortable using public facilities?
I have no qualms about a public bathrooms, however I prefer a door.

4. When getting intimate with your significant other, lights on or off?
Off — I am sure there are some humorous stories surrounding such eve nts . . . but . . .

5. How comfortable are you with body exposure/nudity of others? Group shower rooms?, topless/nude beaches?, breastfeeding in public?
I generally walk around on weekends wearing either assless chaps or a thong covered only with an ankle lenth fringed sueade vest. I would have say I am comfortable.

1. You love to meet new people.
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Not sure
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

Generally, yes. Will i go out and make them my new BFF, no, but I do enjoy new company now and again.

2. You pick up on other people’s moods easily – and you are quite sensitive to them.
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Not sure
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

I consider my self quite emotionally capable and can generally detect disturbances in the force. Yes, I am sensitive to others. However, my sense of humor is quite dark and callous and unforgiving. The moods I detect are often someone mad at something I have said.

3. You have always been a natural leader in groups.
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Not sure
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

I have usually held a leadership role in nearly every job I have had. At work, leader. Weekends and aftework, I am usually able to downshif and go with the flow of the group and let someone else take the reins.

4. You relate well to your peers – as well as people who are quite different from you.
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Not sure
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

I have diverse and complicated set of friends – a colorful composite.

5. You tend to think that you set a good example – and that people admire you.
• Strongly agree
• Agree
• Not sure
• Disagree
• Strongly disagree

All that people admire about me is my ability to shuck responsibility and my embracing of slothness. It is indeed a gift.

My life would not be the same without this…

1. person:
Bill Murray, my fashion and comedic icon.

2. place:
The Yampa River valley deep in the corners of Moffat County – a land that time has truly forgot. Eery, high plains desert. Meandering river canyons. Sagebrush and lore.

. . . either that or the Sonic Drive Thru.

3. event:
Grand Old Roy Days. (I was turned down by Denver for my parade permit this year. Stay tuned, we may have a parade in the works through downtown Sheridan.)

4. self indulgence:
Either Homemade Lasagana or Homemade Cheesecake. Both are decadence personified.

5. Would you rather spend the day with The Founding Fathers or the casts of Cannonball Run 1 and 2.
Are you kidding me? An old fart bag like John Adams versus a box of fun like Dom Deluise? Easy answer – Bring on Burt Reynolds.

1. What are your favorite five movies.
Casablanca, Creator, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Usual Suspects, Miller’s Crossing.

2. Who are your favorite five musicians.
Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Warren Zevon, Jeff Tweedy, Magic Sam.

3. What are your favorite five books.
Slaughterhouse Five, The Great Gatsby, A Fan’s Notes, Leaves of Grass, Tom Sawyer.

4. Would you rather be able to consume fatty foods without gaining weight – or – be able to have unprotected sex with getting sexual diseases?
Bring on the fatty. I could move into the Brewery Bar or any other Mexican food establishment and live guilt free!

5. What are your favorite five desitinations.
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Steamboat Rock, in Echo Park on The Yampa River, Stuttgart’s main city park, Mom’s ranch on a late summer afternoon, The Pre Columbia collection of the Denver Art Museum.

1. What’s a song you’d enjoy screaming along to as you drove down the highway?
The Mary Tyler Moore theme song is fun – “You’re Gonna Make It After All!” Either that or “Rosalita” by The Boss.

2. What is your favorite place/type of environment
to relax?
A Saturday afternoon at a tavern.

3. What are the best kind of dreams?
Lucid dreams at the twilight of the morn.

4. If you had to start your life all over, what are three things you would change?
More courage, more stubborness, more greed.

5. Do you have a lucky charm?
Kinda. I freak out a bit when I am not wearing my dad’s ring. I like to keep him close to me.

1. Have you ever taken a red-eye (i.e., overnight) flight, train, or bus? Why or why not? Do you prefer to take a red-eye or travel during the day?
I remember once taking a bus trip in the dark of night to my grandmother’s house in Rifle. I think mom would ship us off by bus a couple of times a year, now that I think about it.
We drove to Las Vegas once under the canopy of darkness – fugitives from Dawn!
I prefer traveling during the day.

2. What makes your eyes red? When was the last time you had red eyes?
Pollen. Before this week’s snow storm, and in between doses of Claritin, I was Red Eye all the time.

3. Have you ever had pink eye? If yes, tell us a bit more about it.
I had it in school once, don’t recall much about it. It seems to break out in our office every few weeks or so, but I have dodged that bullet.

4. What makes you see red?
The anger always comes back to turn signals – why are they so hard to use for most drivers.

5. What was the last thing your eyes read (besides these questions)?
A short story – “Jon” by George Saunders. It can’t really be summarized in just a few words.

1. If you were a hobo, what would your hobo name be?
Ol’ Big Liver. “That’s not my belly – that’s my belly.”

2. If you were a great explorer, what would you explore?
The deep recesses of Adam’s mind. There is some rich, unmined territory in there, certainly.

3. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.” (George Carlin) When have you had such a moment.
There is a look out point on the East Portal of the Black Canyon of The Gunnison, down in South Central Colorado. The view of deep canyon with the Colorado River landscape in the background is absolutely breathtaking.

4. Describe the coolest thing you have gotten in the mail lately.
My Sprint Treo 700p. It is just cooliest thing yet. Many buttons and gadgets for the gadget boy.

5. Would you rather get drunk dialed by Gandi or Martin Luther King.
Gandi. I once went of a four day bender with Dear Father and we had such a great time. He is one great party drunk. You just know when he drunk dials the stories will be grand indeed. Next time he calls, I will have him share his time in Calcutta with the Cat House Whores. It is actual cats and the story is so bizarre.

1. What do you like most: Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays (and why)?
With my new schedule at work, all three are my new days off, which totally rocks. I think Friday and Sunday are my favorite days off.

2. What was the best weekend of your life?
We took a whirlwind weekend trip in a Jeep CJ7 across Europe while stationed in the Army. We drove to London from Stuttgart and barely had enough time to turn around and get back in time for morning formation on Monday. Best.weekend.ever.

3. What weekend of the year is your favorite?
Memorial day weekend is also known as Grand Old Roy days – my multi day birthday celebration. Please, no wagering.

4. Would you rather live in a world where there was no such thing as pain, but also no such thing a sports – or – where there was no such hting as world hunger but also no such thng as Jim K. Bullock?
A world without Bulluck – we don’t need him, as funny as he was on “The Square.” March madness is upon us, so I say let’s go pain free.

5. Describe your ideal Saturday night.
Dancing, at the disco, getting ready for the big dance contest.

1. If you could retroactively erase one TV show from the history of entertainment, which one would you choose?
Well, it sure as hell wouldn’t be Walker: Texas Ranger, that is for sure. Currently running in syndication, I turn to it often for life tips and motivation. Chuck Norris is my life coach!

2. Are you more like your mother or your father?
I sway. I have many mannerisms that mimic dear old mom. As I get older, I begin to resemble my father. I stand like him and walk like him as well. My temperament is more like that of my mother.

3. If you could take a year-long vacation, what would you do?
Move to Central Europe, learn German and take in museums, churches and the general vibe of the life in one of my favorite places. I left Germany nearly 20 years ago and such an opportunity to return for a while would be an ideal thing.

4. Would You Rather… Fight Me -or- Make Sweet Love?

(Things to consider: I might be a 16 year old Homecoming Queen; or I might be a 43 year old postal worker who enjoys anal play.)
At 42 years old, I am a consummate coxman and will always go for the love making. In the words of the great prophet Micheal Jackson, I am a lover, not a fighter.

5. Can you think of a reason not to answer this question?
It is 8:20 in the morning and I have to be at work by 9 am!!