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The Friday Fives

1. What was your first job?
Me and a neighbo girl, Judy, had a window washing compny one summer and spent a whole season washing windows. We washed the windows each week at Safeway, an old folks home, a car parts store and various homes around town.

2. How much did you make?
We both made probably about $150.00 the whole summer. Oh, well. So much for the early entry in the entreprenuerial fortune.

3. Describe your least favorite co-worker of all time.
I can’t remember her name, maybe Sage can. She was this fat bastard at this teleconferencing company Sage and I both worked at. The obese gal was on our team and had some sort of super power whereby she could take all of the joy from a room just with her mere presence. You weren’t supposed to ask her any questions and never, ever touch or bother any of her things. Simple enough of a request, however her job was to aid and support us, her team members and she tended to hord all of the office supplies, so she created a bit of storm throughout the day we were kind of obligated to speak to her and ask her for things, like post in notes and a pencil. I am seething in rememberance as I type this.

4. What is your dream job?
Pro golfer. I don’t play golf, but really how cool is their life? A professional athlete lifestyle, played on a beautiful lawn, surrounded by awe inspriring scenary and a bar at the end of the game?

5. What do you currently do and do you like it?
My job in a nutshell: “Hey, you, new guy!. Stop doing that!” I am a call center supervisor and each day, I take part in removing a part of the soul from the staff of 150 formerly fine upstanding citizens. Ever see the movie Office Space? Well, I’m Lundberg.

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1. Are you more comfortable being the new kid or the experienced one?
The experienced one. I think often about changing jobs and careers but I really don’t like being the new guy. In my present job, with years of experience as a manager, I am still the fumbling new guy trying to fit in in the new culture, after six months. Let me be the experienced one any d
ay.

2. When is the last time you were the new kid?
See above? In the recent post 9/11 world, i have had three new jobxs and each time I have been the new guy. In some environments, it was an easy fit, in others and constant struggle to let the real Roy fly.

3. If we met face to face, right now, what would my first impression be of you?
Freak who needs a haircut! Seriously, I don’t know. I can be down right charming and tend to go for the punchline immediately to disarm you. That said, I do know that it takes a few meets before people “get” me.

4. Who is the last person you said goodbye to?
Zac, at work last night as we left the building.

5. Joey, Jordan, Donnie, Danny or Jon?
I am not a Jordan! I guess I would have to go with Danny, for no real reason whatsoever.

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1. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
It is a big birthday extravaganza weekend. I need to find out the plan, buy a present and go to the celebration. Oh yeah, and vacume.

2. What were the last three things you purchased?
Gas, bottled water, prescription refills.

3. The name of your very first best friend?
I am surrounded by many, many dear dear and close friends. But the very best friend, who has joined me in the pledge to destroy the other’s porn in case of a major tragedy or indcident, that would be Ed. (Oops. I totally read this question wrong! My very first Best friend was a neighbor kid, Clancy Kingsbury. We were inseparable up until his family moved to Rapid City, SD. )

4. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
” . . .but, I coulda used a little more cowbell. Gene, really explore the studio space this time. I mean really,explore the space. I like what I am hearing. – Bruce Dickenson

5. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say?
“OMCSTYL” = OMC (Old Man Car) Style.

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1. What is the best thing about the city in which you live? What is the worst?
Denver, and especially its climate, is one the best kept secrets in the world. A really nice piece of heavan. One of the worst things about Denver? No real water. How perfect would this town be if it had a waterfront!

2. Describe an idea or invention of yours that you would like to see turned into reality.
A lot of good stuff is already out there. But in a real Rube-Goldburg way, looking much like a Dr. Suess machine, I envision a morning, grooming, breakfast making, coffee brewing system that flings from bed, to shower, to closet to the table and ready to eat some breakfast and start the day – with no effort on my part whatsoever.

3. If you could strike one word from the English language, which word would you choose and why?
Well, there are so many arent’ they. But the word that should be striken, because in fantasy world it would no longer exist would be Cancer. Either that or Murder.

4.If the world had a front porch, what would you do on it?
Stare at the stars and wave to my friendly Martian neighbors. Delightful Martini always on hand.

5. Did you think that being an adult would be cool?
I have always anticipated the next stage in life. I am 41 years old now and have no problem accepting the new challenges, wonder, limitations and prospects with being a full fledged adult.

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1. Can you share a tale of a favorite summer cookout/get together?2. What is a favorite summer ritual of yours?
Of late, I think it is the annual pilgrimage to the gay rodeo in Jefferson County. What a spectacle. And cheap! Well, that and gallons and gallons of gin.

3. After a long hot summer day, what is your favorite way to quench your thirst?
Gallons and gallons of gin. Heh. Seriously though – ahem. I enjoy Gin or Vodka and tonic in the summer and I enjoy sitting on a deck of a nice bistro or restaurant on a Saturday afternoon and getting my snoot full.

4. The 4th of July is coming up, what plans, if any, do you have?
It is odd, but there don’t seem to be many plans. I have been invited up to the mountains to see some jam bands. And I am contemplating a trip to Greeley to see some rodeo, music and fireworks. And I am sure someone is going toss together a barbecue.

5. What are you looking forward to doing most before the summer ends?
I want to get up to my mom’s house and spend some time on the ranch – take in the beauty and solitude. I had a pretty action packed June already and some unplanned downtime is now my main goal.

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1. What was the last dream that you had about?
Last night, the dream was a bit spooky. All of us Nextel folks (soon to be Sprint folks) were climbing a big hill to this sky scraper and taking the stairs up to a human resources office to apply for a job at a new company. Frankly, I didn’t like where that dream was going! But the coffee, in the dream, was divine. And my dad was there too – fishing and drinking a diet Coke.

2. Does it hold any significant meaning to you?
Well, yeah. We are going through a merger and work and so yeah, I am certain my subconscious is concerned about a lay off.

3. Do you dream in color or black and white?
Full, head on color, baby! I take very vitamin C and vitamin rich daily nutritional supplement shake twice a day and regardless of any health benefits, the Reliv shake I faithfully consume gives me the wackiest and richest-in-detail dreams!

4. What is the most frightening dream you ever had?
I had a very traditional falling of a cliff dream many years a go that startled me out of my slumber. And years later I still remember it.

5. Is there one dream that stays clear in your mind despite the fact it was more than a few years ago?
See above. Jeez, who screens these questions anyway. Oh wait. I do. I do have another recurring dream. More in that almost awake but not stage in the early morning – when I want to just go back to sleep. I will day dream myself back to sleep dreaming of winning the lottery and how I will spend the money. Puts me right to sleep.

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Friday Fives

1. In your opinion, what characteristics make a good father? Also, what traits make a good grandfather?
Patience and realistic expectations. Dads who expect their son to be the football star or relive their youth vicariously through their kids are kind of lame and overbearing.

2. Do you have any special plans for this Father’s Day weekend?
Not really. Probably just a quick call home to the Ranch to wish Jim well.

3. Who’s your favorite “television dad”?
Andy Griffith, followed by Dick Van Dyke.

4. What’s the most important thing that your father ever told you?
Career advice Do what you want to do and love, make sure you are happy and whatever you do, don’t go to work for the Post Office. I probably could, and in fact have on this blog already, lapse into long essays on GW, but not today. Although he was in my dream last night. He was getting the dandelions out of the front yard while mom and Jim packed up the motorhome to go to the ranch. There was so much going on in that specific dream that I could keep a therapist busy for years.

5. Is your father difficult to buy Father’s Day gifts for? Why/why not? What types of things does he like?
He used to be. We always got him a tie, since he wore one to work everyday and really enjoyed the ones we got him. For my stepfather, a gift card to Home Depot is still the best thing ever. They will never be done building the house.

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1. How old were you when you got your driver’s license? Learned to drive a stick shift?
My first car was a family hand-me-down. It was a stick shift with “3 on the tree.” That’s what I learned to drive on when I 15 years old. I wonder why they don’t do the gear shift on the steering column for stick shifts anymore?

2. Who taught you how to drive?
Mostly mom. Dad took me out a few times, but he never had the patience with me. Mom is the one who ended up going around with me the most when I had my driver’s permit. I had driver’s education in school and was actually taught to drive by the father of a minor celebrity. In my memory, it involved lots of yelling and cussing. Although that isn’t actually true, because Mr. C is a rather gentle man with no real cussing vocabulary. Interesting how the mind changes the facts after many, many years.

3. Cars: first, current and pie-in-the-sky future?
Current: The OMC! (Old Man Car) A rather large Ford Taurus. In the Future: Something real sporty – an obscure Japanese thing, perhaps. Or maybe a 1960s muscle car vintage coup of some make/model.

4. Napster/Kazaa/Filesharing: A crime or the Best Thing Ever?
Best Thing Ever! As a result of file share in late 90s and early millennium, I found more artists I had never paid attention to and as a result ended up buy more music than ever before. Now, with most of the P2P gone, I am buying less music. Just goes to show ya.

5. You’ve just inherited $35 million dollars. Show me how you’d spend it.
Pay off Mom and Jim’s ranch, buy a nice big home – one of those fancy ones on 6th Ave. Drop a bunch into long term steady investing . And travel. Many of us have talked at great length of the world tour of food.
To paraphrase Springsteen – “Mister the day the lottery comes, I am flying on jet plane for lunch with Ho Chi Minh.”

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1. If you could be famous for 15 minutes, what would the headline read?
Roy’s Leads Globe In Nose Picking (Not what I want to be famous for, just the unfortunate reality.)

2. Do you think fame would change you?
Absolutely. I would have a cleaning woman, and a personal trainer. I would be a whole different animal. I mean, really, what is fame? Mother Theresa fame? Micheal Jackson fame? I think if I could be famous for perhaps writing and had the chance to reflect on fame in that respect, then sure, fame would change me, because I would no longer be a working stiff and instead would focus on writing more and more as a vocation, rather than my current state of writing as a time wasting hobby. But if I had to have the kind of fame of Michael Jordan or Arnold Schwarzenegger, I think that fame would also change me and my reaction would be flee from it in hopes of returning to my actual life with real friends and family surrounding me.

3. Has your name ever appeared in the newspaper? ..what for?
Yes. Besides my stint as a newspaper reporter – where my name was on the byline or on my column, I also had the rare, rare Craig honor of appearing the Northwest Colorado Daily Press as a young boy in High School, when I was named Citizen of the Day. That’s right, I am saying it right now – I was the FIRST minor celebrity. Eat that, y’all!

4. Would you like to be famous for *more* than 15 minutes?
Nah. Fame ain’t that important to me. Being comfortable and able to do what I want is. Depending on the degree of fame, it looks to be so uncomfortable and down right lonely.

5. If you could perform one act of Good while you were famous, what would it be?
One act? End War. It is the cause of some much that is wrong. No more war would work to end hunger and greed and a lot of problems stem from them.

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The Friday Fives

1. What was your favorite breakfast cereal when you were a kid?
Cap’n Crunch, followed by a close second with Lucky Charms.

2. What is the best toy/prize you ever got in a box of cereal or because of sending in UPC’s?
I remember one summer Mom and I saved box tops from King Vitamin cereal and then sent away for his castle and village play set, a monstrosity of cardboard cut outs of midevil fun. It was the best toy ever, I played with it for hours and hours and entire summer. Mom said it was the best $1.50 she ever spent.

3. How do you take your eggs (scrambled, over easy, egg beaters)?
I like my eggs either poached or basted.

4. What is your favorite breakfast meat (bacon, ham, sausage)?
BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON . . . and occassionally some chorizo.

5. What is your favorite spot (local or chain restaurant) for breakfast and where is it located?
Of late, it has been the Bull and Bush – Double Bloody Mary’s and Screwdrivers are the special and the Hollandaise sauce is real, it is fresh and it is homemade. mmmmmm.