The Modernish Father

After being out for a while, I need to ease back into this whole blogging thing. Since the writing chops are feeling a bit rusty today, I’ll do what most other bloggers do and just copy someone else’s idea. (Thanks, V!)

Sorry about the meme. Look for real stuff in this spot at some point.

1. What is your occupation right now? College webmaster
2. What color are your socks right now? White
3. What are you listening to right now? Westworld playing on a tv in the distance, my dog huffing and puffing in her sleep
4. What was the last thing that you ate? Pasta, one of those frozen Bertolli things
5. Can you drive a stick shift? Yep
6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? The robot lady on my voice mail system
7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Technically, no one sent this to me. But I do like the Val Pal.
8. How old are you today? 30 years, 10 months, 14 days
   
9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? Baseball
10. What is your favorite drink? Iced tea
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? No, and I’ll probably never have the chance to do so now.
12. Favorite food? Stilton steak from The Ore House in Vail
13. What is the last movie you watched? The Magnificent Seven
14. Favorite day of the year? My birthday. Not because it’s my birthday, but because it’s the beginning of the best part of the year – cooler weather, candy corn, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Boxing Day, etc.
15. How do you vent anger? Used to be eating, now it’s jogging. Much more productive, yo.
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? Probably my Snoopy doll
17. What is your favorite season? Autumn. Unfortunately it only lasts around 2-3 weeks a year around these parts.
18. Cherries or Blueberries? Blueberries
19. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? Um… sure?
20. Who is the most likely to respond? Probably my wife
21. Who is most likely not to respond? Flava Flav
22. Living arrangements? One wife, one son, one daughter, one dog, one cat in your typical suburban single-family home
23. When was the last time you cried? The day the music died
24. What is on the floor of your closet? Three flavors of shoes, probably some overflow from the dirty clothes hamper, cat fur
25. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? I’m not sending this to anyone, but much like Val, the person I’ve known the longest that will probably read this is Kristine.
26. What did you do last night? Treadmill, bicycle, shower, dinner, Magnificent Seven, zzzzz
27. What are you most afraid of? Lying comatose but aware in a hospital bed with the television stuck on Fox News
28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? Cheesy (I don’t think I’ve ever had a “spicy” hamburger)
29. Favorite dog breed? Greyhound
30. Favorite day of the week? Thursday
31. How many states have you lived in? Two, Texas and Colorado
32. Diamonds or pearls? Neither
33. What is your favorite flower? Audrey Jr. from Little Shop of Horrors

Fries at the bottom of the bag

• Quick – name a car that’s similar to a DeLorean! Chances are you didn’t say this one.
• Remember how I was complaining about incomplete headlines a few weeks ago? It’s still happening.
• One of our local TV stations wants viewers to submit news – unless they’re on a Mac.
• If the internet has taught us anything, it’s that some people don’t actually know common expressions.
• Word to the wise: always keep your webmaster happy. Otherwise, they’re likely to pull stuff like this. [Warning: bad, bad words!]