20 Questions Meme from Jenbachand
No tagging... I'm too slow to play tag anymore. :p
1. You've just died. What happens?
I would hope someone got the license plate number on that Mack truck.
2. What is your most guilty pleasure?
Gene Simmons Family Jewels... That guy's kids crack me up!
3. Favorite childhood cartoon?
Not really a cartoon, but anything from the Sid & Marty Kroft Hour.
4. What goes on your hotdog?
Slice of American Cheese, Heinz Ketchup and a touch of spicy mustard.
5. What was the last movie you saw, for pleasure, and would you recommend it?
No Country for Old Men, and to anyone looking for something outside of the normal Hollywood ending.
6. On balance, are you happy with your life as it is, would you change it a little or change it a lot?
I always accept things as they are, and try to leave every situation better than I came into it.
7. What's the one possession you USED TO have, but don't any more and wish you did? What happened to it?
A necklace that my grandmother gave me when I was 13. The chain broke and I lost the pendant; a half inch, heart shaped garnet.
8. What show would you personally be on and what would your role be?
Criminal Minds... I'd be that weird historian that keeps track of all the whack job cases over the years for compiling all of their statistics.
9. Name one person for whom you'd definitely take a bullet, and one for whom you definitely wouldn't.
I couldn't name just one person, my life is so full right now, that I would certainly do that for a great many people.
10. Worst case scenario?
When I turn 40 they refuse to perform the Total Knee Replacement and I'm forced to go another 5 years with the POS one I have. :(
11. What do you consider your greatest accomplishment?
Still being alive.
12. What's your greatest frustration?
The selfish and thoughtless acts of others.
13. For you only, not as a broad political statement: life imprisonment or death sentence?
Appropriately applied Death Sentence... It bothers me that the sentence is often so subjective, and not applied to the correct situations (mostly because of the money spent on high-priced lawyers).
14. Jury duty. Ever done it? What was it like? Wanna do it? Thoughts at all?
Almost 2 years ago I served on a capital murder trial. The trial lasted one week, at the end of which the 19 year old defendant was convicted and given a mandatory life sentence. And it was all over trying to make himself appear like a big time gang-banger when another young man asked him to remove his hat for his own safety.
15. You discover you've been drafted into military service (to a country to which you hold a citizenship). What do you do?
I'll think they were looking through my old tests and decided I was a greater threat as a civiliian, and wanted me buried under the Pentagon, regardless of my physical health. ;)
16. Which fictional character could you most see yourself marrying?
Signor Benedict
17. Describe the flag design of your personal utopia.
Green, with a blue bar separating it diagonally, small white stars on one side, crest on the other.
18. Do you have a motto? If yes which one?
Life's too short to live with assholes.
19. What's in your pocket right now? Conversely, if you have no pocket, what are the three items closest to your right hand, excluding computer hardware?
Including all pockets... Keys, cellphone, wallet, inhaler and the instructions for my Marshmallow Fun Launcher
20. What place most speaks to you?
There are two...
Pt. Lookout, MD. It's at the confluence of the Patuxent and Potomac Rivers at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, at the end of a small old growth forest in Southern Maryland. I can't explain it, but in that place I feel very connected to both the past and the future at the same time.
North Ridge of the ranch, Woodland Park, CO - At the southern edge of the Pike of National Forest is this great old family ranch, and the area known as the North Ridge is very special to me. I can sit up there and look down into the Basin, seeing the cattle grazing in one of the pastures, catch sight of the steeple atop the Big Barn over the next ridge, and all the way across the years of a family's struggle to live from the land in the Colorado high plains. I go there when I need to find a little peace in this world. It's become my touchstone over the years.