Friday Fives

1. What Is Your Most Prized Material Possession?

My stereo speakers. I bought these monsters in 1988 and they still sound better than anything I've heard to date. Big, bulky and unwieldy, I will nonetheless amp those woofers and tweeters until they burst in a cacophony of sound.

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?

A quick search through the files in my head ( my god it's dusty in here! ) leads me to my collection of Star Wars comic books which I collected from 1979-1981. There may be something from an earlier time, but its the first thing I can recall without digging through all my stuff.

3. Are you a packrat?

Sort of. I've kept a few things that take me down Memory Lane from time to time and some odds and ends from my childhood. I'm not particularly sentimental; I don't feel I need "things" to recall my past and besides, my vague memory edits my past into a much more pleasing and abridged version.

As concerns everyday life, I don't really stash stuff away. I routinely clean out my wardrobe at least twice a year, although I do hold onto some stuff that will, quite frankly, come back into vogue. Then how cool will I be? I may be 60, but I'll be fashionable dammit!

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?

I like a clean house, especially since I have a very liberal "10 second rule" as concerns food hitting the floor. While our house isn't a museum, it is tidy and relatively clutter-free. However, my ever-growing collection of CDs is threatening to take over the living room and has metastasized into the bedroom.

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?

Not really. If there is a Themed Room per se, it would be our reading alcove off the living room. We call it our Cost Plus/World Market World Tour Room. We essentially have a mix of bogus things on display that we have picked up from said stores and some genuine things that we have picked up in our travels.

Friday Fives

1. What book has had the most significant impact on your life?

Curiously enough, the Holy Bible, for it was this book that helped me to form my views on life. At a rather early age ( around 10 ) I began to realize that:

1. the Bible was a essentially a collection of morality tales, kind of like Aesop's Fables but with a decidedly wackier twist. To wit: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, a world-wide flood and the erection of a tower to the heavens are just some of the more fantastical elements in this "historical document". But beyond all this fantasy is a book which generally gives instructions on how to live a better life, much like the hundreds of recipes in my Mr. Boston's Bartender Guide----- and who can say that's a bad thing?
   
2. people who took the Bible literally were just as wacky as the stories contained in it. I found these people to be uninformed about the world about them and generally ignorant and thus found myself attracted to non-church-going folk, ergo my assorted and motley friends that have drifted in and out of my life over the years.
   

2. What is the worst lie you've ever told?

I take the 5th. Some things do not belong on a public blog.


3. If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?

I plan on being cremated and allowing the winds to scatter my remains to the four corners of the earth. Think of it as a delicate sprinkling of Fairy Dust over the entire globe. If I had to write an epitaph though, it would be: Have I Been Raptured Yet?

4. If you could have chosen you name what would it have been?

Actually, I have always liked my middle name--Christopher. I contemplated using it when moving here, but its probably a good thing I didn't, as several of my friends are named Chris or Christopher. Did you know that Christopher means "full of Christ"? We soooooo didn't get *that* memo.

5. What is in the trunk, or back, of your car?

A spare tire and jumper cables and a tarp. Don't ask what the tarp is for....................