1. Who is your hero?
Probably my dad. He's even tempered, decent to people, fair, and smart.
2. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
The middle of nowhere with plenty of water and space to grow things.
3. What is your biggest fear?
Other people getting hurt.
4. What is your favorite family vacation?
Probably Japan. Sucked at the time, and I definitely wouldn't do it again without GPS, and knowing some basic phrases.
5. What would you change about yourself if you could?
My physical health at the moment. Messed up back, neck shoulder, and renal system?
6. What really makes you angry?
Ingratitude, ignorance, biggotry.
7. What motivates you to work hard?
My long term and short term goals. Remembering what it was like to be unemployed and the people that helped me through that.
8. What is your favorite thing about your career?
Helping other people.
9. What is your biggest complaint about your job?
Tight work space, weird hours on some days, it's a little dangerous.
10. What is your proudest accomplishment?
Surviving.
11. What is your child's proudest accomplishment?
She didn't eat anybody!
12. What is your favorite book to read?
Probably an instructional book, but that's not to say they're my favorite book.
13. What makes you laugh the most?
Well timed wit.
14. What was the last movie you went to? What did you think?
Force Awakens. I thought it was pretty dependent on call backs and nostalgia, and really lacked it's own identity. But at least it was better than 1, 2 and 3.
15. What did you want to be when you were small?
A dad.
16. What does your child want to be when he/she grows up?
A big napping dog.
17. If you could choose to do anything for a day, what would it be?
Cook.
18. What is your favorite game or sport to watch and play?
Baseball to watch. Calvinball to play.
19. Would you rather ride a bike, ride a horse, or drive a car?
Drive a car. Bad for the environment, but I've only ridden a horse once.
20. What would you sing at Karaoke night?
Campy 80's songs that no one would expect me to know.
21. What two radio stations do you listen to in the car the most?
Choices are very limited in the boonies. I usually go with classic rock or alternative.
22. Which would you rather do: wash dishes, mow the lawn, clean the bathroom, or vacuum the house?
Ugh. Wash dishes. More immediate.
23. If you could hire someone to help you, would it be with cleaning, cooking, or yard work?
Yard work, my back is fucked.
24. If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
A massive banquet of everything. HAH! Take that.
25. Who is your favorite author?
J.D. Salinger.
26. Have you ever had a nickname? What is it?
I have. "Ace", "Chief", "Rat" or "Road Kill".
27. Do you like or dislike surprises? Why or why not?
I do not. Anxious people don't like suprises.
28. In the evening, would you rather play a game, visit a relative, watch a movie, or read?
Yes.
29. Would you rather vacation in Hawaii or Alaska, and why?
Alaska. I love snow.
30. What's your greatest strength?
Pure determination, an analytical mind and an overactive imagination.
31. Who would you want to be stranded with on a deserted island?
A shipbuilding material engineer/master navigator/survivalist.
32. If money was no object, what would you do all day?
Garden, read, play video games, fuck, and cook.
33. If you could go back in time, what year would you travel to?
Most people say they'd kill Hitler.
34. How would your friends describe you?
Stoic with weird bursts of hilarity.
35. What are your hobbies?
Building models, drawing, writing, video games, reading.
36. What is the best gift you have been given?
My family.
37. What is the worst gift you have received?
The rest of my family.
38. Aside from necessities, what one thing could you not go a day without?
My doggy!
39. List two pet peeves.
Eating at your desk, snacks or a full meal.
Asking me for the same thing after I've refused.
40. Where do you see yourself in five years?
Maybe building onto a house, raising some stuff to eat, and storing up vast stacks of cash.
41. How many pairs of shoes do you own?
Dress, boots, casual.
42. If you were a super-hero, what powers would you have?
The ability to stop time. I like to stop and think a while.
43. What would you do if you won the lottery?
Build my ranch, buy my brother a game studio, pay back my folks, donate the rest.
44. What form of public transportation do you prefer? (air, boat, train, bus, car, etc.)
Train.
45. What's your favorite zoo animal?
The wild kind.
46. If you could go back in time to change one thing, what would it be?
Most people still say kill Hitler.
47. If you could share a meal with any 4 individuals, living or dead, who would they be?
David Bowie, The Dalai Lamma, Thomas Paine, Martin Luther King Jr.
48. How many pillows do you sleep with?
One.
49. What's the longest you've gone without sleep (and why)?
4-ish days. I was working full time, taking care of a new puppy, and going taking accelerate summer courses. I was slipping in and out of awareness, hallucinating, and losing huge chunks of time.
50. What's the tallest building you've been to the top in?
Sear's Tower.
51. Would you rather trade intelligence for looks or looks for intelligence?
I think I'm in a pretty good balance right now.
52. How often do you buy clothes?
Very rarely.
53. Have you ever had a secret admirer?
I have. Several times. They were usually a bit creepy.
54. What's your favorite holiday?
Halloween. Huge festival in my home town.
55. What's the most daring thing you've ever done?
Fucked in the back of a car at a public park.
56. What was the last thing you recorded on TV?
O_o That was probaly 20 years ago.
57. What was the last book you read?
Hydroponics, a basic beginner's guide.
58. What's your favorite type of foreign food?
Spanish, Morroccan, Indian, Chinese, Italian. In that order.
59. Are you a clean or messy person?
Depends on the environment and motivation.
60. Who would you want to play you in a movie of your life?
Ian McKellan or Patrick Stewart, or myself. Who else would I pick?
61. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
Depends on the degree of panic in that morning. Sometimes 6 minutes. Some days I'm never ready.
62. What kitchen appliance do you use every day?
Stove.
63. What's your favorite fast food chain?
In-N-Out. Quick, consistent, good.
64. What's your favorite family recipe?
One I didn't come up with? My mom's sauerbraten.
65. Do you love or hate rollercoasters?
Love, but not as much as I did 20 years ago.
66. What's your favorite family tradition?
Xmas morning brunch.
67. What is your favorite childhood memory?
Heh, my first kiss on the playground.
68. What's your favorite movie?
Ikiru.
69. How old were you when you learned Santa wasn't real? How did you find out?
7. I pried it from my super honest and awkward dad.
70. Is your glass half full or half empty?
It's a glass. It'll do, or it won't and I'll die.
71. What's the craziest thing you’ve done in the name of love?
Attempted to endure a physically and emotionally abusive relationship.
72. What three items would you take with you on a deserted island?
A boat, a GPS, and barrels full of water/food.
73. What was your favorite subject in school?
English.
74. What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten?
Neon orange sea slug.
75. Do you collect anything?
Giant Robot models from Mobile Suit Gundam. Squished pennies.
76. Is there anything you wished would come back into fashion?
No, then y'all would dress like me.
77. Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
Extreme introvert.
78. Which of the five senses would you say is your strongest?
Touch.
79. Have you ever had a surprise party? (that was an actual surprise)
Nope.
80. Are you related or distantly related to anyone famous?
Not that I know of. My dad's adoptive family came over on the mayflower. If that counts.
81. What do you do to keep fit?
Yoga. Diet.
82. Does your family have a “motto” – spoken or unspoken?
"Learn something new every day".
83. If you were ruler of your own country what would be the first law you would introduce?
I'd probably institute certain social/economic guarantees for all peoples' wellfare.
84. Who was your favorite teacher in school and why?
Mr. Fischer. He taught me a lot, and we'd smoke on the back patio of the building and talk philosophy/literature.
85. What three things do you think of the most each day?
This girl. My doggy. My goals.
86. If you had a warning label, what would yours say?
Damage goods, please handle with care.
87. What song would you say best sums you up?
"Bitches Love Me" by MSI
"Soul Sucking Jerk" by Beck
88. What celebrity would you like to meet at Starbucks for a cup of coffee?
Leonardo Dicaprio, so I can scald his smug, oscar-begging, bastardy face with that shitty overpriced brown swill.
89. Who was your first crush?
Probably my babysitter. She was a student athlete, and had red hair.
90. What's the most interesting thing you can see out of your office or kitchen window?
Cows. I know right?
91. On a scale of 1-10 how funny would you say you are?
8.
92. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Building a massive giant robot army.
93. What was your first job?
Hotel overnight clerk.
94. If you could join any past or current music group which would you want to join?
Probably some obscure blues man's band, so I could pick his brain on life and the blues.
95. How many languages do you speak?
Some latin, some spanish, most english.
96. What is your favorite family holiday tradition?
You asked this already, but I'll give you my second- Blowing shit up and starting fires with my brother on the 4th.
97. Who is the most intelligent person you know?
... I don't wanna sound like a smarmy fuckhead, but probably me.
98. If you had to describe yourself as an animal, which one would it be?
My mother named me Stone Bear, but I'm probably most like a fox. Mostly solitary, a little skittish, mystical, and full of guile.
99. What is one thing you will never do again?
Drive more than 3 feet without buckling my seatbelt.
100. Who knows you the best?
My brother.
