House of Eratosthenes

The rules:
1. Post the rules at the beginning.
2. Answer the questions only about yourself.
3. At the end of the post, tag five people and post their names, then go to their blogs and leave them a comment so they know they’ve been tagged. Ask them to read the sender’s blog.
4. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

What were you doing five years ago?
June 2003 — Lots and lots of traveling.

What are five things on your to-do list for today?
1. Wash the car.
2. Go to the bank to cash a check.
3. Make some important phone calls.
4. Put away some laundry.
5. Make love, and yes I have someone picked out.

What are five snacks you enjoy?
1. Pineapple
2. Jamba Juice
3. A plain bowl of cold cereal
4. Ice cream drumstick
5. Nuts ‘n bolts with Chex cereal and creamy peanut butter

What are five things you would do if you were a billionaire?
1. Build my dream house, and it would put Frank Lloyd Wright to shame
2. Make a big donation to Wounded Warriors
3. Buy a Harley-Davidson with all the accessories and get out of the house for a whole month
4. Check out Westminster Abbey
5. Get a Steyr-Mannlicher HS .50, go to Montana, and start splitting boulders in half from two miles away.

What are five of your bad habits?
1. Blogging, what I’m doing right this very second.
2. Complicating things that perhaps do not need to be.
3. Filing taxes late.
4. Believing people. I have a tendency to forget that just because intent-to-deceive is absent, doesn’t necessarily mean what’s being said is a hundred percent true.
5. Going too long without checking up on things outside of my comfort-circle. But then I guess we all do that to some extent, don’t we?

What are five places where you have lived?
1. Sacramento, California
2. Detroit, Michigan
3. Everett, Washington
4. Bellingham, Washington
5. Tempe, Arizona

What are five jobs you’ve had?
1. Project Manager
2. Senior Network Engineer
3. Consultant
4. Application Development Engineer
5. LAN Administrator

Five people I tag:
1. Misha
2. Rick
3. Gerard, who’s supposed to be sleeping right now, so I’ll make it optional for him and up it to six
4. Duffy
5. Cas
6. Karol

Curious….how much time did you spend in Detroit?

And more curious, when did that sojourn occur?
- karrde | 06/23/2008 @ 20:20
I drove in. I was insistent on taking Bessie with me. It was the beginning of December ’91, I remember because I saw a Newsweek or Time magazine in a gas station commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl. So I commuted two thousand miles to start my job.

I left the area ten months later because this hot contract came up out here in Sacto, Oct. of ’92.

Besides of which, I found there was very little to do for fun in the fair haired thity of detwoit. I mean, very little. If you’re not a Pistons fan, there’s even less. Maybe in those ten months I could’ve shown a better willingness to open my horizons, but looking back I have to say I don’t see where the opportunity availed itself. I didn’t settle in easily with Detroit.
- mkfreeberg | 06/23/2008 @ 21:18
I have some family from my wife’s side in Detroit. But the most evil person I ever met lives around there, too. We won’t go into that.

Pineapple and plain cold cereal. Mmmmm.

I’ve never ridden a motorcycle, but a little Bob Seger, a Harley, and some open road… I’m there. I’d do it. Of course, I’d probably be headed for mountains. But I could appreciate a lot of other places as well.

Blogging isn’t a weakness of yours … you add immensely to the public discourse. It may occupy too much of your time. I hope it doesn’t. But I and many others appreciate what you do in this bit of spare time. You, my friend, rock … in your own way in this area. And lots of others, I’m sure.

What??? No fast food jobs???

🙂
- philmon | 06/23/2008 @ 23:17
Besides of which, I found there was very little to do for fun in the fair haired thity of detwoit. I mean, very little. If you’re not a Pistons fan, there’s even less.

Red Wings!!

Our experiences were 180-out, Morgan. I spent ten years in Deetroit (’85 – ’95) and still look back fondly on that time. Good restaurants, solid people, an active music scene (if you knew where to look), wonderful old neighborhoods with interesting architecture (and affordable, too), and LOTSA cool cars.
- Buck | 06/24/2008 @ 11:40
Hey, I’m tryin’ to get a little shut eye over here, okay?
- vanderleun | 06/24/2008 @ 13:00
Not too surprised.

I grew up in the Detroit metro region, and I only pay attention to sports when the Red Wings get into the playoffs.

If you aren’t into “Car Culture”, there isn’t a lot in Detroit, I’ll admit.

Of course, I used to tell people that I was from Small Town X, which happened to be directly adjacent to Detroit…
- karrde | 06/27/2008 @ 10:36

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