1. What are the top three things you like about your job? Top three dislikes?

• Likes:
  
  
  1. The people - I work with a fantastic team. Every person is skilled, has a professional work ethic, is friendly with a good sense of humor, and everybody works well together.
  
  
  2. The location - Georgia, Sweet Georgia. I owe my status as a voluntary southerner to this job.
  
  
  3. Psycho-nerd friendly - Not only do I get to work on a computer all day long, my primary job goal is to break stuff on it!


• Dislikes:
  
  
  1. Medicharade - Lowsy health coverage just added insult to injury by increasing in cost by almost 500%.
  
  
  2. Purchases - Getting programs, equipment, office supplies is just slightly more difficult than pulling teeth here. I've had an order for steno pads held for almost 4 months now. Steno pads. 4 months. I could buy them myself and expense them but I'd rather bend over and take it up the rectum with a nail gun first. It's the principle of the thing.
  
  
  3. HVAC - The heating and air conditioning blow (no pun intended). Heat is on G's side of the prairie, a/c is on mine. I freeze and he broils.
     

2. What do you wish you could do on your weekends?
Nothing. I would love to have a weekend where I did absolutely nothing. Wake up whenever, do whatever, sleep whenever. That would be so cool.

3. What architectural style appeals to you the most and why?
Post modern antedeluvian. I have no idea what that is but it sure sounds fancy, eh?

4. If your house was on fire and your family and pets were safe but you could only grab three things, what would they be?
First off I'd be leaving the birds and the fish in order to grab more than 3 things. Sheesh, get the priorities straight. Forget the dogs and cats, too. If they don't know to get out when the house is on fire then they can say hello to Darwin for me. Natural selection, baby. That's where it's at.

After keys, wallet and cell phone would come strongbox, box of albums and many CD's with our lives recorded upon them.

5. What was the last premonition you had come true?
With three kids they come on a daily basis. You just look around to see what they're doing and imagine the worst possible way it could come out. They generally fulfill that prophecy for you. Yesterday Bear and Bacon were riding Bacon's trike on the porch. I just knew that Bear was going to take them down the big front hill and plow into the railroad tie in front of the bushes. And they did. They didn't actually flip over the tie and fall down the front embankment through the bushes, which I had also thought they would do, so I guess that's just a partial premonition fulfillment. They'll probably take care of that last part today sometime.

6. What is love?
Crikey, that's a rough one. Maybe I should switch to the Friday Five so I won't get anything harder than "What's your favorite color and how did this change since you were a kid". Anyway, love is many things. Many splendored things, I guess. It's caring, nurturing, supporting and knowing you in turn are cared for, nurtured and supported. It's giving of yourself for no other reason than you want to do so. Most of all it's a touch, a glance, a smile or maybe a little unexpected kiss that makes you warm inside and requires no response because it just is what it is.