Hey again, kids. Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted. Hope you haven’t missed my sterling prose too much. I’ve been working on a nice long recap of Anne’s and my Yellowstone snowmobiling adventure, and I was planning to post it tonight, but…<\/p>\n
There’s always a “but” when computers are involved, isn’t there? In this case, the “but” refers to the way I somehow lost three-quarters of the entry when I tried to e-mail the part I wrote at work this afternoon to myself so I could finish it tonight here at home. I’m hoping I can recover it tomorrow when I get into the office. If I can’t, I’m going to be a very unhappy blogger, because I thought what I’d done was quite good. For a change. I haven’t been terribly proud of my recent writing here at Simple Tricks; this entry, however, seemed to be going very well.<\/p>\n
In any event, I’m long overdue to give you guys something<\/i> — I’m surprised my three loyal readers aren’t banging their tin cups against the bars by this time — but about all I have to give you tonight is another of those e-mail survey thingies that occasionally makes a circle of the ‘net. You know, those long lists of random questions that try to elicit trivial responses. It’s kind of lame, I know, but it’s quick content, and you may learn something interesting about moi<\/i>. Hopefully, I’ll find my travel piece waiting for me tomorrow and I’ll be able to finish it and get it up to you before tomorrow night. In the meantime, enjoy the trivia…<\/p>\n
Hey again, kids. Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted. Hope you haven’t missed my sterling prose too much. I’ve been working on a nice long recap of Anne’s and my Yellowstone snowmobiling adventure, and I was planning to post it tonight, but… There’s always a “but” when computers are involved, isn’t there? In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-and-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. First name?<\/b> Reginald
\n2. Were you named after anyone?<\/b> My father
\n3. Do you wish on stars?<\/b> No, it never does any good.
\n4. When did you last cry?<\/b> Over the weekend, when I saw Brokeback Mountain<\/i>
\n5. Do you like your hand writing?<\/b> Sure… it’s not neat, but it works.
\n6. What is your favorite lunch meat?<\/b> I don’t know. Salami?
\n7. What is your birth date?<\/b> 9\/15\/69
\n8. What is your most embarrassing CD?<\/b> The Best of Meco<\/i><\/a>, a compilation of 70s-vintage disco remixes of popular film music from the era, notably Star Wars<\/i> and The Empire Strikes Back<\/i>
\n9. Do you have a journal?<\/b> Does a blog count? I gave up the handwritten journal a couple years ago.
\n10. Do you use sarcasm a lot?<\/b> Doesn’t everybody?
\n11. What are your nicknames?<\/b> Not aware that I have any.
\n12. Would you bungee jump?<\/b> Under the right circumstances, maybe.
\n13. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?<\/b> No choice, I wear ankle-high Doc Marten boots.
\n14. Do you think that you are strong?<\/b> My first instinct is to say, “Hell, no.” But then I start wondering, “strong how? What kind of strength? Emotional? Physical? Opinion-wise? Odor-wise?” And then I arrive back at, “Hell, no.”
\n15. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?<\/b> Ben ‘n’ Jerry’s Cherry Garcia
\n16. Shoe Size?<\/b> 11-1\/2 or 12, depending on the brand
\n17. Red or pink?<\/b> Red
\n18. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?<\/b> My weight. Same as everybody else in the Western Hemisphere. Refer to Question #15.
\n19. Who do you miss most?<\/b> Friends I’ve lost track of. You know who you are.
\n20. Do you want everyone you send this to, to send it back?<\/b> N\/A here in the blogosphere.
\n21. What color pants and shoes are you wearing?<\/b> Black pants (Levi’s), brown leather boots (the aforementioned Doc Martens).
\n22. What are you listening to right now?<\/b> The hum of my computer.
\n23. What was the last thing you ate?<\/b> A fistful of kettle corn.
\n24. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?<\/b> Hell, I can’t remember any crayon colors. It’s been about a thousand years since I last colored.
\n25. What is the weather like right now?<\/b> Dark.
\n26. Last person you talked to on the phone?<\/b> My mother.
\n27. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?<\/b> Hair and clothing.
\n28. Do you like the person who sent this to you?<\/b> Yes – at least I always did back when we still knew each other. (I received this from an old high-school friend that is trying to get reacquainted.)
\n29. Favorite Drinks?<\/b> Jameson’s Irish whisky on the rocks, caffe mocha coffee beverage, Coke in a glass bottle (preferably the foreign-made stuff that has sugar in it instead of corn syrup).
\n30. Favorite sport?<\/b> I dislike pretty much all sports.
\n31. Hair Color?<\/b> What’s left of it is brown.
\n32. Eye Color?<\/b> Brown
\n33. Do you wear contacts?<\/b> No
\n34. Favorite Food?<\/b> A really good Philly cheesesteak<\/a>.
\n35. Last Movie You Watched?<\/b> Brokeback Mountain<\/i>.
\n36. Favorite Day Of The Year?<\/b> The last warm day of Indian summer before autumn bites you in the leg.
\n37. Scary movies or happy endings?<\/b> Like ’em both
\n38. Summer or winter?<\/b> Like ’em both
\n39. Hugs or kisses?<\/b> Like ’em both
\n40. What is your favorite dessert?<\/b> Key lime pie
\n41. Who is most likely to respond?<\/b> N\/A — we’re blogging, not e-mailing.
\n42. Who is least likely to respond?<\/b> See above. Either that or we’ll say, oh, Moe…
\n43. What book are you reading?<\/b> The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology<\/i> by Ray Kurzweil<\/a>
\n44. What’s on your mouse pad?<\/b> A satellite photo of the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine<\/a>, where my dad used to work.
\n45. What did you watch last night on TV?<\/b> An episode of Highlander: The Series<\/i> on DVD. (Specifically, “Homeland,” the fourth season opener, if you care.)
\n46. What’s in your CD player?<\/b> Rick Springfield’s shock\/denial\/anger\/acceptance<\/i><\/a>
\n47. Favorite smells? Memories?<\/b> Smells — rain (naturally), Giorgio perfume, barbecue spareribs, crayons melting on a steam radiator, and, curiously, the local “lake stink<\/a>.” Memories — My first sunrise in another country; reading in my old treehouse; playing Smash TV<\/a> with Anne (long story there); running old carbon-arc changeover-style movie projectors when I was 16; and the Christmas morning I caught my father assembling my toys (he lied and told me he was helping Santa, who’d been too busy to stay and do it himself).
\n48. Favorite sounds?<\/b> A distant freight train, thunder on a quiet summer evening.
\n49. Rolling Stones or Beatles?<\/b> The Stones — more rock and blues, fewer pretensions
\n50. What’s the farthest you’ve been from home?<\/b> Munich, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"