11 Questions While Waiting for Tea to Cool
I admit it, I am feeling a little disheartened this morning. I have been having problems buying a pair of sneakers, and have ended up with like 3 pairs that just don’t feel right. I just want a casual pair of sneakers! For the most part I buy from Dwellers, but the shop is sort of in between seasons so they are a bit sparse on the options. So I went off the beaten path and bought some other shoes, and they were a half size too big but I did not check at first; my fault. But I am going to end up with Etnies. I wanted something else, like Element, but I am going to be back at Etnies today. Sigh. Just want something casual.
I was looking around the Wausau Airport, and I thought about being a kid, and going to that park that was there. They had a wall we could whack tennis balls against with a line that was supposed to be a net, but it was just a line. That park had a climbing sliding thing like a lunar lander thing, which I am sure busted a lot of knees up, and skinned a lot of children. I miss toys that hurt you if you failed to use them right.
So, I have some things I want to know.
- Have you ever heard of a band called Freedown? The drummer is somehow this amazing young scholarly fellow. And the guitar player, while only 17 wants to rediscover the radio something isotope. I don’t know anything about that, but Freedown. It seems like they are out there.
- Does your dog sleep with you? What is dog sleeping etiquette? Should the dog be allowed to hog the bed? What about blankets, should they get their own? El Hershbo lays perpindicular to me, and as a result hogs the bed. And she lays in the small of my back, by my heinder. I think I might need some dog help.
- If you had to pick a local agency to support more with time and money, which would it be? I have decided that I want to become more active in the Humane Society, and I want to find a way to bring them into the CW community.
- Do you think cats are more independent than dogs? How come the lion is the king of the jungle, are there no dogs in the jungle? Why is that?
- Are you familiar with Skype? I use it for work. Dino0098 is my sign in. It’s awesome.
- What hobby are you halfway serious about? Meaning, you got the gear, you do it a few times a year, and want to do it a lot, but don’t.
- What was your first job? Not counting paper routes or whatever. What was the first thing you got a paycheck for?
- Do you think that there is a conspiracy to all of this? I don’t know what all of this is, but recently I got an email that seemed to hint at a general conspiracy afoot. I reject that idea, because in general I think people need to go to work.
- Are you thinking of starting your own blog? You know you should. Andy can help you with it.
- What do you eat for breakfast? I am really thinking about the non-childrened folks here. You folks with kids, well you have to feed them. What do the rest of you do.
- Do you wear a watch? If so does it have a metal, leather, or resin style band? Is it an heirloom, meaning will you pass it on to your kids? Do you have anything you will pass on?
Bonus Round
A. Who was your first kiss? Do you think kissing is directly affected by how much RISK you play as a young man?
B. Did you have a finished basement growing up? Did you build Forts?
janeal said:
1. Freedown did an acoustic set at the Tea Palace last night, I heard it was impressive. Aren’t they opening for Scott Holt in March?
2. Our dog starts on the bed, moves to floor, jumps back up. A definite hog, but restless.
3. I’m big on the arts, and have an extremely soft spot in my heart for the Northeast Chapter of JDRF, which is as local as the JDRF gets. We typically do their Walk to Cure Diabetes in Point.
4. Yes. Cats are indifferent, dogs are needy.
5. Nope.
6. Drinking martinis. I have several shakers and a variety of glasses in various sizes.
7. I worked at a theater all through high school and into college, they gave me actual checks. They were not big checks, but you could cash them and get money.
8. It’s ALL one big conspiracy.
9. Stewing about it.
10. Almost every day, I eat yogurt with walnuts and all-bran mixed together. On good days, I eat homemade Eggs Benedict.
11. I am so fanatical about wearing a watch that I own several. Once when I was out of town, my watch broke, I went to Target and bought one on clearance to see me through the day. I have other things to pass down to my kids. I have my Dad’s watch put away for my son.
Bonus Round
A. Real kiss? Mike, sorry I ca’t remember his last name. I do not think kissing is directly affected by how much RISK you play as a young man? I’ve never played a young man, not even on TV.
B. I grew up in Texas… no basements. Did build forts with tables and sheets.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:20 pm #
Fab Al said:
1. Who ?
2. The dog now sleeps with my wife. I sleep on the couch.
3. Totally the Humane Society.
4. Our three cats could really care less if we were her or not.
5. No, but I’m hearing the name often.
6. Ice Fishing.
7. McDonald’s. Terrible.
8. Work is way too much like work.
9. No.
10.I Never eat breakfast. “Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.”
11.I never have worn a watch on a regular basis. Chances are good that I won’t have any children to pass stuff on to. If I did, they would get a painting my mom’s, mom painted.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:01 pm #
Fab Al said:
Shoot … the bonus round.
A. What’s up with the first kisses?
B. Yes, we raced Big Wheels. We made gigantic snow forts, but not in the basement.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:06 pm #
oldwoodchair said:
1. Nope.
2. Actually, it’s become more like the dog lets US sleep with HER. She knows when we’re heading to bed so she makes sure she gets her spot first and we have to arrange ourselves around her. The cat is polite enough to stay on the bottom corner of the bed and sleeps in the “box” position which doesn’t take up much space. But sometimes he decides to reach out and poke the dog when she’s sleeping…cats DO have a sense of humor…and then we all have to shift.
3. I support the Humane Society by giving them blankets and other supplies. I’d also like to support the Neighbor’s Place, but besides donating to the food pantry I haven’t done much yet.
4. As they say…”Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” And I believe there are no dogs in the jungle because the cats have eaten them.
5. Not a clue.
6. Painting. I have the stuff but not the courage to start and find out I have no talent.
7. Waitressing at Mr. Steak on Grand Avenue. Didn’t last long…found out I don’t have the patience for hungry drunks.
8. (whispering) I can’t comment on this as I don’t want to give anything away or raise suspicion. Let me just say that, no, of course not…no, no, no,…there is no conspiracy…I swear.
9. What’s a blog?
10. 1 cup of milk and a Weight Watcher english muffin with sugar-free strawberry jam. Every damn day of my life, over & over & over again. (Okay, sometimes I totally cheat & drink a little more milk.)
11. Have 2 watches…a silver one & a gold one. Wear one or the other everyday to work…NEVER on weekends. Only thing I’m passing on to my kids is my psychosis and lack of height.
Bonus Round:
A. I’ve never been a young man so I have no opinion.
B. We had a creepy basement…the kind you only go down to during the day and in a group to fight off the giant spiders. Don’t remember building forts…must have been deprived, thus, my inability to pass up answering random questions like these.
9.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm #
deepintheheart said:
1) No Clue
2) Animals in the house bug me. Cattle on a range are more to my liking.
3) When I lived in Wausau it was the art museum.
4) Cats are smart. They do not sleep where they defecate.
5) No. It sounds like a conspiracy.
6) I am not half-way serious about anything. I golf two to three times per week. It would be good if I played more.
7) Happy Wok on Grand Avenue was my first paycheck. Others before that paid cash. A paycheck means you can get fired. I promptly did.
8) The general consensus is that there is, in fact, a conspiratorial tone to email messgaes which hint at “bigger things to come.”
9) I had one for a few years. The blogosphere was fun. But when I became half-way serious about it, I had to quit.
10) Smoke. It nourishes like a soggy bowl of Life cereal could never do.
11) Yes. A Zodiac Sea Dragon with a vanilla scented vulcanized band. Or a black Skagen with a black leather band. I usually give my watches away to people whom I have just met or who seem like the type that would be puzzled by the gesture. It have the fanciful notion that it makes me seem mysterious.
Bonus Question:
A) My mother. I never played RISK.
B) Yes, finished basements in all of our houses. I built forts like beavers build dams.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am #
Boogenstein said:
1. Never heard of them
2. Dogs are too big. They will try but get kicked off.
3. Probably the Humane Society
4. Yes. Lions don’t even live in the jungle so the question isn’t valid. There are wild dogs that share the same territory as lions. They can, and often do, chase off lions from a kill.
5. I am on Skype
6. Lego Robotics
7. Apprentice in Portsmouth Royal Naval Dockyard, UK.
8. There is no conspiracy, it is just a load of old bollocks dreamt up by idiots with nothing better to do than waste the time of other idiots!
9. I have numerous blogs in various fields and locations. My first has been going since the last century!
10. Fried eggs, baked beans, sausages and toast whenever possible.
11. No but it has a Titanium band. I’ll have destroyed it before I pass.
A. No idea and no
B. No and yes.
March 1st, 2008 at 11:36 am #
timothyp said:
1. Haven’t heard of them except for you bringing up their name. Could be because I don’t really follow local musicians much anymore though.
2. I have never had a pet, doubt if I’ll ever have one.
3. I’d love to see something happen with restaurants and food markets donating more to food pantries in the area. I see many places such as these with no programs to help feed the needy except around Thanksgiving and Xmas.
4. Could it be that cats are just plain smarter than dogs? I don’t know.
5. I really wouldn’t have a use for it but if it a good program for you, by all means use it to its’ fullest.
6. Not really what you’d call hobbies but some interests are collecting metal advertising signs and Brewers memorabilia and I’ve been working on a screenplay for about two years or so. I’d love to keep working on it until it was complete, but I find less and less time for it now.
7. My first actual paying job was manually setting bowling pins at the oldest bowling lanes in the US. They are still being used regularly… the original boards. Gene and Marcy’s Holler House on the corner of 21st and Lincoln in Milwaukee. I remember the pay was bad and so were the bowlers.
8. Conspiracy? Wouldn’t know, I’m too paranoid to think about it.
9. Thought about it a couple of times.
10. Very seldom eat what you’d call breakfast, but then again with the hours I work, noon is get up time for me. If I did, it would be oatmeal, fruit or a low fat Twinkie or something like that.
11. Seldom wear a watch but I got one for Hannukah a few years back. A real nice one, I think it is more for show than for actual timekeepng….been sitting in a drawer for the longest time.
A. My first kiss was from my best friend’s sister a LONG time ago. To this day, I still have the thoughts of “What might have been”. I think I was like 11 or so. Didn’t have RISK back then, although I do have a board game that’s been collecting dust for quite a while now…I should donate it I guess.
B.Grew up in Milwaukee. Had a basement but it was a Polish flat. My parents and sisters lived upstairs, my brother and I, downstairs. It was a fort in itself.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 am #
Billie said:
1. Not until now.
2. Yes, the little one does. The big one gets kicked off and sleeps in his own bed. One cat sleeps with or on the big dog in his bed, the others on the bed.
3. Stable Hands (therapeutic riding for the developmentally and physically disabled). Humane Society is a good place to start. I also like the Neighbor’s Place.
4. Only a little. The cats greet me just as effusively as the dogs when I get home.
5. I am technologically impaired.
6. Golf, playing the bagpipes, woodworking, the list goes on. I am a perpetual starter of hobbies and projects. My major horse hobby takes too much time to really add another.
7. Managing Central Wisconsin Sport Horses. Got paid to ride horses and supervise stall cleaners.
8. Without question.
9. Have done so. Trouble keeping it up (see numbers 5 and 6).
10. Mountain Dew and Special K. I know, the shame.
11. I have a watch somewhere. I know I have worn it at some point in the past… metal band, where could it be? No kids or plans for them. Will pass on eccentric behaviour patterns to my nieces and nephews and my TMBG cd’s (they count as heirlooms, right).
A. Dino. (No, not really. A fellow called Scott when I was 11 or 12 while hiking in the forest).
B. Built tons of forts and a treehouse and a swinging bridge. Has an unfinished and somewhat scary basement where firewood and spiders lived.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm #
erik said:
1. Nada
2. I’m a cat person and Charlotte definately claims in the bed when I’m there. I’m sure it’s different with a dog based on the size factor alone. For me, I like having a little extra warmth on the bed during these cold months. But it often leads to me be woken up by a cat snout in my face >.>
3. I give blood to the Red Cross all the time, but that’s about it. And as an O negative, I think they really appreciate it. Sadly work as a journalist leaves me with little time or money.
4. That’s the big reason I own a cat. I have very little time to spend on her, so I’m glad she can take car of her own poop and clean herself.
5. I used Skype quite a bit when my brother was studying abroad in London last semester so we could talk. And if I end up studying in London next semester I’m sure it will make a come back!
6. Music. I own three guitars (two electric and an acoustic), along with an electric bass. I have some home recording equipment and occasionally put a song down on Garage Band, but only every now and then.
7. The University of Wisconsin: Green Bay’s Union. I worked as a sound and light tech. It was a pretty sweet gig, met a lot of quasi-celebrities and rubbed elbows with the elite of the University.
8. I think I missed a memo on this one.
9. Already gots an awesome Citizen Wausau blog!
10. A Rockstar, sugar free. I’m not a coffee person, so energy drinks have been a revolution in my life.
11. I use one of my two cell phones for the time. And I do have a sweet leather jacket that my father wore when he was my age. I’d like to pass that on to a nephew some day since I’m not having kids of my own.
A. My first kiss was Elena Brown, she was a wrestling cheerleader at my school. And I didn’t play RISK at all in high school, and didn’t get my first kiss until I was a senoir so there might be a correlation there. Then again, once I got to college the world of women openned wide open and I still don’t play RISK >.>
B. We had a half basement, it was mostly underground, but there were high windows that looked outside. It was furnished and we totally made forts out of pillows and blankets. I remember getting an old refridgerator box and that was the best thing in the world for playing in the basement.
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 am #
Tom Neal said:
This doggone list’s too long …
1. re: Freedown. Here’s the thing: when this group is big, everyone (liars) will be saying they knew them when. All I can say is, if you want to be on the forward edge, then be at Longshots in Woodruff March 21 and/or 22 to see/hear these guys open for Scott Holt.
2. re: sleeping dogs. I’ve been awoken by pup poots and that’s a rude awakening. Also, the whole dreaming dog, twitching, running in place, woofing and whimpering thing is disruptive and you can’t wake them and ask them what they were dreaming about. Can’t be rabbits; why would a dog that lives in the house dream about rabbits?
3. re: local agency. WNRB-LP 93.3 FM Wausau community radio. They’re non-commercial, so they need money from the community.
4. re: cats/lions. There are no dogs in the jungle precisely because of lions. And it is this knowledge that makes the common house cat such an imperious bastard.
5. re: skipe. I’ve hunted snipe … similar?
6. re: hobby. backpack camping … I’ve got gear up the gazoo and know a trick or two. also fishing.
7. re: 1st job. Workin’ at the car wash, yeah! I was one jive talkin’ rag-poppin’ soap-sloppin’ bug-buffin’ vac-jockey carsmetologist. Now I use the drive-thru.
8. re: conspiracy. Think about it: conspiracies require organized, cagey people who aren’t lazy and can keep their mouths shut. How many people like that do you know?
9. re: starting a blog. I feel bad about neglecting the one I’ve got. It’s these dang long lists!!!
10. re: breakfast. I take a big bite out of life. Really, life would be much nicer if everyone did a better job of planning and enjoying breakfast. Coffee, paper, juice, frazzled eggs, snappy bacon, buttery toast, fried tomatoes … should last an hour or so. Then, and only then, face the world.
11. re: watches. Lately, they make me feel cluttered, like I’m wearing a snow suit or hair shirt or something. I will pass my dad’s gold watch from WWII on.
A. Tina Patoka
B. I’d call it a cellar. Forts, yes, of course; you can’t “play fort” unless you make one first.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm #
swearingen said:
1. I know not.
2. Let sleeping dogs lie.
3. Humane Society (see #2)
4. I have one feline employee who regularly delivers a variety of vermin to my doorstep. Beware the welcome mat.
5. Skype…new energy drink? Will it make me mental?
6. Halfway serious about snow shoeing. I got one shoe.
7. First job was vaccumming thisles (and various vermin) out of peas (early June peas as I recall) as they danced down a conveyer line before hopping into their early June cans. Two days of pea-cleaning convinced me of the value of higher education.
8. Conspiracy theory: If I told you, I’d have to kill you.
9. Blogging? Too busy conspiring.
10. Breakfast: oatmeal (old fashioned) with walnuts, banana, flax seed and organic milk, or blueberries mixed with pecans and honey.
11. Don’t wear a watch…would just slow me down. I do, however, own an Ed Gein watch. Wore it once, but didn’t like what it did to my skin. Pass it on? Any takers?
And for those bonus points:
A. First kiss: I know it wasn’t my bruncle. It could have been the kid who accidentally whacked me in the mouth with a metal sand pail…wait a minute…that was no accident.
13. Basement: icky, creepy kind with wart-nosed witches stirring up steaming kettles of no-kneed nothings and a pinch of chicken giggle. Forts: every manner of ladder, chair, plywood, two-by-four, blanket, bedspread, tree, leaf pile, igloo.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm #
drrent said:
1. Not a people person.. avoid areas where there are alot of people.. that kind of rules out most live music… so… no.. haven’t heard of them.
2. Dog sleeps at the entry door to the bedroom… even the King size bed not big enough if we let him sleep with us. He guards the entry to the bedroom so the cats cant get in there (of course after he falls asleep, the cats come and go as they please, and they pretty much sleep whereever and however they want).
3. I already give money to a number of local agencies.. and time to the aforementioned WNRB-LP (vis-a-vis the Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Assoc) and Junior Achievement. The State Apartment Assoc gets alot of my time, but that’s not local … not yet anyway (keep on the lookout for the soon-to-be-coming Wisconsin Valley Rental Council).
4. Dogs aim to please…. cats aim to be pleased. I get along much better with cats. I do what I can to make my dog happy and never know if it is enough. For the cats.. I know no matter what I do they will bitch and complain…. with a cat, you always know where you stand… you always know that you are pretty near the bottom of the totem pole.
5. Am very familiar with Skype… the State Apartment Assoc uses it for our Executive Committee meetings.
6. Very serious about woodworking.. have thousands of dollars worth of tools… however, my old house had a workshop.. the new one doesn’t (yet) - possible spring project.
P.S. Dino.. does D&D count as a hobby?
7. Fleet Farm in Marshfield while in high school.. working in the warehouse (and racing the occational forklift or two)… by the way… the electric forklifts work much better on glare ice than the big LP ones… who knew?
8. I used to work for the government… I live for conspiracies.. count me in.
9. I seriously SERIOUSLY need to get the Dr. Rent blog going again so that people know what I will be covering on my show and listing websites and resources that I mentioned on previous shows… just need to find time… doesn’t pay to get one going again unless I can find the time to keep it current.
10. Breakfast… whats that?
11. I used to wear a watch.. gold, the face is actually a “Southwest Asia Service Medal”.. but a link in the band went on it so need to find time to get it to Wickershams to have them take a look at it. For bowling, I have a watch I won for bowling a game 100 pins over average… I normally don’t like a watch while bowling because it is distracting… but I wear this one so on bad nights I can show it to the ball to remind it of what it is capable of. I don’t plan on having kids… but whoever gets stuck with my stuff will get a pretty cool wedding ring, about 10,000 beer cans… and a bunch of video games they are never gonna be able to get out of the basement (Dino.. remember getting those things off that trailer?)
A. First kiss was at 19, girl named Eileen (met her in the army.. she was from South Dakota, half german - half cherokee). If there is a relationship between Risk and kissing, it would have to be adverse in nature.. I played alot of risk.
B. Lived in trailers most of my life.. but the 6 years we were in marshfield we had a real house with a finished basement. My mom quilted (still does) and the quilting frames being set up are the perfect starting materials for a fort.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm #