1. Do you own luggage, or do you cobble it together from friends and family when you travel? If you own, what do you own, why did you pick it, how long have you owned it? I remember traveling with my folks as a child and these amazing hard suitcases that seemed to be made out of amazing magic tough stuff. Where are those now?
2. Do you think it disingenuous when people like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity decry “the media” in one breath, and in the next breath proclaim that “the media” has no listeners or readers, and that everyone is listening or reading their shows? I choose them not because of what they stand for, but rather the inconsistency in that sort of claim.
3. What word processor or office suite do you use on your computer? I recently made the leap to Leopard, and as such my Microsoft Office got deleted, and I do not have the disk anymore. So, I am flirting with NeoOffice.
4. Our good friend Grinning Soul is off to Europe for a long sojourn. While we shall be sad to see her go, it is still exciting. Do you have any suggestions for her? Restaurants, dancing, places to run with bulls?
5. Since the advent of the iPhone, or more importantly, the $99-dollar-all-everything-plan at Sprint and the arrival of AT&T in Central Wisconsin, has your usage of the mobile platform changed? Are mobile devices becoming more than phones for you, more than phones for most of central Wisconsin?
6. If you had to drive from New York City to Wausau, and had to pick a car to do it in, what would you drive? You would have to be alone and just trying to get home.
7. Do you have seasonal allergies? What do you take? Or do you not take anything?
8. Is your house honestly too big for you and yours? I was talking to my good friend Anne, and we were talking about buying some land and getting an airstream, and that would be that. Do you think our tendency toward bigger homes is a bad idea?
Mohawk Matt
2:35 pm on April 17th
1. I have a carry-on that has been across the country with me, and my Navy ditty bag that served me well when I didn’t have a place to live a while back.
2. Don’t watch or listen to any “media” shows or talking heads.
3. Office for Mac
5. I’ve got a crappy phone from alltell that makes phone calls. It works.
6. If gas wasn’t an issue, my truck. Roomy.
7. Spring and fall I cough. I take whisky.
8. I just bought a house. It’s big, I like it, I have alot of stuff.
Billie
1:21 pm on April 22nd
1. Luggage? I have a loud, plaid suitcase that I used to travel with, but my friends continually begged me to put it into retirement. Now I have a boring black bag that makes trips with me.
2. Oh good lord, is it ever.
3. Office, as I like the familiar.
4. Grinning Sould has already been directed to bring home loads of handsome German men for her single friends… in addition I would recommend that she keep her shiny new passport ready for an adventure on Kilimanjaro once her knee is all fixed up.
5. Realistically, I like my phone being a phone for now.
6. My poor, deceased Audi 100. 370,000 miles and more than a decade of wonderful road trips, may she rest in peace.
7. I have tons of allergies, but just tough it out for the most part. Sometimes I take Benadryl if things are out of hand.
8. My house is enormous, honestly too big for the couple of people that live here. There is no reason that the average family would need 3000 square feet of living space, much less the couple of people, cats and dogs that live here. At the same time, I love having the ability to house a dozen or more guests in relative comfort, at the drop of a hat. (The last time Sunspot was in town I was able to offer each band member a guest room, and still had room aplenty for groupies).
Dino Corvino
1:33 pm on April 22nd
Groupies?
Mohawk Matt
2:56 pm on April 22nd
The members of Sunspot ARE the groupies.
deepintheheart
2:30 pm on April 26th
1) I own luggage. I used to travel a great deal. I have one Jansport wheeled duffle which is great for airports when I have alot of gear. Also, a sturdy Samsonite suiter with a broken door-hanger. Along with a matching medium-size wheeled suitcase. And an excellent Kenneth Cole black leather duffle that now resembles a well-worn trash bag. Not to mention a few tricked out North Face laptop bags/messenger bags.
2) I listen to sports radio. The local guys are funny as hell, thoughtful, have diverse backgrounds and opinions, and embrace the fact that they are members of the media in a market that serves a metro area with 6.6 million people. Those “media personalities” that decry the short-comings of the American listening/viewing audience are just plain wrong. Being provocative is not interesting anymore.
3)I just started working with Microsoft Office in Vista. It is still a little weird to move away from my Mac. . .
4) Get lost. No, really, get lost.
5) Indeed, the Blackberry is my constant companion. Unless I choose to shut it off and leave it at home. All my emails, Excel docs, video, music etc. is right there. Calendars, memos, passcodes, GPS and maps right in the palm of my hand. . . It is probably even more relevant when I am gone overnight.
6) 2009 Dodge Charger. Power. Comfort.
7) Maybe, but I figure any sniffle is a function of my smoking more than I should have.
8) I am not a big house person. I would prefer something a bit smaller–then again, some days I would prefer something a bit larger. My ideal is an Airstream for every American.
swearingen
3:50 pm on May 10th
1. When I grew up, matching luggage meant two brown paper grocery bags. My sister ended up with one of my great aunt’s cast-offs…a jumbo white hard-sided gem with “Bessie” scrawled on the side with black permanent marker. “Ol Bessie” wasn’t much to look at, but she sure could haul a week’s worth of garments and gee gaws. Not to mention that no one in their right mind would ever try to steal her. I have a nice set of matching luggage these days. Not aware of the brand, but it gets me where I wanna go with no one snickering. I try my best to travel light these days…4 day trip, 1 carry-on. Not bad for a girl. I don’t do purses.
5. My cell phone is just that. No bells, no whistles. I believe it’s time for me to buy a new land phone. My last caller said it sounded like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and he referred to me as Captain Nemo.
6. If I had to drive alone from New York to Wausau, there’d be a lot of carnage left in my wake regardless of what I was driving.
8. Not unlike Goldilocks and the Three Bears, my house is “just right.”
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