July Weather Starts Out Lame — Just Like These Questions!
Q: What’s a habit that you used to have that was almost definitive of you and now you now longer have?
A: For decades, I was known by friends and co-workers as THE “Sweater Queen”. My bosses risked HR censure continuously by being politically incorrect about it. Even in summer I wore sweaters — usually sweater vests, but often full sweaters. I wore them 365 days of the year. It all had to do with low self-esteem (they helped cover my body) and my own nerdy sense of style. Suddenly… I retire… within months I’m wearing sweaters less and less. I think this was the first winter that I maybe put on a sweater only twice the entire season and then it was strictly due to the cold. Now, today? Just call me THE Polo Shirt Queen… er, King… um… whatever.
Q: What Internet site do you go to every day that isn’t a site that you use as a social-networking or as some kind of file-sharing site?
A: I’m the Pirate of Zzzzzz… Prepare to be bore-ded! That’s right, this is probably going to be the most boring answer ever supplied on this thread. 95% of the sites I hit each day are social networking or some form of game or game-related down-load site. Otherwise, there are only about three sites not considered a social-networking or file-sharing site that I hit religiously every day. Now that I have beaten them into privacy submission, I get my news at CNN. I also check Brea Weather. And if you check that page and see the high surf advisory for Brea (which is about 20 or 30 miles inland from the coast), don’t be confused. Look to the southwest of Brea and you will see Anaheim Island. Obviously, if we are just a few miles from an island, we must be subject to the occasional high surf. The third site, I decline to mention. And no, it’s not porn. Well… no, no… it’s NOT porn. You just don’t need to know.
Q: Werewolf or Vampire?
A: Incubus! Werewolves are smelly, bad-tempered, shed all over the place, slobber, and eat way too much red meat. Vampires are cold, sun-avoiding, misfits who drink blood. Hello. They drink blood — YOUR blood. I’m sorry I choose to neither be one nor be around those that tend to have me listed high on their dinner menu — just a personal thing. An Incubus on the other hand…! Now that is something I can get in to. Who doesn’t love sex?!?! They’re an automatic party animal. They’ll never say “no” to your advances. And they are “pros” at the most awesome, fun thing in the whole world. And let’s face it… when it all comes down to it, would you rather have someone sucking your blood or someone sucking your… um… uh… shall we just go ahead and move to the next question? 
Q: Whenever you attend a party or a potluck, what are you famous for cooking up?
A: Brownies! I used to have “friends” at work based ONLY on my ability to make brownies. I can remember being told more than once that I was guaranteed an invite to specific parties if I promised to bring my brownies. What was silly about it all was that I used a box mix (sometimes Duncan Hines, sometimes Betty Crocker, and even Pillsbury occasionally). But it was how I made them and what I added to them… chocolate chips, walnuts, cherries, and — if I recall correctly — I used all oil instead of oil and water. The brownies were really moist and packed with all sorts of shit. I remember when I started having diabetes issues along with the weight and stopped making brownies, my friend count and party invites plummeted like Alice down the rabbit hole.
Q: Do you believe in aroma therapy?
A: I not only believe in Aroma Therapy, I also believe in Music Therapy (see also BioWaves) and many other manifestations of Holistic Medicine. I’m not talking beads and incense and dancing naked around a bonfire here (although that can be an awful lot of fun I’m told). I’m talking about practical, scientifically-backed Holistic Medicine. If everyone practiced Holistic Medicine from the start, they would end up taking a lot less prescription drugs and having fewer grave health issues. I wish I had embraced it 40 years ago — I’d be in way better health now.
July 9, 2010
Tags: About Me Posted in: Potpourri for $400
3 Responses
I remember the nickname ‘Sweater Boy’ for you. The newly-minted programmers referred to you as such.
Werewolf or Vampire? I thought that referred to the recent Twilight movies, of which I have seen all three. The werewolves are definitely eye candy in the buff sense. The vampires are sexy aloof characters. I like ‘em both!
Glad to see you embracing holistic medicine more. Take it easy!
Yeah, the Were .vs. Vamp question was from a Twilight fan site. Most of the questions I use are from the net or from talking to people. I will eventually see the Twilight movies when they are all on Netflix. But I’ll still go for the Incubi. ;()
I just spent over an hour checking out ‘holistic medicine’ links. and have developed an uncontrollable urge for an Acai Berry Cleanse. Thanks, Phil (no really!
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