James tagged me in an interweb chain letter.  The last person who didn’t comply with the chain letter lived into their 100’s, and I don’t need that.  Here are my answers:

What i was doing ten years ago

I was preparing to get married while I worked at a Christian Bookstore called The Manger.  I was in Junior College, and I was pretty much ready to explode with emotions and hormones – and I wasn’t even a teenager.  I was the music department manager at the Christian bookstore, which was kinda cool, except that I would get advanced releases and by the time the customer would get the album to listen to, I was burned out on it.  They’d say, “What do you think of this album?”  I had to think about what I used to think about that album before it was old – even though it was brand new.  I also coudln’t get over the 60+ year old customers who would buy two of every gaither album, one for themselves to cry to at home, and one to send to their friend, relative or minister so that they could all be emotional together with the sweet gospel songs that they remembered from their youth.

Getting married was a major, major task, but I’ve written about that before.  Also, junior college was shelved to a certain degree and I took the lightest full load conceived of.  I took pottery with Jessica as one of my three classes.  Turns out it was one of the cooler classes I took that was outside of the history courses I took.

Five snacks i enjoy:

1. Frozen Yogurt
2. Goldfish crackers
3. Graham crackers & milk
4. various nuts
5. chocolate bars (dark chocolate please, milk chocolate is a joke)

Five things on my to-do list today:

• Finish the help file
• Exercise
• Spend time with the girls
• Watch the last bit of American Gladiator to see which of the gals wins this leg of the competition
• kiss my wife and tell her I love her… a lot (don’t take that the wrong way)

Five favorite recipes (re-interpreted to mean foods in this case):

1. Smoked Ribs
2. One Egg Pancakes
3. Chocolate Lava Cake
4. My Sister’s Cheesecakes
5. My brother-in-law’s pork dish that is better than Texas de Brazil’s

Five jobs i have had [actually all]:

1. Paper route
2. Gopher for consulting firm
3. Pharmacy
4. Internship at a church
5. Christian Bookstore
6. JB Dental Supply phone customer service
7. Software developer

Five of my bad habits:

1. Fiddling with my nose [I rub it, blow it and touch it far too often]
2. Running my mouth
3. Running out of patience with the kids
4. Eating after I’m full because it tastes so good
5. Waking up in the middle of the night to check work email

All the places i have lived:

1. Redwood Valley, CA
2. Carson City, NV
3. Philo, CA
4. Sunnyvale, CA
5. Carson City, NV
6. Ft. Worth, TX
7. Euless, TX
8. Greenwood Village, CO
9. Aurora, CO

Five random things:

1. I love music
2. I love photography
3. I’d rather not be working some days, and some days I’m sad I’m stopping
4. I wish I was a better evangelist
5. I like the idea of going into medical research some day

Five Folks i Would Like to Know Better:

1. Trint
2. Dave O’Hara
3. The Dave
4. Jess
5. My Sister

[I’m so totally going to get in trouble for some of these, and probably also for not asking you, instead of one of these people above]