Random Questions from Sunday Stealing

Most times these quizzes are themed in some way. Not this week! These questions are random as shit! Here we go!

1. Did you/will you have coffee or some other form of caffeine today? 

I literally just downed the last sip of Coffee Number One. Shortly I will get up to brew Coffee Number Two. And later on, when we have Sunday Popcorn, I will wash it down with a lovely Coke Zero. (Sundays tend to be a lazy day for us, when we do household stuff like laundry and a bit of cleaning and maybe some food prep and stuff…in the afternoon if we’re home we stop for popcorn and a bit of relaxation.)

2. Who did you last have a text conversation with and what was it about? 

Heh! So, I rarely remember my dreams, which is why it was so weird that I remembered one yesterday morning from the night before (Friday night into Saturday). In this dream, a friend at work and I were arguing with a store manager who hasn’t been the store manager for 16 years about…napkin dispensers in the Cafe. I don’t recall the substance, but my friend and I were really fired up about this. I remember at one point part of my brain thinking, Why the hell am I so fired up about napkin dispensers? Who gives a shit? Then that same part of my brain kicked in a little more and thought, Wait, this is a dream! We’re dreaming about work! Abort! Abort! Ahhh-OOOOO-gah! (That last thing is the old style horn they used to have on cars, remember?)

3. Are there regular trains in and out of your town/city? 

My general city? Yes, Buffalo has trains! The Amtrak here can take you to Toronto or to NYC going the other way. I don’t know about any other destinations. (The state of rail travel in this country is insanely bad.) Buffalo also has the MetroRail downtown, which I like to use when I’m on photo walks in the city. They’re actually finally talking seriously–as in, doing the environmental impact stuff and looking for funding–to extend the MetroRail for the first time since it was built in the late 80s. I would dearly love if this region had light rail connecting the various suburbs to the city.

4. Have you ever been hospitalized due to dehydration?

See? This is what I call “conversational whiplash”. Anyway, no. (At my age I’m thinking I may be jinxing it by saying this, but I actually have not yet been hospitalized in my life.)

5. Someone texts/IMs you just as you’re about to go to sleep. Do you reply? 

Depends on what the subject is, doesn’t it?

6. Do you grind your teeth?  

Not really. I hope not, anyway.

7. When you listen to music with headphones, do you keep the volume low enough to hear surrounding noise, or do you blast it?

Somewhere in the middle, I think. A lot of my earbud listening is classical music, and the dynamic changes can make the volume settings hard. I need to be able to hear the pianissimos over the ambient noise, but then sometimes that makes the fortissimos a bit on the “GAHHHHH TURN IT DOWN, THE MUSIC IT BURRRRRRNS” side. I rarely use the “noise canceling” on my main earbuds. (I have two pairs of earbuds, my Samsung ones that are the main ones I use, and the older Soundcore ones that don’t have noise canceling but do have longer battery life so those are the ones I use when I’m on a photo walk. In that case I’m not listening to classical music, because I don’t want to be listening to music that has a lot of dynamic changes. That’s when I listen to rock, techno, Celtic, and other genres.)

8. Are you wearing nail polish?

What?! I’m a DUDE! Dudes do NOT wear nail polish!!!!

OK, they do and it’s totally fine, that last bit was not sincere. I have zero problem with men wearing nail polish, and the fact that I don’t boils down to that it’s just a bit of effort that I don’t really want to go through. Plus, the nature of my job, in which I often have my hands inside pieces of kitchen equipment or other mechanical places, makes nail polish unwise. But anyone out there who does, rock on!

9. Do you have an ice maker in your refrigerator door?

No. I’ve never had that feature, and I’m not sure if I want it. When we stayed in Hawaii, our fridge did have one though, and it made the evening’s drinking a lot easier, so….

10. Do you have a friend named James?

No, but I do have a manager named James, and a former coworker named Jim whom I like a lot. He retired a couple years ago, though.