Sunday Stealing

Oh, let’s see what the weekly quiz has to offer, I haven’t done one of these in a bit:

1. If money wasn’t an issue, would you move to a new home?

No. Easy!

Well, fleshing out a bit, I suppose it depends on what is meant by “money isn’t an issue”. We can afford a mortgage someplace and it’s all fine, but we still have to work where we are? Then, again, no. I like the house we’re in.

Now, if we’re saying “You are now rich as shit and you don’t have to work and hell, you can probably afford two houses”, then my desire would be to split time between a cottage in the Finger Lakes and a penthouse in downtown Buffalo. Of course, The Wife would get a vote. She might not want the downtown penthouse…and come to that, with dogs, that might not be a great idea.

2. Do you listen to different music when you’re happy than when you’re sad?

I’m not really sure, to be honest. I have been digging more into classical and classic rock of late, because I need to constantly remind myself when things are going very badly and they’re going badly because apparently many of us want things to be going very badly, that humans are still capable of doing amazing things. But I don’t stop listening to new stuff, either.

3. What’s your favorite way to unwind after a tough day?

I always shower when I get home from work. It’s a physical and metaphorical rinsing of the day’s detritus from me. When it’s less hot, I’ll participate in a quick dog walk first.

4. What’s the first book you remember from childhood?

I remember a storybook full of old fairy tales. I have no idea which volume of that type it was, and my memories of it are very vague. I do look at such things when I see them at used bookstores and library book sales and antiquarian places, but I do not know that I would remember my specific book were I to see it again, either.

5. What made you smile today?

Apparently dogs of the pittie/staffie variety like to bake themselves in the sun. Today it’s very hot in Buffalo Niagara, and we try to keep an eye on Carla when she’s outside. At one point she had a ten-minutes-in, ten-minutes-outside thing going on. After the last time she came in, this is what she did: