A 10+ Year Old Picture OK, this is easy! Oh, all right, I suppose I should honor the actual spirit of this Challenge. Ye Gods! Like I said earlier in this series, I don’t have any of my own photos around. Luckily, though, The Wife and I have been married nearly 13 years, so here’s The Wife on our wedding day, flanked by her mother and grandmother, who are both sadly now gone: Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Day Nineteen: Something That Made You Smile Today Well, I suppose I can use this as an excuse for some random linkage! see more Lolcats and funny pictures The 5 worst deaths ever written for great characters ( disagree about Captain Kirk, actually — how else should he go out, but in a fistfight on some Godforsaken planet somewhere?) And a whole lot of other stuff too. Cheerio! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Favorite Board Game Hmmmm. We haven’t played many board games of late here at Casa Jaquandor; this is something that needs rectified. We still have never played the RISK or Settlers of Catan games that I bought almost a year ago; we gotta dust those off. RISK is lots of fun. You know what, though? My favorite board game of the “Parker Bros” or “Milton Bradley” variety is probably Sorry. I used to play Sorry all the time with my grandmother when I was a kid and she was in town to visit, and The Daughter and I have oftenDown the rabbit hole….
Westgate Theater, originally uploaded by figan. A Childhood Picture Errrr…I don’t have any of my own. Honestly. All of my childhood photos are at my parents’ house, up to and including my high school yearbooks. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the fact that in my family I’m legendary for taking horrible photos when I was a kid, and then later on, when I figured out how to not take horrible photos, I still thought I looked like a doofus. So, here’s the best I can do. This is the apparent demolition of the Westgate Theater in Beaverton, Oregon.Down the rabbit hole….
Future Tattoos I suppose I could change my mind, but as of right now, I have zero interest in getting “inked”. No piercings, either. Boring one today, I guess! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Current Grades Ummmm…yeah. This one does not compute. I’m long past things like “grades”. Isn’t it funny, though, how unimportant grades can seem once you’re far enough removed from school? That awful grade I got one period in Ninth Grade English sure doesn’t seem nearly as important now as the teacher tried to make it seem back then. (And besides, I am still convinced is because she lost a paper I handed in, and in any event, she didn’t even mention that she “hadn’t received my paper” until well after the final grade for that period was submitted — that’sDown the rabbit hole….
Favorite Purchase Ever Made Welllll…heck, I don’t know. The laptop on which I’m writing this? It’s been two and a half years, and it’s still going strong. The first pair of overalls, which I bought the summer after high school? They’ve long-since gone to Goodwill. The first car I bought? I loved that car, until it threw a rod on the 90 right by the Big Blue Watertower. (That’s an actual Buffalo-Niagara landmark, believe it or not — the junction of I-90 and I-290, the major thruway into the northern suburbs, is the location for this enormous, bright blue waterDown the rabbit hole….
Favorite Memory Any of these. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Where Your Family Is From Well, it’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Oh, we need a more specific answer, I suppose. Here we go! More specific than that? OK then…. Well, since I don’t know what specific streets my parents lived on as children, here’s the best I can do. Yup, we come from Pittsburgh. The Steel City. Iron City. Boo-yeah! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Recent Picture of Yourself Well, OK. Here are some goofy photos I took of myself during a writing session. This is what writing looks like. Kind of. Here I’m trying to decide if a certain character should meet a spectacularly grisly demise in a skateboard accident, or become King of Westphalia: Here I’m trying to decide which synonym for “exsanguinate” I want to use in a particular sentence: Here I’ve just realized that my two main characters, who have been flirting with one another for several stories, are in fact brother and sister! Who knew!!! Here I’m starting to questionDown the rabbit hole….