Answers for Lyn

Recently, a dear friend asked me several good questions (as well as a few sarcastic ones) that I felt were appropriately answered here. With any luck, she won't be too pissed off.

• Are you sick of telling people how you are/what you are up to because of all your blogging/emailing?

Not really. Don't do too much personal emailing these days, actually. The blog does cover most of it anyway. It's like a bulk email without the insensitivity. And people seem to love it. Some people, that is.

• Is it torture to hear about what we're up to here in Hood River over the summer?

Mmmm, yes, and no. I'm very jealous because I miss it so much, but it's good to have some measure of reality in my daydreams.

• ...or you don't mind hearing about all the fun we're having because you're also having a great time?

At this point "great" is waning to "good", which is degrading to "get me the $*@# out of here!"

• Would you rather hear about the goings on of the outside world?

High oil prices, Georgian invasion, global warming, republicans. No thanks.

• Do you get upset with people for not reading all your blogs which means they may not be the most informed people on everything you've been up to in the last 10 or so months of your life?

Well, it would have been easier to read them once a week as they came out, but now you'll just have to read them all in one fell swoop. Let me know if they're publishable as a book. Oh, and nice try, deftly squeezing this question into the middle so I might not notice.

• What's your most passionate topic of conversation these days?

Staring at the wall. Or travel. Yes, definitely travel. Travel, followed closely by staring at the wall.

• Are you still playing guitar like there's no tomorrow?

Haven't been playing much lately. I'm in a band that was a lot of fun for a while, but I'm a bit tired of it. We do overplayed classic rock covers. But I am excited to go back to acoustic format for a wine tasting this weekend.

• But if there IS a tomorrow, would you spend it naked? in bed? playing a guitar? eating avocado?

Yes, yes, yes, and YES! I would kill for an avocado right now. Kill. KILL!

• How do you feel about the situation in Kyrgyzstan?

Wow, at first I thought you just put a bunch of consonants together with "stan" at the end, but then I looked it up and that's actually a real country. Do you think when they named it they just put a bunch of consonants together with "stan" at the end? You may have a very lucrative future in toponymy.