It's late to answer five questions from
Liberality who tagged me. I'll think about these questions during the day tomorrow and get right on it after I get home. Answers may be boring but it will be fun too. Where's the lipstick?
1. Where was I ten years ago?
Right here same place same job that I've had for the last 18 years. I never imagined that I would be here for so long and I hate winter but it's just that seasonal aspect that I like about my job. Balls to the wall during the season but laid back in the winter. When I moved here one of the first people I met who also dislikes winter told me the rest of the year makes up for it and she was correct. So many perfect days filled with fishing golf and other fun things to do with geography and panoramas that never grow old. That is changing a bit now because just tonight I signed a contract and put down earnest money and purchased a trailer in Steamboat Springs something that I was able to pay cash for. Some of you know I had been struggling with the purchase of this house for a number of reasons. Have never carried debt of any kind and now is not the time to do so. I think I can be happy in my new place and actually have quite a bit of privacy with a large back yard with the Yampa river just out my back door. Unfortunately I'm slightly depressed because this decision was influenced by the results of a morally corrupt administration that has ripped this country apart for the last eight years. Combined with equally disgusting local issues enough was enough. Don't misunderstand I'm so lucky to have the lifestyle that I have but almost everybody living in this country has been negatively affected by these people and I am one of the lucky ones definitely.
10 years ago in partnership bought some property south of Pueblo that was paid for in May of this year and that's cool in these times. We saved this old house with a five-year weekend effort of extremely hard work and it was worth it. For me 130 trips 280 miles one way. I hope to live there some time in the future.
2. What was on my To Do list today.
One important thing and that was to go inspect the trailer that I just signed a contract on and make the decision whether I was going to purchase it or not. It has been raining as it was this morning then cleared off through the middle of the day and then rained hard several times later in the afternoon but I was able to accomplish this.
And like Liberality blog. While at work I can accomplish a lot and do better when there's more to do because then it becomes important and it's my job. After that I'm pretty lazy unlike many people who keep busy with constructive things or hobbies. I gotta work like a sonofabitch to sit on my ass as much as I do.
3. What would I do if I were a billionaire?
One thing for sure I would be more of a consumer and for damn sure I wouldn't develop problems like those lotto winners. I think things would be just fine. I would take care of people who are close to me and others that deserve a break or have really good ideas but can go nowhere with them. Support candidates for office that share my views. Probably have a few more toys and get myself off the grid. I would not build a giant house and I sure as hell would not continue to work like others who come into large sums of funds. I would not have a problem with keeping myself occupied in a positive fun way.
What I would do would be to purchase a Westphalia type vehicle and travel here in the states but in West Africa primarily equipped with hundreds of soccer balls to give to the kids along the way and assist villages and cooperatives formed locally if applicable. A little bit of money goes a long way in places like this around the world. I'd get a kick out of stuff like that.
4. Five places I've lived.
Cornfield, Iowa
Ghana West Africa
Littleton, Colorado
Phoenix, Arizona
Oak Ditch, Colorado
5. Bad habits
Sitting on my ass too much
Pepsi
Being too trustworthy
Intolerance to stupidity
A couple other things I prefer not to mention
The winners are
al Qaeda in Albuquerque, that
Ornery Bastard,
Politickybitch,
Slobber and Spittle,
Just An Earth-Bound Misfit
