From the Salmon

I’ve been tagged once again, this time by Jason. This meme’s got more categories than you can shake a stick at, and it’s little all over the place. So hang on, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover....

10 Years Ago:

Hmmm… A decade ago I was in Charlottesville beginning my final year of college. I was singing a lot and just getting rolling on my undergraduate thesis. That is to say, I was at least considering how to begin the process of starting the thinking about getting rolling on my thesis. And my 21st birthday was tantalizingly close.

5 Years Ago:

We’d been married for almost two months, we’d moved across the country, and I’d mostly unpacked all of our stuff. I’d taught myself Flash, put together a now woefully out-of-date portfolio, and was refreshing Craigslist every few hours in the hopes of finding a job.

1 Year Ago:

I was actually vaguely optimistic that we were going to end up with a different president. Oops. I was reading a lot of blogs, but I hadn’t figured out how to use an RSS reader. I hadn’t gotten around to starting my own site yet, so I was writing extraordinarily long emails to friends instead. And I was staring 30 right in the face.

Yesterday:

Lets see… had a few meetings, listened to Takk... a few times in anticipation of Saturday’s concert, started sketches for a new website project, did a relatively restrained happydance, enjoyed feijoada with a Gonzo Imperial Porter for dinner, took a beating from my wife at cards, returned the favor at Yahtzee, and watched The Daily Show.

5 Snacks I Enjoy:

Skittles, kettle corn from that guy at the farmers’ market, Trader Joe’s pita chips, Humboldt Fog goat cheese, Ayinger Celebrator (beer is too a snack).

5 Songs I Know All the Words To:

“The Boy in the Bubble” by Paul Simon, “My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors” by Moxy Früvous, “Fuel” by Ani DiFranco, The Animaniacs theme song, and absolutely nothing by Sigur Rós.

5 Things I’d Do with 100 Million Dollars:

Jason’s answer started with tithing, and that sounds about right to me, too. So, church and charities first. After that, who knows? Maybe we could buy our own island in The World off the coast of Dubai.

Okay, so that’s a little ostentatious. Instead of a man-made luxury island, perhaps we’d have enough to get us a nice little fixer-upper somewhere in the Bay Area.

Wait, you mean we’d have enough left over to do other things? Fine, maybe we’d buy furniture for the house, like a nice chesterfield or an ottoman. And a monkey. Haven’t you always wanted a monkey?

5 Places I’d Run Away To:

North Sonoma Coast, New Zealand, Chicago, Seattle, Boston.

Or that luxury island in Dubai. That would be fine, too.

5 Things I’d Never Wear:

Cowboy boots, leather pants, a speedo, a @$#%! Yankees hat, or, um, my wife says I’d never wear “trendy man shirts,” although I’m neither sure what that means nor how I should feel about it.

5 Favorite TV Shows:

The Simpsons, NewsRadio, The Muppet Show, The West Wing, The Daily Show.

5 Biggest Joys:

These are the first few that came to mind, and they seem superlative enough to me: Laughing with my wife, getting hugged by our shy older cat, listening to a great album for the first time, driving the really curvy parts of Route 1, and watching the Red Sox win.

5 Favorite Toys:

zalmPod2, Squeezebox, Settlers of Catan, PowerMac G5, Apple Cinema Display.

5 Fine Folks Who Can Now Consider Themselves Tagged:

Scott, Jim, los McCartys, Nicole and ninjanun.