OK, I'll follow the meme. Slightly belatedly. Friday Fives . . .

[unixronin]

1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.

   • Get a job at last.  (I'm crossing my fingers for NASA.)
   • Get us all out of Dagobah - er, I mean, this vermin-infested patch of eastern North Carolina - and this oversized spamcan, and into a decent place to live again, where Goose and Pirate can have their own rooms and the walls aren't made of furring strips and fiberboard and we can go outside without being eaten alive by mosquitoes.
   • Walk without my left foot breaking open and bleeding.
   • Fix up the CBR929RR so I can ride it again, one way or another (shift lever stirrup or power shifter)
   • Get enough more people using and contributing to ICBM to find any remaining bugs and get the rest of the known bugs fixed.

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.

   Oh boy.  This is a tough one.

   • Dean Wayland, former fellow activist in the Ecology Party back in England.
   • Pete Tonnesen, a friend of jilara from California.
   • Moose, a mountain man re-enactor in California who makes the world's finest beef jerky (and occasionally venison jerky, too, but you didn't hear that from me).
   • ...
   • ...

   Bugger.   I'm not sure I can think of two more people I've completely lost contact with that I'd actually like to get back in touch with, except for one whom I probably shouldn't.  Is this, like, really bad of me?

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.

   • Become fluent in spoken and written Gaelic.
   • Learn Japanese swordsmithing.
   • Get SCUBA certified.
   • Fly an F-22.
   • Pilot an SSTO, when there is one.

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).

   No limit?  At all?  OK, here we go:

   • Build a big, comfy house somewhere halfway up a mountain overlooking a lake or the ocean, with an airstrip and an airplane to fly in and out of it.  (I guess a private pilot's license would be a good idea, too.)
   • Put enough money into enough political campaigns to push all the goddamn crooks out of Congress and the White House, and fill them with people who still think of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land rather than as an awkward historical embarrassment to be sidestepped, undermined and subverted by any possible means, legal or otherwise.
   • Start a company to design and build SSTOs now, interplanetary spacecraft later, and eventually starships, technology permitting.
   • Pour gobs of money into basic research to build the technology.
   • Maybe buy an island somewhere and found my own little island nation with enough constitutional protections to prevent it from EVER being taken over by the political-career rat-finks.

5. List five things you do that help you relax.

   • Music
   • Computer games, especially Homeworld
   • Swimming and/or hot tub, access permitting
   • Long-range shooting (damn, I miss my .308 tack-driver)
   • Hot milk well spiked with Bailey's Irish Cream
   • Snuggling with cymrullewes.  (That's six, you say?  So sue me.  Consider it a transfer from the previous list that I couldn't fill.)

Comments

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Bugger. I'm not sure I can think of two more people I've completely lost contact with that I'd actually like to get back in touch with, except for one whom I probably shouldn't. Is this, like, really bad of me?

Not in my opinion. The number of people I'd like to get back in contact with isn't too much longer. So... who is the person you shouldn't?

Snuggling with cymrullewes. (That's six, you say? So sue me. Consider it a transfer from the previous list that I couldn't fill.)

Is that relaxing or just sleeping? :-)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

So... who is the person you shouldn't?

That would be Debbie Hamilton, a missed opportunity from when I was 18 and stupid, over whom I've kicked myself many a time over the years for my utter stupidity in not realizing she was interested in me.

Is that relaxing or just sleeping? :-)

Yes.  :-)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

You do realize now that you've named her that someone will find her and re-introduce you?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, you asked...
Anyway, there's got to be a thousand Debbie Hamiltons out there.