1) My keys.
2) I have the remnants of six pounds worth of handpicked blueberries. Delicious.
3) My mother-in-law to be gave me a Milton Bradley autographed ball which I love.
4) I’d really like to have a job in Portland!
5) My masters thesis.
6) tRA, I guess.
7) No idea. Possibly blueberries.

1) Nothing at all, lounging on the couch in shorts.
2) Hmm Coke? Always need coke in there.
3) My wife’s Aunt and Uncle took us on an all-expenses-payed three day trip including a fancy hotel, expensive dinners, and basically offered to buy us anything in sight.
4) More money in my pocket. Or if that doesn’t count, ever so slightly smarter.
5) Probably some of my design work.
6) Going to UW Business school, marrying my wife, or maybe one of my Warcraft III accomplishments, depending on the friend.
7) I’m thinking of making cheeseburgers, but that plan may change.

1) Pockets have wallet, keys, phone. The purse is an occasional adjunct, with the address book, paperwork, meds, pictures, calendar, extra cards.
2) Artichoke hummus from Kouzina/Zoey Catering
3) My former apartment manager gave me a cat :)
4) Hmm. Add an extra two inches up, or remove an extra two inches around. Hmm.
5) Got me.
6) Ditto.
7) Leftover Bún Gà Xào from Thanh vi. This is an exception, however; usually it is homemade soup.

1) What do you have in your pockets/purse/fanny pack right now?
My keys and my wallet.

2) What’s your favorite item in your fridge at this moment?
In the normal fridge – probably a small huckleberry pie. In the beer fridge … that’s hard. Maybe my bottle of Mirror Mirror? I’m defining favorite in this case as something I expect to be really excellent but have never previously tried.

3) Favorite gift you’ve received from someone you barely know?
One of my contributors on the blog that I run – a guy who I have never met – sent me a DVD full of episodes of the German TV show Alarm fur Cobra 11. It’s essentially Miami Vice with Germans, shot on the autobahn. It’s wildly over-the-top and the gift itself was compelling random.

4) If there was one thing you could change about yourself instantly, what would it be?
I’m not sure that I’d change anything that I have direct control over – the choices I’ve made, the things I’ve learned. I made those choices for a reason and I don’t regret them. I guess if pressed I’d say I wish I had more mechanical skills than I do – electrical, plumbing, carpentry, car repair. Of the stuff I can’t control – hey, I guess I’d like to be wildly handsome.

5) If you had to make a resume, what would you put as your biggest accomplishment?
Launching a page for every vehicle sold in the United States back to 1896, that ties into a feature that can look up parts for every one of those cars. But my secret nerdy accomplishment was probably creating a really complicated DOS batch file that handled postal label sortation for a major national business newspaper chain. It was really intricate – it kicked off jobs, e-mailed notifications, pushed the labels to the printer, created reports, and the like. Doing all of that with DOS batch files was like pounding a nail with a banana, but it was so weird and such a departure for a guy who has no real technical training that it was really satisfying.

6) If you were bragging to friends, what would you say is your biggest accomplishment?
Probably covering Formula 1 for the magazine that I grew up reading and idolizing, though most people wouldn’t care about that. Or climbing Mt. Adams, although most people don’t care about that either (it’s not Rainier!).

7) What’s for lunch?
Cottage cheese and cold cuts.

Triceratops has turned out to be a juvenile form of Torosaurus, previously notable for being the only ceratopsid with a bigger skull than Triceratops. Fortunately, this means that Torosaurus will be re-named Triceratops rather than the other way around.

I also suspect that the palaeontologists got things slightly wrong and that it’s the adult male form rather than simply the adult for, otherwise we had some stupidly sized juveniles running around back in the Cretaceous. Still neat though.

1) Money clip in my pocket.
2) Stuffed grape leaves; Red Barn Ale (beer fridge)
3) Patriots tickets three rows up in the corner end zone.
4) My teeth could stand to be a little whiter.
5) Not to get too specific but I created a procedure and database that was previously adopted bank-wide as the standard.
6) Heh heh heh.
7) Salad and a yogurt

1) What do you have in your pockets/purse/fanny pack right now?
                        Shattered remains of my hopes and dreams
2) What’s your favorite item in your fridge at this moment?
                        Ted Williams’ head
3) Favorite gift you’ve received from someone you barely know?
                        Burmese Crotch Rot. Didn’t even know her name. Oh wait, you said favorite.
4) If there was one thing you could change about yourself instantly, what would it be?
                        I could probably do without the laser vision – more responsibility than I want really.
5) If you had to make a resume, what would you put as your biggest accomplishment?
                        I raised my kid brother alone while putting myself through college
6) If you were bragging to friends, what would you say is your biggest accomplishment?
                       This one time I totally bullshitted my resume with a ridiculous sob story lifted straight out of a bestseller
7) What’s for lunch?
                       Rain water and grain alcohol

1) Keys, wall, cell phone, lighter.
2) I don’t actually have anything in the fridge here but four vitamin waters.
3) Can’t think of any. I usually get important stuff from people I know pretty well. The stupid answer that popped into my head just now was “scholarships”.
4) I’d try to be less hard on myself, but I also think that because I hold myself to pretty high standards, it keeps me working at things and not getting too self-satisfied.
5) My degree’s going to look pretty swell when I get it, but I don’t think they’d care about me getting a 3.9 and a perfect score on the final from the hardest teacher in my community college years ago.
6) Surviving being struck by lightning? Driving 3500 miles or so in less than a week? Riding through Monument Valley on an unbroken horse during a thunderstorm when I was ten? I’ve done a lot of stupid shit and a lot of stupid shit happens to me.
7) It’s looking like coffee, two fried eggs inside rye toast (egg in a frame), and two strips of brown sugar glazed bacon.

I’ll probably get something rad from somebody I’ve never heard of. Weddings seem to be great for that

1. Phone in my left front, wallet and keys in right front, and knife and change in left rear
2. Haven’t looked in my fridge the last few days, but there is deli-style turkey meat in there and I like sandwiches, so hey
3. See above, I will wait until after Saturday to answer this question. I might get a new rice cooker from a distant cousin or something
4. I’m a terrible procrastinator, and I hate it. One of these days I’ll try and change that
5/6. I’ll have to give this one some more thought
7. Haven’t fully decided yet, but I’m thinking of hitting the Safeway deli for something

bloodsicles!

Am I alone in using a slim wallet in my front pocket? I have an old leather business card holder I got from Mazda years ago that works perfectly as a wallet. When I switched to a front pocket wallet I began having less back problems almost instantly, which was enough to sell me on the idea for life

Iran: West taints cigarettes with pig blood

Could bacon cigarettes be far behind?

1) Purse: credit cards, beer rating book, burt’s bees, sounders press releases, voice recorder
2) Yumm Sauce
3) A Panini World Cup sticker album
4) I would remove my right sinus from my head
5) Taking 17 kids to New Mexico and having none of them die
6) Sitting in the press box
7) Organic Cold Care tea.

1> Wallet, 2 sets of keys, lighter, phone, money, pen and 2 sets of darts (Friday night is dart night with the boys)
2a> Food fridge: Halibut steaks.
2b> Beer fridge: Consecration.
3> Bottle of Oban
4> Health
5> I showed up for work today
6> See previous answer
7> Tuna sandwich

1) Wallet and keys.
2) Left over bbq pork loin chops that will be turned into pulled pork sandwiches.
3) A couch with matching ottoman.
4) Increased ability to react positively in highly intense situations.
5) As a Sales Manager, doubled projections for first year sales with new major account and doubled first year sales in the second year.
6) Spent about four months living in the Australian rainforest learning about and working on reforestation issues.
7) Pulled pork sandwiches.

1.Wallet/Pocket Knife(As an aside, am I the only one who carries a pocket knife anymore?)
2.Sunkist. Recently reintroduced myself to it and remembered why I used to drink it all the time.
3.Don’t know
4.To give an honest answer at the moment would be way to LLLJ
5.Either a copy of my report of when I detected what ended up being two guys trying to dump stolen money into the casino, a mention of the dealer classes I’ve taught, or more recently my chief involvement in the massive surveillance upgrade.
6.A non LLLJ answer would probably be my career or being able to go to Spring Training.
7.French dip sounds good.

1) Wallet, phone in my left pocket. Lighter and a pack in the right pocket.
2) I bought some sourdough bread at a Spanish bakery near my house, and it’s out of this world. Otherwise, my home fridge is much less interesting than my college fridge.
3) My uncle gave me Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for my 10th birthday, which is one of my favorite albums. And no, I don’t really know this particular uncle all too well.
4) I wish I was better with numbers.
5) I’m acually an ESL tutor, which I guess looks good on my resume?
6) Can’t think of anything interesting.
7) I’m on a train to Boston (I’m actually going to the Tigers v. Sox game with some friends tonight…in my Beltre jersey) so unless the cafe car has something really exceptional and worth overpaying for, probably nothing until I arrive.

We had an LL league last year so I thought I’d offer up this option:

http://www.7500toholte.com/2010/7/30/1595497/join-7500-to-holte-for-fantasy#comments

The goal: knock Teej off his pedestal.

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