This week, the intrepid explorer of the human psyche gets waylaid by a consumer survey. Get your own copies of the questions at Patrick's Place and be sure to leave a link in the comments to your answers. That is all.
1. If a space colony could be built on the Moon or on Mars and humans could live there under protective domes, would you have any interest in living away from Earth?
I'd love to live on the Moon, assuming my doctors would all green light me to go. Once resident there, though, the naturally occurring effects of low gravity would mean I (and most other humans) would never be able to return to earth except as cremains. If then.
2. A commercial for a credit company starts with a man being denied for a loan because of his credit score (619) and then he encounters that same number in multiple places. Is there a number that holds some significance for you that you encounter fairly often?
Nothing comes to mind. Zero. Zilch. $0.00
3. How many items are in your refrigerator door at this moment? Of those, how many have you not touched in the last six months?
Probably forty or so. Aside from some packets of ketchup and soy sauce, everything on the door gets used pretty frquently. Unlike the back of the top shelf, which is a no man's land. There is a bottle of pickled peppers on the refrigerator door that only gets used once in a blue moon, though. Imported from Mexico in 1988, it assures that all Tex-Mex and Mexican food served at La Casa Loco is authentic... right down to the Montezuma's Revenge.
4. How often do you buy a movie without seeing it (either in a theater or through a movie rental)? What was the last movie you purchased without having seen first? Do you now think that if you'd seen it first, you wouldn't have purchased it?
Often. What's the point of spending $4 or more to rent, or $8 to go to the movies, per person, when you are going to spend $14 to buy it? In the case of movies we are unsure of, it makes lots of sense to rent first - but then again we wouldn't buy it unseen. Last one purchased was Ray! and I'd have purchased it anyways, even if I had seen it first.
5. What was the last thing you purchased at an electronics store? An office supply store? A department store?
Watch batteries, rubber finger tips for sorting and I don't recall ... it has been years since I set foot in a department store, even longer since I made a purchase. Anything available in a department store is overpriced, as far as I am concerned.
6. Do you expect to owe taxes this year or get a refund? Will this year's debt or refund be greater or less than last year's?
No income means no taxes and no refund. Same as last year.
Keep your powder dry, boys, and don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes. I didn't collect Patrick's questions until late in the day on Saturday, as he was terribly slow putting them up. Then the servers that be AOL decided adding entries would require a breed of chicken to sacrifice that they were out of down to the feed store. I even stopped by the local hootchie mama's on the way home and she didn't have any of the right ones, either. That didn't stop her from charging me her usual tariff -- a quart jar of white lightning. I sometimes think I make an addictive brew (it's all in the lead solder) ... then I kinda got side tracked with the Mrs. being terrible sick on Sunday and Monday and here we are - it's Tuesday already!
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