The (not even close to) Daily Snooze: MEME: Saturday Six

Patrick has done it again. Here's the questions and there's my answers. You can play along, too. Just click on the link up there. Easy, huh?

1. What is the last thing you either camped out or got up unusually early to be able to buy?

I never have. However, I have worked in retail and been required to crawl out of bed at 4 AM in order for crazy folks to start shopping at 5:30 AM the day after Thanksgiving! Damn fools...

2. If you had to give up one of the following for a full year, which would be the easiest to do without? Which would be the most difficult to give up?
a) Your personal vehicle <<< Most Difficult to give up ( I'm too old and too fat to try to bicycle twelve miles (round trip) for groceries. Not to mention the one lung, the triple bypass and the asthma I already deal with.)
b) Your Telephone (both cellular and land line)
c) The Internet
d) Meat (all of it: Beef, Poultry, Pork and Seafood)
e) Television <<<>

3. How many items (include all bottles, boxes and containers) are in your medicine cabinet? 37 Which is the last one you used? Tweezers – I had a splinter in my foot on Friday evening.

4. What is the first source you go to for news of any kind when you wake up?

It's a toss-up between NPR and CNN Headline News. These days, it's easy to flip on the TV. When I worked, I avoided turning on the TV before work as I'd get sucked into the local news, so I relied on the radio in the bathroom as I got ready for work, then in the car during the commute.

How much do you trust that particular source? I trust NPR more than I do CNN – there isn't as much pressure to get the story out there without doing fact-checking at NPR. The most dishonest of the network tv news sources is Fox, lately followed by CBS, sad to say. It used to be that I could listen to the BBC radio news and I found their coverage of international issues to be the best on shortwave. Now I just read the International Herald Tribune online if I want coverage of foreign news. Ultimately, I trust no one to provide the whole story.

5. Take the Quiz: What do the letters of your name stand for?
O=Overwhelming, L=Lazy, D=Dignified, D=Dysfunctional, O=Overwhelming, G=Gorgeous, according to the quiz. I'll let you, Gentle Reader, determine for yourself just how “gorgeous” I am

6. What is your favorite color and why? If you have a journal or journals, is this color the primary one on those journals? If not, why not?

Blue. I'm not sure why, exactly. It just is the most pleasing to my eye. It is the accent color on my AOL journal while gray is the predominant color on the Blogger version. But I like lots of other colors besides blue.

Have a great weekend!