Okay Mike, I like you lots …

Four Jobs I’ve Had:

1. Courtesy Clerk at Jitney Jungle. For those not from Mississippi, JJ was a statewide grocery chain. I used to know where the Jitneys even lived in Jackson. Anyhow, this was my first job as a teenager, and I really hated to leave it when I went off to school at MSMS. [I hated not having a job there.]
2. Admissions recruiter at UAH. I gave a mean campus tour. I bet I could still do it, too, although there are now new buildings since I last gave the tour of the loop.
3. Gas station attendant. I still visit my old station from time to time, and I used to keep a Shell key fob on my keys right next to my office key, just as a reminder of what I could go back to if I really hated my job that much.
4. Project engineer, Teledyne Brown Engineering. It’s hard to believe that it’ll be seven years in August. Seven years! I’ve only lived in one place longer than that. [Also, how I ended up a project lead at 27 is still, in many ways, largely beyond me.]

Four movies I could watch over and over again:

1. The Big Lebowski. “That rug really did pull the room together.”
2. Major Payne. “It’s been two whole weeks since I kilt me a man …”
3. Flight of the Intruder. “Well, this is the end of Devil Five- O – Five. Say goodbye, asshole!” “Goodbye, asshole!”
4. Rush Hour. “No, it ain’t. This is the United States of James Carter. I’m the president, I’m the emperor, I’m the king. I’m Michael Jackson, you Tito. Your ass belongs to me.”

Four books I could read over and over:

1. Without Remorse by Tom Clancy. It’s just deliciously dark.
2. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. I re-learn fundamentals as I read it.
3. The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi (Corps) by W.E.B. Griffin. Yeah, pulp military fiction. It’s total brain candy.
4. Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor. Keillor’s prose just makes me feel at home.

Four places I have lived:

1. Knoxville, Tennessee
2. San Antonio, Texas
3. Beavercreek, Ohio
4. Huntsville, Alabama

Four TV shows I watch:

1. Law & Order. I’m about 90% done with the re-run review.
2. Gilmore Girls, even if it’s definitely on the decline at this point.
3. Rescue Me. I’m itching for Season 3 to appear!
4. Big Brother, and I’m okay admitting that.

Four places I’ve been on vacation:

1. Yellowstone National Park. “Oh golly gee, Daddy, look at the moose!”
2. Kennedy Space Center. Way more fun for pleasure than business, I assure you.
3. TBD.
4. I just don’t take vacations.

Four Web sites I visit daily:

1. FeedLounge. Gotta get my crack.
2. The Rumor Forum, although far less now.
3. My Tasks installation.
4. My Tasks Proâ„¢ installation.

Four favorite foods:

1. Moo goo gai pan.
2. A nice porterhouse.
3. Macaroni and cheese.
4. Sunflower seeds, when I’m driving.

Four places I’d like to be right now:

1. At home, in bed.
2. Visiting my parents.
3. On the International Space Station.
4. At a hockey rink, watching a game.

I refuse to perpetuate the meme further. It’s run its course.