I blame Khaled for pulling me into this meme craze.

  • Bowl­ing Cen­ter Ser­vice Engi­neer: I spit-polished bowl­ing shoes (okay, maybe not), prepped lanes for play (say that ten times slow) and basi­cally stood behind the counter at a bowl­ing cen­ter pre­tend­ing to actu­ally know what I was doing.
  • Retail Mon­key: I think we’ve all done this at one time or another. For me, it was work­ing at a local “Orga­nize Everything”-type store. At one point I was actu­ally design­ing clos­ets using an in-house CAD pro­gram, but mostly I was lean­ing on a lad­der while tak­ing items from over­stock and shov­ing them onto the shelves.
  • County Worker: At one point in my ever so illus­tri­ous career path I worked for the County Gov­ern­ment as a “Com­mu­nity Ser­vices Assis­tant”, which meant go-for-in-training.
  • Amuse­ment Park Ride Oper­a­tor: I read some­where that Howie Man­del held the cov­eted posi­tion of Ride Oper­a­tor at a Cana­dian amuse­ment park. This was prob­a­bly one of the eas­i­est jobs I’ve ever had in my life. It was part-time and con­sisted of push­ing a green but­ton to start the ride and a red one to end it.

Four movies I can watch over and over

  • Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan: For one, it’s Spiel­berg, one of the only direc­tors of whom I have the utter­most respect for. That and it’s a World War 2 movie. For some rea­son I’m drawn to that era and the war which defined it.
  • You’ve Got Mail: Admit­tedly, this shouldn’t be here, but it is, so let me explain. There are only a hand­ful of chick flicks that I actu­ally like and this is one of them. Oddly, when­ever it’s played exces­sively on HBO, no mat­ter how many times I’ve seen it to date, I’m right there with a bowl full of popcorn.
  • E.T.: This is my favorite movie of all time. It’s got an alien who gets drunk on screen, hides among a col­lec­tion of dolls and forms a friend­ship with an awk­ward kid. What’s not to like?
  • Back to the Future (1−3): I snuck the sequels in there just because I enjoy them as much as the orig­i­nal. Another one of the my favorites due to the theme of time travel and the poten­tial to change the past and future.

Four places I have lived

  • River­side, CA
  • East Moline, IL
  • Rochester, NY
  • … and that’s it.

Four TV shows I love to watch

  • Ever­wood
  • Lost
  • Smal­l­ville (when it’s more about Super­man and less about being a soap)
  • Scrubs (frick!)

Four places I have been on vacation

  • Canada
  • Mex­ico
  • Bishop, CA
  • Morro Bay, CA

Four web­sites I visit daily

Four of my favourite foods

I love pasta. That’s about it.

Four places I would rather be right now

  • New Zealand
  • Italy
  • Aus­tralia
  • Nor­way (uff da!)

Four peo­ple I’ll pass this along to

As I’ve done in the past when I’ve expired my resources or just don’t know who to send it to, feel free to steal this meme.