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Question: Kids: take 'em or leave 'em?

My Answer: I'd like to have one or two, but I'm never sure how anyone decides that they're financially secure enough to actually decide to have a child. Perhaps I like to do too many things, and like to move around in my jobs quite a bit, but it scares me to think of a little $25,000+/year bundle of joy (or two!) running around. How can I guarantee my income will support them for eighteen+ years!?!?

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Question: What are you most looking forward to doing this summer?

My Answer: I live in Florida, so is it OK if I say "staying inside where it's air conditioned?" Ugh. I'm looking forward to doing what I'm doing and having fun. I'll work on my tan just fine when I finally get out fishing again, I know that. I'm also looking forward to traveling.

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Coke C2 is a new Coke with half the carbs and half the calories. It's also got about half the taste. Yes, I can tell the difference. It's passable when you're thirsty and not nearly as bad as diet Coke, but ick. I want my calories and carbs right along with my caffeine, darnit.

My blog is a bit less colorful today. I felt like a change. That is all. 🙂

Executive Order 12044, intended to "Improve Government Regulations," was signed the day I was born: March 23, 1978. I know this, because I snooped around through Jimmy Carter's diary. I wonder if as many calls to government officials are not completed as were not in 1978. After all, with cell phones, who would be so unreachable or busy as to miss a call from POTUS?

The diaries are an interesting peek inside the life and days of my nation's highest office. I've spent quite awhile flipping through them, and I'm tempted to set up large curl job to download all of the PDFs. Most of the text seems to be rendered as text and not scanned images, which means that these PDFs are largely searchable.

I've got a task for which I need a salesperson. It's a one-time thing with some small potential to go much longer, and there's potential to make a good amount of money. Interested parties should IM me at "iacas." It's a pretty lazy Saturday, so I'll be around most of the afternoon.

Question: What is your biggest regret?

My Answer: I like to say that I don't have any regrets: only intelligent observations about my past. In other words, there's really nothing I regret doing if I've learned something from it. I don't really have many "big observations" either: I've lived my life fairly as I've planned. I should have ended a relationship or two before they were so damaging (and costly), perhaps, but I'm a sucker sometimes. That would have to be my answer here, in the spirit of the question, though I did learn tremendously from both of the ones about which I'm thinking.

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How to mess with the mom of the bride, who's handling most of the planning:

The bride (my friend Crystal) was in cahoots on this one. The inside of the card reads "2 is fine." B-)

Question: What was Reagan's greatest accomplishment?

My Answer: I was young through the 80s, and even still, I remember seeing Reagan, hearing Reagan, and understanding Reagan. Titles are tossed about like fish at Pike Place, but my Erie Times said "The Great Communicator" and to a my five-year-old self, he was that indeed.

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Jon Rentzsch writes about the signal to noise ratio found on blogs. He links to one of my older OneWord entries, in fact, which starts out using the one word "specific" in the sentence "I have nothing specific to say." This he considers noise. So did I, which is why I later stopped doing the OneWords.

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Question: What quote best reminds you of someone you care for, love, adore, cherish, etc.?

My Answer: There are so many, but today the one topping the list is "If God made you he's in love with me" from If God Made You by Five for Fighting.

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Scott reminded me that Florida now has an odd dominance in major sports: teams in this state hold the World Series trophy and the Stanley Cup and two years ago won Super Bowl. The only sport at which this state has not "won it all" in the past two years has been basketball, my least favorite of the four major sports. It's too bad I'm still a hard-core Pirates, Penguins, and Steelers fan (and always will be).

Question: What's the toughest goodbye you've ever had to make?

My Answer: Something tells me that the one later today may win, but until that happens, I'm going to have to go with saying goodbye to France and the people I met there in 1996. Time hasn't really done much to fade the feelings I had at the time, and I'm proud of that. But, like I said, the inside info points to today's being the eventual winner. I both dread (because I am leaving) and look forward to (because I get to see her again) that moment.

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Question: Are you going to buy an AirPort Express?

My Answer: You bet your behind, baby! I am, however, dreading the inevitable "pulling out of the receiver" that will be necessary to connect it to my speaker system in the living room.

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