Oink’s blog

What's the first exhibit you visit at the zoo?

You, ya big monkey!

Handmade cards to e-cards, caroling to MP3s… How has technology changed your holiday traditions?
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It hasn't.

Are you prepared in case of a natural disaster? What do your plan and preparations include?

I have an ice pack in the freezer in case there's a volcano.  or I'll just run whatever it is under cold water, I reckon.

I also have my Cave Plans ongoing - including who's in and who's out.  Plus the tent that Big Boy won't let me get rid of (we haven't camped since 2005) 'just in case there's a nuclear holocaust' and we need to escape the city for the woods.

What's the worst vacation you've ever taken?

A holiday's a holiday.  Even I'm not one to complain about a holiday.

Who would you most like to be stuck in an elevator with? Least like?

(this presumably isn't a glass lift?)

Most like: the two hot doctors off TV - the "Medicine Men Go Wild".  or Louis Theroux.  or Big Boy - can't forget to include Big Boy (in case he reads this)

Least like: Any of my fellow commuters.  I hate the lot of them.

If you were going to write a book, what would you write about?

I'd write about the experience of writing a book.  I'd imagine I'm writing a book - really get myself into that 'place' - and then write from the perspective of someone writing it. 

I imagine it'd be a fantastic book, and I'd be writing of course of the experience of writing a fantastic book, imagining how well it would be received my its readers.  Which'd be my mum, if I'm lucky.  Which I wouldn't be, but I'd imagine, while writing, that I am.  Very lucky.

What household chore do you hate the most? What's your favorite?

Hate the most: having to instruct the cleaner

Favourite: employing a cleaner.

Did you ever run away from home?

Not only did I have no reason to, but I knew it would have been both cruel and stupid.  

So no, but look - I am enjoying some rather nice pizza on my too-little-sleep day.

If you woke up one morning and realized you were all-powerful, what is the first thing you would do?
Submitted by loveless.

Flex my muscles.

How could touch–screen technology enhance the way you currently use your PC? How could it make things worse?

It could for those of us who don't want fingerprints all over our screens.

And while I've got your attention, let me tell you about lunch.  I've been forced to scrabble through the cupboards today, but unlike Old Mother Hubbard [any relation to L Ron?, Ed.] I've found the following:

One baking potato

One piece of haddock in breadcrumbs

some past their prime and thin on the ground salad ingredients.  Still, it's better than getting dressed and going to the local shop for some long-life bread.