September 30, 2005
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1: If you were given the opportunity to use a syringe full of sodium pentothal (truth serum) on any two or three people in the world (they can be either dead or alive, by the way), who would you choose to use it on and what questions do you think you might ask?
Q2: Do you have a favorite childhood memory (by childhood, think ages 3 to 18-years-old)? If you don't or would rather not share it, what was your favorite part of yesterday?
Q3: If an impending natural disaster was forecasted for your town or geographical region, how confident would you be in your own ability to evacuate to a safe location? Along the same lines, how confident are you in your own city or town's evacuation plan and capabilities?
Q4: When was the last time you spent en entire morning or afternoon (4 hours or more) exclusively out-of-doors, and what was it that you did during that period of time?
Posted by Mikal at September 30, 2005 6:32 AM
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Q1: I wouldnít use it, I donít believe in forcing someone to answer questions like that.
Q2: Yes I do have some fond memories, but I donít want to share them. So I will answer the second half of the question. Sitting in the hospital and having them draw blood from both arms and collecting what ever else they could think to collect. :-( See answer to question four.
Q3: I have been through three hurricanes, a near miss by a tornado ( I saw it out the office window. ), a couple of blizzards and ice storms. My house is of new construction and I think that it can withstand a hurricane. As for the town and state evacuation plans, you never know until you have to put them to the test.
Q4: A week ago Thursday, I took the day off and went with some friends out to Block Island and walked around the town and we walked out to the North Shore Lighthouse. For a souvenir to remember the island by, I got a tick bite.
Q1: My three people would be: My mother, my grandpa, myself
My mother: For one year, walked away from her life and vanished. My grandfather found out where she was a year later. I would ask her to tell me about the day she left and what happened during that year.
My grandfather: I would ask him to tell me about his childhood and what it was like growing up from childhood to adulthood. If he was the president, what would he do about the current state of the world? What would be the one thing in the world that would make him happy?
Myself: I would log on to and answer a weeks worth of daily memes. I would go through a book of questions about learning about oneís self and write out all the answers. I would re-read the answers a week after the truth serum wore off.
Q2: My favorite childhood memory was going to the pool and making new friends. Over one summer I made about ten new friends and we went everywhere together. I had great relationships with them all individually and as a group. We would watch wrestling, played cards, and went to the movies. Summer time felt like it would never end.
Q3: I learned most of my survival skills from my grandfather who lives in the south. He taught me to be prepared and aware.
If a disaster hit my town, I feel that the city doesnít have a solid plan in place. I have developed my own plan of evacuation.
I am confident in my familyís ability to evacuate an area to safety.
I have a bag packed with the things we would need for my each of my family members. I keep in a closet next to our front door. We have several routes we can take to get to a safer location. We also have a plan of action in the event we are unable to get out of the city.
I have a scaled down version of emergency supplies at my job and in my book bag that I carry each day.
Q4: My job has half day Fridays during the summer and I was able to spend most of them outside. The first half-day Friday I walked around the city and found a wonderful Italian Restaurant to have lunch. The meal was the best I had ever tasted and I was able to enjoy quiet time with myself doing what I wanted to do. It was a beautiful experience.
1. I would probably give away the doses of truth serum to someone who needs it more than I do.
2. I don't really have one favorite memory, but walking along the banks of the St. Lawrence River was pretty cool.
3. I don't know. I've never really lived in a place where there was a threat of natural disaster besides a snowstorm. I'd like to think that I'll be acting sensibly in the case of an emergency, but who knows what I'd actually do. As for city preparedness--I wouldn't count on them.
4. This morning, mowing the lawn.
Q1: Nobody. The lies people tell are more fascinating.
Q2: Playing football in 6th grade. I played linebacker for the Archer Park Orioles (in Chicago) and remember being in the zone. It seemed as though I knew where the ball was going to be seconds before it got there. My football career sizzled after that. Did I say "sizzled"? I meant "fizzled."
Q3: Natural disaster? I think Indianapolis is a natural disaster.
Q4: I recently spent an entire day outside painting my garage. Does that count? Once, I spent an entire month... maybe a little more than a month, outside. I walked from somewhere in the middle of Illinois to New Orleans and slept in a sleeping bag (no tent). After a couple weeks, everything seemed more vibrant and alive. When I slept along the Mississippi, I had to comb the snails out of my hair in the morning.
1: My father, George W. Bush, and an old friend.
My father: i'd ask why he hates NYC so much
George W. Bush: i'd ask why we really went to war
the old friend: too personal
2: I have several pleasant memories, but I don't think a real favorite. My favorite family vacation is when we all flew out to Rockaway Beach Oregon and rented a cabin right on the beach, and spent most of our time doing nothing; walking the coast, looking in tidepools, driving to the mountains to have a snowball fight in August. I also remember as a third or fourth grader driving to St. Louis to see the "Tom Sawyer caves", the whole family took turns reading the book "Tom Sawyer" out loud to eachother. That was cool.
3. I don't know, and I'm pretty sure the "town" doesn't even have an evac plan. I could go north or south and stay with family.
4. I spent about 6 and a half consecutive hours on Oval Beach /in Lake Michigan in Saugatuck Michigan in late August. It was almost heaven. I chased my kids up and down the beach, I tried to find flat stones, I made a sand turtle, I took pictures of our feet in the sand, I swam, I chased a sand beetle, I sat and dried off my kids, I shivered, I hooped and hollered, I laughed. It was good.
1. Can't think of why I would want to. Seems a little nasty to do that to a person.
2. Wow!! I have a bunch. I guess my favorite memories would be the 2-3 week vacations we took every year--we saw the US (except Alaska & Hawaii)and Canada (lower provences).
3. If evacuating meant leaving the area, I'd have no problem getting out within an hour. And I know enough about the back roads that I don't think I would get caught in traffic.
I don't think we have a good enough city plan yet but I know it is being worked on and reviewed every 6 months or so.
4. I can't remember. Not in the last 14-15 years that I can think of.
1. Geez, good question. Maybe give it to some politician to find out who really killed JFK...I really don't know...
2. One of my favorite childhood memories: eating a popsicle outside at dusk in summertime, with the crickets chirping, a slight breeze in the air, and listening to the grown-ups chatting on lounge chairs.
3. I think I'd be capable of evacuation, it's the other people you have to worry about. I have no idea how well prepared my city is for a natural disaster, hopefully they know what to do. Maybe I should look into that.
4. This past weekend I was outside, walking and enjoying the beautiful fall day, blue skies and all.
1. Ethics aside...eh-hem...I think I'd give Jesus a dose and ask him to what extent he really enjoys listening to Christian contemporary music. Because seriously...seriously....
2. Off the top of my head, one of my favorite childhood memories is sitting on the glider on my front porch on a summer evening, eating ice cream.
3. I think we're screwed. Really. The biggest disaster here would be Three Mile Island getting funky in a big way, and honestly, I'm guessing that a best case scenario would be the highways becoming huge parking lots full of furture thyroid cancer victims. That's best case scenario. On a good day, the roads around here are parking lots at rush hour. And that's without a radioactive cloud beearing down, making people nutso.
4. Saturday morning. Soccer, playground, puttering around in back yard.
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