Cinqo, Cinqo, says I

Here are 5 questions of your freindly neighborhood Bhagwan, which I answer in dutiful fashion. Ask of me five of your own, and then post them in your own space, along with these instructions.

lj user Ironymaiden asks:

1. you’ve found your Millionaire Girlfriend. now that all of your material needs are met, what do you want?

What I want will require a billionaire girlfriend, but the sentiment is the same.

Private Island. With a connection to the internets.

2. do you look like any of your relatives, or are you an amalgam?

The Fousek genome is an amazingly static. So I look like my Mother’s side of the family (and mine, for that matter, as my son looks just like the rest of us). The one picture I can remember seeing of my natural father (which as I have written here before, may or may not be him) has him looking a bit different than I, but I see him in my eyes.

3. i’m seein’ the Police in June. do you have any bands you wish would rise from the dead long enough for you to see them perform?

Besides the Police? Nothing comes to mind. Although I’d have liked to see the King in person, rather than just recorded.

4. Folklife or Bumbershoot, and why?

Neither. I hate public festivals. They tend to attract people.

5. what do you think of shared world fiction?

When written by professional authors, I like it quite a bit. When written by folks living in thier mother’s basements, I despise it.

I personally have no interest in writing it, which may color my thinking somewhat.

lj user daakroth asks

1) What was most memorable gaming experience?

Trick question. I remember them all. You’re not asking me to tell you about my character, are you?

2) Having met and gotten to know me, has your understanding/view of deaf people changed?

You are not the first deaf person I have ever met, nor will you be the last. My understanding of people is greater for having known people, but the former is not a distinction I make. I myself am more than a little hard of heading in one ear, and I adapt to it as best I can. Most folks don’t even know unless I tell them.

Guess the cat’s out of hte bag.

3) If you were stricken with an ailment, and there was a cure, but you had to make a choice, deafness, or blindness, which would you pick, and why?

Not to marginalize, but I’ll take deafness every day of the week, and twice on Sunday. The lion’s share of our usable brain is wired to process visual information, and if I could not read, I’d go crazy.

And that’s not hyperbole

4) You’re a very complex person and intense at times. There are times that I quite frankly don’t get you. What are your three overriding goals in life?

Three?

Wake up every day with a reason to get out of bed.

Don’t fuck up.

Don’t sweat the small stuff.

5) You’ve been on the diet for some time now, and you’re quite skinny now, at what point will you think “I’m done with the diet”?

I hit that point in January. Right now, I seem to be plateaued at 174, although there is still fat I would rather not be present. Truth be told, I find the discipline of the meal planner a valuable tool. It forces me to make healthy choices for my food intake, when left to my own devices, I would eat either poorly or not at all.

As written earlier, I feel that I could push another 10 lbs off, but I really don’t care. As long as I stay somewhere south of 180, I’m good.