From Red, via Belldame, it’s the alphabet meme.

• A- Available or Single? Single.  “Available” is such a loaded term. 
• B- Best Friend. Not counting guitars (my old Ventura acoustic and my 1960 Fender Jazzmaster), there’s a couple of guys going back 10-30 years who’d qualify.
• C- Cake or Pie.  Not just any pie, of course – lemon meringue and key lime would be the, er, cream of the crop. 
• D- Drink of Choice. Tossup – limeade, Smithwick’s Ale, or pineapple juice.
• E- Essential Item. Laptop?  Guitars?  One of those, probably.
• F- Favorite Color. Green
• G- Gummi Bears or Worms. Both of them are loathsome.
• H- Hometown. If you’ve read the blog at all, you know.
• I- Indulgence. On Sundays when I don’t have the kids, going to some out-of-the-way place and having lunch and reading a book with nobody telling me where to go or what to do.
• J- January or February. February.  January starts with a hangover (even if it’s not a literal one for me, it’s a figurative one) and ends in the middle of winter.  February is short and ends with March, which, as much as I love winter, is where you can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
• K- Kids. Bun and Zam.  15 and 14. 
• L- Life is incomplete without… Friends, family, music, great conversation, good food.
• M- Marriage Date. Beta version: October 13, 1990.  Final release:  TBD, no real rush to schedule it.
• N- Number of Siblings? Two – Barb in Billings, Jim in Minneapolis.  Plus three (I think) stepsiblings that I’ve never knowingly met.
• O- Oranges or Apples? Apples by a nod.  All kinds, especially Mutsus (if I can find ’em).
• P- Phobias/Fears. No big ones.  I get motion sickness on fairground rides much more violent than the bumper cars, but that’s not “phobia” so much as “I hate violent motion that I don’t control”.
• Q- Favorite Quote. So many.  “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”  “I offer only blood, sweat, toil and tears”  “Your job isn’t to die for your country.  Your job is to make the other poor, dumb sonofabitch die for his country”.  “I’m not a liberal, so I’m not an expert at things I know nothing about”.  “Whoever said ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ never had to bet his life on it”.  “Who dares wins”.  “I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals; I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants”.  Dozens more.
• R- Reasons to smile. Health, springtime, great job, kids are coming along nicely – too many to list, although it helps to force myself to do it anyway.
• S- Season. I like ’em all, except for the dog days of summer.  Early winter is probably my favorite.
• T- Tag Three. Nah.
• U- Unknown Fact About Me. I’d like to keep it that way.
• V – Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animals. Oppressor – but less so every year.
• W- Worst Habit. I worry too much.
• X – X-rays or Ultrasounds. Whatever it takes.
• Y- Your Favorite Foods. The more ethnic, the better. Crazy about Mexican, Russian, Turkish, Greek, Lebanese (all the mediterranean/middle eastern stuff), Korean, Vietnamese, you name it.
• Z- Zodiac. I don’t pay much attention, but according to people who do, I’m very Sagittarius.

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