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Via ktbuffy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

10 firsts:<\/strong>
\n…first boyfriend\/girlfriend:<\/strong> Annette (last name not remembered, it being the First Grade)
\n…first best friend:<\/strong> David Helgerson
\n…first screen name: <\/strong>dhill@pas01.[company].com
\n…first kiss: <\/strong>A stage kiss by a senior in the Little Theatre at GHS
\n…first piercings: <\/strong>N\/A
\n…first crush: <\/strong>Debbie Needleman
\n…first music: <\/strong>First personally purchased music was “Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits” on cassette
\n…first car: <\/strong>1971 Super Beetle, powder blue, Calif. license 625CHV.
\n…first stuffed animal: <\/strong>Earliest one I know of was “Mister Bear.” Currently lives in our guest room.<\/p>\n

9 lasts:<\/strong>
\n…last cigarette: <\/strong>N\/A. Last (only) cigar (partial) was at my bachelor party.
\n…last alcoholic beverage: <\/strong>A glass of Riesling last evening (thanks, Jackie).
\n…last kiss: <\/strong>Margie, yesterday. (Well, this morning, too, but neither of us was really awake.)
\n…last movie seen: <\/strong>In a theater – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/em>.
\n…last phone call: <\/strong>Jim & Ginger, yesterday, I think.
\n…last cd played: <\/strong>The Pirate Coast<\/em> by Richard Zacks (audiobook), listened to this morning.
\n…last bubble bath: <\/strong>No idea, but, I suspect, on the order of decades ago.
\n…last time you cried: <\/strong>Cannot recall.
\n…last date: <\/strong>Hmmm. Been several weeks since Margie and I went someplace just by ourselves.<\/p>\n

8 have you evers:<\/strong>
\n…dated one of your best friends: <\/strong>Usually.
\n…skinny dipped: <\/strong>Not that I can recall.
\n…kissed somebody and regretted it: <\/strong>No.
\n…fallen in love: <\/strong>Oh, yes.
\n…lost someone you loved: <\/strong>Yes.
\n…been depressed: <\/strong>Yes.
\n…woken up and not known where you were: <\/strong>For more than 10-15 seconds? No. For less than that? Frequently. I have a longish boot cycle.<\/p>\n

7 places you’ve been to:<\/strong>
\n… Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales — yay!)
\n… Eire
\n… Vancouver Island
\n… Santa Fe
\n… Walt Disney World
\n… The Greater LA-San Diego Metroplex
\n… The Slough of Despond<\/p>\n

6 things you’ve done today:<\/strong>
\n… Fumbled with my alarm clock.
\n… Driven 35 miles.
\n… Checked my office e-mail.
\n… IMed with Margie.
\n… Updated my blog.
\n… Sat on a phonecon.<\/p>\n

5 favorite things in NO order:<\/strong>
\n… Reading (esp. at meal time).
\n… Lectoring.
\n… Making Katherine smile.
\n… Making Margie smile.
\n… Playing games with friends.<\/p>\n

4 people you can tell (almost) anything to:<\/strong>
\n… Margie
\n… My Dear Readers Here [which, I think, gets us to 4]<\/p>\n

3 wishes:<\/strong>
\n… Joy for Katherine
\n… A Long and Happy Marriage with Margie.
\n… Winning the Lottery<\/p>\n

2 things you want to do before you die:<\/strong>
\n… Visit the Parthenon.
\n… Get published.<\/p>\n

1 thing you regret:<\/strong>
\n… The numerous projects I’ve started over the years and never finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via ktbuffy: 10 firsts: …first boyfriend\/girlfriend: Annette (last name not remembered, it being the First Grade) …first best friend: David Helgerson …first screen name: dhill@pas01.[company].com …first kiss: A stage kiss…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,527,14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-harry-potter","category-love-and-marriage","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12601,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/archive_thoughts.html","url_meta":{"origin":8403,"position":0},"title":"Archive thoughts","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Mar-08 8:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ktbuffy shares a link to this post about blog archives. 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