I’m stealing Sunday Stealing. It was off for December 2024, so I went back to the questions from March 2013. Why that month? Because that’s when I turned 60 and for no other reason. I took questions from the four posts.
Do you think we will move completely from traditional books to digital ones, and if we do, are you OK with that?
I have difficulty listening to books and don’t enjoy reading books online on a tablet or computer screen. I like the tactile and emotional sense of holding a book.
Do you learn best by reading, listening, or experiencing?
It is experiencing. When I’m given a task, and somebody’s trying to instruct me, telling me stuff, it doesn’t usually take. If I read the manual, I have a better chance, but doing it side by side is almost always more successful.
How fast does your mood change?
It depends. I can go from being ticked off to being melancholy about getting ticked off pretty quickly.
Is your bed comfortable?
Would you say you’re an understanding person?
Talk, Talk
It depends on my comfort level and the situation. I can be fairly chatty when I feel part of the entity. But where I don’t, I can say nothing and observe a lot.
Closed, but that’s pretty much a function of the fact that I go to bed after my wife does, and the hall light, which I need to get to our bedroom, is on until shortly before I go to sleep. I suppose I could leave the door open after she’s already closed it, but I haven’t habituated to that.
I have an Instagram account, which I have seldom used, but I can see other people’s Instagram stuff. Instagram is not often in my headspace. I have Facebook, which I post daily, usually my blog post, and my wife’s and my NYT Connections. I’m on BlueSky, and sometimes I post my blog there if I think of it. I’m new there, though.
Shawn Colvin’s album A Few Small Repairs. That’s the one that has Sunny Came Home and Nothing On Me.
I Wish
Sufficient money for certain organizations to do the projects they’re working on: for the Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany, that would be money to build the Interpretive Center, and for FOCUS churches to have a sufficient amount of enough money to feed everybody they want to feed in the Capital District. And to pay off the house my parents owned in Charlotte, NC.
TV: I was kiddy shows thrice. My church choir was on a local telethon several times. I was interviewed for a news segment on a racial reconciliation event in he 1990s. In 2017, five years after I wrote about the surprise October 4, 1987 snowstorm, I was interviewed by Spectrum News. I think that’s it. Oh, wait; I was on JEOPARDY twice.
I won $50 in a lottery fifty years ago.
I won a Class B racquetball tournament at the Albany YMCA. It was the only statue I ever won. In the 1970s, I was pretty good at winning radio contests, usually records, but once won $48.
Somewhat unrelated, but I always thought that “Talk, Talk” had among the best opening notes of any 1980s song, though I preferred their “It’s My Life” as a song, and the video for other reasons.
I enjoyed your answers! I miss Sunday Stealing.