Saturday 9

 

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Workin' for a Livin' (1982)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) Huey begins the song by telling us some workdays feel like they will never end. How was last week for you? Did it drag or did it fly by?
I didn't notice.  It didn't seem to drag, but it didn't fly by either.

2) He sings that his car payment is due. Think about your personal finances. Do you pay most of your bills manually or do you more often take advantage of automated bill pay?
Walt pays most of our bills.  The bills I pay I pay automated.

 3) Huey Lewis achieved a perfect score on the math portion of the SAT. Did you take SATs and/or ACTs? Were your results anything to brag about? (If they were, go ahead and let us know!)
It was so long ago I don't remember.  I did OK, I remember.

4) In his role as District Attorney for Essex County, MA, Huey's grandfather Hugh Cregg prosecuted high-profile murder cases. Do you enjoy watching or reading courtroom dramas?
I prefer the crime solving dramas, but courtroom dramas are OK.  I'd like to see a case solved the way all of Perry Mason's cases are.

5) Huey no longer performs because he has an inner-ear disorder that prevents him from holding a vocal pitch. Of your five senses -- hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste -- which is the strongest?
I think none is strong, but of the five, taste is probably the strongest.  I wear glasses, have hearing aids, have lost the ability to smell many things.

6) He is a fan of fly fishing. Did you do any fishing this summer?
I have never gone fishing.

Since this Monday is Labor Day, the holiday established to celebrate the American worker … 

7) Approx. 10% of Americans are self employed. Have you ever been your own boss?
Most of my life I've been my own boss at least in part of my work, as a medical transcriptionist for a psychiatrist for 30 years, as a cake decorator for about 5 years.

8) According to Monster.com, 50% of workers have left a job to get away from a boss. Are you one of the 50%?
Oh yes, definitely.  An attorney I worked for was so bad that I finally quit.

9) Farmers feel the impact of extreme weather events. Have you ever had a job that required you to be outdoors most of the time?
No

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