Sunday Stealing

 

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves.

Stolen from SwapBot

 1. what you did you do today?
We went to an amazing memorial service for a man I worked for for 30 years.  If I could have just half the nice things said about me at my memorial service, I'd be very proud.

 2.  What are the must-sees in your area?
The UC Davis campus has some neat things.  There aren't a lot of other scenic things in this small town.

 3. What is your favourite quote?

loving and losing: different by only one letter and a million degrees of pain -- Jessica Katoff

 4. What was the last thing you cooked or ate? 
We had good food at the memorial.  Special was bri on a slice of baguette with an apple on top.

 5. What is something you learned from your grandparents?

My father's mother made an appetizer that I make occasionally.

 6. What makes you happy?

Watching how my children enjoy each other.

 7. What is your best travel memory?

So many wonderful memories, but I think one of my favorite is the trip we took to England and Ireland with all five kids, spending my father's life savings.  We had a magnificent time.

 8. What’s the weather like today?

Beautiful today.  High of 82, which is definitely an improvement from a high of 103.

 9. Share an interesting fact that you’ve learned

Which Dr. Seuss character was featured on the author's license plate?

Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, cruised the streets of California in a stylish gray Cadillac adorned with a fitting custom license plate that read "GRINCH." According to a 1979 Washington Post article, Geisel had to wait several years to secure his own character’s name on his license plate because the custom plate was already registered to someone else in California. However, as fate would have it, the Dr. Seuss fan eventually relocated to Iowa City and relinquished his cherished "GRINCH" plate, along with a note of apology to Dr. Seuss.

 10. What is your favourite book, movie or band!

Book:  Steineck's "East of Eden" Movie: Judy Garland's version of A Star Is Born. Band: Lawsuit, of course.

 11.  Write your favorite poem or haiku?

I don't have a favorite poem, but I love the haikus my daughter writes about biking in Boston.  We call them "bi-kus."

 12. What is a local festival or tradition from your area?

Picnic day is essentially open house at UC Davis.  Get up early to watch the parade, then go to campus to watch dachshund races, stick your hand in the stomach of a real cow, see all sorts of displays from all the departments. Check out all the egghead statues around campus, by Robert Arneson

 13. What was the best thing you learned in school?

Conversational French.