1. Many children have blankets, or a favorite nubby stuffed animal that they like to keep near them for security. Do you recall what you had for your "security blanket" as a child? When did you finally give it up? What brought that about? I don't recall, but I'm told I was a real thumb sucker. When I was 4 I sucked my thumb so much that the skin split and my Mum had to put a plaster on it. By the time the plaster came off I'd kicked the habit.
2. Now that you are a big kid, what do you have to give you that same sense of security? My relationship with my wife is what gives me security at the moment.
3. With a little over four months left in 2002, have you accomplished everything you wanted to for the year? Is there anything that you would like to accomplish before the year is over? Other than the arrival of our new son, Connor, my situation is worse now than it was at the start of the year. By the end of the year I would like to have a steady source of income. Preferably one that doesn't involve me being somewhere I hate from 9 to 5.
4. I don't know about you, but it seems to me children have it pretty good these days. Game systems, computers in the home, microwaves, cable TV, the internet, cell phones and pagers, they certainly have a wider variety of technology than most of us did as children. What modern convenience, if any, do you think it would be good for children today to do without? What would they gain? Television. Without television children would spend more time with their parents, spend more time in imaginative play and exercise their intellect more often.
5. Many of us have one thing in which we believe we excel. What do you do better than most? I am good a grasping logical concepts and using them for creative problem solving. This gives me a natural flair for maths, physics and other similar fields. I imagine I would be good at most fields of I.T. but I've not had the chance to delve any further than the basics.
6. In the United States, and possibly other countries, teenagers in High School usually wind up falling into several social circles or "cliques." Stoners, Rich Kids, Jocks, Cheerleaders, Band, Drama, Goths, and so on (though the names are probably different today). What High School "clique" did you find yourself in? Was it by choice or did it just happen? Did you look down on other groups? (Aw it's ok, it was/is High School, we all did dumb stuff)I kinda fell between the "in-crowd" and "the plebs". I could mingle with either but was never really a part of any group. I had a succession of "best friends" whom I hung out with as a two-some.
7. (it begins) I have great news! I won the contest and we now have plane tickets to anywhere in the world. The bad news is we have to pick a place now and leave in the morning. I can't decide where to go, so you get to pick. Where should we go, and what is the first thing we should do when we get there? Ibiza (I've never been). And get drunk.
BONUS: Must I beg you? Either that or offer me money.
