Four jobs I’ve had
Nothing very interesting. In no particular order:

1. Soda Jerk. After Cocktail I took a bartending course (which was a blast). I couldn’t find a job as a bartender because I was too young, so I ended up as a soda jerk at a retro diner where I sometimes splashed Amaretto over someone’s vanilla sundae.
2. Video Producer. I always wanted to be a film producer. Still do to this day. In my early 20s I pestered the only “film guy” I knew which was some schmuck who shot car commercials at the lot my dad worked at. He finally caved and would call me when he got some crap job offer like shooting a video for articling law students. Although I can’t claim writing credit, I proudly produced, shot and edited, ‘Law Trek’. I would like to thank the academy.
3. Tool Delivery Driver. Yeah. This was pretty much a stoner’s job. I got fired after a few weeks because I would stop on my routes at any and all video game arcades and play Galaga for 45 minutes to an hour.
4. Ziebart Manager. You know, the car undercoating place? They have them all over the world. I started at the bottom and worked my way up to store manager at my location. That means they had to give me the keys to the front door. So I invited my friends to the shop after hours and we partied there all night. Some guy had his car locked in the shop overnight. It was a tricked out AMC Gremlin with wide slicks, line-lock, and bleach lines attached to a pump. I did a two minute brake stand inside the shop, bleach and all. I literally bore a hole through the concrete. There was so much smoke we couldn’t see our hands in front of our faces. We had to open the bay doors to let the smoke out. The people from the restaurant next to us phoned the fire department.

Four movies I can watch over and over
1. Moulin Rouge
2. Band of Brothers (YES, ME TOO)
3. As Good As It Gets
4. Damn it, I’m gonna have to go with The Fifth Element

Four places I’ve lived
1. Vancouver, Washington. We moved back to BC during the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. When I say “during,” I mean that the Toutle River bridge was wiped out by mud and ash moments after we crossed it.
2. Mt. Holly, North Carolina.
3. Minnekhada. This is now a regional park. At the time we lived there, a portion of it was leased by the provincial government to the Bouviers (not those Bouviers), a local horse racing family. My parents went through a horse racing phase when I was between 13 and 17 years of age. We owned 7 or 8 standard bred pacers — the kind that pull the sulkies, if you’re familiar. We sub-leased the foreman’s house on the property. The Bouviers lived in the main house, which was actually the original worker’s quarters. I recall the top floor had at least a dozen small bedrooms and one washroom. The property has a remarkable history including having hosted polo matches with British royalty.
4. An apartment in Burnaby, BC, with a girl whom I was not dating or romantically involved with.

Four TV shows I watch regularly

1. Lost
2. 24
3. CSI anything
4. Sopranos when it’s running but since it’s not I’ll throw in PBS in HD.

Four Five places I’ve vacationed

1. New Orleans
2. St. Lucia and Martinique
3. Hit & run European tour including London, Paris, Munich, Hopfgarten, Lucerne, Verona, Orvieto, Venice, Rome, Pisa, Lucca, Florence and Pompeii. I said it was hit & run.
4. Orange, Massachusetts to interview a second world war veteran B-17 waist gunner, Mo Moriarty,  who was shot down over Nazi occupied France.
5. Clevelend, Ohio to see my bestest friends, Dave and Julie.

Four of my favorite dishes
1. Rack of lamb
2. Grilled lobster and steak
3. N’awlins Muffuletta
4. Pasta

Four sites I visit daily
1. Clan Robot forums
2. What do I know
3. Google news
4. Dealer CreditWeb

Four albums I really dig

1.  Jimmy Buffett, “Tales from Margaritaville”.
2. Green Day, “American Idiot”.
3. Van Halen. Anything with David Lee Roth but then usually only half of any given album except “Van Halen”.
4. It’s tough choosing a whole album. Even “Tales from Margaritaville” is a compilation of favorites. I give up.

Four places I would rather be right now
1. Paris.
2. I have to steal one of Dave’s again and say, at the movies.
3. In a dimly lit research library somewhere far from here, working on a screenplay.
4. Home with Diana and the girls (our two border collies, Dixie and Jessie).

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