A guest post from my brother Jim!

I enjoyed these lists so much, I made up my own with Dave’s encouragement…

Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Laborer for a road construction company. It was a job Dad lined up for me with the company that repaved the parking lot at the hospital. I worked there for one summer, long enough to know I didn’t want to do that for a living. Emulsion is really stinky stuff, and asphalt is really hot to work with on a 90 degree day.
2. Grunt for commercial photographer. The guys studio was downtown in an old warehouse building on Bradley. Or maybe it was the Bradley Building. The pay was decent, and I got some experience setting shots up for him.
3. Lab rat for Aerocon Photogrammetric surveys. I did darkroom work for an aerial survey company. Processing 250 foot long x 9 inch wide rolls of film, and making really huge enlargements to scale. We once made an 8 foot long x 6 foot wide enlargement of the City of Beachwood. This job encouraged me to get out of photography.
4. Private ambulance medic. I got to know the City of Chicago pretty well, and all the places to get really tasty fattening food cheap. It paid the bills until I got hired at Mount Prospect FD.

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. I gotta go with Band of Brothers too. It’s a guy thing, I guess…
2. The Outlaw Josey Whales. Just a classic Clint movie. “Might as well ride along with us, everyone else is.”
3. Apollo 13
4. Saving Private Ryan

Four places I’ve lived:
1. In Grandma’s house with Dave. Playing spoons with Carl was a blast.
2. The apartment on East Merry Street in BG with Dave, Doug Hughes, and Eric. We played full contact basketball in the living room with a nerf ball and net. We taped a basketball key to the floor. It was a riot. We also set up a miniature golf course with the same nerf ball and a hockey stick for a putter. We had a water hazard (9×13 pan full of water) and everything.
3. Our first apartment in Chicago. We were assured it was a good neighborhood by the lady that found it for us, then after we moved in, I visited the firehouse on the next block where they said “ You live WHERE?” Two months later a gangbanger was shot dead at the end of the street. We moved as soon as our lease was up to…
4. Our apartment in Mount Prospect. Crawling distance to the bar, and we made a lot of friends there.

Four TV shows I watch regularly:
1. My Name is Earl
2. Rescue Me
3. Tour de France on OLN. Sure it’s only 21 days long, but that’s what I watch in the summer.
4. Anything on The History Channel

Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. Cancun
2. Jamaica
3. Several places in Florida
4. Seattle

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Turkey Divan
2. BBQ ribs and German potato salad
3. Santa Fe Salmon Salad
4. Deep dish Pepperoni Pizza, Chicago style!
5. for Dave, An Old Style and a Polish! NOT!

Three sites I visit daily:
I really don’t have four but…
1. CKW
2. Dad Gone Mad
3. Two Dinks… to see if you guys get around to posting anything ; )
[4. bicycling.com, when he's not at work -- since those tools have it Websensed -Dave]

Four albums I truly enjoy:
1. Again I’m with Dave. The first Boston is excellent.
2. Rush “Moving Pictures” — it’s flawless.
3. Van Halen. The first one and 5150. Their first effort with both singers had great energy. Gary Sherone doesn’t count.
4. Green Day “American Idiot”
I know that’s really 5. Sorry.

Four places I’d rather be:
1. On the Beach in Negril, Jamaica with Tina, sipping a Rum Drink.
2. At the Winter Olympics.
3. Riding a bike somewhere warm, dropping Dave, then going to the movies.
4. In a pub in Ireland with my friend Brian, enjoying a frothy Guinness.

[okay , I may not forgive him for the "dropping Dave" comment, but thanks to Jim for writing! If anyone else wants to follow suit, send me your list.]

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