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Questions from ali_anarres.

1. What one item would you like to add to your current place of residence?

We've wanted a dishwasher for a while. It's not that I object to doing the washing up; it can be quite relaxing. But I don't always want to do it now, and if this persists then you can end up with a week's worth of washing up to do without really noticing.

It'll have to wait until we sort out some other stuff about the kitchen: a new sink and rearrange things so that (a) there is somewhere to put the dishwasher and (b) the gap for the cooker is the right width and in the right place WRT the hood above it. Whoever did this kitchen originally did a somewhat shoddy job.

I wanted a bench for a while to go in the garden but now we have one thanks to LNR's parents l-)

2. What attribute or characteristic are you most surprised that people point out about you?

People used to (some years ago now l-) comment on my age; apparently I came across online to them as rather older than I in fact was. I didn't realize I was doing anything that would give that impression so the comments came as a surprise.

Nowadays, though, it surprises me when people talk about the size of my nose.

3. How far ahead do you think you can accurately describe what you'll be doing with your life?

I'd expect to be living with lnr forever. I can't predict when or whether that might involve children, which would clearly have to be part of an accurate description, but it's unlikely to be for a few years yet. Let's say most likely not for at least three years (without committing to any timescales here l-).

I'd expect to doing the same sort of job for quite a while yet; surely at least ten years. But my first job I left after about six years, so perhaps it's unwise to predict that I'll stay with the same employer much longer than that. Let's say five years, for a round number.

4. Would you rather be hated or ignored?

It can be hard or impossible to tell the difference between someone deliberately shunning you, being too busy to respond, never having heard you/received your email/etc in the first place, etc. So probably hated rather than ignored; at least you know where you are that way, if if you don't much want to be there..

5. If you had to somehow get one thousand people together in one place doing one specific task, how would you do it?

For something that people could plausibly be enthused about ... I think networking through friends would have to be the answer. There are about eighty people on usual-suspects, subtract a few of those who I don't really know, add a few others who read my LJ or are chiark users, add some relatives, and that's somewhere around hundred people who I know who I might be able to talk into doing whatever it is; if they can each enthuse nine of their friends (harder than it sounds, due to extensive overlap, but even so rather less effort than I have to put in) then that'd make a thousand.

"One place" does complicate matters, given that friends don't have to live nearby given telecommunications, but I don't think that'd be too much of a problem in practice. <handwave>

For something that people didn't care about much, I could probably exhaust my savings paying people to do it and still risk not getting the full thousand. Depends just how little they cared about it really l-)