1. Who’s your personal hero?
Real: There are several. People that manage extraordinary feats. My father, Ty and others who inspire me to be a man.
Not so Real: Again many. For some reason most Mel Gibson characters but especially Max Rockatansky.
2. What do you always have at your bedside?
A stack of books. A pile of pocket change that my kid tries to eat. Yesterdays clothes.
3. What’s your retreat?
My garage. The junk yard. Camping. Books. Any water: Showers, baths, pools, lakes, oceans rivers, etc.
4. Do you play a musical instrument?
Not so much.
5. What’s your morning routine?
Hit snooze, roll out of bed at 6:45, hide in the bathroom for 1/2 an hour, get dressed, keys phone wallet check, fire up the truck and rush into traffic.
6. What’s your favorite item of clothing?
Flannel shirt
7. What’s your greatest artistic strength?
I can create a solution to any mechanical problem.
8. What’s your greatest artistic weakness?
The mess I leave behind
9. What’s always in your refrigerator?
Old food. Milk, juice, cheese, eggs, various dressings. Never enough bacon.
10. What’s your favorite food?
Grandma Valslers roast beef dinners.
11. Do you collect anything?
Crap. It seems to come from nowhere. I do have a few items that I prize in someways but not so much a collection unless you count tools I suppose. A few automotive books from the 50’s, a Bible that was a gift from a guy I respect a huge amount, my Grandfathers WWII Royal Engineers Issue entrenching tool. Stuff like that.
12. What are you always asked at parties?
Is that your kid throwing food?
13. What do you always have with you?
Wallet, keys, a phone and 9 times out of 10 a knife or multi tool.
14. What’s your favorite place in your home?
The bathroom.
15. What do you obsess over?
My family.
16. What’s the best recent gift you’ve received?
There have been many. My snowmobile? Or a sappier answer would be my kids.
17. What’s your fitness routine?
Toil
18. What talent do you covet?
To roll with lifes punches.
19. What’s your evening routine?
Take a deep breath, get out of the truck, through the front door and get ambushed by my dog, my daughter and my wife.
20. What’s the greatest misconception about your life?
Probably that I care!
21. What movie have you seen more than any other?
Since having Soph, either Shrek, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc. or Flushed Away.
22. What book have you read more than any other?
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
23. What household chore do you absolutely hate to do?
The dishes
24. What obsolete item can you not part with?
The Rotary engine my rx7 that I don’t have anymore. I keep it so that I can bang my shines on it in the garage.
25. What’s your travel routine?
Pack at the last minute, Stress about getting there, Arrive. Relax.
26. What’s the worst thing about traveling?
Everybody else thats traveling
27. What superstitions do you have?
If I talk bad about my vehicles they’ll break to spite me.
28. What do you do to procrastinate?
Sit on the toilet. Stand in the shower. Lay in bed. Watch TV. Surf the net.
29. What’s your biggest self-indulgence or guilty pleasure?
Hotrod magazines. Though it has been a while…
30. What gadget can’t you live without?
The key to my truck. No key, no work, no money no house etc.
31. What’s your most prized possession?
Tools
32. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
03 Chevy Silverado Z71.
33. What’s your next big purchase going to be?
A House
34. Which historical figure would you most like to meet?
Colin Chapman
35. What are you going to work on tomorrow?
Work.
