Re: Okay, well this a bit like the old Netscrape posts

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Castellan <charles.meigh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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enriched us with: 
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> Dunno where it comes from, I stole it from a friends blog and
> edited out a few redundant/depressing/rude Qs.
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> 1.What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? 

Go to a fan-conference. 
 
> 2.Did you make any New Years' resolutions? 

Nope, never do.

> 3.Did anyone close to you give birth? 

Reasonably close, yes. The god-mother of my own youngest. 
 
> 4.Did anyone close to you die? 

Not close enough to recall it, anyway . . . 
 
> 5.What countries did you visit? 

Apart from my own? 

Finland, Sweden and UK

> 6.What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005? 

Time . . . 

> 7.What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and
> why?  

I don't really know
 
> 8.What was your biggest achievement of the year? 

Quit smoking on 8 April -- haven't started again yet (knock on wood). 
 
> 9.What was your biggest failure? 

Mumble muble . . . 
 
> 10.Did you suffer illness or injury? 

Not in particular. 

> 11.What was the best thing you bought? 

/The Lays of Beleriand/ and /The Shaping of Middle-earth/. 
 
> 12.Whose behaviour merited celebration?  

My kids -- they failed, for yet another year, to have me interred on 
the psychiatric ward. From them that always merits celebration ;-) 
 
> 13.Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? 

Among countless others, The Danish People's Party (fortunately they are 
not).
 
> 14.Where did most of your money go? 

Payments due on our house loan. 

> 15.What events did you get really, really, really excited about? 

Personally: Accio2005 
 
> 16.What song will always remind you of 2005? 

None. 

> 17.Compared to this time last year, are you: 
> i.happier or sadder? 

Pretty much the same. 

> ii.thinner or fatter? 

Mumble mumble mumble ;-)

> iii.richer or poorer? 

Richer, I think. 

> 18.What do you wish you'd done more of? 

Most im****tantly -- play with my kids.

> 19.What do you wish you'd done less of? 

Wasting time on usenet . . .  ehhh? 

> 20.How did you spend Christmas? 

Tradionally bi-annually at the in-laws.

> 21.Who did you spend the most time on the phone with? 

Probably my wife, though not all that long each time. 
 
> 22.Did you fall in love in 2005? 

No. 
 
> 24. What was your favourite TV program? 

'Videnskabens Verden' 
(World of Science)

> 26. What was the best book you read? 

Wee Free Men

> 27. What was your greatest musical discovery or rediscovery? 

No answer. 
 
> 28. What did you want and get? 
>  
> 29. What did you want and not get? 

Time and money . . . 
 
> 30. What were your favorite films of this year? 

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
and
The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 

(Not that I saw more than a couple more, but 'A History of Violence' 
was absolutely ghastly.) 

> 31.What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?  

Go to work, go to my scout-meeting . . . that's it. I became 39. 

> 33. How would you describe your personal fa****on concept in 2005? 

'Nonexistant' ;-) 

> 34. What kept you sane? 

Is that a trick-question . . . 

> 35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most/least? 

Most? I don't fancy these people -- the best I can do is to pity them. 

Least (as it 'hated the most'): it's a toss between two people from the 
Danish People's Party 

> 36. What political issue stirred you the most? 

The rhetorics (<list of expletives deleted>) of the two above. 
 
> 37. Whom did you miss? 

As always, my father. 
 
> 38. Who was the best new person you met? 

A toss between Steve Vander Ark and Ali Hewison
 
> 39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
 
You discover that the warrenty has run out on car and wa****ng machine 
by having to get a new motor and new wa****ng machine within one week. 

-- 
Troels Forchhammer
Valid mail is <t.forch(a)email.dk>

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