Firday Fiver is hunting wabbits...

1. What are your favorite animated characters? The classic Warner Brothers characters. Bugs, Daffy, etc.

2. Violence in cartoons - funny or harmful? Hysterical.

3. Can you do any impressions? I do a pretty good Marlon Brando

4. Would you consider yourself artistic? Yes, as a writer. When it comes to more visual art forms, I suck.

5. What's your favorite type of cheese? Extremely sharp cheddar.

Holy humor!

A man is driving down a deserted stretch of highway when he notices a sign out of the corner of his eye. It reads:

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
10 MILES

He thinks it was a figment of his imagination and he drives on without second thought. Soon he sees another sign, which says:

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
5 MILES

Suddenly, he begins to realise that these signs are for real... Then he drives past a third sign saying:

SISTERS OF ST.FRANCIS
HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION
NEXT RIGHT

His curiosity gets the best of him and he pulls into the drive. On the far side of the parking lot is a stone building with a small sign next to the door reading:

SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS

He climbs the steps and rings the bell. The door is answered by a nun in a long black habit who asks, "What may we do for you, my son?" He answers, "I saw your signs along the highway, and was interested in possibly doing business." "Very well, my son. Please follow me." The man is led through many winding passages and is soon quite disoriented.

The nun stops at a closed door and tells the man, "Please knock on this door " He does as he is told and another nun in a long habit, holding a tin cup answers the door. This nun instructs, "Please place $100 in the cup, then go through the large wooden door at the end of this hallway." He gets $100 out of his wallet and places it in the second nuns cup.

He trots eagerly down the hall and slips through the door, pulling it shut behind him..
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And they called them 'books from the ships'

15 points to anyone I'm not married to who can place that quote. Anyway, onto a meme ganked from filkertom

What are your five favorite books, i.e., ones which you go back to over and over and over, the ones that really changed your life? And why?

1. Starship Troopers - Robert A Heinlein. Want to know how I ended up the way I am today? Read this book. Not only my dedication to the military, but many of my views on honor and duty were forged by the saga of one Juan Rico, Mobile Infantry.

2. A World Out of Time - Larry Niven. This was my introduction to SF that was epic yet intimate. For most of the book, the protagonist is pretty much alone! Reading this as a young'un changed my perceptions of space and time.

3. Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman. One of the best manifestos ever written, and wildly funny and useful. Need to.. um.. find a new copy somewhere...

4. Dune - Frank Herbert. This book taught me that worlds can be important characters, and probably is responsible for my passion for world building today.

5. The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I'm still not sure I understand this. Praise Eris!

There are others that have affected me, but I don't go back and reread, such as The Bridge at San Luis Rey.

w00t!

October marks the beginning of the new fiscal year for PODS, and today we had an early morning (as in "be at the Hayward warehouse at 0545" early) meeting with the regional manager.

After the usual updates and bad jokes, we were taken into the office one-by-one and given our evaluations and raises. I got a 4% raise, which was more than I expected, and found that customer feedback on me has been overwhelmingly positive.

I got the packet for the insurance a few days ago (which kshandra and I need to go over soon) and will hit my three months, and the end of probation, next Tuesday.

Good times, people, good times!