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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A rainy Sunday with nothing in particular to do, a good book, my family, some friends, pizza, and sex. Not in any particular order.

What is your greatest fear?
Death, for me or anyone else.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Can’t think of a one. Of course, I’ve never done anything historical myself.

Which living person do you most admire?
Warren Buffett, but for reasons ancillary to him being rich.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Failure to motivate myself to achieve goals.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Intolerance.

What is your greatest extravagance?
My house.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Errrum… I’ll steal Piety from

On what occasion do you lie?
I lie to my son all the time, in many ways. “The ice cream is sleeping. We can’t wake it up.”

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Ex-cellent.

What is your greatest regret?
The many, many occasions when I failed to be assertive.

What is your current state of mind?
Ready for the weekend.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Add a superpower. Any one of them would do, except for that stupid ring that Green Lantern has.

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
Superpowers all around!

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
Me, again, with fewer zits.

What is your most treasured possession?
If we’re talking about what I miss most if I lost it in a fire, I’d say photographs.

Where would you like to live?
Where wouldn’t I like to live?¹

What is your favorite occupation?
The one I have suits me.

What is your most marked characteristic?
Dissimilar pupils.

What is the quality you most like in a man?
Integrity.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Integrity.

Who are your favorite writers?
Neal Stephenson, P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Atticus Finch

Who are your heroes in real life?
My family, even without superpowers.

What is it that you most dislike?
Deviousness.

What is your motto?
Go, Gadget, Go!

¹Actually, Florida. Or somewhere war-torn.