Today at random

[mdlbear]

The weather stayed clear up until evening -- it's a good thing I got my walk in early, even if it was only 45 minutes or so.

We had dinner out at Black Angus with the kids. It'll be the last times we do that until Consonance, most likely.

We stopped at Barnes and Noble on the way home; there was a bewildering array of self-help and psychology books, including Therapy for Dummies. I didn't get any: I have a couple in the queue, and I have no way of knowing what's likely to be useful and what's crap. Recommendations?

Looking at the Five Things meme, I realized that I'd have a difficult time coming up with five things to ask about for most of the people on my friends list. Other people seem to be just the opposite: they have an easy time coming up with things to ask about, but a hard time answering. OK... I can just barely wrap my head around that, but it doesn't really surprise me.

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

So far only one person has asked me to do the Five Things meme. My biggest problem was making it fit within one LJ comment! (Three of the five things they asked about really required me to tell very long backstories to make the answers make sense.) I think the original idea of the meme was to look at the victim's list of interests, on their LJ userinfo page... but that won't work with me, because I have always scrupulously avoided listing any "interests", for a number of reasons.

[firecat]

If asked to come up with questions to ask LJ peeps I often cheat by looking at their interests lists.