I’ve been tagged

I was tagged recently by my dear friend C.B. Wentworth. Seems C.B. has been tagged a couple of times, and wanted to spread the wealth. There are rules, but you all know my feelings on rules. Officially, you’re supposed to answer the 11 questions provided, then come up with 11 more questions, and send them to 11 bloggers. Pirates don’t have, or follow, a lot of rules that don’t involve allocating rum, and who has to stand watch while everyone else is having a party. Even then, the success rate hovers around 9%.

Pirates handles rules about as well as kids on the first night their parents think they’re old enough to be left alone, while the parents go down the street to have dinner with friends. We’re old enough to know we’re going to get in trouble for what we do, but don’t have enough experience to understand how much. Needless to say, unless you’re a Pirate, that kind of trouble is only allowed to happen once.

So, I decided to pick and choose my own questions from the three groups of 11, the first two that C.B. got and the ones just posted. As far as sending my questions on to 11 more bloggers, I’m going to open this up to anyone who wants to answer the questions. You don’t need an invitation, either pick the 11 I’m answering, or come up with your own. Post a link in my comments if you decide to take on the challenge, and if you need an alibi as to why you’re posting the answers on your blog, let me know and I’ll forge a permission slip for you.

Hera ya go…

1) What book have you always wanted to read, but still haven’t gotten around to it?
Ulysses, by James Joyce.

2) What was your favorite toy as a child?
I had a big yellow Tonka dump truck. It had huge, solid rubber tires, and a dump box that tilted. I could fill the back up with dirt, roll it to someplace my parents wouldn’t appreciate and dump it. The best part, I could sit on the dump box. lift my feet and roll down the driveway. Actually, I wouldn’t mind having one of those right now.

3) If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?
If you had asked me in junior high, where the lunch court was right outside the girls gym locker room, I’d have said X-Ray vision, so I could see through walls. (That’s still a close second.) Right now though, I would say the ability to fly.

4) Where is your dream destination, (or place you’ve always wanted to go)?
Santorini, Santorini, Santorini. If there is a very rich and very elderly lady out there with a horrible health plan, I’m entertaining offers of marriage, if it’ll get me to Santorini.

5)  You’re the producer for turning any one book into a movie, which do you choose to do?
The Book of Joby, by Mark J. Ferrari.

6)  Which food do you wish you could rid the planet of?
Cilantro. It is the bane of my existence, and cooks are consistently trying to slip it into my favorite food, Mexican.

7)  What’s one thing you believe in with all your heart?
I can be better than I am today.

8)  What world/nation/city/place from a book would you most like to visit?
HOGWARTS!!!

9)  If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
Actually, I think of this question a lot. I’m torn on this one, because I have two eras I would like to visit. In no particular order; I would love to visit ancient Egypt, especially around the 18th Dynasty. I would love to talk and spend time with Akhenaten. I would also love to go back to the time and place of Tom Sayer and Huck Finn. I know there were bad events during that time, but to be a boy on the river, with riverboats, rafts and how far you traveled was only limited by how far you could walk.

10) Would you rather have an unlimited gift card to your favorite bookstore or a publishing contract but never be allowed to read any other books?
Keep the contract. Take away my books and you take away my life.

11) Here’s a million dollars. How would you spend it?
Travel, everywhere, constantly. I don’t want hotels, shopping or cell phones. I want to have the time to travel and see this country, no plans, just go when and where I want, staying as long as I want until I decide to move on. I want to see Europe, especially Italy and Greece (did I mention Santorini?). I want to see Africa, Mexico and South America. I want to keep traveling as long as the money held out, then live wherever I was when it was gone.