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The Game

Take turns asking and answering the questions below. There are no exact rules. The idea is to have fun mostly with just the conversation. You can modify questions for younger children. You can introduce drawing or painting, singing or charades. You could throw a bean bag back and forth each time you do a new question? You can do this standing, sitting, or walking. It can be played inside, outside or over the phone. It’s not a competitive game. It’s a game of fun, warmth, and relationship building.

Print out the questions below. You can either take turns asking questions you like from the list or you can randomly choose numbers, whatever works for you. If other questions follow naturally, all the better. Let the conversation flow! Let us know how you modify the game for more fun!

The Questions (for any age – feel free to modify)

1. What is your favorite color?
2. Who do you admire most?
3. Who is your best friend?
4. What is your funniest habit?
5. What do you dislike/hate?
6. What was your favorite dream ever?
7. What was your scariest dream ever?
8. What famous person would you like to have dinner with? What would you talk about?
9. Have you ever dreamed you could fly?
10. What is your favorite smell?
11. What is your favorite song?
12. What do you like to do when you’re bored?
13. What’s your favorite adventure you’ve been on?
14. What are you most scared of?
15. If you could live anywhere and bring anyone you want, where would you live?
16. What place are you keen to visit? Far away and nearby.
17. What are you most proud of?
18. Did/Do you have an imaginary friend? Tell us more.
19. What is your favorite holiday? Why?
20. What is your favorite holiday memory?
21. What was the best and worst day of your life?
22. What is your favorite food? Least favorite?
23. What is your favorite word? Least favorite?
24. How do you express your creativity?
25. Where do you believe we come from before birth?
26. Where do you believe we go after death?
27. What is something that always makes you laugh?
28. What person always makes you laugh?
29. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
30. What would be the consequences if you got your wish?
31. Do you collect or live simply? Explain.
32. What drives you crazy?
33. What makes you smile?
34. What do you know about your heritage? Grandparents and back.
35. Do you have a favorite story from your family history?
36. What’s the most shocking thing you ever did?
37. What would you like to have a “do-over” on?
38. What is your favorite story to tell?
39. What’s your favorite animal? Why?
40. What is your favorite season? Why?
41. What is your favorite hobby?
42. What is your favorite thing to do on the weekends?
43. What one thing do you want to change in yourself?
44. When did you feel most alone?
45. When did you feel most happy?
46. What do you do to cheer yourself up?
47. With whom would you like to trade places for a day?
48. What makes you mad?
49. Do you want to have children?
50. What’s your favorite thing you own?
51. What do you wish you could do?
52. What are the colors of the numbers 1-10? Letters?
53. What are you afraid of?
54. What would your dream house be like?
55. Do you believe in angels?
56. Are you ticklish?
57. What is your favorite place?
58. What’s your favorite place in nature?
59. Which do you like better: hot or cold?
60. What was your favorite Halloween costume?
61. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid?
62. What is your favorite memory from high school? college? grade school?
63. What makes you sad?
64. What does your name mean? Why did your parents choose it?
65. What are your favorite clothes?
66. Who is your favorite person to talk to? Why?
67. What’s your favorite hiding place?
68. What do you want to be when you grow up?
69. What do you want people to remember you for?
70. What is your most annoying habit (to others)?
71. In your most difficult relationship, what makes it so?
72. How do you show compassion?
73. What are you always curious to learn more about?
74. Whom do you miss?
75. What do you like to teach?
76. What is your favorite gadget?
77. What do you like to write about?
78. What is your favorite “bad” thing to do?
79. What is your favorite movie?
80. Favorite book?
81. Favorite band? Song?
82. Do you like to go camping?
83. What fascinates you?
84. What makes you special?

Questions Especially (but not exclusively) for Young Children

1. Do you remember being born?
2. What’s your favorite story about when you were a baby?
3. What’s your favorite game?
4. Who is your favorite hero?
5. Who is the worst villain?
6. What can you do better than mommy, daddy or sibling?
7. What are you really good at?
8. If you could have any pet, which one would you choose?
9. If you have a child someday, what would you like to give to him/her?
10. What’s your favorite thing to cook with mommy/daddy?
11. What color are your eyes?
12. What color are you inside?
13. What word do you think is really funny?
14. What do you like to draw/paint?
15. What songs do you like to sing?
16. What is your favorite book/story?
17. Can you play music? How?
18. Where were you before you were born?
19. Why is the sky blue?
20. Why is there day and night?
21. What is mommy/daddy really good at?
22. Whom do you like to cuddle and kiss?
23. Where do fruits and vegetables come from? How?
24. If you were King/Queen of the house, what would you change? Rules, things, etc?
25. What wish would you ask of the wishing star?
26. How do you make people smile?
27. How do you make people laugh?
28. Is there anything special you can do with your body? (jumping, dancing, funny faces, etc)
29. What do you hope never happens?
30. What do you think is scary?
31. What do you notice when you go outside your house?
32. Which do you like better, sand or snow? Why?
33. What’s the scariest animal?
34. If you could be any animal, which would you choose? Why? What would you do?
35. Do you have any secrets to tell?
36. What is something you do every day?
37. Can you name all the people in your family? Extended family too.
38. What toy would you like to make?
39. What color is a smile?
40. What’s your favorite bug?
41. How do you know when you are tired?
42. How do you know when you are hungry?
43. What games do like to play when you’re alone?
44. Can you tell if an apple is good by how it looks on the outside?
45. What’s the funniest looking fruit or vegetable?
46. What are the morning sounds you hear?
47. What are the night sounds you hear?
48. What is your favorite park?
49. What do you like to do at the park?
50. What’s your favorite thing to do at the beach?
51. Can you see underwater?
52. How does a fish breathe?
53. Can you make a rhyme? Can you add a tune to it?
54. Which do you like better: the woods, the beach, mountains, field, etc?
55. What’s your favorite thing to do in summer? Winter?
56. What was life like in the old days?
57. Tell me about the dinosaurs.
58. Tell me about your brothers/sisters/cousins/friends?
59. What’s your favorite baby animal?
60. Do you ever fight? With whom? Why? How?
61. How do you show love?
62. How do you help someone who is sad/hurt/sick?
63. What ways do you help out with chores?
64. What does mommy/daddy/grandpa/grandma always tell you not to do?
65. Did you ever have a hard day? Why?
66. What is the most fun?
67. What is sooo funny?
68. What is your favorite thing to feel?
69. What rules do you get to make?
70. What is a star?
71. What is the moon? Why is it there?
72. What mysteries do you want to know?
73. What mysteries have you solved?
74. Did you ever track an animals footprints? Tell me more.
75. What’s your favorite game?
76. What do you always do before bed?
77. Describe yourself. Looks, type of person.

I never realised how hard it was to pair down. I have so much stuff, I want to reduce the amount that I have while still retaining all of the current functional items that I have.

So let’s tackle it in stages.

Stage 1: Living Area

Stage 2: Kichen

Stage 3 Bedroom

Stage 4 Bathroom

Stage 5: Laundry Room/Closet

That covers my whole place. If I can tackle those one by one I should be in good shape.

Ok, I’ve currently tried to roll out this product at my company. We have around 15K endpoints that need this software package on them. I will outline all of the problems that we’ve had. Apparently they want the consumer to diagnose and debug the problems for them. My response was, we’ll pull your product if you don’t get it fixed.

I’m curious as to how many clients they’ve lost because of this product. I’m sure it’s quite a few. The thing is that they get a company into a contract agreement and then they are stuck with a crappy product for the duration of the contract. Well, I’m here to say, there are other companies that have better products who will buy out your contracts.

Issues (This is all with the latest version of the product.):

• Scans tax the CPU and hard drive so much that they either overheat or make the device unusable for the duration of the scan.
• If the computer does not have network access a liveupdate process will run out of control and eventually grind the system to a halt.
• Outlook attachments randomly blocked. They said most of their clients were seeing this problem and they asked us to ship them an example laptop. I said, fuck you, these are my laptop, you ship me a tech to look at it.
• Application and Device Control blocks share viewing and printer viewing on remote sites. I couldn’t even figure out why this was even looking at this traffic let alone blocking it.
• Cannot configure scans to scan one hard drive, only approved Symantec Locations. Go ahead, try to configure a scheduled scan to scan only drive C or something specific. You can’t, it just isn’t an option. What brain dead sloth designed this shit?
• These are just a few of the issues we’ve recieved during a small pilot, we’ve stopped the pilot and deployment.

These issues make me look bad as a Security Engineer. I’m ready to switch to a different product to get the promised functionality. The concept is great, the execution is horrible. How the fuck did Gartner rate this highly? It’s undeployable!

I’m calling Sophos right now, McAfee kind of sucks. Maybe CA or TrendMicro have good enterprise solutions as well?

1. Dinner Top Chef – For this first date idea you’ll want to pick a theme for your meal and you’ll go to a super market and you’ll each have a list of item categories you need to fill. You can buy anything and you have a cap on how much you can spend.
   When you have purchased your items, your partner and you switch items and have to make a meal together. It’s can get competitive, but can also be a lot of fun. Try it out.
2. Theme Parks – Show your inner child by riding all the rides at your local theme park!
3. Comedy Club – Get your funny bone on with a comedy show, some even serve dinner.
4. Walking Through A Park – I’ve done this on almost all of my dates, I love going to the park and looking at all the people and seeing the dogs getting walked and talking to the person I’m with.
5. Movie and Dinner – This is always a winner, although I find it hard to talk through the movie, but cuddling is never a problem!
6. Scavenger Hunt – This works if you have a digital camera. You have to work together to pick a place and the items you think might be there that you’ll need to photograph. The goal is to get all of the items photographed with each of you in the picture with the item. It’s a good ice-breaker and it shows what type of personality the other person has.
7. Finding a Place Neither of you have gone… and going there together to explore!
8. Visiting the Local Art Museum – This can always be fun, especially if you both have a fancy for art!
9. Miniature Golf – Mini golf is always a fun and hilarious first date idea. If you can act like a goof with a tiny windmill thwarting your balls advances then you’ll have a great time.
10. Trivia Night – This is good at your local bar or eatery. They often have trivia nights, you can take them there to work together and WIN!

So I started playing city of heroes because I wanted something to do on my downtime at home. I figured it was more entertaining for me than watching Tv, plus my new laptop is awesome so it gives it a workout. Anyway… the game is fun. It does what I wanted it to do.

Except for Sunday, which might be a day of recovery, I’m booked this weekend!

Friday I have dinner with a friend and probably some fun stuff after that. MAYBE BOWLING!! WHICH I’M HORRIBLE AT!

Saturday, the day is pretty open, but at like 7ish I’m going to head over to some friends for a movie night and to meet some new Atlantans!

Sunday… we shall see. I’ve been so tired this week I might use it as a recovery day. Maybe do the gym, then veg out, or call up a friend and get coffee/tea! WHO KNOWS?!?!

*trying to get a ton of work done*

Well, I kind of started getting down yesterday afternoon. I just kept thinking about what is going on inside my head. It doesn’t make any sense. Let’s just say I had a crazy Saturday night.

I am not a drinker, but let me tell ya. I drank WAY too much on Saturday. I went to Blake’s and met up with some friends there. I was drunk by the time they arrived anyway, so it’s fine. I met someone there earlier. He has an interesting sense of humor, but a little off the wall for me. I’m much more laid back that this guy. I was glad when my friends showed up.

Lunch Saturday was great, but I already blogged about that. So go read that one!

Sunday was kind of relaxed, my friend Julie should NOT have gone out into the heat after drinking as much as she did Saturday night. And then skinny dipping and making out with two hotties! Slut! haha Just kidding, she doesn’t usually do that type of things (so she says ).

I did not really parttake in too much of those festivities. I watched silently. I was bare for a moment or two, but then requested to get my undies back so that I didn’t feel so naked… hahaha

It was fun though. I’m a little more reserved than those folks. I’m sure Stephen is drinking himself into a coma or smoking enough pot to never see reality again, but that’s his choice. I love him, but I can’t help him and I don’t need to worry about him when he doesn’t care. His thoughts were always, but I’m not doing anything to you. Fucking ass, of course your doing it to me. Waiting up until 4am for you to get home, wondering if you got arrested, in a wreck, or whatever else because you get blackout drunk and then drive. STUPID!

I am sleeping better these days. Although, apparently I need more sleep, I’ve been exhausted!

Anywho, back to work for me! Lunch is over!

I’m going with my friends Katie and Julie to see Kung Fu Panda. I’m super excited, it looks really funny and entertaining. We are having dinner at Katie’s house and then running up to the mall to go see the movie!

Tomorrow will be great, I’m meeting two new people tomorrow. One for Lunch and one for mid afternoon something or other, I figure we’ll figure it out tomorrow.

Work was pretty good too, at 4pm my boss was like… “ESCAPE”!!! We all ran out of the office as fast as we could. Fun times.

Well, I’ll post about the movie when I get out…

It sucks losing someone, all I feel right now is just this sucky feeling inside. I know he’s moved on and is having a great time having fun and hanging out with all of his friends, meeting other people and the like.

I don’t move on as quickly from things. I am trying to meet people and who knows, but I still miss him. Apparently he thinks I don’t love him. Well I’ll always love him, but I can’t handle the drinking and drugs. That’s just too much for me, especially after what he did with no remorse. I can’t understand that. Oh well, there are people that share my interests that I’ll like out there somewhere. Time to find them!

So I went to this bar, partly to meet someone and strike up conversation. I totally didn’t strike up conversation, I’m beginning to think that we wouldn’t have anything in common anyway. So I played at his table, he seemed like an ok guy. I did ok for not having played before too much. I was fourth out on the table. So it was fun. I went home and chatted for a while online after that. I’m exhausted right now.