Well, it’s at least a post… right? I had a reschedule at the studio today, and I decided to look in my drafts folder and found this post I started. So I thought I may as well finish it.

Spo posted this on his blog a long time ago. Almost a year ago actually. And as I feel I have nothing going on mentally these days that I feel worth writing about, I’ll play along.

I don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad thing that it takes forever for me to fill one of these things out…

Four names I go by:

• Most everyone calls me “Erik”;
• the Husbear calls me “Baby Bear”;
• … and I really don’t have any others (at least that people call me to my face of which I’m aware).

Four tunes I adore:

• INXS’ “New Sensation“;
• Blue Man Group’s “I Feel Love (feat. Venus Hum)“;
• Gary Jules with Michael Andrews’s “Mad World“;
• The B-52’s “Revolution Earth“.

Four things I hate:

• Lantana;
• being naked;
• my inherent awkwardness in most social situations;
• stupidity.

Four places I have worked:

• My father’s plant nursery in Florida;
• Shoney’s Restaurant (as a waiter) in Searcy, Arkansas;
• the Oppressive Great Retail Empire, aka Wal-Mart (both at store-level and the Home Office);
• a gas station (third-shift fuel desk jockey).

Four things I love to watch:

• Train wrecks, figuratively;
• Porn, but I give it the “Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment, so it’s more for comedy;
• Cloudy and colorful sunsets;
• Humans.

Four places I have visited: (I’m adding “that have impressed me enough to want to go back”)

• Oglala National Grassland, near Harrison, Nebraska. But only when it’s in bloom. The smell is incredible.;
• Santa Rosa Island (near Pensacola Beach), Florida;
• Glacier National Park;
• the Vieux Carré.

Four things I love to eat:

• Broccoli and Velveeta cheese;
• Easy Cheese and Ritz crackers;
• deep-dish Pepperoni pizza;
• cheap, plain hot dogs with mustard.

Four favorite drinks:

• Sweet Tea;
• Beer;
• Jager (as of late);
• a good Bloody Mary.

Four shows/plays:

• “Battlestar Galactica” (the 2004 series);
• “Into the Woods” (the original Broadway version, not the movie);
• “Doctor Who” (1963 through current!);
• “Chopped” (I don’t cook, but I enjoy watching this show).

Four things I am happily anticipating:

• Our next Fourth of July week walkabout trip;
• finishing the never-ending bathroom project this Spring;
• driving Meowington (my Jeep) through mud puddles after a rain;
• my next tatto, whenever that may be.

Four things I am dreading:

• This election cycle (too late, I know);
• “Idiocracy” actually coming true (too late again, I know);
• Any dental appointment;
• Getting an injection/shot.

Four items on my bucket list:

• Learn ASL;
• Learn to be comfortable in my own skin;
• Learn to play the banjo or the cello;
• Finish filling up my below-my-clothes skin space with permanent doodles.

Four people I think will respond:

• I’m pretty certain everyone on the Internet has already done this…