Questions 1 - 5

1. Do you squeeze the toothpast tube or roll it? What's the advantage to you method?

I generally squeeze the tube when it is newer and I roll it when the tube is almost empty. The advantage is I squeeze cause it's fast and easy and I roll when I need to ge that last little bit out.

2. How many siblings do you have and what is the birth order?

I have four siblings. Two older half brothers (Rick then Barry), and two younger siblings I grew up with (Jennifer and Jeff in that order). I did not know about Rick and Barry until I was 21 years old.

3. What is something I have won and how did I win it?

Hmmm.....I have won a lot of things. Some for no other reason than being at someplace at the right time (such as a door prize). And some things I have won because of hard work, such as my winning essay in high school on "what the Constitution means to me" that I presented to the American Legion. I won a $50 savings bond.

4. What's one of your nicknames? What do you prefer to be called?

My nicknames have been "airman" for blowing up my bicycle tire at a gas station; "fireman" for starting a small fire in my parent's driveway using some old gasoline; "chubby" for being assigned a fat horse named Chubby on a trail ride in Colorado; and "Jasony" for playing my Sony Playstation so much. But my favorite nickname is "sweetie" from my wife and "daddy" from my kids (okay the last one is not really a nickname).

5. What's something your parents used to say to you as a child that you promised yourself you'd never say--but you catch yourself saying all the time?

"Charge It!" I have been better over the past ten years of being married, but I still find myself buying things on charge that I should wait to pay with cash. I do not want debt to be a burden all my life and I want to teach my kids not to be a slave to it also.