How many ...?

hunting up family ties sounds fun.

of course there is the louvre, but if I can encourage you, make sure to hit up the rodin museum.

if youre liking gardens, you probably know about Kensington gardens, and then in france, Versailles is worth hitting up, not right in paris, but close enough.

and don't forget to hit up the sherlock holmes museum at 221B baker st!

if you can time your visit to france to coincide with catching a stage of the tour de france, its awesome.

yes, aldi locks their carts, they cost 25 cents to unlock and use, and if you bring it back to the store and lock them back up, you get your 25 cents back. that arrangement stops people from leaving cars all over the lot and the store having to pay people, no matter where they get left, from having to retrieve them.

however, im convinced a homeless person could make at least 5 bucks a day from all the carts that STILL don't get returned, or locked up once they do.

no red bricks in my home, nor any bricks. although my house is red.

thinking ahead, give your best guess of how many books you'll likely read this year?

At an average of 3 a week, lets say 150.



How many (and which) countries would you go to if expense was not an issue?

spike you are a reading machine!

heck I think id visit every country in the world if expense wasn't an issue...AND if I didn't have to fly!

but more narrowly, in no particular order: back to france to watch the tour de france and to ride lots of the mountain stages, Ireland to ride my bike around the circumference, eastern Europe seems to attract me so id want to visit the whole swath of countries there (Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc), probably turkey, the northeast parts of canada (nova scotia, pei), and then mayyyyybe a semi pacific Asian swing---japan, korea, china, Thailand, etc.

without consulting an atlas, id say that puts the number around 30.

how many different kinds/flavors of tea do you have in your house?

One: Peppermint :)

How many bags of recyclables do you have lying around that need to be redeemed ?

holy cow tailor, you want I should send you some tea?

if we are talking nickel deposit type things, then only one small bag.

if we include cans, jars/bottles, paper, plastic, cardboard, and metal, then 3-4 more.

how many degrees of temperature warrant wearing shorts?

Lol... I'm good.

I'm not one into wearing shorts unless I'm at the beach, and that hasn't occurred for far too many years, on about a 80° F or greater day (26.7° C).

How many Ferengi does it take to change a light bulb? 0 or 5 or other ?

I was pretty close to figuring that one out myself and the internet confirmed---2, one to put the new bulb in and one to sell the broken one. although why the same one who changed the bulb couldn't also sell the broken one is a mystery!

how many kinds/flavors of salad dressing in your fridge? you have to list them of course and you can count unopened ones in your cupboard too.

(Roquefort/Bleu Cheese is my favorite but I'm out) Ranch, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Olive Garden Italian, Creamy Strawberry, Creamy Blackberry Balsamic, Italian, Garden Herb Vinaigrette... 7

How many of the seven dwarves can you name on the first try ?

the most memorable salad dressing I ever had was orange poppy seed at a restaurant in Knoxville called darryls.

all seven with a slight delay on "happy." the 13 dwarves from the hobbit however are another story!

for a typical large 16" pizza cut into 8 slices, how many slices can you eat in one sitting?

Impressive ! As many times that I've read and watched The Hobbit I'd be hard pressed to remember all the dwarves' names too.

Prolly three at most pizza slices.

How many "smart" devices (Alexa/plugs/etc) do you use at home ?

the thing with the dwarves is when you see their names after you cant name them, you go, "oh yeah, I knew that..."

heck tailor im pretty sure I can still eat a whole 16" pizza.

a big fat zero on smart devices! although if I had an alexa or something like that id probably develop a crush on it. there is a big bang theory episode where raj does that.

might have asked this one before---how many hours in a good night's sleep?

(sheepishly) yeah, me too re: pizza.

"how many hours in a good night's sleep?" I've heard from studies that 7-8 hours of sleep is ideal for my age group (pre-sputnik). The sleep data from my smart watch is laughable: Never any REM and my sleep score is 49 or lower than 86% of all users, and I feel it. Mostly naps now with rarely up to 5 1/2 hours sleep in bed. I do fall asleep quickly in bed though because I'm usually sleep deprived and I boor myself from wakefulness with an ongoing sci-fi drama serial that I make up... stealing scenes from all the sci-fi and fantasy I've ever read and watched of course... the main protagonist is currently several billion years old and gets regular warnings to stop time travelling, which he can now do without any conveyance, and once, in the earlier years of this ridiculous serial, he separated 2- galaxies from colliding !

How Many thread, right ? Hmm...

How many times have you stepped on a nail ?

I was just recently talking with someone about his smart watch and it monitoring his sleep. he didn't really have a good answer when I asked him okay, what do you do about your watch telling you youre not sleeping well?

do you have some strategies to employ?

not having a Sheldon cooper-like memory, I can only guess. id put the number around a dozen or so. I do however remember the location of my very first one, and I remember my most recent one, just yesterday!

how many books have you read more than once?

No sleep strategies... use my watch mainly for quickly viewing texts and calendar alerts & time & steps.

Nails: whoa ! Prolly 5+ or so for me.

Read more than once: Almost all my sci-fi collection... R.E.M. fan books a few times... Poetry books (other than The Inferno so far)... just off the top of my head.

How many bicycles have you gone through ?

ive only read a small handful of books more than once.

2 that were stolen, and at least 2-3 from being a kid that you either grow out of or that otherwise seem to just disappear over time.

ive got 4 right now, 2 of which are in need of serious overhauls to make them ride-able.

so 5-ish, bordering on 7.

how many football games do you think you'll watch this season?

hmmm... only watch the Thursday Night games when I can (Monday/FHE, Sunday/Sabbath)... and my wifi service is usually wonky AND the available channels are VERY limited... so I'll estimate 4. Oh, and maybe a Saturday game so I upped the estimate 1-more.

Same question ?

all the bills games, that's 17

a handful of occasional other match-ups that might be of interest, ~6

at least one game in each of the post season steps, that makes 6

and then the super bowl, 1

so around 30.

concerning the outside temperature, how many degrees is too hot?

30... wow.

Temp: anything over 100° F (~38° C) here is nigh unbearable; 110° + makes me absolutely melt.

How many planets are there in the solar system where you live ?

30 does seem like a lot doesn't it, but more than half are bills regular season games, so I don't feel too football gluttonous.

I still subscribe to the my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas paradigm, so 9.

I don't know if its universally accepted or not, but I expressed some mild disappointment when some ago some high falutin' astronomer had pluto removed from planetary status!

how many pages left in the book youre presently reading (and of course what is it) and a rough estimate of how many days to finish it?

The Pearl of Great Price... once a week book discussion group at a very slow pace, maybe half way in... maybe 2-months to finish.

The New Testament... once a week FHE (empty nesters' group) discussion - it's a January 2023 to the end of the year study ("Come, Follow Me") so maybe half way through.

Read a lot of short stories and poetry that is mostly web based nowadays. Have an "Enders" series book yet to crack and occasionally listen to audio books on my smart speaker (middle of Martian Chronicles still... estimate forever because I listen in bed, lol. Also a daily BOM 18 verse snippet each day on my smart speaker Alexa app.

How many days, months, or years since you last used a crayon ?

I enjoyed ender's game (and the movie) and speaker for the dead, so much so that I could read the next one.

I have a good collection of crayons, but its been so long since ive colored, I cant remember the last time---id have to guess somewhere in the 4-5 yr range at least. same with coloring with colored pencils.

how many movies on your "to watch" list?

I haven't colored in ages :(

Movies: actually most of them... there are so many that I haven't seen that that I still find a gem by accident that I'll watch or re-watch... no real list is used.

How many marbles are in your aquarium ? If none then how many years since you had an aquarium ?

i watched a couple of movies recently i can recommend. gods of Egypt and arrival. right now im really enjoying alita, battle angel.

I grew up with an aquarium or two in the house, and even though today I would probably eschew the whole idea of tropical fish catching and breeding, I have fond memories of the whole set-up. gotta be somewhere in the mid 70s, so almost 50yrs---holy cow! we didn't have marbles just gravel, so 0. odd though, i did have a small marble collection.

how many board games and/or toys do you still have from your childhood?

gods of Egypt keeps coming up somewhere as a recommendation... may try it out. Enjoyed Arrival's twisted premise and have seen it a number of times... may revisit with fresh eyes.

Childhood "stuff" didn't last the multitudinous madness of moving as a youth, alas. I have a Spirograph-like etching I "created" using a pendulum device at an exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair, circa 1962, as the only artifact of my childhood to survive - other than the obligatory pix of the family and report cards and ilk I inherited upon my Mother's passing 7-years ago.

How many vinyl records do you have... and if more than zero how many have you played recently ?

there is some song out there, the title of which is escaping me, that answers the question of would I still date you knowing the pain that waits at the end of our relationship, and the singer (a guy) says yes. I thought the ending of the movie was both painful and beautiful.

alas zero---my parents, and my mother in particular, were great about getting me albums for Christmas and birthdays when I was a kid and I had a pretty good collection, probably ~200 or so. but a long time ago I gave them all away to a friend who has a whoppin' big collection, feeling okay at the time knowing they were going to a place where they would be appreciated. as I write about it now though, I find myself wondering if I have dishonored my parents in the giving them all away...

im on a garage sale and thrift store mission to re-collect many of the board games i had as a kid. some of the toys may be impossible to find via that method, but ive done pretty good with the games.

how many miles or minutes in a "good walk?"

For me a good walk is maybe two miles... unfortunately COVID saw me go to seed and I have yet to work up to even half that distance :( Perhaps during Fire season I'll get me legs back in shape.

Of the "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)" how many do you actually watch ?

do you still have a bike tailor?

quite a bit actually, although I think im going to be revisiting my tv package sometime soon to see if I can save some money, which will necessitate a more careful look at that very question.

tbs, tnt, fx, fox, fox news, fox business, the history channel, sci-fi, bbc, espn, usa, 3-4 local channels, animal planet (if its still called that), the occasional nat geo, some true crime networks, me tv, the weather channel, comedy network, family network, sometimes axs, and at least 4-5 channels whose names are escaping me---so id guesstimate about 30ish.

how many pounds in a "gone to seed?"

∞dles

How many days in your favorite month of the calendar year ?

ah tailor, you can tell the actual number---I promise not to post it at your local grocery store!

my favorite time of year might be middle September to middle October, but if I have to pick a calendar month, lets go with September, and 30.

for sure though there is something to be said about finally shedding the cold with july.

how many days until something "big" or "memorable" or anything special that you've been looking forward to?

re: "do you still have a bike tailor?" - I do, a blue Schwinn Traveler 10-speed, an artifact from a previous life that hasn't been ridden since 2004... I related in the "song title" thread about my previous one.

hmmm... just had a combined day of days last Saturday (wife's b'day and our anniversary)... looking forward to Thursdays at Two poetry tomorrow (since I'm PDT) - so less than one :)

How many chainsaws do you currently have ? (I have a battery powered 18" one for light duty work... son-in-law does the heavy duty cutting)

ah tailor, dust that old girl off and take her for a spin!

getting married on your wife's birthday---that's interesting.

just one chainsaw, although I recently turned down the opportunity to have a small electric one. ive been using an electric circular saw pretty effectively for smaller things. my chainsaw is a crucial part of my life---i cut my own wood for winter heating.

how many days since you were last at your local library?

Lol... no spinning anymore, unfortunately... 3-days apart for the two events, celebrated the following Saturday :)

Last Thursday (6)... Thursdays at Two poetry the first and third Thursday of each month :)

How many years since you last went bowling ?

not quite the same as having your birthday on Christmas, but close.

my local library is pretty sedate---no poetry stuff going on.

I have a distinct memory of going bowling on an army base in germany in 1985, but I know I have bowled at least once since, I just don't remember where or when. id guesstimate (which the site actually recognizes as a legitimate word, how about that?) somewhere between 8-20ish years.

in the city I grew up in there used to be two very active alleys. my parents belonged to a couples league and tons of other people belonged to that and other leagues as well. one of my fond childhood memories comes from that---the couples league was Friday night. my parents would come home from a fish fry dinner at a local bar, bring me a bag of taco doritos and a can of hi-c or Hawaiian punch and id stay home and watch the brady bunch, the partridge family, the odd couple, room 222 and love American style. in later years a show called Kolchak: the night stalker was on. my parents would come home and my dad would get mad because id have every light in the house on.

now there is only one alley nearby in a struggle establishment, and to my knowledge, no leagues. the other thing that's gone the way of the dinosaur where I live is church and bar league softball (slow pitch and fast pitch respectively), and an outdoor volleyball league.

how long since you have been mini-golfing?

Great memories :) Bowling was my life and church for many years in the S.F. Bay Area, California. Later, I played co-ed softball and men's basketball on a company team in the late 80's in Chico, California. I fondly remember the look of terror on our company's president's face when I fielded a ground ball in short right field, wound up and fired with all my might at his glove at first base... OUT! :)

mini-golfing: Oy, another lifetime ago, circa early to mid '80's, prolly near San Jose, California... maybe 40 years or so.

How many times have you visited the zoo since you were a child ?

interestingly, over the past few years "taco doritos" have made a little comeback. if they didn't cost like 4 dollars a bag maybe id buy one!

throwing a runner out at first base from right field! way to go tailor!

so time to go on a mini-golfing date?

no visits to the zoo---I wonder how id feel going as an adult. I have a foot in two competing camps as to the rightness/wrongness and goodness/badness when it comes to zoos but I can at least say I enjoy watching episodes of "the zoo" on animal planet.

how many old landline phone numbers do you remember from your pre-cell phone days?

VERY short right.

Haven't tried the Taco Doritos... stick to rufffled BBQ potato chips :)

No mini golf dates, sadly.

An Uncle of mine was a keeper at the zoo in Seattle for the great apes, one made famous outside Seattle by Bill Cosby in his early years... https://kuow.org/stories/celebrating...amous-primate/ I see your point about zoos... quite a mixed bag of issues.

re: phone: Only one... it starts with 2-letters like in the old days. Oh, wait, also one with 'dogs' in it... that's 2.

How many blue colored cars have you owned ?

who makes your ruffled bbq chips tailor?

small coincidences---I bought a bill cosby book today and I used to have that album referenced in the story. now I have a digital copy of it.

I remember the letters yes---my first phone number memory was FR2...

one blue colored car, a 1988 volvo wagon, alas the body rusted thanks to the North's prodigious use of salt in the winter time. will try to attach a photo of it just for fun and nostalgia...although, my mother let me borrow her chevy S10 for an extended period of time, and that was blue...so maybe sorta kinda two.

how many blue flowers can you name?

... digging through the trash... must have tossed it... found Ruffles Cheddar chips... googling... must be the Ruffles Ultimate Sweet Smokin' BBQ chips... but I'm thinkin' it was a knockoff by our local Mar-Val grocery

Cool Volvo :)

Bluebells... Cornflower... Periwinkle... Nile Lily... just off the top of my head without straining... (4)

How many hats do you wear on occasion ?

"ruffles" are frito lay aren't they?

thank you, sometimes I miss it and am bummed it rusted out. i sometimes think of looking for another old one like that, but its not practical where i live. although i suppose i could just use it in the summer months. nys dmv make such things cost prohibitive though.

ah you missed the ironically, or aptly named "forget-me-not!" i have lots of those in my yard.

three in general, of which there are multiple choices. one winter outside hat (that i also wear inside when its cold outside), one winter sleeping hat type thing, and an occasional summer cap depending on the weather.

on a sort of rotating use basis, maybe 3-4 in the first category, 3-4 in the second, and 2-3 in the last (even though i have lots more in each)….so one answer is 3, another answer is 8-11.

i think i asked this one before tailor, or something very much like it---in terms of a favorite movie you've seen more than once, whats the highest number of any particular movie viewings?

googled: wikipedia: Ruffles; Product type Potato chips; Owner PepsiCo; Produced by Frito-Lay

blue: ah, forgot... mostly periwinkles here.

most viewings ? hmmm... prolly The Day the Earth Stood Still... watch it every chance I can... 40+ ??

How many bowls of cereal have you eaten this week ?