Ok, now I have time to post mine:
1. Where were you 10 years ago?
Married almost 2 months, living in a 1-bedroom flat, working as a junior developer contracted to a state department. Not planning to ever have kids. (yup, not at all sorry I changed my mind!). Hoping to save up some money and buy a house. (We did, about a year later
)
2. What 5 things are on your to-do list.
- Get professional photos done of my DD
- Buy a car. Hopefully soon. (I'm still driving the car that used to be my wife's. :/)
- Paint the house.
- Figure out what to buy my brother for his birthday
- Run the
Comrades, uphill, in under 9 hours. Unlikely to happen this year, unfortunately. Too many things have interrupted my training
3. What 5 snacks do you enjoy
- Chocolate.
- Jelly & custard (that's Jello, Americans!)
- Cashews
-
Biltong, which I'm strictly speaking not allowed to eat, but yeah... you gotta live, right?
- Ice cream with coco-pops. Try it, I dare you. (I strongly believe that coco-pops were always destined to be dessert, not breakfast! Of course, it does give one perfect excuse to have dessert FOR breakfast!)
4. Name some things you would do if you were a millionaire
Disclaimer - I'm interpreting this as having unlimited money, since I'm already technically a millionaire and I'm strictly middle-class. (Yeah, the Rand isn't worth all that much)
- I would quit my job and either get involved with conservation of endangered species, or working with troubled teens. Perhaps start a bursary program that will pay for under-privileged kids to go to a descent school and get a descent education.
5. Name some places you have lived
Lived in Pretoria (about 50km North of Johannesburg) most of my life. Grew up in Pretoria-West, Went to Cape Town for a few months in 1993, back to Pretoria, than a few months in Jo'burg in 1995. Mid 1995 I went back to Cape Town for 3 years, and then settled in Centurion, just South of Pretoria but still falling under the same Municipality. Moved around Centurion a bit, after that, but that's about it.
6. Name some bad habits you have
- Excessive coffee drinking
- Fidgeting (I always have to have something in my hands. May be a blow-over from too many years of chain-smoking!
)
- Chewing my cuticles (yeah... dunno why I can't just chew my nail like a normal person
)
- Over-thinking small and insignificant things and driving myself crazy.
- Mmmm.... ok. Lets stop here.
7. Name some jobs you have had
My first real job was as a cashier in a grocery store. Mind-numbing.
Worked as a waiter for a while too.
Then I got into programming.
Don't do much programming these days - now I tell the programmers what to do! LOL.