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Sunday Stealing: Yet Another Food Meme

How do you like your eggs? Like a woman. Sunny Side Up.

How do you take your coffee/tea: I don’t drink either. I have coffee a couple a times a year. Milk & a half of a sweet & low.

Favorite breakfast foods: Very traditional. I cook eggs and potatoes almost daily. Kathy cooked me pancakes this morning. Why? I think she wants to leave as friendly as possible.

Peanut butter: smooth or crunchy? Another thing I don’t eat. Smooth for the sake of this fuckin’ meme. Yep, the old Budman is back.

What kind of dressing on your salad? I prefer watch it undress. See what I mean? Newer readers will think “What a mean ol’ bastard.” I will become that to make this blog funny again.

Coke or Pepsi? Coke. Diet coke. Because I lost 40+ pounds after retiring I tried hard to switch to regular. I could not. It’s my coffee. I drink it till happy hour.

You feel like cooking. What do you make? The aforementioned. I noticed this morning that 30 people read my blog yesterday. I got 3 comments. Now part of it is that I don’t comment myself on other’s posts. But I’m thinking, we had 13 players. Who are these other people and why do they care?

You’re feeling lazy. What do you make? I general dial for delivery.

You’re feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order? My fave is clams casino. But here I have not found a place that does it well.

Is there a food you refuse to eat? Yes. And I also refuse to tell.

Favorite fruit & vegetable: Bananas. But I don’t eat them.

Favorite junk food: It was slim jims when I was still working. Now its pistachio nuts.

Favorite between meal snack: Sex. Don’t tell me it’s not a food. Who the hell cares?

Do you have any weird food habits: I like watching women eat popcycles, also.

You’re on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on? I weighed almost 220 when I was working. I weigh 178 now. Your turn: Why should I diet?

How spicy do you order Indian/Thai? Like a woman. Spicy!

The perfect nightcap? Smirnoff goes well with anything.

Thanks for reading today. Enjoy the Super Bowl. We will return. And probably more often. Where’s the Queen? Bev, steal another meme for me. Oh right. It is your blog now. And I’ll call the Queen and find out for myself. Return, please. Same time. Same blog.

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Sunday Stealing: Book of Questions

1. If you saw a dog locked in a hot car, what would you do? Sing a Christmas carol to it. There are no hot cars in New England in December.

2. Is it easy for you to accept help when you need it? Nope. You can take over any project from me. I’ll be napping.

3. Have you ever been in a fashion show? Do they have fashion shows that feature a 68 year-old guy that’s in a Beatles tee & jeans?

4. Would you like to be famous? I am. I invented this website. We use to get 50 players a week. But I had to really work at it. I contacted the website owner who I stole the meme from & invite them to play. I also went to other meme sites & invited there players to join us. Our record was 80 players. We never had less than 50. Of course, there was no other social media, blogs were it. It probably is too late any way too much work. THe 15 people here each week are very loyal, thanks to Bev’s work.

5. What is your most compulsive habit? Working with music. I have 16K in iTunes. Here’s a challenge: I don’t pay for music. And I don’t illeagally download it. How do I do it? (No I don’t borrow CDs)

6. What do you most strive for in your life: accomplishment, security, love, power, excitement, knowledge, or something else? Sex. That wasn’t a choice? My bad…

7.How close and warm is your family? We are a bit more fractured since my mom died. She was the matriarch. My sister who was heir apparent has taken a big pass.

8 Does that fact that you have never done a thing before increase or decrease its appeal to you? No. Should it?

9. If your friends start belittling a common acquaintance, would you defend that person? To my dying breath, so yes.

10. Do you make a special effort to thank someone who does you a favor How do you react when you aren’t thanked for going out of your way for someone? This question is a train wreck of two questions. I always “thank”. Worrying about non-thanks back at you is silly. If you do a favor, do it graciously, my dad taught me this.

11. Since adolescence, in what 3-year period do you feel you experienced the most personal growth and change? Life after a 20 year marriage. I was in my late 30s. I had a blast & learned a lot.

12. When you do something ridiculous, how much does it bother you to have other people notice it and laugh at you? Of course not. Or I kick them in the shins.

13. Do you believe in capital punishment? We need so much reform in a prison system that jails non violent crime folks. We have more prisoners per our population than any other country including Russia & China.

14. Do you find it so hard to say “no” that you regulalry do favors yo do not want to do? This question needs a serious spell check. I am very good at “no”. I just do what I want and pass when I don’t.

15. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about? Donald J. Trump.

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Sunday Stealing: From Pinterest

1. What don’t you share? My vinyl. Never have, never will. The only way you keep vinyl perfect is just using it yourself. John Lennon died today, 39 years later. I laughed when someone asked me to lend them Sgt. Pepper.

2. A reason to celebrate? Other than Xmas I got nothing. I just fouind out that I need yet another spine opperation. The celebration? I prooved my pc doc wrong.

3. Describe where you are now. It’s a Tape Radio studio named after my late friend Johnnie Walker.

4. A dream that seems impossible. Getting of opioids. I had just done it when I got shooting pains in my arms. My doc wouldn’t help me so I went to the practices PA. She saved me.

5. Something you hope for. Peace. And living in a post-Trump universe.

6. A tradition that makes you feel at home. Sunday Stealing.

7. The people who make your life better. My WTIT buds and my wife and children.

8. Someone you’d like to meet. Paul McCartney

9. A silly thing you’d really like. Chocolate covered cherries.

10. A book from your childhood. Catcher In The Rye.

11. Something you’re still not sure about. Health. Living without pain…

12. The best dessert to share with friends. No idea. But anytime you’re with friends, you are good.

13. A story that captures your imagination. Star Trek

14. Memories beside a fireplace. Only mine to share.

15. How do you spend a rainy day? Inside.

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Sunday Stealing: From Facebook

1) What is your favorite TV show (currently)? The day’s of having one show, a “fave” if you will, is done. There are WAY too many networks, streaming services and systems designed to end cable like Hulu or Apple TV. I love “New Amsterdam”, “Bull”, still love NCIS – the original- “Young Sheldon”, “Mom” & more. My favorite cable news show is a tie between Nicolle Wallace’s “Deadline White House” & “Morning Joe”.

2) Would you like to be a child again? Sure. Where’s the line?

3) Has anyone ever told you that school times were the best period of his/her life?

Emerson College. I was there from 1969-1973 (Even graduated)

Would you say that to someone? Why? At what age? I love college. High School, not as much.

4) How’s the weather? Really?

5) Do you like camping? Not unless a Marriott is involved.

6) Do you believe in paranormal phenomena? Yes. We have only scratched the surface of understanding what we don’t understand.

7) If you would create a holiday, what would it be called and how would we celebrate it? When would this holiday be? “Relationship Repair Day.”

8) What word(s) do you dislike? Can you tell why? Words don’t bother me unless they are racist, homophobic or mean spirited. “Swear words” don’t bother me at all.

9) What color do you dislike? What do you associate with it? Pass.

10) Do you believe in otherworldly creatures, eg. ghosts, etc? See question 6.

11) Pick two of your favourite fictional characters. Where are they from (what movie, book, etc?) and why are they your favourite? Neo of The Matrix and Captain Kirk (or really any of them except the first season of Discovery.

12) If you could change anything or add anything to your body would you? (this can be interpreted however, but, think, would you like to have fins or extra hands?) Just when I think this meme can’t get weirder it does.

13) What are some family traditions you have/had growing up? Do you still continue them, if yes, why, if no, why not? My first wife and took our kids to amusement parks in the New York/New England area. Our favorite was “Santa’s Land” in Putney, VT. It closed from disrepair 5-10 years ago. I always wanted to go with my grandkids. Then, someone bought it and it reopened last year. So, on December 21 I am taking my older two kids and their kids. I am SO exccited. It’s a laidback place and not pricey. It currently costs $13 to get in. It ain’t Disneyworld. If you got kids or grandchildren, neices or nephews go.

14) What do you think of tattoos? Do you have any? No I was never interested. Although this one’s neat.

15) What is the most disgusting habit some people have? Smoking.

16) If you could bring back one TV show that was cancelled, which would it be? Star Trek: Enterprise. They were robbed of seasons 6 & 7. Oh and Crossing Jordan with Jill Hennessy. Although with the death of Miguel José Ferrer, who played her boss, it wouldn’t be the same.

17) What was the most unsettling film you have ever seen? The Caterpillar. Don’t ask.

18) What book has impacted you the most? The dictionary. It’s got all the other books in it.

19) You’re on Death Row and get one final meal: What is that meal and why do you choose it? A New England lobster and clam bake.

20) What is the first profession you remember wanting to become as a child? A DJ. I was 6.

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Sunday Stealing: Free Talk

1. If you were offered a job in another part of the country, would you take it? I was offered a terrific radio job in San Francisco in the mid 90s. I was offered the same job in Boston, but loved San Francisco. I had lived in Boston for college and loved it too. But I had a connection with the San Fran job. But I had four kids and two were in middle school. So I chose Boston. I thought when my youngest graduated coollege I’d move south for better weather. But I can’t replace my WTIT friends and I am still near my two oldest kids and their kids. I love our house! I know I bored you enough yesterday.

2. If you were in a bank and someone started to hold it up, what would you do? Fall flat down.

3. If you found a suitcase filled with $1,000,000 what would you do? The same as you. If there was no ID I’d try and keep it. But I follow the law. I’d first talk to an attorney. Obviously if I knew who to return it to I would.

4. If you had a 25 hour day what would you do with your extra hour? Sleep. Like last night getting that bonus hour. I love sleeping!

5. If you had the opportunity to be different, what would you change? Nothing really comes to mind. The things I’d change are things that I really can’t. I’m estranged from my youngest, so I’d love to change that. But she is super close to her stepfather & there must be more. But ten years of writing letters was enough. I am done. I’ll always be here for her. But, she has treated me miserably for nearly 2 decades. She never articulated the issue. I’ve got sick of it. So she won’t hurt me anymore. I am so close to my other three kids. It is weird.

6. If you received a lottery ticket as a gift and won a lot of money, would you share with the person who gave you the ticket? Depends on the amount. If it were say $1000, probably not. But if it were millions, yes I’d cut them in.

7. If you spoke two languages and your spouse spoke only one, would you raise your children as bilingual? Yes. Why wouldn’t you? My daughter-in-law is Greek and speaks both. English was her first, so she hasn’t an accent. But they go over to Greece with her dad (Sadly her mom died after the birth of her first grandchild. She had dementia and died in her early 60s. That seems so young. I am 68 today. (Not to get you to say “Happy” but rather trying to extort money or gifts)

8. If you were candy, which candy would you be? Say what?

9. If you were a toy, which toy would you be? What type of vibrator? Hmmm. Nope. Surprise me.

10. If you were abducted by aliens, would you tell anyone? Yes. (Sorry folks. I got nothing funny to say about some of these questions. Some of these are might be a bit out there. So it would be spoofing a spoof)

11. If you could go to the moon, would you? Not now. When I was younger, sure.

12. If you had a time machine, where would you go and why? The future. I’d love to see the technology that my great-grandchildren will have. That is that far away. My oldest grandchild is 17. It goes very, very fast.

13. If you saw a robbery, would you report it? Of course

14. If you were to speak to a graduating class, what would you say? Follow your heart and dreams BEFORE you get married and/or have kids.

15. If given the choice between being given great wisdom or great wealth, which would you choose? At this point show me the money!
So another Sunday. The Mrs. is out shopping. I thinking she’s getting cake, but who knows? I’ve heard from my oldest son and got a text from mu oldest daughter. My younger sun is on the left coast in San Diego. What a beautiful day in New England! Got to wait until tonight to see my Patriots! See you soon! Peace & Love…

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Sunday Stealing: More than Tuesday 4

1. Have you ever known anyone that’s been on tv, including you? I worked about 25 years in radio and one in TV. The cable company I worked produced a lot of TV commercials and I appeared or did voiceovers a lot.

2. What do you find yourself buying all the time? Until recently it was Advent speakers. In the 70s they were THE brand. I hated my surround sound on my HDTV. I decided to junk the speakers and bought six advent speakers. I also bought the best speakers I have ever heard into my radio studio, top of the line Advents. These were bought from a guy who had just refinished the wood on the speakers. Inside, he has a friend who works for Metallica who refurbished the inside. I feel like the songs are being sung in the room.

3. When was the last time you got a real letter in the mail? 1968.

4. Have you ever lived in a house/apartment that has been broken into? Nope. The apartment we left was in a section of town with a lot of break ins. Bouncing Billy (A WTIT DJ) was a cop in my new house’s town for 30 years. He said they we never called to where I live. I sure liked to hear that.

5. Did you walk to school with your friends? Take a school bus? Ever have someone carry your books home from school? Yes to all.

6. Do you like pumpkin seeds? Do you carve the pumpkin and roast the seeds? Do you buy packaged, prepared pumpkin seeds? Kathy does the pumpkins. When I was working I ate the seeds a lot as I drove. I also had a lot of Slim Jims. I haven’t had one since retiring.

7. Does your car or did a family car have a name? The only car name I had was in high school. Everyone called it The Budmobile.

8. The first week of October was National Mystery Series Week. Do you sleuth alongside Nancy Drew or Miss Marple? Fan of Nero Wolfe? I like Dateline for all those reasons. No Drew or Marple. I read Agatha Christie in my 20s.

9. Have you ever spent ages writing something on your computer when it suddenly crashed and you lost it all? Of course. But now it’s easy to back up and usually when they go you can recover a lot.

10. Are you one of those people who can sleep through anything? No. My last place had sirens all night long. Here on the first night I asked Kathy if she could “Hear that”. She stated that she heard nothing. I said “Isn’t this perfect?”

11. What type or kind of art do you like? And do you draw or paint yourself? I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like.

12. If you went to London, where would you go first? I’ve been. It was my first wedding Honeymoon. I touristed everything. I would got the the country side.

Our 2018 picture. Candle for Johnnie who died in July of that year.

13 a candle for Johnnie who died that year. What is one quote that you love to quote? “No problem is too big, too complex or too complicate that it can’t be run away from”. Charles Schultz wrote it and I used it in my sign offs from the start of WTIT and on every radio station the I worked for.

14. Do you ever at times see the world in black and white? No. Just in movies.

15. Do you believe there is life somewhere else in the universe? Yes. It’s too vast not too. But how far away or whether we’d get that far in space, I doubt it.

I don”t usually suffer depression. Last week it was so bad I was gonna go to the doc’s. But I was out of some meds for the week and yesterday I got them. An hour later I was 100% loving life. It was not an opioid, it was a nerve drug for my back. I am on a opioid for my back. Fortunately I started with 40MG twice a day. Wanted to lower it I went to 30 MG. Then 20, now 15MG. I’m in a bit more pain but he gives me some oxicodone when it gets bad. I am going to a high school reunion next week. I only attended one year. The school I graduated from had its reunion a couple of months ago and I posted a pic from it. This one is for two public schools together. We are going to see if we can make some couple friends now that we live five miles from West Hartford where I grew up. We’ve scheduled our next recording session to the last Friday of this month. Our house is really coming together. We only bought two expensive item, two recliners for the den that’s outside my studio. Our new “show openers” have arrived from Radio Jingles Inc. They charged me $12. for 12 announcer bits. Hope all is well. We will return. Same time, same blog. Peace & love.

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Sunday Stealing: Colloquium

1. Last person you were in a car with? Godzilla. Talk about bad breath!

2. Any plans for tomorrow? I’m either gonna climb Mt. Everest or climb a pyramid. I’m still pondering.

3. Best friend or close friends? Whichever one comes with benefits.

4. Is tomorrow going to be a good day? It’s a Monday. In what universe is that a good day?

5. Ever thrown up in public? No. I’ve never met the president.

6. What’s on your mind RIGHT NOW? We moved. I know you know because of all the

Before I finished, so ignore the mess.

media coverage. I finished (almost) the WTIT Johnnie Walker Studio. It’s the largest since 1996 in Framingham, MA.

7. Who was the last person you talked to? Kathy. She asked where her drill is. I replied that I haven’t used one here. She is building the furniture. We went from a four bedroom house to a two bedroom apartment. Then back into a four bedroom house. We needed a lot of furniture.

8. What is the WORST subject they teach at school? Math. I have no idea of what they do now. How did I need algebra but not taught about filing income taxes, balancing a checkbook or save for retirement? I’m not sure I’ve ever used what I learned in geometry either.

9. Have you seen anyone lately that you don’t get along with? No. I drew the line with Godzilla. When he wanted me to drive him to King Kong’s for a play date, I drew the line.

10. What is your favorite color top to wear? A black Beatles’ tee never goes out of style.

11. Have you ever been in a car accident? Yes and it was fatal. I’m the ghost of Bud.

12. What’s the closest thing to you that’s green? The entire room. The Enfield studio was painted hunter green. I loved it. So my lady painted the room before we moved.

13. Where would you like to be right now? In a hot tub with Jill Hennessy.

14. Is anything bugging you right now? Yes. Whatever happened to the fucking Republican Party? God, country & apple pie? We now have Trump, his daughter and his 12 thousand lies.

15. Is life going right for you now? Other than my back aches. I should do nothing physical, but moves don’t work that way.

16. Is there someone you care about more than yourself? Just my wife, my four children and seven grandchildren.

17. What made you laugh today? Nothing. I am depressed about WGN losing the Cubbies TV rights. My dad must be spinning in his grave. He died just two years early. He hated that “lovable losers” tag. He thought they’d win it all and never forgave the Bartman.

18. What was the last movie you watched? I don’t remember. I want to see the Brad Pitt scifi flick. But the Pats play at one. So not today.

19. What was the last conversation you had about? The aforementioned tool box.

20. What were you doing at 7:00 this morning? Sleeping. That’s the middle of the night for chrissakes.

21. Do you like your hair long or short? It’s been long since I retired in 2017. My wife hates it, but I said I grown it back in my retirement. I’m just a child of the sixties.

22. Do you like the rain? Does “it love me”?

Well that’s another Stealing. Was it good for you? Nope. I’ll try to up my game next time. I bought a cd for the first time in a couple of years. It’s CSNY’s live Déjà Vu. I never knew it existed until recently. It cost $5 on Ebay. I am excited about my mates seeing the house. But the Studio is all that’s ready. Kathy is on a fast train. We don’t get our basement chairs until the first week of October. We will celebrate our seventh wedding anniversary in October. My closest family member (other than the wife & kids) was my sister. We have only spoke a couple of times this year. I wrote her to say if we don’t fix it, we will see each other at weddings & funerals. That was six months ago. She called and said “I gave her things to think about”. She must be a long thinker. She called this week to suggest we get together and talk. That happens next weekend. If I hear from her. You folks have a great week. We will see you next time. Same time. Same blog.

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