Five Questions: Brian

same as last time, but this time Brian posed the questions.

1. You have stated your ardent, um, lust for Mike Lowell of the Red Sox. Who would you say are your top three crushes on Sox players, past or present?
to clarify, no lusting. just looking. with much appreciation. ;-) anyway. top three Sox crushes. believe it or not, i don't have a long list. i have players i have been *very* attached to, and players i have admired tremendously. but the crush list is short. Mike Lowell, of course. (that went without saying, pretty much, huh?) Jason Varitek. (he got demoted by the arrival of Mike Lowell, but not by much.) and i had to dig waaaay back in the memory bank for the third. he actually never played big league ball for the Sox either. he never got past AA (New Britain Red Sox) before being traded to Houston: Jeff Bagwell. i have to say... i don't really see what appealed to me now though. i guess my tastes have really changed.

2. What sort of comparison can be made between Disney World, where you live, and Disneyland, where your buddy Nichole lives? Is it even close?
hmmmm... having been to both now, i would have to say you can't really compare the two. Nichole's is the original. you have to appreciate the original. i have the product of what Walt learned from making the original. it's not better, just tweaked a little. Disneyland has things Disney World doesn't, and vice versa. the cool thing is that even the similarities between the two are only similar at the surface level, in many instances. both have Small World, but they are very different. both have Snow White, but they are different, as well. both have Winnie the Pooh -- again, different. both have Jungle cruise - you get the idea. the uniqueness makes it fun, and i wouldn't pick one attraction over the other between the two parks. one exception: their Pirates of the Caribbean rocks. it makes Florida's *wicked* lame. one thing i will say -- and i know Nichole agrees with me: when you're used to one park, and you visit the other, you feel like some giant hand reached down out of the sky & jumbled everything up, because the parks are laid out very differently & nothing is where it "should be."

3. What IS the most money you've ever spent on a haircut?
$120 (after the tip). i had it washed, cut, highlighted with several shades of blonde & styled for a special event. my typical hair cut costs me $25, $70 when i get highlights.

4. How tall are you?
they tell me 5' 7" sometimes. other times 5' 8". darned if i know for sure.

5. We see you in pictures with your glasses. How strong is the prescription?
i can't tell you in optical terms, but i will tell you that it's pretty strong. i can't see clearly much past about eighteen inches away from my face. things get really fuzzy about four feet away. the good thing is that i got my glasses when i was eight years old. my prescription has only changed three times since then! -- when i was thirteen, seventeen, and twenty-three. and not by very much. i get my eyes checked every couple of years. they always tell me that my eyes have changed so minimally, it's not worth paying for a new prescription til i will actually notice a difference. the last time it changed was about eight years ago. it will probably need to be changed again in the next year, i would say. so, all that to say: the bad news is my eyesight is pretty crappy without my specs. the good news is it's not getting worse at a very rapid pace. =)