1. Have you ever been admitted to hospital?
Yes but only in Canada, so I haven't had to declare bankruptcy yet. Both times were pretty minor, a cut on my left elbow that had to be stitched up, and the second was to get fitted for an airboot cast because I had fractured my second metatarsal in my left foot.
2. Do you own or rent your home?
Rent
3. Have you ever been a member of a political party?
Registered to one so I could vote in my state's caucus
4. What was your first ever mobile/cell phone?
A tracfone of some variety. In 2004 when I moved back to Canada my stepmom got me a pretty nifty clam shell flip phone so I could never have the excuse of not being reachable. I'm pretty sure I got a Razer shortly after that which I used up until I got my first iPhone in 2009 and have stayed with that model since.
5. What sports team(s) do you support?
While I don't really care if they win or lose, I will root for the Vancouver Canucks if they are playing, or the San Jose Sharks if they are playing. If they play each other, I always root for Vancouver, but I think San Jose is both a better team and less pretentious.
6. Do you own a gun?
Two, a H&K P30 pistol and a Remington 870 12 gauge shotgun. I haven't been shooting in ages, was too dry during the summer to risk going up into the hills and the shooting ranges in town are both extremely expensive and filled to the brim with fucking creeps whose fetish for guns is borderline sexual.
7. How many working remote controls are in your house?
Three I want to say, but I honestly only ever use the TV in my bedroom and even that can be rare. It is funny to think about though, all those remote controls that line up someone's coffee table, and wonder how many of them actually get used.
8. How well do/did you get along with your parents?
My relationship with my parents has only gotten better as I've gotten older. I wasn't really much of a troubled teenager but there were definitely some contentious moments between myself and my family. I can't even remember the last time I got into an argument with either of them.
9.What was your first job?
Back when I was 12 or 13 I would clean up the office my mom worked at on Friday's for $20. It wasn't much, a small 4 room office building with 1 washroom, and I only had to vacuum and mop the washroom which was always pretty easy. That only lasted for a few months because they moved offices to an area that I wasn't able to easily get to and public transit didn't go there because that's where a lot of rich people lived. I'm pretty sure it was all off the books too because of my age, and really only provided me with a little pocket money for the weekend.
My first actual legal job was working in a lumberyard over the summer. I mostly just put away boxes of nails/ screws, insulation bundles, and helped customers load lumber into their cars. By the end of the summer I had convinced my uncle who worked in the sales department to teach me how to drive the forklifts and I stayed on, working Saturdays as the forklift customer service person who would drive out into the yard and get the lumber and bring it back to the customer in the loading area (cheaper insurance if customers weren't allowed back in the actual lumberyard). It was fun, taught me a lot, and helped me build up a really strong immune system because I was out in the elements. Pay was shit though, but I was 15-16 and too young/dumb to know that what I was doing was worth more.
10. What's your favourite Shakespeare play?
Hamlet was the most engaging, but I've only ever really read the popular ones you usually read in your high school English class, where you have to pause every line so the teacher can translate it into English for you.
11. What's your favourite planet, and why?
Call me biased because it provides me with oxygen, but I'm going to say Earth.
12. Do you dress up for Halloween and if so what as?
Not really anymore. The last time I dressed up was 2014 for a Halloween costume party I was someone's +1 for and even then I put the least amount of effort into it. I went as pre-HEV suit Gordon Freeman, so basically just a scientist with a circle beard.
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