Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Are we always responsible for our actions? Are there any exceptions?

Yes, but there are exceptions. For instance, when something unexpected happens to you and how you react. We cannot always be held responsible for that. After all, something that happens in a split second (like a car accident) doesn’t give any warning or time to consider how to react.

2. Has anyone from your home town become famous?

Robert Ballard. He works at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They have made many fascinating discoveries such as the Titanic. Also Katharine Lee Bates who wrote the lyrics for America the Beautiful.

3. January was National Slow Cooker month. Do you own a slow cooker/crock pot? Did you use it last month? What’s a favorite dish you make using a slow cooker or crock pot?

I do own one and I do use it often, but not last month. My favorite dish to make in the crock pot is a Yankee Pot Roast.

4. How do you feel about private companies collecting data about you?

I do not like it. In fact I don’t like anyone collecting data about me.

5. The Games of the 2014 Winter Olympics kick off with their opening ceremony this coming Friday….will you be watching? Which Winter Olympic event would you most like to see in person? Have you ever been to Russia? Any desire to go, Olympics or otherwise?

I’ll be watching. I love the Olympics. I would love to see the skating in person, or the ski jumping. I have been to Russia. And really, I have no desire to go back.

6. Share a good or bad sports related memory from your childhood or teen years.

In High School I took gymnastics. I loved it, despite my height 5 feet 8 inches. I got into such great shape. It was fantastic.

7. What’s a must have song for you on a work out play list? If you don’t work out, run, swim, bike, walk, or anything else that could be construed as ‘exercise’, then what’s a song that motivates you to at least get up off the couch?

Waterloo by ABBA. I love that song. It always gets me up and going.

8. Insert your own random thought here.