Friday Memes

Part I: Friday's Feast
Friday's Feast for Friday, 9 November 2007:

Appetizer Which snack do you like to get when you go to the movies?
I'm not a big popcorn fan (a bad episode involving a cracked tooth), so I usually have some kind of candy. Chocolate, most likely.

Soup What year did you start using the internet?
Wow, it's been a long time. I was at Weber State, so that probably makes it 1992 or so.

Salad What is your first name in Pig Latin?
Ichaelmay. (Or, for dilliwag, Ikeymay.)

Main Course Name something you are picky about.
Having our employees actually working while they're on the clock. I had one girl—the one we call Tsarina; I think I've mentioned her before—who got upset at me when I signed her out on break while she was standing in the front lobby talking on her phone. Duh!

Dessert Fill in the blanks: I ____ ____ yesterday and I ____ ____ today.
I stayed up late yesterday and I slept late today. (Unusual occurrences both, except for the events of earlier this week.)

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Part II: Top 5 On Friday
Top 5 On Friday - Week 149 from The Music Memoirs:

Top 5 albums that have been in your collection the longest.


» Heartbeat City by The Cars
This is the first album I ever bought on my own. I owned it on cassette for years. I've only just recently pulled out the CD and listened to it again. As good as I remember.


» Wheels Are Turnin' by REO Speedwagon
Yep, I owned this one in the 80's when I was in high school—just like everyone else did. Most people bought this for "Can't Fight This Feelin'" (or, as the band calls it, "That Damn Ballad"), but for me the highlight of this album is "One Lonely Night".


» Dune (Original Soundtrack Recording) by Toto
I owned this one on vinyl—someone else here remembers what a vinyl record is, right?—when I was in college. Then I got a big scratch across it, and when I went to buy a replacement, I learned it was out of print. I was ecstatic when I finally found it on CD several years later. I bought it on the spot.


» Tchaikovsky: Greatest Hits
This was one of the first disks that I bought upon getting my first CD player. The first thing I played on the new stereo was the 1812 Overture. It was amazing.


» Harley-Davidson Cycles: Road Songs by Various Artists
When I was working for Monolithic Electronics Store, Inc., I needed to buy a couple of CDs to use as demos when I was showing off the various features of what we had on display. I picked this up because it had a large variety of styles included. One time a customer asked, "I don't suppose you have any Foreigner, do you?" I popped in disc 1 and put on track 10. It made the sale for me.