ME TOO!! For a long time I thought my dad had taken it to teach me a lesson (he was always getting on me about not wearing it enough, and I’d taken it out yet again to chew gum) but when it got to the six-month mark and he hadn’t given it back, I ruled him out. That was May 1999, and I STILL have no idea where it went.

I took a bunch of astronomy classes as electives in college (thought 101 would be about constellations... that was covered in about 10 minutes during the second lecture haha.) Anyway, I found all that stuff about black holes and the death of stars, including the sun’s eventual death, so fascinating. Really made you…

Very true!

Gah, that sounds like my nightmare! Luckily I haven’t had any mishaps with my digital recorder like mistakenly erasing something I still need.

That looks pretty cool!

Oh yes, definitely need a recorder! Sometimes people get talking over each other and you have to go back and listen to it multiple times to figure out who said what. Plus there’s always the chance your handwriting doesn’t stay legible enough to keep up!

It has to be tied in somehow; if I write down a grocery list I remember everything on it and don’t need to look at it while I’m in the store.

I write for a newspaper. A few years ago, the company replaced our desktops with laptops, which apparently a lot of my colleagues use to type notes during meetings and interviews. I prefer to write notes by hand in a notebook. Something about handwriting the info makes it stick in my brain better when I’m later…

I’m so glad she hated the name being used for the brewery. I can enjoy Schlafly’s pumpkin beer with a clear conscience.

That was very cool of them!

Wow, I didn’t know you could get kicked out of an all-you-can-eat buffet for eating too much!

I don’t know any real people who did, but it’s in the song “Have a Cigar” — ‘oh by the way, which one’s Pink?’

Haha! Jethro Tull is one of my dad’s favorite bands. I listened to them a ton growing up, saw them in concert on their 25th anniversary tour when I was 10, and then I saw them again at our state fair when I was 17. They’re still one of my favorites too!

Jethro Tull was my first thought!

Exactly! In 1990, my grandparents restored the house on a farm that had been in our family since 1905. Only one of the outbuildings was taken down, and that was only because a storm did most of the work for them. My aunt lives in that house now, and the other dilapidated barn and a shed are still there today. Just not…

Ha yeah, I’d be suspicious of that source too!

I’ll never forget the look on Ken Schrader’s face when he looked in Earnhardt’s window. He knew. It was awful.

I was 14, had to be at work on a farm by 6 a.m., so my dad had to drive me. We were leaving in my mom’s 1994 Aerostar and my dad said “Princess Diana died in a car accident overnight.” I guess he’d had the early morning news on.

When I was little and went to my grandparents’ house during summers, my grandmother used to use a rubber band to pull back my hair every single day. Then my mom would cut the rubber band out of my hair every single night before I went to bed, because my fine hair had gotten so impossibly tangled. I don’t know why my…

It was hot as balls Sunday morning in Rio, for marathon running. Sure, they were 15 minutes off their personal bests (not necessarily typical running time, by the way — the best they’ve ever run a marathon), but that could’ve been attributed to the weather, or a physical problem, or missing their particular fluid…