Sunday Stealing — 3×5

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Back in 2007, Donna from Just Me was tagged by her blog buddy, Shaz, to answer a long and lovely list of three things. We’ve pared it back to 5.

3 x 5

Three things I love (Remember, these are things, not people):

1. Music reference books. Most of them are from Record Research and were compiled by the late Joel Whitburn.

2. My multitudinous photo albums from 1972 -2012, even though I seldom look at them. 

3. The streets of Albany, which are weird. 

Three things on my desk:

1. Moisturizing lotion, which I don’t even use in the office.

2. A CD player I just bought. I got it from Best Buy, in part because, if it dies in the next two years, they’ll fix or replace it. 

3. An empty Diet Pepsi bottle that I occasionally fill with water.

Three things I can’t do:

1. Hang a picture on the wall straight without trying it about five times.

2. Paint over something when the old and new colors are too similar, such as painting over beige with eggshell. I can’t see the difference. I’ll paint over yellow with blue, or green over orange.

3. Figuring out technology right out of the box. I have two bins of electronics stuff, most of which I can’t readily identify.

Good

Three things I’m good at:

1. Paying attention. I seem to see things, especially people, that need tending more than most.

2. Anticipating the behavior of pedestrians and other cars when my wife is driving. And before you ask, she likes it.

3. Remembering scads of musical references based solely on hearing them.

Three things I want to accomplish:

Probably, I need to use lifehacking, or something. Ugh… Or cloning, which I can get behind.

1. I still want to write that book.

2. I’m in the process of getting reimbursed for medical expenses, a task I didn’t complete at all in 2025. 

3. Get back to genealogy, which has fallen off the table. There are a whole bunch of 16th and 17th-century folks from England who end up in my Ancestry “hints.” I have north of 700 hints I should follow up on.