Jump on! If you’re an Internet junkie or frequent the blogosphere at all you’ve probably run into the Four Things Meme. What’s a “meme” you ask? According to the Wikipedia, it’s a piece of information traveling from one mind to another, with an analogy of “language as a virus.” That pretty well describes the “Four Things” phenomenon.

So, here are my answers to the list that’s going around:

Four jobs you’ve had in your life:

1. Ski patrol at a famous ski resort
2. Undercover shoplifting investigator
3. TV news technical director
4. Law enforcement

Four movies you could watch over and over:

1. Real Genius
2. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Paulie
4. Top Gun

Four Places You’ve Lived:

1. Montana
2. North Dakota
(that’s all I’ve got…various places around each state)

Four TV shows you love to watch:

1. Boston Legal
2. 24
3. Seinfeld
4. Miami Vice

Four Places you’ve been on vacation:

1. Deals Gap, NC
2. Disney World
3. Glacier Park
4. Brainerd International Raceway

Four blogs you visit daily:
1. Tween
2. XPLSVtv
3. FARK.com
4. Any of the fine blogs (mostly ND) listed on the panel to the right

Four of your favorite foods:
1. Italian Sausage Pizziola Pasta at “The Walrus” in Bismarck
2. A&B Pizza – italian sausage with black olives
3. Applebee’s boneless buffalo wings – heavy on the sauce
4. Bourbon Street Steak

Four places I’d rather be:
1. Bed
2. Racing my motorcycles
3. SCUBA diving in warm caribbean water
4. Snowboarding the top of Challenger

Four albums I can’t live without:
1. Vince Guaraldi: “Charlie Brown Christmas”
2. Tangerine Dream: “Pergamon”
3. Seal: self-titled
4. B-52’s: “Naked on the Moon”

Four vehicles I’ve owned:
1. Nine motorcycles, several at the moment
2. Chevy Astro van with a stick shift
3. Chevy Luv pickup with a tendency to get airborne
4. Snowboard “Mavis”

Four people to be “tagged” who have to complete this:
(Consider yourself “tagged” if you’re reading this.)