5 questions from ms_danson

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Place you would most like to perform?
The place that pays me! Yay!
I will perform pretty much anywhere. We’ve done birthday parties, nightclubs, museums, charity fund raisers and many more.
When we started the troupe 10 years ago, we said we’d know we made it big if we ever got booked to Las Vegas. So, maybe I should say that.
But, honestly, where I’d like to perform most is in front of someone who enjoys it. The location of that doesn’t really matter.

Favorite board game?
My group of friends has a game night once a month and we always try and have at least one new game there. So, I’ve tried a whole lot of games. There aren’t many I outright hate. But, plenty that are more fun than others.
But, if I had to pick one as most favorite, I’d have to go with chess.
My father taught me to play when I was 6 and I continued to play it with him until he died 12 years ago.
By the end, that was all we had left together. He couldn’t even remember how the pieces moved after his second stroke. But, I sat there and moved the pieces around the board with him so we had something together at the end of his life.
Even then I’d only come by for that when my mother and brother were gone.

Bananas?
I’ve never been a big fan of bananas. I remember when I was in 3rd grade we saw a movie that was an X-Ray of a person eating a banana. That put me off bananas for a long time.
In high school the physics teacher I had used it as an expletive, which made it strange to think about eating one.
Now I will have one once in a while. But, they still aren’t anywhere near the top of my favorite food list.

Oceans vs lakes
I am a very watery person. I like water in many of its configurations. Pretty much all of its clean manifestations and even polluted it can look nice.
I like both lakes and the ocean and am happy to spend time near, or in, either.
But, if I had to pick one, it would be the ocean. Mostly because it is more varied. I’ve seen lakes on three continents from near tropics to near arctic. I’m not saying they’re all the same. But, they are far more the same than the changes in the ocean I’ve seen.
Plus, I like salt water fish better than fresh water fish as food.

Crossing the border?
Crossing borders is always a cause for celebration!
Normally I only manage town and state borders. A few time I’ve managed international ones.
I’ve crossed into Canada and back four times that I can recall.
I’ve crossed into Mexico and back once.
I’m not sure how to count the times flying across the oceans. Is it crossing a border to fly over the Atlantic to Ireland or the Pacific to China?
The time I was driven from Hong Kong into mainland China could count, but Hong Kong had been turned back to China by then, so technically the same country, even if I had to do the whole customs thing.
Count or not, it is still a cause for celebration. Even if borders are arbitrary things, they are still the marker between where you were and where you will be and therefore cool. Cross that line, you’re somewhere else. Yay!