TMI Tuesday #113:

1. Are you and early shopper or a late shopper? A bit of both. This year I'd say 90% has been completed early. I'm saving the last 10% for later (see #4).

2. What is your favorite cartoon (current or past)? Past: Speed Racer! If I could only find a model Mach 5 for my desk, and then paint my next car like it. Present: Jimmy Neutron, naturally.

3. On a scale of 1-10, how competent are you on home repair projects? 6. I know what I can do and what I cannot. Small electrical and carpentry projects I can do. I call the experts for the big jobs.

4. What is your favorite holiday tradition? I haven't had a chance to do this in years - a couple of life-long friends and I used to go out the afternoon of Christmas Eve with the excuse of "last minute shopping," but really head out to the bar for a few rounds of beer. We're all in different states now. Maybe this year I'll tell them to go to a nearby bar and we'll call each other from there.

5. Describe your favorite kiss? Do you give it or receive it? Hershey's Dark Chocolate Kisses. I give and receive them. Oh, you mean the other kind of kiss. I say we combine the two and pass a dark chocolate kiss between our lips while we kiss. And of course I'll lick up the mess it makes on your face!

Bonus (as in optional): What is the best holiday gift you have ever gotten? Best you've given? I'm sure the toys I received when I was a boy were the best received. Back then we didn't make lists for Santa - the presents just showed up on Christmas morning and we'd run around in surprise like crazy kids. Best given? Not sure - I forget to send out the "Gift Feedback" form to the recipients.