In his latest Palpatinesque power-sidling, Dave has developed a weekly QnA blog — the Thursday Twiddler.

1. Have you ever bought, worn someplace, then returned a new outfit, knowing ahead of time that’s what you were planning to do?

Nope. I hate going clothes shopping way too much to engage in a plan that required I go to a store twice in the same seven-day period.

2. When you do something stupid, how much does it bother you to have other folks laugh at you?

Hmm. Not that much, I suppose — there have been a few laughable moments in the last month or so involving furniture and it didn’t bother me much.

On the other hand, the moments that occured in front of mere acquaintances instead of friends bothered me more.

3. When were you last in a fight? What was it about, and did you win?

You mean a fight about something? (Lately, my arguments have been drive-by-shooting affairs having nothing to do with anything and which occured solely to make everyone grumpy.)

I didn’t want giga-tons of daisies planted in the new landscaping sections of our yard.

I did not win that argument.

"It is with sincere regret that I must enter the arena of Personal Q&A weekly blogs, and I assure everyone that, once the current dearth of bloggable material is over, I will gladly step down and, if the Internet allows, will retire into obscurity ..."

(And that's the Thursday Thumb-Twiddler ... The other sounds vaguely ... disturbing.)

Thursday Twiddler's not that bad -- personally, I've been fighting off the urge to start up the "Saturday Shit-list" (tm) for two months now.

How many daisies are in a gigaton? And is that Short, Long or Metric Gigatons?

Metric Gigaton (Mg) -- double the size of the more commonly used Metric Assload (Ma).