sabremeister | Questions meme

1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favourite song, your favourite kind of sandwich, or maybe your favourite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.

multiclassgeek wants to know:

#1 - What inspired you to start Beermonster?

#2 - If swords are unavailable, what's your second-choice weapon?

#3 - When did you first get on the Internet?

#4 - What's your favourite acronym?

#5 - What's your dream job?

1. Hmm. It was not long after I moved to London, my entertainment possibilities were somewhat reduced compared to before (no TV, only a laptop). I'd been reading a few webcomics for a while. I think I just wanted to make my own, y'know, so that it was something I cold say I had done. But then it - sort of - grew. It's become a sort of challenge, can I think of a decent joke every week that fits those characters, sort of thing. I can't always, but I do try.

2. Swords and medieval-type weapons generally, or just swords specifically? If the latter, I think a medium-sized spiked mace would be handy. If the former... hmm, I dunno. I'd probably go for a longarm - a Brown Bess musket or a Lee-Enfield mk3. I'd need a bayonet, of course.

3. Lessee ... 1995, I think, with MSN. I mainly used it for a Star Trek EMail RPG, which fizzled out not long before I got to uni. I didn't really have much use for it there, and when I got chucked out I didn't have access for a while afterwards. I got back on the net in about 2002, mainly hanging around AFP. Then I was sent on an ECDL course by the job centre, and I finished so quick they let me get started on a web-programming course, which was just in time for me to do a page for the local theatre about their entry (which I organised) for the town gala. And it's grown from there, really.

4. Favourite acronym? Don't think I have one. The only one that springs to mind is CLITORIS - the Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society - which isn't entirely real. D'you know, I can't think of any more acronyms off the top of my head. None which appeal to me, anyway.

5. Dream job: I'd get up in the morning (not too early), do some writing. Have a snooze maybe, then lunch, after which I've got free time until the early evening. Then I go to the theatre where I work. I'm the Stage Manager, and I'm so good at it I get interviewed more than the lead cast. The show is so well run, nothing ever goes wrong, nothing has the chance to go wrong, 'cos I'm so good at what I do. (Actually, that's not too far off what working at SLT was like for me.)
Either that, or I'm a key cast member in a hit TV show that I also write.