Well, ok...if you really need a hint....

1. What is your age range? As I get older, I have found that my age range has shifted. I remember, as a callow youth, thinking that women of 30 were old. Now, I find it pretty difficult to distinguish between jail-bait of 15 and young ladies of 25...maybe because #2 daughter is 26! And, on the other end, there seem to be a lot of very nich looking 50-somethings and 60-somethings out there. Oh, you meant my age? Just turned 60.

2. Gender? Male

3. Do you have a favorite color? Dark or forest green

4. Favorite authors/ type of book? I mostly read science fiction, and concentrate on that low aspect of the genre variously cally "space opera" or "military SF". Weber, Flint, some Stirling, some Ringo. But I mostly read it as soon as it comes out, and buy it as soon as it is out in paperback.

5. What books have you really been wanting? See#4

6. What type of music do you like? Uh...folk? I seem to tend toward Celtic (but don't ask me to define what that is...anything from the Clancys to Capercailli), English semi-trad (love them Cara lads) and some singer-songwriter stuff.

7. What CDs have you really been wanting? Cara #4, Alaska Mike (Campbell) #3, anything by Jerry Rasmusson.

8. What movies have you been wanting? What region DVDs can you view? Don't do much TV

9. What is your t-shirt size? XL

10. Do you collect anything? if so, what? Full wine bottles? Nothing, really

11. What are some of your other hobbies? Bicycling, round-the-world tours (outside veranda cabin, please).

12. Do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Don't wear jewelery

13. Please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like. Like many other people have said, what I'd like most is something specific to my SS...like music that he/she has done, photos, etc. of home, and so forth.