1. What is your age range? Somewhere between dirt and rocks.

2. Gender? Let me look...male.

3. Do you have a favorite color? Wine red or maybe deep blue

4. Favorite authors/type of book? Books with pages and binding, please.

5. What books have you really been wanting? Recently? O'Malley's "When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican 1, and Vatican II." (A friend reviewed it and says it's pretty good.)

6. What type of music do you like? Folk.

7. What CDs have you really been wanting? Charlie Ipcar's latest.

8. What movies have you been wanting? (specify VHS if you don't have a DVD player) "Cheyenne Social Club."

9. What is your t-shirt size? XXL

10. Do you collect anything? if so, what? Experiences and books.

11. What are some of your other hobbies? Target shooting.

12. Do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Either

13. Please include anything else you feel is important that would help your Secret Santa know what you would like. I also like folklore.

14. Remember that hints about things such as allergies etc are also useful to your Santa. I am deathly allergic to strychnine, arsenic trioxide, and uncontrolled bleeding.