Welcome to the 2008 edition of getting to know your friends. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known!

1. What time did you get up this morning? Between 5 and 7?

2. Diamonds or pearls? Tapioca.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? AVP (twice)

4. What is your favorite TV show? Baseball Tonight

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? I don't usually eat breakfast.

6. What is your middle name? Leslie

7. What food do you dislike? Lamb (awful)

8. What is your favorite CD at moment? Supertramp: PARIS

9. What kind of car do you drive? White 2003 Toyota Solara

10. Favorite sandwich? Hamburger club

11. What characteristics do you despise? 1. Cheating, 2. Lying, 3. Stealing 4. Violence, 5. Hate

12. Favorite item of clothing? Jeans

13. If you could go anywhere in the world, on vacation, where would you go? Right now - Gozo and Malta

14. Favorite brand of clothing? Wrangler

15. Where would you retire to? See #13

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? None

17. Favorite sport to watch? 1. Baseball, 2. Soccer, 3. Golf

18. Furthest place you are sending this? Everywhere on Planet Earth - it's a blog!

19. Person you expect to send it back first? ?DK?

20. When is your birthday? Cinco de Mayo

21. Are you a morning person or a night person? Night, and sometimes the whole enchilada.

22. What is your shoe size? 10 mens

23. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? The best team in the last 20 years of baseball, the Boston Red Sox, are killing my Cleveland Indians. I wager the Indians lose all 6 2008 games to the Sox. The Sox will repeat the Series and win it in five games.

24. What did you want to be when you were little? a cowboy

25. What is your favorite candy? I don't eat candy.

26. What is your favorite flower? roses

27. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? May 6, so I will be still alive after another year off the birthday calendar.

28. What is your full name? Jon Leslie Adams, Esquire

29. What are you listening to right now? The ball game.

30. What was the last thing you ate? Chili made with leftover meatloaf from Sunday.

31. Do you wish on stars? Only when I fall down and see them in my head.

32. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Olive

33. How is the weather right now? We are dry and warming up.

34. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My Uncle Jim

35. Favorite soft drink? RC

36. Favorite restaurant? The Fish Company in Long Beach, CA and Fat Fish Blue in Cleveland, OH

37. Hair color? Used to be dark brown/black but now it is not.

38 What was your favorite toy as a child? A 6 shooter cap gun that shot the really loud caps.

40. Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla, French Vanilla

41. Coffee or Tea? Dark roast coffee, but I like Lychee tea.

42. Do you want your friends to email you back? I don't care.

43. The last time you cried? The seventh game of last year's World Series.

44. What is under your bed? Dust motes

45. What did you do last night? Watched the DVD "Jarheads."

46. What are you afraid of? Very little. Been there survived that.

47. Salty or Sweet? Salty

48. How many keys on your key ring? 9

49. How many years at your current job? Forever

50. Favorite day of the week? Friday

51. How many towns have you lived in? Nine, not counting the Army.

52. How many people will you send this to? Just you.

53. How many will respond? Millions.