Q: What's your best tip about owning a business?
A: You have to be flexible.
Q: What do you like best about owning Pac/West?
A: I work with a great group of people who are diverse and always entertaining.
Q: What is it really like to be a Pac/West team member?
A: You’re a member of a huge family.
Q: Where do you go when you need an information fix?
A: I’m a TV (rather than Web) news junkie…I’m a little old fashioned…
Q: What sports do/did you play?
A: When I was little I played football with all the boys in the neighborhood. I like to shoot guns…I’m a much better shot than people might guess.
Q: How often do you cut your hair? Describe your worst haircut.
A: It depends on whether or not my hairdresser is in the emergency room…it’s a long story.
Q: What is something that you should throw away, but haven’t. Explain.
A: Everything that I should have thrown away burned in a storage unit fire.
Q: What autographs have you collected?
A: Walter Brennan, Hank Aaron (to go along with the Babe Ruth baseball my family has)
Q: Who is the most famous person you’ve ever met?
A: President Bush, but I’ve met Mickey Mouse too.
Q: What kinds of movies do you like and why?
A: I like movies that I don’t have to think about too much. I like to be entertained when I’m watching a movie.
Q: Have you ever sung in public? What happened?
A: Yes, in junior high and high school. I was standing on a chair during a production of Handel’s Messiah so that I could see the director, and the chair folded. I was just a little bit mortified.
Q: If you could only watch one TV show this fall, what would it be?
A: There’s nothing on TV that I absolutely have to watch, but I really enjoy the Antiques Roadshow.
Q: At which meal do you generally eat the most?
A: It depends on where I am and what I’m doing. My schedule can be unpredictable.
Q: What one item in the kitchen best describes you and your personality?
A: Pressure cooker.
Q: What’s your favorite concert you’ve ever attended?
A: Paul McCartney for my 50th Birthday party. We invited a bunch of friends. It was great.
Q: What do you like to do when you are not at work?
A: Work in my yard.
Q: If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where would it be and why?
A: Hawaii, Scandinavia…there are so many great places I’d love to live. I don’t think I could choose just one.
Q: What super-power would you most like to have, and why?
A: I’d like to be a mind reader. It would be much easier to figure people out.
Q: What do you like to read the most, and why?
A: I love to read novels, especially those that you can really get lost in.
Q: What is the most creative nickname you have ever been given? How did you get it?
A: There’ve been several. Nanny Goat (from my dear childhood friends that wanted to really get to me). Buck (because I went to Pendleton High School).
Q: What is the furthest away/most impressive place you have traveled to?
A: Probably the Fjords of Norway. They’re unbelievably beautiful.
Q: Red or white wine?
A: Depends on the occasion.
Q: Best joke ever played on you?
A: I tend to forget things like that.
