I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

Even if you do winterize your house and drain all the plumbing pipes, if you turn your heat off, all your wallpaper can peel off the wall or your doors can swell shut. So you want to leave your heat on say, at 60 or 70 degrees.

I don't get it. All I know is that that guy (is who) I want between the two pipes behind me.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.