• Do you collect something? like coins, stamps etc.? Name something that you collect, and perhaps show us some pictures?

Not really. I used to collect Euro coins after they were introduced in 2000. You may or may not know that each country that is part of the Euro Zone has its own set of Euro coins. All Euro coins have the same front side, the back side is different for every country. For example Belgium has on every backside the boring head of our king Albert II. The Italian coins are the most beautiful ones. There are about 15 countries in the Euro zone, so it took me quite a while to get all of them, especially the finnish and irish ones. I never bothered getting the ones from Vatican City, San Marino and Andorra though… I didn’t want to pay 250 € for a set :P.

The Italian Euro coins:

• Mention 3 things that you have and appreciate most. Show us in pictures?

I’m assuming you’re talking about materialistic items. If you’re talking about personally valuable items, I’ll refer you to the hypothetical questions of ‘If your house was burning…’ and ‘If you’d be living on an island…’ ;). First of all, I’d like to mention my home theater :). I’ve spent a lot of money on it, but I absolutely love it and I’d never want to live without one anymore… Superb surround sound, a big screen, dark room, calibrated colours and sound volume levels… Mmmmmmmm… Gorgeous ;). Secondly, I’d like to mention my computer. Couldn’t live without that one either. And thirdly I’d like to mention the camera that I’m borrowing from my mom. I guess I like expensive stuff… :|… If anybody has any ideas for cheap hobbies, give me a call :P… Home theater, computers, photography and astronomy aren’t really the cheapest hobbies out there :). See the picture below: left my computer (at least the screen, keyboard and mouse) and right my home theater when it’s in home-theater-mode ;). I’m not sure what happened to the picture of my computer… Just ignore the pink…

• Mention 3 things that you like to have/buy

I’d love to have a big telescope… I once planned on buying one, together with lenses and all kinds of stuff, but it was just way too expensive. Especially since everything is twice as expensive here as in the United States where they assemble these things… So I’m not really planning on buying one right now, but if somebody has too much money… ;). I *am* going to buy a digital SLR camera in the near future though. I’m duying to start doing some real photography work with a digital camera. I want a good one however, so… no funds for that yet, and the technology is still evolving a bit too quickly. Maybe in a year or two… The Canon 20D is looking really juicy at the moment. Should be cool :). And another thing I’d like to have right now is a better dvd-shelf. The thing I put my dvd’s on right now is totally not designed to hold dvd’s. It’s way too deep, way too high and way too small :P. My mom is looking into getting this designed to my wishes via her work, but I’m not sure yet whether that’s going to work or how expensive it will be. So… unless it’s completely to my wishes, I’ll just keep it the way I have it now…

More questions tomorrow by Kentucky Pride.