Family, baking cookies, reading historical fiction, staring into space
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and tell them "thank you!"
They Might Be Giants, Great Big Sea, Feable Weiner, Cruiserweight, Yonder Mountain, Ben Folds, Norman's Bait and Tackle Choir, Allison Krause, Brad Paisley, The Who, Moody Blues, Seven Nations, Battlefield Band, The Chieftans, lots more Feable Weiner, Firesign Theatre, Frank Zappa
Singing in the Rain, Lone Star State of Mind, Raising Arizona, The Mighty, The Name of the Rose, Runaway, Monty Python's Holy Grail
Top Gear, the original Junkyard Wars, Brit comedies
Most anything by Charles deLint or Morgan Llewlyen with a bit of Ray Bradbury tossed in.
My late dad, my two favorite shop teachers, and my little sister who is the bravest of all.