Serene of the Oakland Serenes

Via redbird, who says "via various people, details of phrasing via kazzanos."

1) What is the oldest thing you own?

Not counting some fossils? Either a bracelet that belonged to my grandmother (if I still own it; haven't seen it in a while) or a glass dish of hers that may or may not be older than a couple photos I have of my mother and her family of origin from the 1930s. I think James probably owns some books that are older than that, but I probably don't.

2) What is the oldest home you've lived in?

No idea, but this one was built in 1948/9, and I lived in a Victorian in the 1990s that seemed really old at the time.

3) What is the oldest book you've read?

I've read bits of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but read all the way through? Probably Beowulf or the Bible.

4) What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?

I'm hard on stuff, so it doesn't stick around that long. Probably my phone, which is a few years old.

5) What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've seen?

Likely most of the stuff I saw when I lived in Spain (grades 4 through 7, lots of field trips to castles and museums) was older than anything I've seen in the US. I remember some frescos vaguely; lots of castles; lots of religious iconography. OH, wait. I saw/held an ancient statue similar to the Venus of Willendorf in an anthropology class once.

Questions and answers, the former from adrian_turtle, who is awesome, and at least one of the latter stolen from hobbitbabe, who is also awesome.

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I think I may have a cold. I don't *want* a cold, but it reinforces my plan to spend the whole weekend resting and puttering around my house.

Used to be I couldn't do the randomize-your-music-player memes, because I had a stack of CDs that weren't on a music player, but now I have my own personal jukebox, so I stole this from micheinnz:

Put your music player on random.
Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

(I'm also leaving out the ones that have the song title as the first line -- too easy.)

( I took 'first line' to mean first coherent clause, unless there wasn't one. :-) And I may have gotten some wrong. )