My parents told me that if I was a girl, I would have been named Amanda Lynn.
maybe I am obsessed with my mandolin!
The A in Andrew is for my father's father, Arthur.
The M in Michael is for my mother's grandfather, Morris.
I've been told that "Rich" was originally "Reich" but that was changed when they emigrated.
(Does snowboarding even still count as an "extreme" sport?)
I tried snowboarding once (once) around two years ago at a ski resort in Tahoe. I don't remember which one it was offhand. They offered a "snowboarding for absolute beginners" half-day course. Though I didn't actually injure myself, it didn't go terribly well. I just couldn't manage to stay upright for more than a minute at a time; I'd get going, overbalance one way, overcorrect the other and then BAM on the ground. Luckily I had thick ski pants.
(That's not me in the picture; I never got that far up the hill.)
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I am fluent in over six million forms of communication. Well, not really.
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(in mostly alphabetical order, with varying levels of expertise and necessarily incomplete)
Things I want to learn:
He'd likely say something about food and giving him some.
Of course he'd have to be awake first.
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…would be my time in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. I was in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
According to this distance calculator, it's almost 8,000 miles (great circle distance) from Los Angeles (where I lived at the time) to Kuwait City. My unit was actually based in King Khalid Military City, Saudi Arabia and Camp Doha, Kuwait, but Kuwait City will do for distance calculations.
The second farthest would be on our Panama Canal transit cruise from a few years ago. That distance was "only" 3,264 miles from home.
I couldn't get too much farther away from home; the antipodal point (~12,000 miles) from me is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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