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I've read them at FriendFeed, so I guess I should share some little known facts about adventures that help make me who I am.
1) I read The Whole Internet Guide in 1992, 20 years after I passed a Fortran class (and crashed a mainframe).
2) My favorite camper said he was 10 and from Brazil when I was one of 72 virtual camp counselors at Microsoft's Kids Web Camp '97. (Ask Kari Sable or Janette Toral Reader about the experience.)
3) I booked a Japanese bluegrass band - the Lost City Mad Dogs from Kobe - to play at a Flint, Michigan, festival because I wanted something different. Most fans preferred the year I brought in Bill Monroe. Lost City Mad Dogs came in 1981, I think. I do remember Jumbo Okutani.
4) I drove my roommates nuts when I was "seeing" four Daves at once.
My daughter and I learn to etch
glass at W-camp. I'm the oldest here.
5) In 1998, I camped in a tent in New York with people I met on the Internet at w-camp.. What fun we had.
6) I still like the simplicity of PINE, DOS and Unix.
7) I spoke at length with William Holden when he overheard me dishing Network at the screening in 1976. I believe my ranting started "I'm mad as hell and won't take it anymore" and ended with me wanting to walk out on the film early.
8) My first bylines said my name was Mark because the editor said no one would believe a girl reporting on hockey.
9) I learned it still hurts even if the law says you are right the year I was hit by two buses, a car, and two bikes in separate accidents.
10) I have seen every natural waterfall in Michigan's Upper Peninsula - most of them in one two-week period.
11) I have survived three rounds of Medicare Part D for 2 people and anyone who voted for Part D should be forced to choose a plan for 5 people.
12) A boy gave me his car in high school because he thought mine was unsafe. A Budweiser was painted on the top of the station wagon.
13) The daughter I would never have has a birthday every 4 years as she was born on Feb 29. She weighed 11 pounds that day.
14) I made it to the l's the summer a public librarian issued a challenge to read something new and pointed me to the wall of novels arranged by author.
15) I fell for Dale Chihuly when a glass artist took me to my first glass exhibition.
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16) I was backstage at Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic in 1980, the day after I was at the premiere of Honeysuckle Rose. It was held on what once was Pedernales Country Club with at least 60,000 people in front of the stage. On the stage, at various times, were Asleep at the Wheel, Merle Haggard, Faron Young, Johnny Paycheck, Ray Price, and, of course, Willie Nelson.
17) Role models include Juliette Low, Mother Maybelle Carter, Helen Keller and Louise May Alcott.
18) My parents did not think I needed a college degree. I got one anyways.
19) I heard Bob Seger play in a garage (maybe a basement, it was a long time ago.).
20) I can ignore a ringing phone
21) I find it hard to throw away books, wooden spools and records (the black disc kind).
22) I have at least 8 quilts in progress and another 10 or so tops ready to be quilted
23) I believe in the Girl Scout movement
24) I will fire doctors and volunteers, believing that can make the world a better place
25) I want to learn something new everyday.
