I usually manage to escape memes, but not this time.
Step #1 - From Liz:
Step #2 - write five fun/interesting facts about yourself.
Not quite. However, I've been a newspaper deliverer, a janitor, a grocery-bagger, a radio-teletype operator, a movie projectionist, a work-study college student, a computer systems manager, an accountant, and a free-lance researcher.
I like driving vacations. In 1986 I drove from Vancouver BC to Seattle and then all over Washington and Oregon, stopping when and where I wanted. In 1985 I drove from LA to Yosemite and on to San Francisco before returning to LA. In 1992 I drove from Albuquerque all over New Mexico and then into southern Arizona, passing through Chiricahua National Monument. Even within the state I drive: in 1983 I went to Maui and Kauai, driving to Hana on Maui and to Waimea Canyon on Kauai.
I have a very good memory for song lyrics. I hear a phrase and will often think of a song in which the phrase appears. It may take a while, but I get there.
Ha! Not a chance! It's nearly impossible for me to throw a book away. Thus, this.
The first musical instrument I ever owned was an accordion. I don't know why I expressed an interest in it, but back in 1959 I began taking lessons and playing a full-sized Piano accordion. I played it for several years, but I never got very good. It travelled with the family across country to Northern Virginia, and it went along on my high school senior class trip to New York. I finally gave it up to someone in the early 1980s; I don't think I ever learned "Lady of Spain". In the meantime I'd picked up a guitar and became reasonably proficient at it. I still own two, an acoustic Spanish-style Höfner and an electric six-string Rickenbacker. I bought the latter when I was practicing with some friends in the Navy in 1973. They were playing country music at various Navy clubs because that's what the market wanted, but they had higher aspirations (Hey! Dave Oppelt! Are you still playing that Fender Bass?).
Phew! That was hard work!
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