All Things Rowdy

I was trying to think of how many languages I know even just a single word in while I was bored driving from Atlanta to Little Rock today. Here is what I could come up with: American English British English Spanish Arabic French German Russian Italian Norwegian Swedish Latin Hebrew Brazilian Portuguese Vietnamese Japanese Korean Mandarin Yep, 17 languages in which I know at least one word.

I have a lot of road trips for matches now through Sept where I'll have to start flying again for the USPSA Nationals then in Utah. The beginning of the year I had to fly to like 4 matches. Flying is almost always about $450 a ticket, $250 for a rental car, $300 for a hotel. So right away just the three basics of it are a thousand dollars. But now that I have a big string of ones I drive to I have to run the numbers again and see if it's cheaper. So I still have the $300 for the hotel. Unless it's close enough I can cut a day off but that only happens about 1/3 the time. So I'll leave it as a value. Zero for rental car. So that leaves gasoline as the equivalent to the plane ticket. Say I have to drive 400 miles to a match one way, at 18 miles per gallon that I get in my truck that is 22.2 gallons of gas at $2.25 a gallon for a total of $50 each way or $100 total. Fly to major, $1,000 at least. Drive to major, $400 at least. That's a big difference! As I think ...