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So Who's This "Rich D." Person, Anyway? Hello, there! My name is Richard Daugherty. My wife Linda and I make our home in Mission Viejo, only a few minutes from the world-famous Spanish Mission at San Juan Capistrano. We're about half-way between Los Angeles and San Diego along the (usually) sunny Southern California coast. |
What We're About I’m a software developer for Symbol Technologies in Costa Mesa, California, while Linda is an executive assistant for Toshiba America Medical Systems in Tustin. We’ve lived our entire lives here in Southern California, and have seen it change dramatically over the years (nope, won’t say how many). |
Our Other Hobbies My wife and I enjoy listening to music, reading, photography, snorkelling and generally enjoying the out of doors. Linda has been sewing since she was old enough to handle a needle and operate a sewing machine, and is currently fascinated by Hawaiian quilting. I'm a frustrated writer and usually satisfy my journalistic urges by writing technical documentation at work. Linda loves to follow the goings-on of British royalty and is magnetically drawn to the biography section of any bookstore we happen upon. I'm a member of Toastmasters International (currently in pursuit of my CTM), and occasionally plunk away at the guitar until my finger tips start to remind me that I don't practice enough. |
Our Dreams Beside the typical dream of winning the lottery, we want to make our permanent home on the Big Island of Hawai’i and come back to the mainland to visit whenever we like. (Four out of our nine trips to Hawai'i have been to the Big Island. We highly recommend the Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Hotel on the Kohala Coast. Just tell "Auntie Mabel" at the Pleasant Hawaiian Activities Desk that the Daughertys sent you. She'll take good care of you.) World travel is also something we're both looking forward to. Whereas Linda is fascinated with the idea of touring Europe, I'd like to thoroughly explore the South Pacific. |
A Shameless (and unpaid) Endorsement My favorite magazine, bar none, is ISLANDS MAGAZINE. I always read it cover-to-cover, sometimes as soon as it arrives in the mail. I HIGHLY recommend this magazine. It's like nothing else on the market, and is definitely NOT written by the likes of certain amateur "journalist" hacks looking for a couple of bucks for the story they whipped out on the way home from some all-expenses-paid charter trip to some glitzy, overrated tourist-trap of a resort. The contributors include seasoned professional photo-journalists as well as an assortment of ordinary people who posses a deep love of islands and an extra-ordinary talent for communicating their passions in picture and print. Try it, you'll like it! And then, let me know what you think. To subscribe to Islands or contact their editorial or advertising departments, check out their website at http://www.islandsmag.com/. After you've had a chance to look over the magazine, please drop me a note and let me know what you think of Islands. |
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