What's in a name?

I have a Google Alert set to my name, “Andy McHugh” along with other terms like it and every once in a great while I’ll get traffic that the Google spider comes across that entertains me. This specifically gave me a terrible case of the giggles. It’s andymchugh.com.

I can’t help but wonder if he gets any cross traffic from all the outrageous things I post on the Internet. It’s one of the reasons why if someone does a simple name search they’re not going to find me. They are going to find the 8 Andy McHugh’s in Ireland, the 3 in England, and apparently a gaggle of us here in the States. Like this fellow. I have no idea who he is, but he’s got my name. I like to believe my middle name makes me unique, but I would bet money that over in Ireland there has to be an Andy McHugh with the middle name of Joseph. A batch of good Catholics, come on.

So anyways, it’s funny to notice my telemarketer-confusing last name out there in the world and really funny to see my name as a dot com. A part of me wants to write a comment on his site and say hello, but that may be just a smidgen stalkery.

The Farthest I've Travelled From Home

Paris Exposition: Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1900

The farthest I’ve ever gone from home is when I went with my partner to Paris, France. The total distance is 4035 miles between my home and the City of Lights. I don’t know if my interests will take me much farther as my current interests lie firmly in western Europe if I were to travel. Most likely it would be England or Ireland for the next trip.

The only other option is up, but I don’t honestly see space tourism being a serious proposition in my lifetime. If I could though? I wouldn’t mind visiting the Moon, if pie-in-the-sky wishes had wings.

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