- What kind of an engineer are you? (Chris @ Weather Moose) --- I'm a chemical engineer by degree and a petroleum engineer by profession.
- What is your hidden talent? (Bridget @ Equilibrium) ---- I don't know. I'll go ask my husband. It's hidden so well I can't find it. I used to write short stories in high school and won a writing competition 2 years in a row.
- What made you decide to become an engineer? (Joanna @ Sidewalk Chalk and Sippy Cups) --- I like to take stuff apart. And then I wonder where all the parts went when I can't put it back together. I think that's the telltale sign of an engineer - when you say, "Ahhhh...didn't need it anyway!" and then break out the super glue and make the stuff go back whether it wants to or not. I decided on chemical engineering when I took chemistry in high school and I understood it...on a deep level. I bonded with the molecules. Ha ha! Get it?! "Bonded"??? okay, I'm a dork...moving on....
- Have you always been in Texas? (Chris) --- Yupp. All over the state but always within the state lines.
- What's the farthest away from home you've ever been? (Chris) --- Probably Washington, D.C. or maybe it was Seattle...I'm not too good with geography.
- How many kids do you want to have? (Bridget) --- I did want to have 3. But after having K-man, I'm really rethinking that.
- What you afraid of? (Bridget) ---- Flat out honest, it would be going through another c-section. Hence the reason I'm rethinking that whole "3 kids" thing.
- What are your pet peeves? (Joanna) ---- Screaming children in the store. And I'm not talking about the baby that's crying or the 2 year old throwing a fit with a frazzled looking mom frantically looking around trying to figure out the nearest escape route. I'm talking about those screaming kids that are let loose to run hog wild in the store and get in your way and knock stuff off the shelves. I growl at them.
- If you hadn't become an engineer, what would you like to be instead? (Joanna) --- I originally went to school to be a chemical engineer to use it in the field of agriculture. But, Dow agri-chemicals didn't want an engineer. (FINE!! Be that way!) If I had my way, I'd be working with farmers on field applications of environmentally friendly fertilizers. Perhaps even working with organic farms on pest control.
- Does Weather Moose really know everything about surviving stupid weather? (Chris) --- Surviving stupid weather or just surviving weather? Because from what I've learned from your blog, weather doesn't like to be called "stupid"...it makes it mad. And that would make it harder to survive.
- What's your favorite ice cream flavor? (Melissa) ---- Hmmm...that's a tie between rocky road and pistachio. Totally opposite ends of the spectrum, but, hey, sometimes ya feel a like nut and sometimes ya feel like a pistachio.
- Place you've never been, but would love to go? (Melissa) --- Canada to hunt moose...or Argentina to hunt dove...or Yellowstone to go fly fishing.
Here's my question back to my readers:
Why did you start blogging?
7 comments:
I have two blogs, one I use for everyday complaints, family complaints and lots of memes, I started it because it was what all my friends were doing!
The blog you read now I started because I wanted to track our pregnancy and give family and friends a place to visit when they were curious about what was going on with me.
Question back at you, How did you get into hunting?
I started blogging on a whim.
I had been reading a few blogs and thought, well, I could do that...it's basically an online journal.
I actually contemplated writing as a profession in college. I took creative writing in high school and enjoyed, got some positive feedback, but thought of it more as a hobby.
If I said I were doing it because I'm writing a book, would you believe me?
-Chris
Weather Prin..er..Moose
I started by sending out a newsletter to all the members of the family. I tried to keep it positive and chatty and did not find it a very satisfying thing. My niece in Tulsa said I should try a blog site and two years and 13,000 visitors later here I am.
In high school I told my English teacher that I wanted to be an engeneer and she said I needed to be able to spell it first. I just passed calculus with a D and that ended my desire to be anything but a business school graduate. Oh well, that was 35 years and miles ago. MUD
I was a temp at Astra-Zeneca for a short while. I must say, I do not bond with the whole agricultural chemical thing. I was filing EPA reports on animal studies involving various chemicals. It creeped me out. Hmm...you would think that working in the defense industry would creep me out to, but it doesn't.
I'm not sure why I started blogging. Once I figure it out, it might help me figure out what my blog is about. Maybe it's because I like to talk and I felt the internet would save a few people's ears.
No friggin' clue. It just happened.
I can't believe I missed this one! And hunting? Please, answer that one....sounds like it could be a riot!
Melissa - I think the pregnancy blog is great! I love checking in on it.
Chris - Are you really writing a book? And will it have pop-ups?? Cause I'd totally buy a weather pop-up book. (seriously)
MUD - Calculus was only first level for the engineering school. By the time I was finished, I'd seen more greek letters than I ever imagined! I'm glad you blog...I like the history lessons.
Joanna - Interesting that you say that about the agri-business. When I first thought about it before beginning college, I had no feel for what those chemicals did. Now that I've gone "green", I can definitely see how my career would have followed suit to organic farming. I think defense sounds interesting!
To answer the hunting questions - I grew up hunting on my grandparents' farm. Mostly whitetail deer. When I got into my current industry, I picked up shotguns and sporting clays which led to bird hunting. Not too many crazy stories because I steer clear of alcohol and gun mixes. Probably the silliest was the guy that was trying to pick me up by pretending to dance out in the middle of sunflower patch while a group of us were dove hunting. I told him to shut up and sit down before he scared off the birds.
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