As I have been ‘memed’ by Greg Swann, our poet laureate at Bloodhound Blog, I now have the task of presenting you with five things you didn’t know about me… but now you shall.
How do I get involved in these things, I’ll never know. I stumble on them in the dark, I swear I do…
1. In my previous life, I worked in petro-chemical engineering. I was an industrial electrical designer, involved in everything from grounding to power distribution to lighting to motor control to electronic instrumentation. On three different occasions, I worked for the now infamous Enron Corp.
2. Also in my previous life, I worked with musicians. I was a co-owner of an all-night rock and roll nightclub in Houston and was the executive producer for what is still considered to be the be finest instructional video for drummers "Metalmorphosis" by Bobby Rock - which we produced in Hollywood, California.
3. I have lived in the two coldest places in the continental US - Cut Bank, Montana and International Falls, Minnesota. Both of these locations see winter temperatures that drop to -40 F or below each year. As a result, I will no longer ever live where it snows.
4. At the age of 16, I was the youngest person in the state of Hawaii to hold a commercial driver’s license. At the time, the license I attained (type 7) was for everything on the road… semi-trucks, buses, cranes, etc., but when I applied for a job driving a city bus - the state added two more classifications (type 8 and 9) with an age restriction to keep me from chauffeuring at that age. It was pretty funny, really… as they could find no other way to keep me from driving a bus - other than change the licensing requirements.
5. As a frustrated artist, my interests have included music (bass guitar, my instrument of choice… although I started playing Hawaiian music on a ukulele) graphic arts (drafting, illustrations) and photography. I seldom pick up an instrument, anymore… and when I pick up my camera - it’s more often to shoot real estate (boring…) but the love is still there, just the same.
This is the kind of photography I enjoy the most:
So, like a good soldier… I have complied. 
And here is the route that this meme has taken:
- Drew of Drew’s Marketing Minute
- Starbucker
- Trevor Gay of Simplicity
- Phil of Make it Great
- Kammie of Passion Meet’s Purpose
- Success from the Nest
- Dave of Rothacker Reviews
- Andrea Learned of Learned on Women
- Ann Handley of the Marketing Profs Daily Fix
- Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change
- Toby Bloomberg, the Diva Marketer
- Paul Chaney, Strategic Blogging
- Mark McKnight, RSS Pieces
- Jim Cronin, The Real Estate Tomato
- Greg Swann, The Bloodhound Blog
And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!
*Adorable* photo!!!
Left by Ann Handley on December 16th, 2006