The Energon Pub

I thought this to be a fun little thing and discuss things (talents, activities, ect..)that we do in real life that would surprise your fellow board members.

One thing about me that not many here know, I sing on praise team at our church (one of the larger churches in Metairie {close to New Orleans}).We have a soprano, alto and I am one of the 2 tenors that revolve on a week to week basis. I also sing in the choir when I am not singing on PT.

Cooking, I love cooking and I'm pretty god at it especially roasts. Damn my roasts and sauces are good.

I can play the Trumpet and Euphonium

I really like puppies.
And candy.
And I'm addicted to popsicles.

The only thing Ive ever been good at...Directing and writing movies and videos.

I Wrote my first script and got my first camcorder at 12. Thats about it.

Well, nothing too fascinating.

I'm a Mechanical Engineer, and I make parts for Toyota. No, not gas pedals...

Oh, I'm a huge Three Stooges fan!

I am an amateur-ish occultist. Been doing if for some 25 yrs, but no formal training in the field, other than those years in the field. I also collect religious relics from all major religions (and some not-so-major ones as well).

I have my undergrad degree in Criminology and my masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning.

I hold a nidan in karate and shodan in aikido.

I have pretty blue eyes.

I know how to operate a sit-down forklift, an electric pallet jack and a stand-up forklift.

I also have a bachelor's in culinary arts.

Burn wrote:I can play the Trumpet and Euphonium

Holy crap! Me too!

I've moved off the trumpet in favour of the Euphonium though, far more seats open to euph players in the city

I'm a 30 year old, unemployed, diabetic that drinks a little too much.

I used to manage a pet store, but was let go a few years ago. Karma has a funnt way of making up for things though. The store manager that acually fired me didn't last much longer, she now stocks shelves in a hardware store.

I still deal with a few anger issues with the pet store though. A certain finger rises from my hand every time I drive past it.

Mkall wrote:I've moved off the trumpet in favour of the Euphonium though, far more seats open to euph players in the city

Once I hit high school they moved me onto Euphonium because there were enough trumpets, but I still think part of the reason was because I was the fat guy.

Hopefully within a month i'll have my Euphonium back that I got off E-Bay. 1922 Boosey & Hawkes, it's been in getting restored and the guy has been dicking around for about a year and now i've given him a deadline.

I run a fantasy wrestling e-fed.

I lift weights, I can bench press 115lbs. most notably. I like to draw a lot too, though I don't know if I'm very good. I also enjoy photography a good bit. I've not really done anything major though.

I used to spend hours on the old skool paintbrush that came with Windows 3.1 doing minature cities. The "newer" paintbrush is not the same.

I'm a dab hand at embroidery, patchwork and sewing.

I'm very, very good, to teh point of it being freakishly concerning, at inserting cannulas and needles into people's veins. And I've only been doing it for about a year.

I have been playing guitar for about 20 years, and I was in a couple bands until a couple years ago. SWAGE was our name and we played a lot of shows around central Missouri. We only played original songs that we wrote-no cover songs!!!!!!!

I am strangely good at Pinball. I once scored slightly over 1.6 Billion points on a Pinball machine called Whitewater.....that was a long game. I once played on a machine called Fun House for over 6 hours straight after paying for the first game. I had so many free games that I would tell someone to come over and play a fre game while I went to piss. After 6 hours, my buddies got sick of being there and told me they wanted to get going to a party-I decided to go along with them. I could have likely played for the rest of the night. I was in the zone.

My lady and I moved to Rochester, MN about two years ago. It is a nice place, but it is freaking cold in the winter.

I play Ocarina and doing mongolian Horseback-archery. Other i'am really good in my studys on university.

Since August of last year I have been working as a Cake Decorator at a local grocery store bakery and I'm planning on going to Pastry School next year.

Some stuff:

Amelie wrote:

Guiledart wrote:I play Ocarina and doing mongolian Horseback-archery.

Hows the swordplay? Have you kept your tunic clean and pressed along with the tights?

Those are pretty cool hobbies! I'd love to play an instrument, but I lack enough co-ordination.

Nah, iam not that medieval re-actor type.. I do in past traditonal Arts of takeda nakamur-ha ryu samurai school, thats where i learn to handle a sword and other weapons. But i have no strong connections to europe.. I study assyrology on university.. ancient asia and near east are my prefered cultures..thats why i doing that that hobby.. Horseback archery is a very old tradition who was most in use by the mongols, huns, persians and indians, and i think its good to keep that tradition alive.

I live in austria so its very common that people have a hobby like going on medieval festivals or pray to their ancestors...doing european swordfight etc...thats normal here..but i'am in that line unusual because i like exactly the counterpart. A lot of people in my country does not understand this.. They say " you should honour our cultural heritage " blabla..but i do not see me as an austrian and i see the medieval times in europe as very barbaric and unciviliced

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I know how to operate a sit-down forklift, an electric pallet jack and a stand-up forklift.

As do I the stand up forklift is called a stacker.I had two different job places where I used all the equipment you mentioned

Wow, I'm super boring but I'll try....

I'm a Buddhist.

I own 3 handguns and a shotgun. Each of which has a name.

I have a PhD in Medieval Lit. (Yeah, that's, uh...SUPER useful).

I knit.

I read Tarot cards professionally for a while.

And I have a metric assload of cats.

HK, now if only I could find some way to combine them all: I'd be UNSTOPPABLE.

Neko wrote:Since August of last year I have been working as a Cake Decorator at a local grocery store bakery and I'm planning on going to Pastry School next year.

Some stuff:

In real life, I would eat all of that cake. Awesome work there!

JBPrime wrote:In real life, I would eat all of that cake. Awesome work there!

Thanks.