An Interview with Mike Wheeler

I was recently cleaning up some of the old web links out of my Favorites folder the other day (R.I.P. - Drift the Reality), when I came across a link called Edge of the Lemon.  "What the f#$% is Edge of the Lemon?" I thought to myself.   As I clicked the link, I was suddenly filled with a wave of nostalgia, remembrance, panic and finally regret...sort of like coming across that carton of cottage cheese I hid in the back of the fridge just to find out it expired and got all stinky.  So here we are again, loyal readers (I think we're up to six now), with a long overdue edition of everyone's not so favorite blog thingy - Lemony Edginess (or something like that...I forget).  Anyway, sorry for being away for so long, but I'm sure you all found something else to bide your time...

First some updates:  M and the kids are doing well.  Lexy is growing at warp speed, Ayris and Ash are still trying to kill each other and Adler is just barely starting to learn to talk.  Ayris and I have been trying to teach Adler to speak by continuing to repeat words to him until he politely nods his head and quickly walks away.  Incidentally, the following is a list of words that start to sound really weird if you say them like 50 times in a row:  "daddy", "sister", "taco", "jedi", "funny", and "poop sandwich".

Before we dive right into the latest post, I need some closure on an issue that I have been working through over the past several weeks/months:

Everyone's favorite person, Mike Wheeler, and I have been doing a lot of interviewing lately for project managers to join our team.  We recently held a series of interviews for MBA graduates from some of the local colleges in the St Louis area.  Due to the time of the year and our busy schedules, someone thought it would be a good idea to schedule them all within a few days of each other (I don't recall the final number, but I remember I stopped counting after interviewing the 1,587th candidate).

As the discussions started to meld into each other, so did our interview questions.  I found my peers asking the same questions in tangent with my same questions throughout this entire series of interviews that never seemed to end.  I then started to think of Wheeler and how he would respond if he were asked a series of questions in an interview setting. 

The below is my interpretation of how that might happen, but instead of a job interview, I decided to make it more realistic and create a setting of a press conference (PLEASE NOTE:  I do not condone most of these as valid interview questions in a real job interview type setting...feel free to pass your own judgement on their quality/validity).

A friend of M's started reading this blog a little while back, and she recently asked, "who is this Mike Wheeler guy?"  Well Amy, I hope this post has helped answer that question for you...at least a little bit.

As for the rest of you, there is a little bit of Mike Wheeler in all of us...maybe...I don't know.  I'm just trying to figure out how to end this post with words of wisdom or something meaningful without it sounding campy or forced.  Oh wait, here's something - Mike Wheeler lives in all of us...something something...or perish! 

How was that?

In closing, I leave you all with my latest laugh inducing picture.  This one takes me all the way back to high school and a running gag that sometimes gets revisited still to this day:

Mr Ahlberg, I hope you are doing well...

-Cheers!