I never thought I'd go skeet shooting in my lifetime. But this week my department took vendors/customers out on various activities and one of them was skeet shooting, and I decided I would like to try it out. The weather was awful and it rained all day, so instead of going through the course (15 stations), we did the 5-round. The location was very nice. I decided it was worth getting wet to try it out, and I also thought that I would never hit anything. I used a 20-gauge shotgun and starting hitting clays from the easier launch point after 3 or 4 tries. I only shot 25 rounds because the gun hurt my shoulder (from the kick back). And one of the employees loaded my gun each time since I am a newbie. It was fun. After playing around with the pellet gun in my backyard (still trying to thin the chipmunk population), I decided I like shooting guns, so clays are nice since I'm not killing anything. I'd like to try quail hunting, though, since it is one game meat that I would like to eat.

The industry I work in has increasing numbers of females in the past several years, but it still feels very much like a boys club. I didn't think I'd be able to schlepp with people since I have zero interest in football of any kind, but being athletic has made up for that. But I still hate golf.