Once when a friend of mine got married. I designed and sewed the bride's dress, baked and decorated the cake, and officiated at the ceremony. They're still married :-)
My mother-in-law once showed up at my door with a half-cooked duck in a plastic bag, because she didn't know how to cook it. I looked it up in my old Fanny Farmer (Boston Cooking School) Cookbook, and nobody got sick or said it was terrible.
I recently discovered that I am extremely good at making marzipan roses. When I first heard of the internet, someone said I needed to put my poetry and stuff on a webpage, so I bought a book and taught myself simple HTML.
I'm also a good cook (I enjoy improvising, but I don't ever want to see another half-raw duck again!), and I taught myself how to make various complicated foods and fancy pastries because I couldn't afford to buy them from the people who make them.
And like you, I'm pretty good at creative misuse of materials and hardware. And machinery likes me.
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Date: 2021-10-03 06:19 am (UTC)My mother-in-law once showed up at my door with a half-cooked duck in a plastic bag, because she didn't know how to cook it. I looked it up in my old Fanny Farmer (Boston Cooking School) Cookbook, and nobody got sick or said it was terrible.
I recently discovered that I am extremely good at making marzipan roses. When I first heard of the internet, someone said I needed to put my poetry and stuff on a webpage, so I bought a book and taught myself simple HTML.
I'm also a good cook (I enjoy improvising, but I don't ever want to see another half-raw duck again!), and I taught myself how to make various complicated foods and fancy pastries because I couldn't afford to buy them from the people who make them.
And like you, I'm pretty good at creative misuse of materials and hardware. And machinery likes me.