Journal nizo's Journal: Behold! For I am the master of my underwear drawer 14
I am the master of my underwear drawer. Socks go in there too. And other random little things that I don't want to lose (like my checkbook for example). Nothing ever gets folded, and there is no reason to pair the socks, since they are all the same. My drawer has survived one marriage and who knows how many relationships; it is indeed the last bastion of my bachelorhood, and the ultimate incarnation of my lazy disorganization.
Sam's recent lamenting about not being a master of anything got me thinking; aside from my mastery of my underwear drawer, what am I good at? Aside from ending sentences with prepositions, I am good with computers (hardware, linux, some web stuff, etc). I don't really feel like a master, though I know enough to know where to look to get anything done that I need to (augggh not again). I have probably forgotten more computer stuff than most people will ever know (or need to know). I write well, and I am pretty good at problem solving; I often think of solutions that no one else does (which can be good or bad depending on how dumb my solution is
As for Sam, keep in mind I envy you the following:
- a degree in English; if I had any degree I would be happy, but an English degree means I would probably go be an editor or something (and probably hate it even worse than what I do now, but that is another topic). Regardless, don't discount what it took to get a damn degree.
- the ability to play an instrument well.
I am sure there is more, but I have already spent too much time on this journal entry already
So to carry on the theme, what do you do well?
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Music (Score:3, Insightful)
As someone once said, "If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly." Sage advice, that.
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Not answering your question (Score:1)
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I am amazingly not bad at pretty much everything (except for anything musical and Calculus where I am just really bad). I'm vaguely competent in many things as well.
There is one thing I might potentially be extremely good at, but it's one of those skill sets that only my husband enjoys so I don't kow if that counts ;) He'll vouch for me though...
mario kart double dash (Score:2)
my kids seem pleased with me as a dad, but they don't have anything to compare it to, so who knows.
i'm really good at annoying my wife. often i don't even have to try and yet i succeed.
oh- when i'm sweating a lot, then i sit down, and the sweat is dripping off my nose to the ground. i'm pretty good at gett
I change the world (Score:2)
Seriously, though, I've been doing this Changing The World thing since I was 14, first with a TV show on alternative energy choices, then with the whole recycled paper thing for magazines, then printing government papers and bills on two sides of the page, then ramping up recycled paper usage in government purchases and contracts to 5, 10, 15, 20 percent (some idealists wanted to go from 0 to 25 percent, but there were n
First Person Shooter Games (Score:1)
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I am really good at... (Score:2, Funny)
Crazy good at it. Actually, I am good at lawn sports in general, but I am a master at croquet.
Skating. (Score:1)
Having said that, I believe the last of the Spruance class ships was decommissioned just recently.
I guess that means I'm not good at anything any more. <sniffle>
I do time keeping well (Score:2)
I wrote my own program. Every six minutes, it pops up and asks me where the time went - the results are auto-added to my calendar. I wrote a script to pull the current accounting codes out of the database using an ODBC interface. I wrote a VBScript applet to export the calendar to a .csv file. I wrote programs to crunch that data into a timesheet (including overtime calcs) AND a project time billing system. (When that p