lindilou
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robertgrist
Best answer!
My favorite game state is “poverty". It inspires all of my creativity to rise-up and slay the dragon of my impoverished state. Overcoming obstacles that stand in my way to coax dollars from the clenched fists of the wealthy. The easy life of modest means and simple day to day dolldrums inviting sleep and idleness…forgetting those days of strident effort until death creeps into the door to disturb your rest no more. I would rather go to tasks of my own choosing, living life on the ragged edge of reality where every step is toward that goal that leads but to another. …and treasury, I have mine in Heaven.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 21 | |
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robertgristI repaired appliances late and small for twenty years and did quite well by it. I made boats under 30 feet and rigging. I mended fish nets as a child and shelled oysters. I have produced electronic parts, prototypes for industry and precision stamp dyes for the jewelry industry. Produced automated equipment to produce tofu and a nut sheller for macadamia nuts. Produced an optical XY acetylene cutting table to cut Caterpillar Tractor gears automatically from a line drawing. Sonic dog repeller for the Post Office. and on and on and on and on.
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lindilou:
Sounds like there's an inventor in the house!!Gotta love a mind like that!Sounds like a bit o' maritimer in there too....grab the tackle!!!!Thanx for sharing this robertgrist!
Bob/PKB
I can't do much that others can't do just as well or better. Possibly the one thing that might be a little different is play the piano, so I could accompany a soloist or choir; perhaps even give basic piano lessons. I could also:
Clean your house. Take out the trash. Sort the recycling.
Weed your garden. Mow the lawn. Rake the leaves
Take care of the babies, infants, toddlers, youth, teen.
Tutor, Teach, Coach, and Counsel
Laundry and Ironing
Chauffeur
Deal Blackjack :D
Make earrings
Basic electrical
Listen and Provide a shoulder to lean/cry on.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 29 | |
jhharlan
FISH-O
I am an artist and a potter... I grow vegetables and herbs. I learned to sew from a master seamstress and I can cook like a gourmet chef. I also know a lot about domestic animals and nutrition. I can fix a lot of unfixable things and I problem solve very well.
I think some of these talents may be of some use.
I also have a brain filled with weird facts... I have no idea why they are stuck there but they are.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 25 | |
Chiangmai
Besides sex, I cannot think of anything right now.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 23 | |
doolittle
Medically I can assess what is going on and read lab reports and most radiology films accurately. First Aid and CPR will be taken care of. Opening and cleaning wounds and choosing the correct antibiotics can be done with some assistance and a PDR. I can start most and manage all intrarvenous access sites, feeding tubes, ostomy sites and catheters. I can maintain a trach site and the trach tube itself. I can offer birth control classes, prenatal care, safe labor for mom and baby, vaginal deliveries, and care of Mom and babies. Deliver chemo and hospice care to cancer patients. maintain a chest tube. I can 1st assist, circulate, and pass instruments in an OR. I can place stitches..though one of our sewers would be able to do this better than I. staple wounds. Deliver twilight anesthesia. Deliver all oral, IV and rectal medications (except for a few cardiac meds- which I could do in a pinch). Administer medicines and perform vagina cervical inseminations for infertility patients...In short we would need to borrow an anesthesiologist and surgeon and transfer unstable cardiac patients and those who need kidney dialysis. and I can not give radiation for onc patients, or perform Radiologist tests (dont know how to use the machines). Outside of our "clinic" I can sail and use powerboats, canoes, kayaks, row boats, and rafts. I can swim. Though Im not licensed for anything but cars I can drive just about everything- though Collen is the best pick along with west-bus to drive trucks. I like the little kids and teenagers though teaching some subjects I would fall short..I cook a little, hate to clean, and love arts and crafts. I used to be a good shot with a rifle and am fair with a bow an arrow. *********BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY: I CAN COMMUNICATE WITH ANIMALS************************** (In order for me to do a lot of this we will have to aquire pain medication, muscle relaxants and, etc.- but that should not be an issue as I will list everyones medications and barter for them before bartering for clinic supplies.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 22 | |
fjoel
Ilike to sew. I could do mending repairs or make clothing.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 22 | |
daren1
I got a pretty good aim...other than that i guess i'm going hungry...lol
| 12 years ago. Rating: 21 | |
Daren you could help with akaQAs 'homeland security' and teach us about the proper use of firearms & how to clean them. This will be important if some thugs come into our site..I mean onto our property trying to take our goods!
ed shank
Don't want to put anyone to sleep, but there is nothing that I have ever made an effort to do, that I was not successful at. My problem has always been that reguardless of what I was doing, I eventually got bored with it and tried something else. Money was never the motivating factor to move on to something new.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 21 | |
Headless Man
Disabled handyman............lol
I could do about anything mechanical, electrical or plumbing when I was able, adviser I guess.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 19 | |
Shootah
padovenick
clu
hector5559
I could wire up your 3pin plug top.and hang your chanderlier,
| 12 years ago. Rating: 14 | |
p.s. How's the Bulldog? ;)
Vinny
Music performance, Cooking.. I can't think of anything else, I am in sales so that's usless, I am in marketing - That too is useless. So I know people will always need to eat and music will be with us for eternity, or at least until the Mayans prediction comes true this year.. :)
| 12 years ago. Rating: 14 | |
bustieone
I would raise the animals and help with the gardening, providing firewood, repairs to facilities, training of vocational agriculture, if that would help at all. I do all this for food and beer...
| 11 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
coolandy2000
I did trade food for English lessons just to keep the daughter fed while having to camp out in a friends sitting room until the tenants left. I also traded a caftan for a Gramaphone head (How to spell . The word above "Gramaphone" is the correct spelling for the word. It is very easy to misspell a word like Gramaphone, American gramophone) because it was in a flea market in California. So you can trade many things or gadgets or services for something else. It's the needs and wants that count and yes, you can omit sex.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
country bumpkin
LOL, I can shut one eye and keep one eye open without squinting!
| 11 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
eloninete
i can turn the light swich on and off, for you would you take me, please
| 12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
dowsa
I am very good at "Crawling ! Not much of a talker .Would like to be alas to "Shy" I can "Sing" like a Canary! in the "Jail house Colleen was the warden with her two little dogs as "Security Guards" She taught me the "Birdie song being a Bird owner. She liked to Whip me with her "Rhythm Stick" Tweet Tweet .
| 12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
digger
I'm no domestic fix-it guy. Anything that doesn't quite run properly will be rendered totally useless if I get my hands on it,especially plumbing. That's why I call the experts in whenever domestic house duties are needed. Besides, it's good for the local economy.
However, show me a business that is under-performing or next to bankruptcy, and I'm in my element. I've been doing it for many years and still find it motivating. Once the mission is accomplished, I move onto the next. There is never a shortage.
Need a paint job ? Sorry, I have a ball game to attend.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
zorro
gloriafrmCal
I can sew, fairly good cook. Can keep up my end of conversation. Given a manual an a lot of time and of course the right tools can fix most things around house. And I love to make up stories. I feel I'm grasping at straws. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change! yes i am praying.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
I think we should all live together in one big mansion like a big extended family.
| 11 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
lindi: I didn't know about your daughter. This is a difficult time for the two of you. Hugs, sis. : ) <3 <3
We have just started our search of Yreka. Do I sound confused?
Fresno: Our PG&E was $400. Air and water are BAD. Crime is terrible. Yreka looks safe and would be a place where I could drive.
This plan will probably stay in our minds as something we want to do but can not do. Don't know. Thinking. I haven't checked but I can well imagine that housing is not expensive like on the coast. Moving has always been fairly simple for us. We're kinda gypsies. : )
lambshank
I can develop individual programs to assist people, assess there value and report, I can help anyone with a physical or developmental disability, I can develop strategies and intervention techniques, I like to cook and garden also, but I dare say if I had the time I could be fairly self sufficient, not much good at mechanical repairs though, but would be happy to swap a car service for a meal or some fruit and veg.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
Let's talk! :D
PANDA
" Since I have to leave out (SEX) ! that rules me out ." " BUMMER" . :(
| 12 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
itsmee
I think I’d have a group of women who would discuss the problems of the day. Each would bring their best hints. We'd discuss job ideas. Cheap, nutritious cooking, keeping a clean environment.. Each week we’d have a different topic for discussion.
To make $$, I’d open my home to a preschool, daycare again. The kids have to go somewhere when both parents work. It’s good money ... but who knows what good money would mean if the money runs dry.
I could help out doctors and emergency rooms.
Good good question lindilou/
Update: 8/06/2013
I’d organize a neighborhood watch. I’d open my house for discussions about how to go forward. We’d figure out what the needs of our small community are and help in that way. Each person has skills. We’d use them for the good of all.
| 11 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
bigben
Alas, none what so ever. It's been a constant trial my whole life.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
Tommyh
Intersection
I live with a mental illness.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
