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kcthedog  | | posted 15-Jul-2008 10:57pm |
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| kcthedog | | posted 15-Jul-2008 10:58pm |
Opps! |
they    | | posted 15-Jul-2008 11:01pm |
My job. I know the ins and outs. I know the secrets. I know what I'm not even supposed to know.
I like the knowing. I just hate the doing. |
| ausfox | | posted 16-Jul-2008 1:54am |
I'm good at mathematics, but I don't like it |
Melf  | | posted 16-Jul-2008 3:18am |
Essay writing, but it's not too bad, I suppose. |
bill  | | posted 16-Jul-2008 7:24am |
moderator or judge |
| Cain | | posted 16-Jul-2008 7:38am |
I take pleasure from anything I can do well. Even the menial stuff. |
gambler  | | posted 16-Jul-2008 9:18am |
I dont think so........ |
| Enheduanna | | posted 16-Jul-2008 12:00pm |
No, I mostly enjoy the things I'm good at. |
cloudhugger  | | posted 16-Jul-2008 1:57pm |
Yes. I excell at a few things, but I'd rather not do them anymore. I can take things apart like nobody's business.
There are things that others think I excell at, but I don't think I am that good at, but the ones htat think I am so good at it keep volunteering me for the jobs.  There are things I want to excell at, but suck at it, but I keep doing them because I like them.
I'm finding I don't want to do a whole lot of anything anymore, I want to do different things now. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 16-Jul-2008 5:59pm |
Yes housekeeping grrr i will just look at it and all my experience as a housekeeper i do not bother with at home |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 16-Jul-2008 6:03pm |
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| Kristal_Rose | | posted 17-Jul-2008 5:02am |
At the moment, inspiring the survey, it's restoring old appliances. Most of the cleaning and polishing of this old drill press is over, and now it's rebuilding the wiring and soon greasing, adjustment, and assembly. Perhaps it's labor which doesn't involve constant creativity and analysis which I don't care for. But, I'll be getting a clasic drill press worth hundreds for $70 and three evenings work. |
| Kristal_Rose |
I spent a decade restoring cars two decade ago. I dragged my foot so much on restoring a car I bought a few years ago though that I finally just sold it when it was nearly mechanically finished (aesthetic restoration was my specialty). It wasn't any sort of rewarding challenging adventure anymore, just a chore, not like the hybrid (flying?) moped project I've been collecting parts for. |
| Matty | | posted 17-Jul-2008 8:02am |
I play the piano pretty well; I took lessons for 5 years as a kid. But I don't enjoy it because whenever you play in front of people they expect you to sing as well. I won't sing...ever. |
| cloudhugger |
Right now, I am sort of inbetween needing the new challenges and seeing them become better and better, and not really wanting to learn new things. I learned some things from the past twenty years, I'm putting them all together...I am content with being focused on this, but toss in things like a new lap top or having to use a digital camera, new firends, a new part time job and new opportunities every week, things tend to get a bit bunched up. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Matty) posted 17-Jul-2008 9:30am |
Really!? They expect you to sing 
I'm having my piano moved into the house I am at, I have been wanting to take some piano lessons...but OMG if people expect me to sing! And what if someone else plays it in the house, I bet I'd be expected to sing because it's my piano...it might have to stay in the yard |
| Matty |
Whenever anyone asks me to play, I get that look...it says what the fudge are you waiting for? How can you play Private Dancer without singing it? You can't be the Piano Man without singing. Don't you now that?
Yes, it's usually that awkward. My closest friends get it; they just don't like it. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Matty) posted 17-Jul-2008 9:41am |
What if you couldn't play unless someone sang. Try "Only if someone sings!!" Toss in a couple of these  , and maybe that would stop that bizarre behaviour. |
| Matty |
Yeah, you could try that, but I could almost guarantee that in an effort just to get you to play, some one will say,"Oh, that doesn't really matter, just play; we would love to hear you. Wouldn't we, Rick and Susie?" |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Matty) posted 17-Jul-2008 9:54am |
gaak, I am so sorry. I hope it's not a thing here in Illinois. although I am close to Chicago, it's pretty much country where I am at. Maybe folks just don't do that here...I hate to sing in public, or even to myself.
! I could teach the dog to howl so loud no one will hear me sing!! |
| Matty |
Or you could opt to do a strip-tease on top pf your piano...nobody would worry about how you sing then. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Matty) posted 17-Jul-2008 2:48pm |
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| Matty |
Honestly, I would rather strip than sing. If I stripped, people would think I just being a little more crazy than ususal. I would feel more naked singing that actually naked. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to Matty) posted 17-Jul-2008 2:56pm |
That's funny lol |
| Kristal_Rose |
I'm trying to put my talents to productive use designing musical instruments, but I still can't resist learning new areas weekly. If I'm really distracted I'll research bee-keeping or something. |
| Kristal_Rose |
You need an award there for communication skill using emoticons. |
| aquawolfy | | posted 17-Jul-2008 6:06pm |
I am the cat whisperer....
help!! theyre everywhere!!!! |
| cloudhugger |
bill will not give us any new ones, so I have to really utilize the few we have. One of these days I'll have a combo that will actually be just like I am there talking with my hands. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to aquawolfy) posted 17-Jul-2008 8:11pm |
those aren't yours, are they!!? |
| Kristal_Rose |
What we need are chatbot avatars where we can program facial expressions using keyboard and mouse dragging, to roll those eyes just right, or drag the tongue in an exacting manner. |
| cloudhugger |
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| Kristal_Rose |
I was close to developing such a product but then other priorities came up. It's mostly a huge amount of graphics work more than a programming challenge. |
| cloudhugger |
I'll bet. I just like to push buttons. |
| Jody | | posted 18-Jul-2008 10:33am |
I'm really good at tedious, meticulous jobs. |
| LindaH | | posted 18-Jul-2008 12:23pm |
Cleaning the house |
| aquawolfy |
no... they my best friends........ aren't they adorable??!!!! Her other cat just had a litter of pure whites!! ........... but seriously everywhere I go.... Cats!!!!!!! |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to aquawolfy) posted 18-Jul-2008 7:04pm |
krazybirdlady is your best friend. Cute kitties. Do the birds get along with them ok? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to aquawolfy) posted 18-Jul-2008 7:43pm |
I once bought a used vacuum cleaner entirely full of white cat fur. The kitten looking up with the blue eyes looked quite promising. |
| jindalmeenakshi9 | | posted 20-Jul-2008 10:43am |
Sometimes you cannot do everything you want to do due to engaged in more important activites of your daily schedule. I want to change it but the materialistic frame of mind does not allow me to do so. May be some day the artistic or creative soul will rule over the money matters and I will attain that freedom..... |
| Kristal_Rose |
9? You don't wish to be confused with the other jindalmeenakshi's here?
There will always be something more you think you need more money for, like a wall TV or a new septic system for the vacation cabin. There are ways to live almost comfortably on half of minimum wage to spend time on creativity, or there's willing to so succeed with creativity that it pays well. Unless you produce nothing at all, making money is about making money (marketing), not what you do to make the money. |
| penguin388 | | posted 20-Jul-2008 10:57pm |
Yes but I can't say what. |
| Kristal_Rose |
Bobbing your head, perhaps? |
| LindaH | | posted 21-Jul-2008 8:54pm |
Remaining nice when people are being self-righteous, ignorant or lazy. |
| docgbrown | | posted 25-Jul-2008 5:18am |
1. Yes; I cannot tell you what the notes mean or are called but ever since I was very young I could 'read' sheet music and hear it in my mind. Growing up I used to use that to quickly learn unfamiliar music I was supposed to sing (I was always in choirs and choral groups). Since Iraq, music makes my ears ring painfully so I avoid music and thus this 'talent' is useless to me
2. I can sing opera music well (I've 'got the pipes') but I don't like opera (or any music).
3. I can read and get through the driest and boring manuals/texts ever made like a novel. I don't like it but it has helped my career and made me more well rounded.
4. Cooking. Until I was married I had no idea how good I really was. I guess my mother taught me much better than my mother in law taught my wife. After we got married, I had to teach her a lot more than I realized I knew. Many years later she is much better than before but everyone that has tasted both still prefers my cooking. Poor sons, I hate to cook. |
| docgbrown | | (reply to aquawolfy) posted 25-Jul-2008 5:27am |
I'm the same way with cats (and most animals) but have always been happy with that knack. There was a time, when I was very young, that I never met a cat I couldn't befriend |
| aquawolfy |
they in separate parts of the house..... Birdies get a whole sunroom and backyard all to themselves!!!!!!!!! |
| aquawolfy |
o.O
whoa.... |
| aquawolfy | | (reply to docgbrown) posted 30-Jul-2008 7:57pm |
aww how cute! |
| docgbrown | | (reply to aquawolfy) posted 1-Aug-2008 2:59am |
*blushing* Thanks |
Yes SEX!
