Friday five on Sunday

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From thefridayfive:

1. What was a skill you were proud to learn as a kid?

   Cooking! I remember proudly writing down the recipe for Caesar salad in a little exercise book when I was probably still in elementary school, and rolling out a full meal of Indian food from Madhur Jaffrey's cookbook one summer Friday as a young teen.

2. What's something you used to be good at, but can't do any more?

   Contortions — I'm still pretty flexible but I have a shoulder that limits my ambition (and I'm middle-aged now).

3. What's something you haven't done in a long time, but you could pick it right back up again with some practice?

   Snarkily, as a manager: coding in SAS :) Maybe also downhill skiing, but I'd be worried about that shoulder again.

4. What can you teach others to do?

   I've gotten nice feedback on how I teach HTML and related geeky stuff. I have also taught D&D to a few people now.

5. What would you like to learn next?

   I think there's a lot of psychology, organization and productivity for me to learn. Maybe as much training those "muscles" as picking up wildly new skills.

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Do you still do the Madhur Jaffrey full Indian meal? I'd love to be a taste-tester! (I still miss the samosas that the other vegetarian in my office group used to bring in whenever we had a potluck)