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or a small home improvement project, we decided to buy some lumber: On the spot I decided to afford myself a genuine jigsaw. Since Black & Deckers were out of stock, I was offered the Skil (shown above) jigsaw.
While I’m not really into home improvement (which has most of to do with the fact that my job as a programmer somehow seems to create the myth that I’m a complete dud with power tools), I would say I actually don’t mind doing particular wood piece work. As a kid I used to do wood sawing projects at school. Later on, part of the cirriculum of a particular school, I attented a 4 hour class per week called ‘Algemene technieken’ (which translates into ‘General techniques’). You know, those where the sessions even the smartest of the smartest of the class had to attend, to learn the practical skills of making soup from scratch (cooking), creating candle holders (metal working) and making gazillions of bookstands (wood working). I will (and dare) not to mention which kinds of things we made during sowing lessons.
At that age, I must have predetermined that wood working was not meant for me, because there was a talent for math and other scientific stuff in me, and as I told in the previous paragraph, I ended up to become so a programmer. Quite a difference in life I would have had, if I had actually enjoyed cutting stuff out of wood.
Maybe I just got tired of cutting bookstands. Yeehaw.