100 things I apparently should know how to do
Stolen from shewolff
Bold what you know how to do, in my case it'll be things I've done before also.
Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow (High HP car with RWD and All Seasons, making better progress than the 4x4 SUVs with snows)
3. Check trouble codes (hand held diagnostic tool makes this SO easy XD)
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car (Wax on, Wax off...)
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder (and a mig/tig welder along with oxy/acetylene torch, and a plasma cutter)
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car
^^^^ (most of this is basic Automotive shop stuff)
Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich (We don't call it that anymore, the correct name for it is the Modified "J" Thrust)
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR (I'd be a pretty shitty lifeguard if I couldn't do this)
13. Escape a sinking car (Not only can i escape one, I can get an unconscious person out of one too)
Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife (Can't say for sure, but I've probably used one and not realized it)
30. Prune bushes and small trees (With or without power tools?)
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper (The flapper is easy)
33. Change a single-pole switch (Probably)
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge (I've had to install one, fixing one shouldn't be much harder)
38. Sweat copper tubing (Basic Metal Works, grade 9)
39. Change a diaper (One of the first things you learn when you become a lifeguard is basic child care)
40. Grill with charcoal (Yes, but propane is still better)
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag (folding? I just shove it in the sail bag with the rest of the flags)
Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick
^^^^ Once again, basic first aid comes standard with the lifeguard certification
Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed (Making a bed to me is pulling the cover so they lie over the mattress)
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup (I used to be able to do them one armed, but yeah that was when i was swimming, biking and doing dryland training) 3 hours EVERY day)
Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe (rapids are KAYAK territory!)
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat (I've been sailing since I was 4, I think I know how to handle a boat)
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike (I've broken about 10 bikes... One is wrapped around a tree...)
56. Escape a rip current (In a boat or alone? I can do both)
Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water
Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornadoes (Root cellars are your friends)
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning
Teach Your Kids (No kids yet, this section doesn't apply to me)
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift (he got to shift while shitting next to me)
71. Parallel park (I dunno if I want to be around when he gets to that point!!)
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike
Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie (point and shoot, very easy)
80. Ditch your hard drive
Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges
Bold what you know how to do, in my case it'll be things I've done before also.
Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow (High HP car with RWD and All Seasons, making better progress than the 4x4 SUVs with snows)
3. Check trouble codes (hand held diagnostic tool makes this SO easy XD)
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car (Wax on, Wax off...)
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder (and a mig/tig welder along with oxy/acetylene torch, and a plasma cutter)
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car
^^^^ (most of this is basic Automotive shop stuff)
Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich (We don't call it that anymore, the correct name for it is the Modified "J" Thrust)
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR (I'd be a pretty shitty lifeguard if I couldn't do this)
13. Escape a sinking car (Not only can i escape one, I can get an unconscious person out of one too)
Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife (Can't say for sure, but I've probably used one and not realized it)
30. Prune bushes and small trees (With or without power tools?)
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper (The flapper is easy)
33. Change a single-pole switch (Probably)
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge (I've had to install one, fixing one shouldn't be much harder)
38. Sweat copper tubing (Basic Metal Works, grade 9)
39. Change a diaper (One of the first things you learn when you become a lifeguard is basic child care)
40. Grill with charcoal (Yes, but propane is still better)
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag (folding? I just shove it in the sail bag with the rest of the flags)
Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick
^^^^ Once again, basic first aid comes standard with the lifeguard certification
Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed (Making a bed to me is pulling the cover so they lie over the mattress)
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup (I used to be able to do them one armed, but yeah that was when i was swimming, biking and doing dryland training) 3 hours EVERY day)
Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe (rapids are KAYAK territory!)
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat (I've been sailing since I was 4, I think I know how to handle a boat)
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike (I've broken about 10 bikes... One is wrapped around a tree...)
56. Escape a rip current (In a boat or alone? I can do both)
Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water
Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornadoes (Root cellars are your friends)
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning
Teach Your Kids (No kids yet, this section doesn't apply to me)
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift (he got to shift while shitting next to me)
71. Parallel park (I dunno if I want to be around when he gets to that point!!)
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike
Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie (point and shoot, very easy)
80. Ditch your hard drive
Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges