i ran into bob in between shoots during my residency at cold spring harbor lab and he took pity on me dragging all my gear around alone in the middle of the summer heat and helped me carry some of it. it turns out bob had lived for a while in the same LA neighborhood i grew up in, and he also seemed to appreciate my estimation of carpentry/mechanical skills as being equivalent to a superpower. at this point in my life, with the utter lack of any ability to build anything very well, and the certainty i have that attempting to do so would result in the loss of at least one, if not more, of my favorite fingers (really, any of them) i've given up on that particular skill. so i view those with a gift for carpentry as possessing a certain level of superpower. you can build a cabinet? that's magic, man.    
 
         

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