Experiments in awesome

Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Sacha Chua

The long weekend gave us plenty of opportunities to pursue projects. W- set up his new negative scanner and hired J- to scan her baby pictures. He also roasted the turkey we’d stashed in the freezer last Christmas, and I helped prepare other meals for this week. I sewed a shopping bag using floral canvas and blue bias tape, made chicken pot pie from scratch (including the pie crust!), and experimented with making these delightful mini apple pies using honey crisp apples. The pie crusts I made using the food processor turned out nice and flaky. By golly, I think I’m getting the hang of it.

Sometimes I wonder if I should spend my unstructured time building something that scalably creates value instead of developing skills that focus on our immediate, local experience. There’s always more to write, more to code, more to explore. Why spend time, money, and energy learning how to make things that can be easily and cheaply bought?

But I enjoy making things, and I love experimenting with making things that suit our lives. I’m working on the hobbies I’d like to enjoy in ten years.

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Rick Innis

Why spend time, money, and energy learning how to make things that can be easily and cheaply bought?

Because what you make will usually be better, on some qualitative level, than what you buy.
http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua

Absolutely. =) Yay home-made food!

And you get the extra warm-and-fuzzies from knowing that you made it, and that you’ll still be okay during the zombiepocalypse.

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