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Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car

i also know the size of my tires off hand, what brand and how many fractions of a 32" tread is safe. i can change my air filters and check every fluid level accessible to me. you'd be surprised how many people can't do that stuff.


Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

i can suction a trach, replace a g-tube and could possibly replace the trach, though i've only observed at this point. i can also do a great tourniquet withough causing residual damage.

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
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

hang drapery rods, search for studs, install plumbing fixtures, snake the drain, install shelving, assemble furniture in a timely manner, lay Pergo flooring, install quarter-round, use the air-nail gun.


Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick


Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup


Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight I'm learning and finally getting better
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current


Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water I can make water potable, does that count?


Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Hurricanes. I can survive those.

Teach Your Kids
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
71. Parallel park
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
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

i can identify some of these... just using them throws me off a bit.

i think i'm pretty well rounded.

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