Quick request

[x_maker]

If anyone's going in or through the garage today, don't open the door to the shop. I'll be painting probably all morning, and this stuff is rather permanent if you get sprayed.

And I hope someone saved me some of the ice cream from last night's party. Why am I always the last to find out about these things?

Comments

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

That is truly amazing. Do you know for sure that it will work, or are you going to have to test it first?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Do I know...

It works. I've never had anything I've built not work. Unless I've suffered some great head injury I'm not aware of: I envision, I build, it works. That's just how it goes.

That's what my power does - mechanical intuition and comprehension are as much a sense to me as sight is to everyone else. I can look at a machine and tell you how it works or what's wrong with it, and I can turn that around and use what I know to build anything I can think of. Anthropologists say that one of the first tests for sentience in a species is independent development of tool use. Well, whatever part of the human brain figured that out, I have it times like a billion. Big Mutant Brain.

Does it work? Of course it works. I knew it'd work from the moment I put pen to paper figuring out the electrochemical ratios. Of course, I *did* test it beforehand, because occasionally chemistry is unpredictable.

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

So... it works. Understood. A simple "Yes, I know it will work" would have sufficed, but thank you for the detailed analysis of your power. I had been wondering what it was.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned the other day, I am rarely one for brevity.

[x-aerial.livejournal.com]

Your lack of brevity is hereby noted and appreciated in my "Things to Remember" list. As I said, I appreciated the description, I was simply surprised by its inclusion.