8/13/11 The opportunity to use some rusty skills

You are just wandering through life, more or less following your path, when all of a sudden, you hear a request for help from someone. She needs help with something, and you realize that you have just the right skills for the job, but it would require reaching back through time, and dusting off the tools in a remote section of your brain. What do you do? Reach and dust and help. That's what. The other day someone requested that a little blurb be translated into French, and I just jumped right in. Wishing I had more descriptive language, finding that online dictionaries and idiomatic translations serve well. Now I'm translating a blurb a day, at about 40 minutes a pop, getting some experience in something I love to do.