You’re going to (hopefully) spend the rest of your life with this person. Have a conversation with them like a goddamn adult and get her exactly what she wants with an agreed upon budget.

The only classes I would ever consider taking are, in no particular order:
1) Electronics Repair
2) Auto Repair
3) Woodworking

They’re things I’d like to be able to do in real life, and that I’d probably know how to do in real life if budgets hadn’t been slashed in my high school my freshman year.

I've lived in cubicle land for a long time. There is only one way to deal with a PA blocker (someone who is impeding your project progress), show unforgiving assertiveness. State the facts and speak firmly when you speak with them. If they pull a PA move in a conversation, counter with a fact correction in an…

"You haven't been yourself lately."