We made a lot of steel ingots. It is perhaps not enough to make a winnebago, but enough to make many things. It was enough for me to make an umbrella.

I wrote recipes for the ideas that made the idea. I wrote a recipe for steel rods, another recipe for steel hinged joints, another for steel tubes. I made all the parts, then wrote another recipe that used all the parts plus some hempen cloth and some maple lumber to make an umbrella. Adjusting the number of shards I needed took time. But in the end it worked. I had an umbrella that would open and close.

It would not stop rain, though. Husband used the garden hose to spray water in the air, and I stood under the falling water with my umbrella. It did not hit me all at once as the thunderstorm did. But it did leak through the cloth and drip on me. So now I have a recipe for an umbrella that does not block rain. Perhaps it is a parasol for the sun.

Husband said things about tightness of weave and "surface tension". He suggested I try using latex and the hempen cloth to make what he called "rubberized burlap". So, a new recipe for rubberized burlap and another recipe for the umbrella to use it. That umbrella did block water. And the rubberized burlap might also work for clothing that does not get wet.

As I worked making the recipes for the different parts, I thought about what Husband said about how things we make are ideas we have. I thought about how he makes the panels for the shed, how he starts with boards and measures and marks and cuts. He does not make recipes for the boards in the size and shape he needs. He cuts pieces off of boards until they are the right size. We do not do this with Eorzea crafting. We have wood, we do our crafting, and we have a thing made of wood. We do not have bits of wood left over.

With the umbrella I was making a number of steel rods. The rods that would make up the umbrella would be different sizes, but the rods I made were the same size. If what Husband said was true, I was making the idea of a steel rod that would go into the umbrella. Once in the umbrella, the rod would be whatever size was needed. As would the cloth and the lumber.

After testing the umbrella that worked, I made more parts and made another umbrella. Then another. I felt how the umbrellas worked. I watched the rods move and the hinged joints hold and the cloth stretch.

And then I wrote a recipe for an umbrella that involved steel and cloth and wood without the parts. Because I had the idea of an umbrella that worked, and I wanted the steel and cloth and wood to be formed into that idea. And the recipe worked. And the umbrella was exactly like the other three I made.

I am a crafter. I craft. Perhaps I craft umbrellas. Perhaps I craft recipes for umbrellas. Perhaps I craft ideas that go into recipes for umbrellas.

I am a crafter, and a gatherer, and a cleaner, and an innkeeper, and a bouncer. I am many things here. I was many things in Eorzea too, but they were different things.

In Eorzea I was a fighter, and an explorer. I was an adventurer. And while living in this world is a sort of adventure, it is not the sort of adventure I am used to.

Perhaps it is enough of an adventure. I have Husband, I have a world to explore, I have things about myself that I have not yet discovered.

Perhaps I also need something to fight.