I have just been to the garden center. "I need to buy a rose" - "What kind of rose?" - "No idea, I was sent by my wife, who was tasked by her boss to buy a rose as a gift. Don't ask me for details, I'm just the bottom of the totem pole."
During the Covid Pandemic I was stuck at home and started playing around with 3D printing and microcontrollers.
My most useful achievement from that is designing and making a battery powered automated plant watering system (still have a bunch of circuit boards, little water pumps and components around to assemble more).
Having outsourced the plant watering to a machine, my indoor plants don't die anymore.