I'm deeply indebted to the people at The Greasepit in Minneapolis, who I never really became close with (this is a theme with me and Minneapolis, but that's another story) and who I've lost touch with entirely, but who treated schooling a kid who was kind of dumb but was willing to just dive in with a hexdriver in each hand (me) as a solemn duty bestowed by their heavy metal deities. That place deserves its own tl;dr, really, but it'll suffice here to say that they changed my whole relationship with moving parts.
Which is to say, self-help often requires outside-of-self-help first, and I was lucky to find it. I have no idea how to pay that forward (especially since I'm aware of nothing around here that even resembles the Greasepit), but I'd like to, someday. Nine is a whole lotta flats. o_o
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Date: 2010-03-20 05:25 am (UTC)I'm deeply indebted to the people at The Greasepit in Minneapolis, who I never really became close with (this is a theme with me and Minneapolis, but that's another story) and who I've lost touch with entirely, but who treated schooling a kid who was kind of dumb but was willing to just dive in with a hexdriver in each hand (me) as a solemn duty bestowed by their heavy metal deities. That place deserves its own tl;dr, really, but it'll suffice here to say that they changed my whole relationship with moving parts.
Which is to say, self-help often requires outside-of-self-help first, and I was lucky to find it. I have no idea how to pay that forward (especially since I'm aware of nothing around here that even resembles the Greasepit), but I'd like to, someday.
Nine is a whole lotta flats. o_o