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If you follow the work, if you know the pain, if you hope for luck and the sense that it IS worth it in the end, then heroes help. Those who go first into the throat of the fire and the possibility of chaos deserve our gratitude and admiration. How else can one put their own struggles in perspective? I did not have to attempt this bolt today. Tim did. I did not have to hang upside down nor feel the numb desperation grow in the finger tips. Tim did. I did not have to feel the creeping acid of doubt, both for the self and for the project as a whole. Tim did. All I am saying Gentlemen and Lady is this photo of the side of an engine that Tim is installing looks like Dante was a suffering sailor and he got a snapshot off at the 7th level. Crossed threads and he has the chill in the cerebellum to step back and find the Tao. Good story about hard times folks, and for Mr. Lackey to take the time to document the artifacts and then write notes about the whole enterprise, well my hat is off and my glass is raised, Good Works Tim. Keep going for those of us who sit on the sidelines for now and practice our finger pointing gestures.
I definitely don't have that "chill in my cerebellum." Instead, I have an angry gorilla in my medulla oblongata. I would still get the cable attached. It's just that I would stand a good chance of causing irreparable harm in the process. So, Robert The Gray, is my way less good? Less noble? Is my path less worthy because it's strewn with "good enoughs" and foul language?
Ohhh...it is? Well, then, I'll just get my hammer and go then!
