I've always been kind of a passable mechanic. I could make a speeder bike
go again after I ran it up against a tree or dropped it too low over the river or it sat for a week in the humidity after the shed cooling unit busted. I could figure out what was wrong with our fueling pump, which was a couple years older than I was, and get it chugging. I could do emergency patch jobs on most starfighters, and a little more with the right droid. But I was never one of those guys who looked at the inside of an engine and figured I could make it
better. I always had a friend or two who fit that mold: my best friend in school who had some new switch on her skiff's console every week, something she'd rigged up just for fun - just because she could - just to show off, most of the time. The guys who would put all their pride and joy in getting just a little more out of yachts, in having the absolute best of everything running under the deck.
Mechanic is good work, I like it, I'm pretty good at it - but looking around the shop always makes me think of those people who would look at this same stuff and get inspired - and whip something up I'd never even have thought of. A lot of them were
a lot, if you know what I mean, but they were all impressive. And it's a good drive, I think. To want to push past what things as
supposed to do, and find what's next.
[ STEVE HARRINGTON & FINN ]You guys are next on my tour of people's couches I'm crashing on. You have couches, right?