It was useful

I can remember 100 years ago (or thereabouts!) when I was in high school wondering if I was going to use what we just learned in real life. There were a ton of things that at the time I didn't see any real use for, but I did it to get the grade and get done. One of the classes I took in high school was auto shop. I like it so much, I took it for years eventually culminating in my Senior year taking Advanced Placement Auto Shop. This was basically the first couple hours in the morning using the resources of the school to work on our own cars. After school was out, I continued on becoming a software engineer and I began paying a mechanic to work on my car.

Well, I lost my mechanic recently. He found better employment in Canada and his wife is from Canada so he moved there. It left me with a hole. There is only one person who knows how to fix my Jeep (a 1985 Jeep CJ-10a...one of only 2500 or so made) so I was in trouble. I've taken it places to have the oil changed before and they couldn't even put the canister filter in correctly. Well, today I found out my time in AP Auto Shop was useful. I actually changed my own oil! I'm sure many of you who are handy aren't excited, but I certainly was excited when I was finally done and realized it wasn't that hard, and my time exposed to this so many years ago in school paid off!

Here's to clean oil!