Let me say this about DIY - DIY isn’t anything I’m doing by choice.
This is necessity and this is how I was raised.
There’s no one in my family that works for anyone else.
When I was a kid, when I wanted a new bike, my dad said let’s go to the metal yard and get some tubing, and we’ll make a frame.
You want a pool? Let’ go rent a Bobcat. Start digging.
That’s the way my life has always been.
You want something, you do it for yourself.
You know what you want better than anyone else.
— Kurt Ballou, interview on TapeOp magazine apr/may 2010