According to the calendar, today is Thank Your Mentor Day! I plan on taking part in this little holiday, and you should too.
I want to thank my fellow mentors on #1720: Cheryl, Mike, Mark, Brad, Alan, Paul, Steve, Kurt, Brian, and Rick for doing such a bang up job with this new rookie team. That also includes fellow college mentors (Kevin, Andrew, and Jess).
And of course the mentors that got me enthused in the program in the first place: Mr. Bill, Marcy, Brian, Darrell, Cis, Richard, Judi, Randy, Dee, Tom, Jody, and Joe. I still have great team pride in my former team.
/edit: I also remembered this later... I want to thank Matt and John for their patience in teaching me to drive a stick shift. If there ever was a definition of 'mentoring', it would have been this situation. I now know what a clutch does and how the gears mesh and (in theory) how I (should) drive a stick, even though there was crying and driver-changing going on. Both of them are patient enough to teach me technical things, and that says a lot about their patience.
So who are your mentors, and why should you thank them?
This exercise in thanking the hand that teaches you brought to you by the Unsung FIRST Heroes Award. Have you thanked your mentor lately?