I started a TIG class over at local fab shop. It was pretty interesting. Nobody else showed up so it was a couple hours of one-on-one. The instructor went over the machine setup (pretty much like MIG) and we took a torch apart, sharpened the electrodes and practiced just making puddles in 16 guage steel over and over again. Then we did some work with the feed wire just pressing it into the puddle with no feed, then some dabbing of the feed wire to make the "stack of dimes" beads.
I was sent home with a piece of wire to practice feeding with left and right hands for next session. The smell of the process is pleasant to me- it's obviously similar to other electrical discharge machinery.