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[TimC340]

Good advice, I'm sure. However, it looks like I've already taken the long road.

Videos would be especially good for me; I'm 72 and have had arthritis all over my body since I was 25. Doctors at Yale told that my spine could fuse solid by the time I was 40. (Thank goodness, many drugs helped prevent that.) I'm glad that I tried to practice guitar 6 hours a day when I was high school. At one time, I could do construction projects like you, Tim. Keep on going while can. More power to you.

Stuart, I know I’m lucky to still be fit, mobile and have most of my marbles left after a life lived far too close to the edge in many ways (22 years military, motorcyclist, cyclist, and 22,000 hours in the air), though I do have my fair share of broken bits! I intend to keep going for many more years yet… Oh, and I still have a serviceable CZ-101!

 

[lokeyfly]

Yes. Taken to its limit, doing every dialog box results in the kind of help we used to get with early Microsoft products. Help for the Rename box would be virtually worthless, for example. I guess I would move the line more in that direction, though.


I had to look up GAS. Oh yeah! Been there. I have even been called a gearhead, but I'm nothing compared to some members of this group.

There was a time when I thought gear could make me better. I worked every summer in high school for my cousin's landscaping business for $1.50/hour. I saved every penny that I could, and in 1970 bought a 100 Watt Marshall stack - 1959 Super Tremolo top and 1960A and B bottoms. WOW! That was one punchy amp, but my 1966 Jazzmaster wasn't giving me the sound I wanted. So I bought a Gibson ES-340TDW later that year. Then I finally got a J-45 acoustic in the spring of 1971. Did it make me a great player. No, but it reminds me of something Ben Franklin said, "An educated fool is still a fool but speaks with better language."

And as anyone ever exhausted the creative capabilities of a Korg M1 or a Casio CZ-101? MUSIC WORKS THE MAGIC!!!
- s

Oh man, could we have a few beers around the campfire. Many of us acquired gear through the ages thinking that was our shell out to success. My first stack was a Custom Hi Watt 50 head, with two, 4 x 12" bottoms. That amp would tear your tonsil's out. Later, more acquisitions of an Amek TAC Scorpian, Tascam 48 with DBX, Revox A77 MkIV, Lexicon PCM 60's, Ensoniq, Akai, E-Mu, & Kurzweil samplers, etc, etc. Man, those prices added up, not to mention the Mac/PC's, SCSI drives, and praying to the SCSI gods that everything would work. 🕯
We share in the road to recovery. ; )

But we still get to make music, and survive a misspent youth.