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Very well thought out and said. Good job. Great analogy Laurie, I sometimes feel that my string of lights has one too many burned out bulbs. Especially when it comes to Paganini. Oh well... Great comparison!

You can do it--keep on practicing! (maybe you can put it on the site for us to hear when you've got it? Just an idea...heh!)

You have a very good way of setting goals. I was thinking along those lines when I switched from music to engineering in my early 20s, only literally. I saw programming, especially hardware programming, as a more satisfiying and easier way of doing what I was doing with music. You do it, and it's done. You can mull it over in an easy chair offline without all the dynamics. Plus it solves real world problems. And if you can remember back in the day it was no less sexy. Nice essay. I just re-read it and figured out the pun in the title.