Hi Paul,

Always nice to hear from you. Let me take this opportunity to say "welcome back, Chas" and here's hoping that you're feeling better.

I never really had much to say on the forum. Too many posts are about technical stuff and they don't interest me at all plus no one gives a hoot what I have to say anyway. Ain't that the truth. Ha! Ha!

There are those that post post after post and seem to practically live on the forum. They either have too much time on their hands or are so bored that they can't think of doing anything else. That's rather boring to me.

I've found myself slowly withdraw from the forum. Mind you, I've never been a very active member, but I like to keep myself busy with other things besides music...or spending all day on the forum. Perhaps your friends -and yourself- have found other interests as well. You do have an interest in old grammophone players, don't you? Sometimes we have to give up something in order to gain something.

Lately I've found a renewed interest in the Chinese Classic "Spring and Autumn Period". And my language studies are an ongoing thing. I simply don't have time to feel bored.

"What you may be describing here is a process that most of us go through until the day we pack it in; it's called MATURING. As we mature, our perspectives change, our interests change, and although our basic mindset and value system may stay largely intact, the little actionable bits that actually determine what we do, also change. Our humanness makes us hope that those changes are for the better, that as we get 'older and wiser', we become better people."

So true, Chas.

Okay, all I said has nothing to do with the thread but I just felt like saying it. Ha! Hope you don't mind, Paul.

Taike

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Bo pen nyang.