Hi Again Friends and Thanks for more welcoming cassp!
Scotyee - I get up to Berkeley every other year or so for 'The Hard Nut' (Special Nutcracker Suite performance). Watch out for Santana Row during shopping season eh - pretty nutz, I just walk over.
keybplayer - I haven't been to San Diego for a bit - down the Grapevine - but our daughter went to school and we would hang out - very beautiful.
tony mads - True enough California is very beautiful & cool but I'm from the 'Best Coast' too having spent a lot of time in Virginia and Mass (can't spell it anymore - it's been a while). Visited NYC a few times - never RI though, still got time I think!
Anyway - good of you folks not to throw stones since I strum my instrument and my keyboard playing is more like typing

But glorious arrangers - that's where it's at for me ! Gives my wife and me a chance to play & sing...