Skimask, there for a minute I was looking for a lamb to slaughter. Your words made me ssshhhhiiiivvvverrrr... no wait... I had my had on the fuse block. Made me think I should be naked with lit candles all around, sitting on a rough stone floor with my legs crossed...

but then I came to my senses... and went back to watching Opra.

I do this stuff as a hobby... It allows me to play at work once in a while. Mostly I'm a mechanical guy. I've designed lots of machines with electronics guru's doing my bidding. **evil laugh**

I especially liked hearing my electronics co-worker, guru, companion, best friend... comment that when we finished designing and building a machine, everyone would coo and ahh about how cool the machine (that I designed!) looked and worked. He said nobody appreciated his work... the electronics inside the machine that made all of those things play.

I said to him, "That's because electronics are SUPPOSED to work."

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

He was a good sport! And he taught me pretty much everything I know about electronics. I'm nowhere near his level. I don't pretend to be. The little I know allows me to piddle with processors and programming. That's enough. I'm happy.

I don't wear a watch cause everyone else wears one. I don't own a cell phone cause in an emergency there's always one around...

And there's this forum. Need I say more?

Life is good.

Ross