I've been lucky enough to be able to save for a new computer from
time to time. I really should take vacations where I go somewhere and
enjoy myself. Now I'm saving up for some machinery for a business
venture-second career.

It's the sort of process where I have to make sales from my first
hardware to generate the cash for the later hardware. Since it's
hobby related, the needed field trips for 'research' are a nice side-
effect.

I should make 4-8 field trips this summer....... short and moderately
sort-of near car-trips with a digital camera and a stack of
chips......... maybe one plane trip for the same as a 4-day or so
excursion.

Buying a very-nice low cost used car and quickly paying it off
several years apart has made this more possible for me.

I've been too long at the grindstone and gotta get out and have some
fun now that the weather is nice. My last real vacation was in
1991..........

Life sure can be challenging.