Thank you John and Christopher. Boy, I'd give anything to actually sit in my Starbucks with this project. I went there yesterday and got a mint mocha. I have never done the drive through, only going in to see everyone that's on shift. I seriously miss the therapeutic value I got from this yet I'm aware that it's not just me who has suffered. It's a strange world that took just a mere few months to transform the world of the past to the present one we reside in. I miss the up close, personal contact with excited, inquisitive people. As soon as the questions come, you just can't shut me up. At 61 I really have a deep reconnection to that which excited me as a kid.
There's much to be said when you can share something like this in a public arena which has been conducive to some very interesting conversation. A coffee shop is really a great place. I'm assuming it may take the better part of another year before things can begin the transition back. Well, we've lasted this long haven't we. The future is an odd thing timewise. On one hand it strikes us as being so far in the future where we become impatient. And then, just like that, it's here. Our sense of time is an extraordinarily interesting concept being somewhat polarized or paradoxical itself. Soon enough, we will have had a year of this behind us all.
When the time comes, I wholeheartedly request for your sake to indulge in similar paths to further your personal interests. You will do yourselves a tremendous favor and simultaneously inspire the younger generation by passing the torch. The internet has become an invaluable source for modelers today. I had taken to it with much hesitation and chagrin. It took quite some time for me to embrace the potential it possess. I have had my 'smart' phone for three years come January. I have taken the damn thing out of my house six times total. It sits typically in an uncharged state on my computer desk.
It's clear I have taken a liking to SOME technology. Fact is, I never needed a smartphone for decades. I've no reason to embrace it now. It was given to me as a gift. Yet there is advantage to technology and I decide where that is and then contemplate to what degree I use it. We all do. I now look back on my rambling and can't help but question whether it's due to a manic state. I also realize it's the best I can do when the need to relate to others a view or the sharing of information arises. A substitute has prevailed where one has been temporarily cancelled. This is still a therapeutic substitute for many as well. It's the best we have.