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   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019112211392043038-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > Every once and a while I turn this old computer on.   
      
   I was wondering what's been happening.   
      
   > How's things ?   
      
   The weather sure SUCKS, as usual, and with all the involvement with church   
   songs, I haven't been working on my own material.   
      
   > Well, fine. I've been sick, reaction to flu vaccine.   
      
   I'll never get any of those vaccines, but late last year into early this   
   year, I got sicker than I can ever remember. It was a combination of things,   
   first the flu, which by itself usually isn't much of a problem for me as I   
   usually get through it in less than two weeks, but as I was getting over it,   
   the real killer, a cold, came along, and with my flu-weakened immune system,   
   it lasted well over a month - closer to two...then came the -25 F weather, a   
   killer cold virus combined with killer cold temperatures, and I went out and   
   drove anyway...which, thanks to the additional stress, only made things much   
   worse, and while all that  was happening, I even got whooping cough,   
   something I had been vaccinated against as a very young child, and had never   
   experienced before.   
   Some didn't believe me when I mentioned whooping cough and I began to wonder   
   why it had such a strange if not silly name, so I checked out some youtube   
   video examples of what it sounded like, which was a lot like I was sounding,   
   a strange tonal quality when coughing and desperately inhaling between   
   coughs - it was horrrible...and, in 2019, I started hearing about adults   
   getting whooping cough and there being a vaccine for it available.   
      
   All this lasted from December 2018 until April 2019, almost five months - a   
   new dimension to misery!   
      
   > I'm still playing music. Don't need to, just still enjoy it. This next   
   > year may be about it tho. We'll see.   
      
   I'm still playing too, but only at church. I'm really missing Rock & Roll!!!   
   But don't give up gigs! Besides, what else is there to do that's worth   
   investing Life in?   
      
   > Bought some cheapo wireless mics this week, the Behringer Ulm202's, iirc.   
      
   They look pretty good but then, what product by Behringer doesn't?   
      
   > I'm finally breaking my rig two units. A minimalist one for solo duo work,   
   > and a bigger setup for band / composing use.  The Beh mics are for the   
   > small rig. Two wireless mics that send to a usb sized dongle. Yes, there   
   > is some ( 14 ms ) latency, but for live, I doubt I'll ever notice it.   
      
   That's practically real time, unless you play and/or sing very fast ;)   
      
   > Ok, gotta run, things to do. I bought a violin hanger, need to find a way   
   > to mount or attach it to my rack case so I can hang my violin on that at   
   > gigs. Some metal something that will attach to the side rails of the case,   
   > then hook the actual violin hanger to that.   
      
   JimD   
      
   I wouldn't mind getting a few things, like a clonewheel organ - now there's   
   the Viscount Legend Live to consider - it sounds Awesome! And I still need a   
   Yamaha Motif XS Rack - but since over the last few months, I'm now getting   
   SS retirement benefits, I can start saving and budgeting for them...YAY!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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