I now have to use XP for a little music studio I set up sith SONAR producer software by cakewalk and Korg triton karma technology. Me is more secure from invasion but does have kinks to start and stop it and sometimes shuts off 3D software graphic programs if I don't save every 10 minutes.
So far XP hasn't given me any long standing problems but Bill amd others make a good point.
This year I am learning the keyboard. I don't plan to be able to play Chopin but just enough to be able to edit what I need to orchestrate some scores. After 8 hours of playing today my back really hurts. Pictures are a whole lot easier to produce than music.

I'm working toward a world flight odyssey with narration and a cello concerto.

The odyssey is in a style of Norman Corwin who was a radio producer that defined poetry and music the WWII era. He is kind of corny for today's market but was the mentor of many film directors and writers we all know today.

The narration will have soundtrack and is then followed by 12 small event movements to musicly portray the journey around the world:

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The Tuskegee airmen gathered together again this crisp winter day.

They came to wish a fellow flier off on an odyssey.

No its not a journey,
its flying around the earth - the hard way.

Pole to pole and back home again.

James Icarus Jones is a giant of a man
next to his tiny experimental plane
and his wife that comes up to his ribs.

Wearing a Paul Bunyon grin
while staring at the clouds
he whispers to his wife and the sky,
"I can do this".

Last year he headed for the North pole
in an open cockpit biplane.
He made it to north Hudson bay
when his engine failed.

This time the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego
await his arrival.
Then on to an Antarctic summer
and across the Indian ocean.

and beyond.

There are times; he is not a man
or bird or dolphin flying over the sea.
he is beyond legs, wings or fins,
he forgets everything

and regrets nothing

For his is a freedom,
and communion
with the earth
and sky
singing an incredible chorus
of clouds, color and symphonic
landscapes.

He'll grab a chunk of rainbow
and wear it as a crown
He'll slice a line through real space
no artist could ever draw.

Thankful for one more breath
in finding a place to land
and sleep
to dream of the sky again.

Behind his eyes is an
epiphaney of the unknown
that few will ever know
and most just question why.

James Icarus Jones,
Captain of the sky
took off on his odyssey today.

Should he ever return,
you will see it in his grin
and the twinkle in his eye.


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By the time I am done, hopefully he will have made it as far as the UK.
Then again he might not.