After a major housecleaning a few years ago, a short stay in a remote but structured deprogramming environment, months of intensive counseling, and the continued support of my G/IAS-AA support group, I'm happy to say that I have been on the wagon for nearly 6 months now. (Buying a DI conversion box doesn't really count, and neither does buying new instrument or vocal microphones.)

I'm down to only 1 flamenco, 1 acoustic, and 1 12-string guitar, 1 fretless and 1 fretted base as far as the stringed instruments go. During a period of weakness that was finally overcome with much support from my friends in musical theatre, I am apparently amnesiac regarding how 5 D (all different materials), a low-D, 2 A, and a treble G (no way *I* bought that, the holes are too close together)whistles ,alto and soprano recorders, a D-fife, and A-flute, two bamboo flutes and a practice chanter all arrived in my possession. Since then I've successfully dedicated myself to a higher power and avoided new instrument purchases.

However, I may need to find a MPAS-AA group, as my hard-drive now has 5 scoring-typesetting, 3 ds-processing, 2 mp3-converting, a .wav editor and dozens of midi patches. I fear that I may stumble yet again, as I've actually been searching the web during the dark hours, plotting and scheming for PCI cards that will let me record directly onto my laptop. Oh help me brothers and sisters, for I must be strong ... why just the other day, I awoke to find a CD-writer hidden on top of the computer!

~S~