Hi & thanks everyone. Spirits are still up but none will give me a liver but the spirits did say that they'd part with their wings though. My kids are briging me a tape player tonight seeing as how Dan Milner dropped by with a tape he'd picked up recently in Ireland so I hope you see this in time Kat. Dan stopped in yesterday & we had a lovely visit together. As is Dan's telltale evidence of being somewhere, he left some droppings as a calling card but instead of it being in the ilk of "Killroy was here" it was a CD by Dublin singer Barry Gleeson & another CD by Donal Maguire. I haven't had a listen yet to the tape of Josie McDermott he left but I can well imagaine, the man's taste in Irish singers like Gleeson & Maguire are so finely tuned that the needle wouldn't lay in the haystack for longer than a moment. Thanks WYSIWYG, I just recieved your gracious care package, thanks. I've never had a talking book before, this should be very interesting. I was wishing that I had planned this extended stay a little better & had had the forthought of thinking to bring in an instrument to get to learn to play with, your loan of the lap dulcimore more than fits the bill. And who ever said "if wishes were fishes". Well, it was a great day here in Boston, highs almost hit 70 & sunny, spent some time outdoors in the courtyard, felt like a content little lizard with not a care in the world, then it started to cool off a bit, oh well. Thanks again for all the support, LOVE, Barry