I just realized that there's no reason my email to VJ needs to be private, and frankly, would likely generate some great discussion. For the uninitiated, Vampire Jesus is something of an electronics prodigy, and I kind of feel like electronics was something that I had such a firm beginning in, in my childhood, that I could have become enormously skilled, but as is often the case, many competing interests took hold, and I've ended up doing other things in my life. I'm quite happy with the life I chose, but there's still this lingering feeling of wanting to understand more about electronics--and not so much the basic componentry, which I already know all about, but the basic synergistic revelations that set in when one plans circuits to accomplish things. It's not only scifi, but godlike in the mental sensation, and I feel like I've never really taken it to a level that's quite possible, just unrealized. The reasons are the same as anyone else's--life