Words are inadequate

I think since that was an eight-hour exposure, I wouldn't be so fast to throw it away even if it were ugly.

I can't really say this without sounding arrogant, but I feel the same way about programming. There's a lot to it that you can't teach, that I understand, that most people just don't. They were taught by the same kind of person who your music teachers were, I guess.

Coincidentally, I decided this morning that one of the things I'm going to get once I get an apartment is a dulcimer, and learn to play it. The only instrument I have ever known how to play is the trumpet, which isn't so great since I loathe trumpet music.