In a summer vain: I've loaded up on toys from other people's attics...Pioneer SK-350 boombox (oh, how I wish I could snag an SK-71), 4-track TEAC reel to reel, dbx 155 4-channel Type I NR, Pioneer TX-9100 and found a dead Yamaha CR-1040 (aren't they all)? Add another Laserdisc player (Pioneer CLD-1090) and I am indeed King Of All Media (yes, I have quad, 8-track, can play 78 rpm, all but ELCASET and I DO have a BUSTED Zenith Movie Director Betamax deck). I have tubed, FET'd, Nuvistored and chipped. Don't give me any Compactrons, the weight of now useless saved TV tubes was proven to have sent Atlantis to the bottom of the ocean.

When I get those two spendy batteries for my Sears and RCA VHS camcorders I will be a freak off a leash and dogs have nothing on me.

So while you spend all your cheese playing with toyz I will be perfecting Schwinnvision for "Rockin' Rollfast nights" and I KNOW I can do better than Zimo's cellphone or DV cam.

Meanwhile, if your knees don't ache you aren't going fast enough!

Well this is just great! You should absolutely take more than a few days off. Hell, with a few days, you should just quit! Surely you'd do more good changing diapers than keeping on with the trainwreck of a job that you do for the statesman.

Did you used to write the art column for the Boise Weekly? Regardless, you're a sad chump.