Just feel the need to blabber a bit in order to disassociate my name with Bongo basses....
After over a year of wining and wishing and saving, I believe a Bongo may not be anywhere in my near future. If fact, I am giving up the idea of owning one - at least for now. My reasons:
1. Current computer ancient, plus so virus plagued - I needed to replace it. savings, once again - gone.
2. Decided I really miss recording with my computer (bought a compact digital studio years ago that I never learned to use) and made an additional investment in a pro-audio card.
3. Been playing bongos a lot lately in stores and realized that my thumb isn't all that comfortable on the contoured pickups that I use as a thumb rest.
4. I'm starting to realize that the woman I've been woth for 8 yrs. may be the only one fer me, and those same feelings seem to be transferring themselves to my Sterling bass.
5. Got tired of getting yelled at here every time I make a purchase that isn't a Bongo. But I brought that sheet on myself.
That's all.
Plus, I can't record on this anymore *sigh*. I'm gonna take my GeekWare (FireFox, mIRC, Winamp, PSP5, and Photoshop), mp3's, and images, back that up, do a clean sweep of the drive, and then reinstall the software on a clean drive and load it up with anti-spyware and anit-virus software. Toss in an additional hard drive (my 30gb isn't kicking it anymore), new sound card and whatnot for recording, and a new processor if I can swing it with the folks. But I'm mostly itching for another hard drive and a new soundcard -- which will also take care of my Battlefield problems.
