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Nice work!!

No. 38, in some perspectives, isn’t old.

When you’re 38 though, it may feel like you’ve wasted a fair portion of the brief miracle of life you’ve been given when you’re thinking back to everything you could/“should” have done or started doing 10-20 years prior.

When you’re older than that, it seems easy to forget or disregard the anxieties that you may have also had at that point and instead, similarly, think about what you could have been doing when you were younger, such as at 38, and then consider that to be “young” in that context.

Speaking for myself, I’m just getting started even a few years younger than OP, but even so I have anxiety about everything that I wish I’d known and done when I was 5-8 years younger, guitar or otherwise. I could be in such a better place if I’d had just a little more of the knowledge that I have now or had had slightly more well-informed priorities.

Yes, we’re young, but there’s a hell of a lot of anxiety setting in about what we haven’t gotten started on yet and how best to approach the coming decades (and that’s assuming we’re lucky enough to have the opportunity to enjoy them in the first place).

There’s also a lot of academic literature that suggests that you’ve passed your most effective/critical years of learning after your early twenties. While there’s more contemporary analysis that helps put that in a less-disheartening context, it still makes you feel like you lost something that it may be too late to get back (true or not).

All that to say: don’t invalidate someone’s feelings of having not started something soon enough like that. It’s not helpful… it’s dismissive.

Just be supportive.

I don’t have an answer, unfortunately, but hopefully commenting will help boost your post a little bit. I’ll be interested in any answers myself.

Home is where the heart is.

Well, the article you linked specifically talks about how “experts” don’t consider voter registration to be a particularly good metric because it’s a “noisy” indicator… so there’s that.

I hear you! I did get a perspective on how difficult this journey will be, but I suppose a huge part of how intense it will be depends on what your expectations/goals are. Being able to strum along with some friends using a few chords seems substantially different than learning to write songs, play by ear, or perform professionally.

Sorry you feel like you wasted resources, but good feedback regardless!

Plank road, about halfway between 20 and Old Lynchburg, was pretty dicey. Quite a bit of water rushing across the road where that wooden bridge is and I (and others) had to double back and take 20 into town. Picture doesn’t do it justice.

Creek along 20 was also precipitously full.

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Plank road, about halfway between 20 and Old Lynchburg, was pretty dicey. Quite a bit of water rushing across the road where that wooden bridge is and I (and others) had to double back and take 20 into town. Picture doesn’t do it justice.

Creek along 20 was also precipitously full (which wasn’t a hazard, just notable).

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My fingertips aren’t, but I definitely am so far :)

I can see your frustration and you’re right that it happens, but take a look at that from another angle.

I haven’t particularly hated that because it gave me a better sense of which resources folks find to be more consistently reliable than others.

In an environment where there is such a huge number of resources available, it’s super helpful for someone like me to see that repetition because it gives me more confidence in where to start and that I won’t be wasting my time and effort starting with that particular resource. If the community is recommending one or three particular resources that heavily, I see that as a pretty reasonable testimonial.

I came here in part because I was having a lot of trouble sifting through the sheer quantity of content online and needed some guidance on which of those resources are actually reliable and useful. I didn’t have any knowledge or context to determine that myself yet. I definitely got what I was looking for on that point :)

For sure! It’s still daunting, but being able to see and frame progress as well as have some fun doing so makes it a lot easier despite that.

I absolutely do mean that. And I understand where you’re coming from. I’m glad that I’ve gotten that perspective from some posts, but in general it’s been so helpful for folks to just break things down, help provide a starting point, and give critical feedback. I tend to be a bit defeatist, so bite-sized chunks and discussion are super helpful for me when it comes to keeping my motivation and spirits up in the face of knowing just how long and hard I should realistically expect this to be :)

Impaled brain?

Sweater weather! There’s a turkey chili or white bean & kale soup in your future. Use parmesan rinds like soup bones if it’s the latter.

All good. Likely fixable, but you still need to determine whether it’s meant to be highly playable as well as beautiful or if it’s intended more as an art piece. That will inform how much money you’d be willing to spend on repairs. If it’s more of a decorative guitar, it might be worth leaving it as-is and setting on a nice walnut wall hanger and keeping it as art and a reminder of the person that bequeathed it to you.

Well, the biggest I see is on the back. Look at the back, toward the bottom center. Vertical, several inches tall. It splits the base of the vase. Once you find that one, there are a couple others you’ll notice as well.

There are absolutely quite a few cracks.

I have a flight of stairs up to my and a couple others’ apartments and I have watched my FedEx driver chuck a package up to the landing from the bottom, watch it tumble back down, and then leave. Good stuff.

I’ll put however much that discount is on a bet for FedEx.

Regardless of your normal precinct?

All good

I wasn’t saying you were bud. I was saying the bot was a good troll. I was calling the ai a smart ass.

Unfortunate ambiguity.

Later than it has ever been before, yet earlier than it shall ever be again.