Guys,
Thanks for the kind words. Been getting a lot of encouragement from friends and former coworkers that I'm probably not as dumb as I look, and if anyone in old age can pull it together, got a good chance. Haven't killed or permanently damaged anyone yet this week.
Bass was aking about windy...
Grand cycle of Allah has the hurricane season in the USA southeast in the summer, then they go flat for the winter. The endless cycle has us in the northwest coast go balistic in the winter and flat in the summer. Diagonal dance that has been going on forever. They got some kind of syntax thing where they can't call what happens to us a hurricane. Just a "severe winter storm". The folks in the southeast get all the news coverage for hurricanes and we get nothing of any note until a lot of people die or a major landslide happens.
My car has scrapes and dings from building parts and debris flying through the air in a storm awhile back that clocked 140 mph winds. Reason they said 140 was because that's where the meters red lined and couldn't tell how high the velocity really was. Lawn chairs, garbage cans fly over roofs and become deadly projectiles if they are left out before before a real storm. Here in Tillamook, we are more protected from the winds, but the floods bring everything to a stop. There are cars that have boat propeller scars on the roof.
About music, really impressed by the Chromatics plug from Hideaway. Sent these guys an email a couple years ago about them losing their renegade status. Used to be the libraries were as cheap as a couple dollars. Then the prices creep up. However at over a gig of samples for $12.50, and some really well planned content, it's a no brainer. Some nice synthetic pads and horns in there.
John