But no. I'm tired of dealing with the media merchants any more. I don't mind the effort of learning it, or the expense, a lot of the new culture is definitely worth it. But I am fed up with how they keep on changing it on me, how they keep on introducing new platforms and media every time they want to tap a new market. I've gone from LPs to 8-tracks to cassettes to CDs, and now I go no further. Especially since I keep on buying the same music over and over again.

Its what eventually soured me on all technology, they kept on changing the rules on me. I remember the immense satisfaction I had learning to program computers, to actually be able to solve complex scientific and engineering problems by automating the "Patterson Calculations" required to do so.

It took me years to get really good at it, and I took great pride in that too. But now you don't get to plunge deep into the math and physics any more, you spend all the time debugging the tools, learning new operating systems, programming languages, database architectures, user interfaces. And you always seem to be learning new languages, or new instruments, rather than getting really good at writing poetry and playing music.

Yeah, yeah. I'm also perfectly well aware I'm just getting old and stiff and too lazy to want to learn new shit. But I'm just tired. I'm worn out. I ain't going to work on Maggie's farm no more.