I love re-stringing too, Bebop! I think it relaxes me! I started out on the ukulele back in 1966, when we got one for Christmas and my big brother was industrious enough to study the instruction booklet that came with it, and showed me how to play a couple of chords. That officially lit the flame, and before long, as I approached high school, I longed to "move up" to the guitar, as it held the promise of someday being in a rock band. I was lucky that this did indeed eventually happen, and I had a huge amount of fun doing it, but a few years ago I heard the uke calling once again, and began appreciating it even more than before. I came to realize that it's not just "a miniature guitar", but, with its re-entrant tuning, it's an entirely different instrument, much as if I were learning the violin or the clarinet. With advancing age, the concept of "grab-and-go" has also become an attractive thing, not to mention just the joy of making music with this modest little instrument-- easy to learn but hard to master!