Hi Tony!
I remember you. I remember you having health issues and I remember thinking when I stopped seeing you as much in this forum that your health issues might have been getting in the way of active participation. I'm glad that you seem to be doing well.
I drop in on the forum, not every day but a few times a week, and I don't post as much as I used to. Chuck Moore is probably right - everything that needs to be said HAS been said, at least for those of us who have been forum members for a long time. I think there's a cyclical nature to specialty forums - a person joins with all sorts of questions, then finds himself answering the same questions for more recent newbiew, and later discovers that those one-time newbies are answering the same question for yet another wave of newbies. There are also platforms that didn't exist when this forum started, noticably Facebook, which has several ukulele-themed groups and pages where people do things similar to the things they did in the UU forum. I like dropping in to UU to see if there are new issues or topics that come up, and once in a while there is one, or someone posts an uke in the marketplace that I might be interested in, or someone posts a cool video I'm glad I got to see.
Since I last saw you here, I've learned to play UBass, and I have a couple of tenor guitars, tuned like baritone ukuleles. I somehow inherited a meetup group called the San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion, and since the pandemic began I've been leading a Rebellion Zoom jam every other Saturday evening, so my focus has turned a bit to the technology that it helps to learn about to make those jams run smoothly. I've also been working full-time (from home since late March 2020), and my life is a little more hectic than I'd hopd. I've written some songs, and I'm taking a Zoom class to learn Hawaiian.
Glad to see you here and glad to know that you're still using ukulele playing as a way to relax, especially during these stressful times. I'm happy for your daughter. Be well!
I remember you. I remember you having health issues and I remember thinking when I stopped seeing you as much in this forum that your health issues might have been getting in the way of active participation. I'm glad that you seem to be doing well.
I drop in on the forum, not every day but a few times a week, and I don't post as much as I used to. Chuck Moore is probably right - everything that needs to be said HAS been said, at least for those of us who have been forum members for a long time. I think there's a cyclical nature to specialty forums - a person joins with all sorts of questions, then finds himself answering the same questions for more recent newbiew, and later discovers that those one-time newbies are answering the same question for yet another wave of newbies. There are also platforms that didn't exist when this forum started, noticably Facebook, which has several ukulele-themed groups and pages where people do things similar to the things they did in the UU forum. I like dropping in to UU to see if there are new issues or topics that come up, and once in a while there is one, or someone posts an uke in the marketplace that I might be interested in, or someone posts a cool video I'm glad I got to see.
Since I last saw you here, I've learned to play UBass, and I have a couple of tenor guitars, tuned like baritone ukuleles. I somehow inherited a meetup group called the San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion, and since the pandemic began I've been leading a Rebellion Zoom jam every other Saturday evening, so my focus has turned a bit to the technology that it helps to learn about to make those jams run smoothly. I've also been working full-time (from home since late March 2020), and my life is a little more hectic than I'd hopd. I've written some songs, and I'm taking a Zoom class to learn Hawaiian.
Glad to see you here and glad to know that you're still using ukulele playing as a way to relax, especially during these stressful times. I'm happy for your daughter. Be well!