One thing caught me as odd, though — if you’re thinking of learning to read music to then pick up the bass, be prepared for a bit of stumbling when you move from the treble clef to the bass clef.

I have a tin whistle I plan to get into as a test to see if
I have the interest and discipline to learn to read music,
which is a prelude to bass which itself would be in the long
term a prelude to electric guitar.

(How I sometimes wish I hadn’t sold my ’76 Rickenbacker…)

..and then there is the synth in the works.
Much programming to do to make it happen.

Someday…just a matter of working towards it,
clearing the other junk in the way.

I switched into sociology because I was not coping very well with life at the time, and figured that I ought to just get a BA and get out, and worry about what I really wanted to do later on. As it turned out, sociology and econ were pretty close to what I wanted to do later on, and I switched into honours a semester in, but that wasn’t the intent when I switched. (Of course, I’m happy as a sysadmin now, so..)

But yeah, the performance thing was filled with bad mojo.

Glad you’re playing again. I hope you never listen to what anyone else says again. That path is madness.