Maintaining Sanity

revoli · 13th January 2011, 04:24 PM

Right, six months ago I was diagnosed with a heart problem called myocarditis. This has reduced me from a keep fit drink loads and generally active person with a demanding job to a house bound and almost completely immobile and totally teetotal person. For four months I could not stand any noise, movement or even watch TV. Now movement an issue but I can at least listen to music (quietly)again (phew) although regrettably my wonderful Martin acoustic guitar is still a stretch too far. So how do I keep sane - play with high volts, a bunch of tubes and big old capacitors and see what happens. So after reading copious pages on these forums and having had little prior knowledge (I did build a 6550 kit amp 10 years ago) so far so good. Kill or cure? Dunno but it does enable me to do something to keep sane. It's a bit slow though, on average I manage to solder about 2 components a day before I have to retreat to bed. On the upside it is very therapeutic and I cannot wait to be fit and healthy again to enjoy the fruits of my labour and the great advice and helped received from this community so thanks all!

AdamThorne · 13th January 2011, 04:48 PM

Here's wishing you a speedy recovery, sir! Be careful with the voltage, no need to tax the ticker any further!

kevinkr · 13th January 2011, 04:49 PM

Keep plugging away, things should eventually improve! Audio is a great hobby.. Keeps me sane between job assignments..

MJL21193 · 13th January 2011, 04:52 PM

Messing with this stuff actually makes me even more insane than I already am...good luck on getting back up to your design specs...err, good health, I mean.

Cal Weldon · 13th January 2011, 06:31 PM

Keep us posted as to your recovery. In the meantime Dr. Cal recommends plenty of rest and abstention from you know what.

13th January 2011, 04:24 PM	#1
revoli diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Wiltshire UK	Maintaining Sanity Right, six months ago I was diagnosed with a heart problem called myocarditis. This has reduced me from a keep fit drink loads and generally active person with a demanding job to a house bound and almost completely immobile and totally teetotal person. For four months I could not stand any noise, movement or even watch TV. Now movement an issue but I can at least listen to music (quietly)again (phew) although regrettably my wonderful Martin acoustic guitar is still a stretch too far. So how do I keep sane - play with high volts, a bunch of tubes and big old capacitors and see what happens. So after reading copious pages on these forums and having had little prior knowledge (I did build a 6550 kit amp 10 years ago) so far so good. Kill or cure? Dunno but it does enable me to do something to keep sane. It's a bit slow though, on average I manage to solder about 2 components a day before I have to retreat to bed. On the upside it is very therapeutic and I cannot wait to be fit and healthy again to enjoy the fruits of my labour and the great advice and helped received from this community so thanks all!

13th January 2011, 04:49 PM	#3
kevinkr diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Blog Entries: 6	Keep plugging away, things should eventually improve! Audio is a great hobby.. Keeps me sane between job assignments.. __________________ "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan

13th January 2011, 06:31 PM	#5
Cal Weldon Speakerholic diyAudio Moderator Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: British Columbia	Keep us posted as to your recovery. In the meantime Dr. Cal recommends plenty of rest and abstention from you know what. __________________ Next stop: Margaritaville Some of Cal's stuff \| Cal Weldon Consulting

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13th January 2011, 04:48 PM	#2
AdamThorne diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA	Here's wishing you a speedy recovery, sir! Be careful with the voltage, no need to tax the ticker any further!

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MJL21193 Account disabled at member's request Join Date: Mar 2007	Messing with this stuff actually makes me even more insane than I already am...good luck on getting back up to your design specs...err, good health, I mean.

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