Why no Trep Yet - Late Response

[HWillman at AOL.COM]

AB --

I'm a BOC-L lurker, so I read a lot of your stuff.  I'm wading through a ton
of old mail and came across the following bit that I wanted to comment on:

---your stuff....
Hmm, not sure Al & Deb's livelihood depends solely on moi buying a copy of
Trepanation, however I am probably the only one on the list that does not
have Trepanation yet.  One reason why is that I have a very limited music
budget, feel its more important to feed the five who depend on daddy than to
blow the whole wad at Best Buy (which I could easily do).  Yeah it seems I
always have new music at my disposal but understand this, most tapes I buy
cost $.99; my entire cd collection is numbers less than 40 and most of those
are from the cutout bin costing anywhere from $1.99 to $5.99.  Further I
have a list of music I wish to procure which runs roughly full price thus I
plan to get a little of this and a little of that when the budget allows.
 Trepanation is on that list and will be coming up soon, however for my own
personal reasons it like some other stuff I want to get will be purchased in
turn.

Hey I apologize to Al & Deb for not having oredered Trep. but realistically
its my loss more than theirs because it means my miniscule music collection
is absent a great work.

---begin my stuff again...

Wishes and dreams are one thing, economics another.  We don't know each
other, but I totally understand what you're saying.  Feed the kids.  The
cheap music is much more valuable than the expensive stuff (compare it to a
car -- does one always need the latest model just to get from one place to
another, or will something that works just fine do?)

Take care.

-- Howard
hwillman at aol.com