One other thing: tubes are cool

Except when they're being overdriven. Ha! Geddit? I so want a tube amp. My Bandit is okay, but after playing through a Valve King 212 at Sam Ash a fer weeks ago, I'm smitten with genuine tube tone. The gear geek in me also thinks it's just the neatest that you can customize the sound of your amp by switching out the tubes, and that different brands and vintages of a given tube type can (supposedly) radically alter the tone. There's no shortage of New Old Stock tubes dating back to the Golden Age of Radio, right alongside current production samples from China and the Soviet diaspora. Old technology rules!

It just occurred to me that this post reads almost exactly like one of my grade school journal entries, both in terms of subject matter and style. It's uncanny. Maybe my mind regresses a little when I'm sleepy. I must sleep. While I dream, tubes around the world will randomly burst. No one will connect the dots.