No worry, didn’t seem impatient at all 
Yep, I ‘need’ the forums too, all the time. This is my fave one, cos the atmosphere has always been warm and friendly, so the best place for my blog, my home.
Oh wow, I remember 70h/wk either school & 3 jobs or work the first years, but thankfully without fibro. Hat’s off to managing that! 
Oh dear, not enough sleep and then trying to do something in the daytime… 
My wife has 2 furry piglets, which are a blessing for me too: Meet our furry piglets Stuey and Harley
Hope you find something new for your muscles & nerves. Nothing to be ‘found’ I spose… Arnica cream helps me a bit for that sort of stuff, but only acupressure is a real help. I usually have just a normal pain in my thighs and can improve that with twist-stretching.
Do you not see your family more cos of CoV or cos of fibro or both? I’ve had to reduce the length, amount and lateness of my social contacts more to fibro than to CoV, but that’s OK for me. I had to make friends with myself and my body more anyway 
I used to be a good mix of extravert and introvert, now I’m getting a bit more introverted… but job, grandchild & table tennis make sure I don’t get back in the social phobic rut I once got in in my twens.
Wow, good that you’re managing to play music more again. If we don’t expect too much it can be so rewarding. And I am (and my teacher) surprised how my vocals are improving despite not being able to do much and my singing lessons having turned to mainly music production lessons per video, but we also work on the vocals I manage to do.
Which Christian artists do you like best? I’m pretty eclectic there, often just like one or a few of one Christian artist, even the 20 Hillsong songs I love, new and old, are nothing compared to their output, I can’t even pinpoint one composer there.
I don’t paint myself, I collect - my only claims to unfame are a really bad oil painting of a boat tossed around in a storm when I was 15 and a really good sketch of a jackdaw (my avatar) when I was 25 which we cared for for half a year before s:he cd go off again: those birds are incredible personalities. The paintings I have collected are a lot of landscapes, abstracts, 2 owls, some have a surreal touch and I’m hoping to get more of that, and more dynamic ones - one of the owls is starting to fly, another is a lithography of “un match inattendu” by René Choquet, a funny race between an old-timer car and an old-timer horse-cart as well as a steam train in the background… (One of the few professional ones I have.) A new colleague of mine paints & sketches surreal stuff in her spare time, I’ve asked her for a portfolio.
So what subjects do you like to paint? Some of my tracks are influenced by fibro, with a sad touch, showing the rich facets of this new ilfe or just plain cheerful to be alive ‘n’ kickin’ - a bit…