Wow… Thank you Stein, in order for me to properly reply I’m going to have to print that off and really give it some thought. I could probably throw something out here but you put a lot of time into that response and it deserves a proper answer. Tom
I like the way you think - seems like you, like me, and perhaps unlike some of our younger posters, doesn’t belong to the “twitter generation” [:)]
“Twitter generation” ? People who post a steady stream of poorly thought out, poorly formulated and poorly spelled posts that they have spent very little time on formulating, and which conveys very little useful information to people reading the post.
By all means - take some time and ponder your givens (things that cannot be changed) and your druthers (what you want/desire, some of which you might have to comprimize on).
But don’t feel that you have to do things this way - there are as many ways of doing planning as there are people doing this, and most of those ways work - it will perhaps take an extra loop or two of “rethink - redo” if you get started on the wrong foot, but you can usually get to your goal by quite a few different routes.
And above all - have fun - we all are doing this because we think it is fun. If it gets to be work and not fun, try some other approach.
Smile,
Stein