How much can we justify spending?

[Ralph]

John your appreciation of Lance's work is well documented.

Ralph, just to make it clear, I think Lance's work is remarkably good. It's his blog that's frequently bizarre. It's probably not much different from the really talented actor who doesn't have the sense to keep his mouth shut offstage.

Thanks for the clarification. I was misunderstanding that.

Staying with the question of good blogs but getting back to the issue of budgeting resources, this blog is one of my favorites lately <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://newyorkcentrallayout.blogspot.com/">http://newyorkcentrallayout.blogspot.com/</a><!-- m --> -- I think Ralph liked it when I pointed it out on another forum. What I think is worthwhile is that the guy seems to be budgeting his overall resources -- not just the money, but the time and effort -- and coming up with a result that seems to be making him happy and is fun for other people to watch. I think a key to success is to have objectives -- maybe less conscious ones, but consistent -- and then orient your overall effort to satisfy them. It's worth pointing out that he's using a lot of older, less expensive stuff, but he's getting an overall good result with it.

I do like it. Thanks for the link. I enjoy this guy's approach to the hobby very much.