Thanks to everyone for your input on the past two entries. My career as an amateur musician has memorable peaks:

• Age 10: Playing banjo, solo, in front of the entire school at a talent show in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
• Age 20: Playing guitar in a band in front of a crowd of drunken sailors from the sixth fleet inside an inactive volcano in Naples, Italy.
• Age 23: Playing bass in a band in a small club in Nashville, Tennessee.

And now: ephemeraltoybox, which is another kettle of fish altogether.