I faced up to the realization that I’m never going to apply the discipline I need to play the guitar with any skill. I’m never going to play in a band. I sold my electric guitar through eBay and my amp using Craigslist. I sold them so I could buy a new toy. An AR15.

AR15s have been described as “Barbie dolls for men.”  Why does anybody want an AR15? Well because you can dress them up with a thousand different accessory gadgets. They are fun, if you’ve got the space to shoot one.  ARs are legos. They are hobbies unto themselves.

I assumed I’d be able to shoot at the Eleven Acre Wood, but I’m never going back there again. Long story. So… Maybe no AR for me.

I never had the bug to fly remote control airplanes, but drones are pretty cool. I could get a drone.  You can get a decent drone with decent airtime and built in 720 video for under $300 now. Along comes my wife: “What would we do with a drone? How would it improve our life?” She actually said those words. Sheesh. Women!

For starters, we’d be the first in the neighborhood to have one. We’d establish early air superiority over our subdivision. The next guy with a drone would only have it for minutes before he became the proud owner of a pile of busted parts.

Okay, okay. So it would be cool to sit in my living room with a controller and have God’s eye oversight of the neighborhood. It would be fun to fly over Creve Coeur Park looking for busty chicks bouncin’ em along the jogging path. If nothing else, the next time the dog takes off running into the neighborhood, I could find her via my eye-in-the-sky and save myself the hassle of walking up and down the streets, calling her name like an idiot.

The coolest toy of all would have to be the new 3D printers. It was only two years ago when the first 3D printer was featured in the media. Absolutely amazing to be able to conjure big plastic parts out of nothing but an imagination and a CAD program. Two years later and there are consumer versions of 3D printers going for a grand.  The top of the line 3D printer is under three grand. What better toy (that I don’t need) than a gadget that can make other toys (that I don’t need).

Maybe I could use the 3D printer to make a Carbon Fiber AR and a drone!

Hell, I could print women’s shoes with it and save enough money every year to buy three of each.