Just came back from seeing Papi do the plays. It's cool. Before that, tho, we went to Pizzeria Uno's and there was a band warming up and the guitarist had the SGX-2000!!! AAAHH!!! I wanted to go, like, "Excuse me, uh, sir, uh, could I play your guitar?" or actually, "Could I have your effects processor?" It's like, "Yeah, I'm in a good mood. Sure, take it." Oh, and the bassist had the Nightbass. Well, I've decided that if I can't get the SGX-2000 for christmas like splitting the money or something I'm not gonna get another, I'll just get like a Skateboard and $$ for christmas and save up for the SGX. It's worth it, I don't want to get another one for like $350 and then later have to start again to get to $700. Better to start now. If I get desperate I'll drop hints for Abuelo and Abuela and they'll probably give me money but now I don't think I want to do something like that. Bsides, I want this to be all my money, so I value it more. Oh, another reason for not getting another is that with what I play I pretty much need most of the features of the SGX. It's not just, "cool, reverse gated reverb!" I actually need a box that has, for example, good delays, and lots of varieties of them. The Zoom 9150 Valve DSP ($349) has 27 digital effects in all. That's not bad, but the SGX has 24 algorithms for reverbs alone! It has 20 types of delay, chorus, flanger, phasing, sampling (!), harmonic exciter (whatever that is), 2-1/2 octaves of pitch shift... You get the picture. So anyways, the Zoom wouldn't really do what I need it to so it would actually be a waste of $350 and longer till I get the effects I really need. That's why. OK, well, it's pretty late now (12:45) so I'm going to bed. G'night.