wrog

spending the obvious time and effort

more a tale that grew in the telling and me realizing that I really ought to get it down somewhere; there being people out there that study this stuff, though I have no idea if this relates to any of the questions they currently care about.

makes me more glad or more sad that I'm so non-musical

Yeah. I never learned how to be a pilot. Can't do everything. But also way less likely to die in a plane crash, so there's that.