What's your profession? Age?

I was a gardener in Lakeview/New Orleans until Miss Katrina came along.
I read siomewhere that katrina is russian and means to "clean out". Makes sense to me, being a life long resident of the city.
I guess in India she would be called Kali.
The destroyer.
Righ now unemployed. So I spend time researching stocks for my family's account.

Paul
Baton Rouge

Electrical Engineer - Digital design with FPGAs but a nice background in RF test and measurement at a cool DoD facility and even a 2 year stint as read/write engineer at Maxtor Corp developing high-end scsi hdd's / age-34

I just got done "earthquakeproofing" my gear. I spent the first 30 years of my life in Illinois and Wisconsin, so the thought of the earth throttling my system is a bit foreign to me.

Matt

Mfg. Engineer (aerospace/defense), 53 years old. System worth about $12k.

An ex-physicist in early 30's anyway. I am budgeting 5K for a starter system and just started reading this forum ferociously.

My years in the lab with instruments and scopes made me highly suspicious about spending $1000 on power cords and cables. So we'll see how long it will take before I get to 50K! wahaha.