How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall?

I realized while playing guitar this weekend at Confusion that I am way out of practice and that my callouses are showing it. It's not too hard to figure out why. Most of the last two months at work, I've been frantically porting code to Java, which has not required any long compiles. :)

This morning, I concluded that the Oracle nagware on my work system was going to keep consuming 50% or more of my CPU until I finally decided to install the fourteen cued up Microsoft updates and reboot the machine. So that's going on now and I've played three or four songs so far.

Meanwhile, the updates continue...