Are you compulsive about anything?

Nice one, Virginia. Loved the background imagery.

Ok, im checking it out!!

I learned on YouTube that even Beethoven picked up this tune, Lago...incorporated it...it's got a haunting, timeless quality...

I've been listening to it. It is not music I usually listen to, but im trying to "get it", do you know what mean? 
Im actually listening to it right now.

I DO know what you mean, Lago...it's one of the aspects of a Q/A site I appreciate, the opportunity to kinda absorb what other people hear in music, when not my natural style...

This rendering is not more than a shadow of the version that really captured my heart, that was done by a group called CONCERTO CALEDONIA and they somehow loved this piece so much they really played the heart out of it...you prolly grok that...and their version does not seem to be on YouTube.

Although I grew up with folk-song-y style of music, and tend to like it anyway.

You know Ms V,
Im not a religious man, but sometimes it is difficult to not believe there is a spirit of some sort within us that lets us be touched in the way music does. 
Does that make sense?

Absolutely unequivocal yes makes sense. 
I am religious you may have gathered, but there is the same law of life no matter how one experiences that or chooses to name it.

Twenty-five years!
I had not realized it was so long...

Twenty-seven, in fact.  But that comment comes from a conversation I had on the train. The young woman sitting beside me kept caressing herself and when she didn't stop I asked what she was doing. (It's surprising what people will tell you if you have the cheek to ask.) She was doing exercises for her RSI (these days called overuse syndrome). When I asked how that had happened she said that she worked for the public service and that four people in her office had caught it the same week. 

Seriously! She seemed to think it was some kind of virus. 

Dozy, I don't really understand what you are talking about...RSI? Overuse syndrome?
I am a bit hesitant to ask...is it off-color, and I just catch on slow?

Repetitive Strain Injury. It's the kind of injury we get from continually using muscles and tendons in a particular way.

That's funny!!
Now that you mention the job, I wonder how many habits we acquire and keep forever because of a job, you know?
In my case, I still roll my laundry instead of folding it, for example. And after so many years wearing a hat, I feel incomplete without one, still now.
That's a good question all on its own eh?

Check my answer to Virginia's comment. THAT is funny, though it's a bit disturbing, too. 

Who could argue. 

That question should have a question mark behind it. 

Obsessing, sorry. 
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Sorry, I'll leave a few here that you can drop in for me next time I do that

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And here's a tale you might appreciate. 

Two scholars were arguing the merits of Keats and Shakespeare. They found no common ground so the Shakespearean pointed to a bow-legged old man, hobbling up the hill on his walking stick. He said, "How would Keats describe him?"

"Behold the man who yonder went, with legs so bowed and back so bent. How would Shakespeare have put it?"

"Forsooth, what manner of man is this, who carries his balls in parenthesis?"