It is a dark day...
After many years of being measured and considered in my exploits with electronics, recent events have brought the planets into alignment and desires long suppressed have been stirred. Dark shadows have begun to waver in long forgotten corridors of my mind and an uneasy air fills every laboured breath.
Now awakened is the beast that engulfs reason, that turns every available space into a mesmerising vortex, pulling me in, dragging me down the rabbit hole - not fighting nor in panic, but with a desperation that grows with each heartbeat. The hole must be filled.
Blurred visions of eBay blearily drift into sharp focus. Activity on the EEVblog's Buy and Sell board leaps skyward ... and the wallet cringes.
T.E.A. has now passed its incubation period...
Enabled by the prospect of finding 15 units of 19" rack space on my bench, my vision has widened - and that spectrum analyser about which I often fancifully mused, is now a yearning that cannot be ignored. Already, I have lashed out and spent $14 on eBay parts to make my own H field probes. (Thanks Dave.)
I am ruined.