If you start Brycing, you may find that you are quite a bit of help. All of us were newbies at Bryce once, and many short timers stumble on things we old timers hadn't found yet. If you want to speed up your learning curve once you have your Bryce, get Susan Kitchens' Real World Bryce 4. It doesn't have info about the tree lab or other additions new to Bryce 5, but it beats the !^$#@ out of the manual, and is much more productive a reference. Welcome to Bryce.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy