Methods of coping with the wait for the TI

[Derek]

This is my first post here; since I?m in the same boat and waiting for my TI I figured I?d chime in. My wait, for lack of a better word, it SUCKs. You see I recently sold my Studiologic 88 key MIDI controller and replaced it with a Roland V-Synth. The V-Synth was fantastic and had huge potential. However My V-Synth was defective and kept losing patches and it would send erroneous MIDI data. So I returned it. Unfortunately now I have no keyboard. So I have nothing to play. I am currently also waiting for the new V-Synth XT. On top of all that, my rock solid Akai DPS 24 started acting up, so now it is out for repair. My studio is a ghost town; big empty spaces where gear once resided.
I console myself with the knowledge that things will be much better when my gear gets in.
Now I?m trying to learn Cubase SX3 so when my gear does FINALLY get here I will be more or less ready to get down to business.