Newbie intro

Well, I've been lurking for a couple of months now but couldn't resist replying to another thread so figured I'd say hi.

I'm a 37yo computer geek...er, engineer living in the SW suburbs of Chicago and I've finally decided to learn guitar. I'm interested in mainly blues, classic rock, and newer country but appreciate most everything.

My music background consists of playing sax in my grade, junior, and high school concert/marching/jazz bands. I have most of the basic theory down but haven't played much of anything recently so am a bit rusty. Besides the online sources, I picked up Noteboat's book to help refresh my memory and fill in the blanks.

Anyway, I just bought a Fender DG22 acoustic-electric from GC recently and boy are my finger sore! :shock: I know that'll pass with practice so no worries there.

I'm busy working my way through the lessons here on GN and in the books I picked up. I do, however, see myself looking for an instructor some time this year so appreciate the threads on finding a good instructor.

Thanks to everybody for keeping GN informative and civilized (unlike some other forums I've been on).

Joe