I am finding that it is harder and harder to come up with a concept or scheme where I can make some prototyping surfaces and have on hand to use for experimenting. My solderless breadboards are nice, but sometimes I wonder if stray capacitance, inductance and Lord only knows what else will be present when going that route. Attaching pads to a chunk of old PCB scrap is OK till you you get in a hurry and the glue has not set long enough. I have an islander drill bit and that is fun, but it is a one time use method. Then there is the virtual world of LTSpice, but you can spend way too much time in that area and forget to go back to the workbench to solder it and see if it really works!

If anyone out there has some tired and true ideas, I would love to hear about them. I really enjoy spending lots of time here in the shack and snuffing fumes...but I need to get a bit more organized in how I approach laying out circuits...sometimes I get to the point of now it is time to solder and spend more time trying to make that happen compared to all the other time spent getting to that point.