Picking up the piano again

So for the last seven years or so, I haven't really been making any progress with music.  Perhaps several factors are to blame.  First and foremost, I don't have a piano.  I sold a Kurzweil weighted 88-key keyboard awhile back and have regretted it ever since.  So I've basically been stuck with my guitars.  I'm not saying that I don't love my axe but for some reason, I can't write songs on the guitar.  Actually, I'm not much of a songwriter at all.  Well, maybe I'm not a lyricist.  I can write music to lyrics so maybe that makes me a composer.  In that respect, I've been successful as a composer in the past.  But only on the piano.  With the guitar, I'm more of a glorified cover artist, and I haven't even been covering many artists lately so that leaves me stagnant.  I was watching an interviewing with the young Bob Dylan recently and he mentioned that he writes his songs on piano, not guitar.  "Gutiar is too hard".  That kinda baffled me.  I guess not everyone can be a Jack Johnson.  Damn you and your clever sense of melody.

So anyway, I recently purchased an M-Audio 88-key midi controller.  Yeah, I know... it's a midi controller.  But "given the economy", that's all I can really afford at the moment.  So in a nutshell, I'm going to re-acquaint myself with the ivories and see if I can once again reconnect with the enjoyment of playing the piano.  Fun! =)