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I started learning guitar because I love the instrument. What ever you can play on guitar at any level sounds great if you take time to learn to play it clean.
I had a job playing trumpet in a 7-piece rock band the day I brought a guitar to the gig the first time.
I had a guitar rhythm line in mind that I wanted to play on just one of the tunes on our list. I had worked that guitar line over enough at home to where I could play it really tight with what the other band members were doing and I was really proud of it - but my band mates swiped my guitar and hid it. I got no respect .
I lived to prove myself but that first night was rough.
I learned that we buy tools as the job reqiures them. I learned chords as the new songs I added to my list required me to use them.
This we we can see how the new chords fit in with the chords we already know - begining with majors, then minors, sevenths then 9ths, 11ths and 13ths and using augmenteds and diminished chords going in and out or bridges in songs.
I had a book containing 2,404 chords for guitar and another book with 6,404, but most of these are different inversions of the same chord in all possible places on the neck.
There aren't that many different chords - even in all possible keys. I don't know the actual number but the total is very finite and learnable by most any duffer like me if we're lucky enough to find the time.

Say you're 51 today hey? Well best to you, sir.
May your name be on the lips of every pretty girl in town. May your wages be raised. May you perpetually sing and play in tune. May all your paths lead downhill and may the wind at your back not be your own.
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Used to work as a rural letter carrier.
There were some goobers on my route with plywood and too much time on their hands who would construct home made mail boxes.
They got the credit, I got the splinters opening them.
Here's some homemade mailbox blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gre4g-WfcWs

You darn skippy I'm jealous.
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You are guitar rich, Jerry. Congratulations.
My wife will let me buy a second tuba as soon as I demonstrate to her satisfaction that I can play both of them at the same time.
She lets me keep a mid-70's Yamaha 350W acoustic and a 1960  Gibson ES 330 for my electric axe.
Always loved the Fender neck and the unique sound. Anybody wants to buy me a Tele, I would be eternally grateful.
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You shouldn't be "shocked" to be added to a play list. Your music is wonderful. I am a fan too.
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NELA, I have a wicker padded high stool for gigging. It has no back but is very comfortable and the rungs have my thigh parrallel to the floor so the git fiddle stays put.
Old Doll, back rubs are my specialty.
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bassman5011,
A couple of years ago we traveled from the Gulf Coast of Alabama to Caseville, Michigan to play three concerts at "Cheeseburger in Caseville" - a week long Parrothead party. What a good time it was. They put us up on a 45 foot boat in the harbor. We played two outside venues and one smoky bar. Three of us drove straight through in a Jeep Cherokee pulling our huge P.A. in a U-Haul trailer. One drove, one napped in back and the third kept the driver awake and amused. Caseville had no cell phone service at all.
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Taylor guitars is putting out a new 3/4 size model guitar to replace the baby Taylor with a snap-in pickup, no batteries needed and a volume control on the patch chord where it enters the guitar.

Really? I heard whisky was invented to prevent the Irish nation from taking over the world.
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I bought a cheap roll around office chair at WalMart. It creaks loudly. It has no arms. Handy for guitar picking.                                                   When I sold my Pontiac, my grandson wanted a proper office chair so I got him an expensive one with arms. It is quiet. He likes it. I don't. Leaning back is impossible in an armchair and playing guitar is impractical.
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Light gauge strings go out of tune more easily.
This is aggravating with 12 strings to tune.
Heavier strings are harder to fret. On a 12 string,
barre chords may be more difficult or impossible to make when you change to heavier gauge strings.
If extra lights or light gauge are too much trouble to tune, medium lights may be a practical compromise.