That's a great point to make Woody! I have a whole-house surge protector installed at the main box plus have the Mini plugged into a surge protected...
My Mac Mini has been on for probably 7 years, the last 3-4 with a WD Duo attached via USB. It not only works as my main archival location for images...
I may have missed this in some other comments... But have you looked at the Tamron 70-200 f2.8 G2. I have one, and I really love it. I have to admit...
I wear glasses and went from right eye dominant to left eye dominant after my brain altering health issues and because of that I really am not a fan...
I have an AD200 and I do utilize Magmod lighting modifiers etc. There is this one thing i had struggled a bit to use. Seemed, unlike everything else...