You know Backafter20, my story is similar to yours.
I flew Control line back when I was in the Navy stationed in Memphis, TN.
Built a couple of Flight Streaks and had a ball. Watched a friend or two build and obliterate their RC trainers, and decided that I wasn't a good or fast enough builder to invest all that time for a all too brief of a flight.

Fast forward 25 years later....Thank heaven for ARF's...and the irony is I still have the Easy 2 that I learned on from 6 years ago....go figure...