[starsailor]

It's only my opinion but I'd get the basic chords down and work on the changes for them, the power chords will be useful as they get your hands moving around the fretboard so that will benefit you Tommy and also help with getting used to changes and timing, what kind of music do you like? I had a book when I started off but I didn't like the songs in it and I wanted to play songs by bands I liked, I learnt a a few chords and then looked for songs with those chords in them and after a month or so I could play those songs I wasn't great but I could recognize the song so I knew I'd made progress, you need a bit of structure in your practice though that's the best way forward so you need to have an idea of what you want to achieve from learning guitar and remember what made you want to play guitar, it's also important to enjoy practicing, if nothing's going right in a session it's best to walk away and relax a bit otherwise you'll go nuts, we do have to practice but we also need to enjoy doing it.