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I got a text yesterday from my daughter's boyfriend. He wants to buy me dinner and tonight "To talk about Amy"..... I think this could be a big moment (and I'm a sucker for tradition)

I've got 90,000 pounds in my pajamas. I've got 40,000 French francs in my 'fridge. I've got lots of lovely lira, and the Deutschmark's getting dearer, And my dollar bills could buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

What's crazy is that Jack did that while juggling a serious career along with tending to his duties as a husband and a father... and dog walker to two burly bulldogs. lolz I have none of that and haven't managed to achieve a fraction of what Jack did on "The Goonch" It's truly a marvelous achievement considering he did almost everything himself...

I managed to get the mother of all brown sounds that I have been able to achieve without diming my Super Reverb. 1). 1st pedal in chain - BOSS CS-3 (level,tone and attack all @ max, sustain at 9:30) 2). Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret (MKII?) set to Super Lead and with Tone @ 2:00, Loudness and Gain @max 3). ISP Decimator (regular non G string) into my 1966 Princeton Reverb (treble-10, bass-4.5, reverb-4) I can get a good bedroom level with volume on 2 I couldn't get the DLS to work quite right without chaining up the CS-3 (my Tone Press was simply not up to the job). It was really weird that I got the tone and the feel with the sustain so damn low... I have none of the noticeable squish and sag of using a good amount of sustain but seem to have sustain for days. So, the Catalinbread DLS is supposed to be a "stackable" pedal and I can attest to it's glory when paired with the right pedal and a magic amp... by itself, it was irritatingly close to what I was looking for but just far enough away to make me think that the answer to the brown sound lay elsewhere. My soul is jumping up and down inside, this is truly some serious s**t that I am experiencing (I can't wait to try an EP-3 preamp clone in the chain too). I feel like this guy.

If i email a picture of a pen, can you use it to not sign the Kindle that i don't have? Making no sense and adding absolutely no value to the HFC since 2008.

Maybe I could just send my Kindle and you'all could sign that? Creating problems for the HFC since 1999.

You could do signed bookplates. Some could just stick a piece of paper with your signature on their Kindle while reading your book. Solving problems for the HFC since 1997.

April 15th was the 103rd day straight I'd worked. Been off since Monday. Feelin' fine.

I got my MG122 (Burnsy) back from the shop today, with a Lawrence L500 in the bridge (the Duncan 59 stayed put, inna neck), a Schaller 5-way switch (some really cool/useful coil combinations), a setup and 3 finish chips restored, via red Sharpie, Loctite & wet sand. Sounds like a million bucks, plays easy and the dark cherry burst over that amazing quilt still has me in a trance.

Don't undersell yourself Geoff! You have a pretty farging cool gig man. This really underscores the incredible talent here on the HFC...

This was an hour and a half ago when I got home... http://smg.photobucket.com/user/fretwear/media/April19.jpg.html'> edit- Note the ladder, cuz I was already on my roof, cleaning gutters. Note the cute yard wagon all tipped up, cuz I've already raked out my garden, flower beds, and compost. Note the fucking hummingbird feeder, covered with snow in the foreground.... I ain't shovelling this no mo' ........

Jol sent me a pic of the Redwood top he will be using on my new guitar - OH BOY...SICK...

Update: The layout sheets arrived. It's what the book will actually look like. If I could describe it in one word, I'd probably pick "wow!" They knocked this one out of the park. A few caption and photo edits and we're ready for the printer!!