Brother al........ What the hell is that all about?

michelle........Thanks for your kind words. As for the arresting officer. He was a young cop on a power trip and that came from the cop that shook our hands. Well we knew that. Anyway, It just was nice for a cop to fess up like that. As we all know that don't happen a lot if ever. I was a little taken back but apology excepted lets move on. Reguards to the robbery. Turns out it started on Fri. night through out various sections of the town. They hit 35-40 cars. There's an retired Sherrif that lives 11/2 blocks from me. He got hit and they even took his badge from the glove compartment. One guy got a hold of one of the robbers and had him by the legs. The robber took his boot off and was beating this guy on his head untill he let go. The dude had a mild concussion and identified them as two Hispanic boys in there 20's. The evidence cop took prints from my boys cars and said they got good prints and they could catch them from the prints. My boys had to be finger printed to eliminate there prints off there cars. You're right you feel violated. You just don't think it will happen in your nieborhood. Sometimes I think these guys come from Chicago which is only 20 mile straight East from our town.They case out the town and then hit it. Who knows? With the random bugleries all over town I may not be far off. Will see ...I hope they catch them. Nice ending to this fairy tail......IMHO....LOL......What else can U do? Like you said I'm glad no one was hurt. It just.....well..... SUCKS.

Stevee T....... Like I said I missed something. Thanks for clearin' that up for me. I thought it was the name given to the guitar based on the serial #'s. ie: 00001,00002,00003 etc.

Have A Good DAY ! ! ! !

BrotherAl

You'd cause a riot in an empty house, so you would!

Stevee T, No idea about sales dude, i,ve not been in touch with Ronnie for a while, although i,m not guessing hard by thinking its not enough to pay the poor sod back what hes put in,lol.I,ve been well out of touch with many things due to what i last posted, i,m guessing maybe one week more & i,m back in the driving chair again.Have been talking to the players from the last pro act i played in,must talk to Ron b4 i go on, but so far getting back to gigging is looking possible again,fingers crossed

Cheese 101:As always, keeping the head up, no point lookin forward or back, living for the moment is everything it seems.I,m off t the bar for a much needed beer i,ve been dry for three weeks! a new record for me!

Zen- all is well bro, i,ll mail y tom, a lot of stuff happening at mo

svk:I can only imagine, to bring something like that to a world audience would be nothing short of..... no i cant find the word, ah wait............nope

marimari:How did y get on in Scotland?I,m guessing, got pissed on & got pissed then was pissed,lol

Good evening Satchland!

I just put my two sons (7 and 9 years) to sleep. I did it in our almost forgotten traditional way by playing some nice and easy music (from my stereo) for them after good night kisses (including all the nice stories/questions they always start shooting, when they are supposed to get to sleep)... And as usual (when not playing guitar myself), I played mr Satriani's "(You're) My World" and "Sittin' 'Round" for the Grande Finale => those are just perfect for this purpose, they always drop! ... anyway, that reminded me about this place, so I desided to drop a few lines...

I missed mr Vai's gig... once again... They sold out the tickets in half an hour... at that time I didn't even know about the whole thing...... I've seen him with DLR... and in G3... but never in a solo gig.................... somebody smack me! ... harder, please!

LucySorets: Thank You for remembering me. I miss you all, but there are just too many messages here for me to keep up with... I've got my family to share my time with, I'm sure you all understand my choise.

...Well, speaking of the (She)Devil, my lovable wife came just home... she was riding (a horse) as every tuesday evening... I wonder if she had enough (of riding)... gotta go.

Michelle: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/special+edition/ just when y thought, its over, lol

OMG!! The badgers have infiltrated the castle!!

LMMFAO!!! Good one Slan! Thanks for the laugh :)

it is bro rite???

wow!! read like some 26 pages today!!!! logged in at about 11:30 pm (i think) & its 2:10 AM now!!! my head's spinning!

nite all!

'A is for Apple' on iPod

The Dallas Morning News - CARROLLTON – Even kindergartners are bringing iPods to class these days. But schools in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch district aren't confiscating the portable music players. They're paying for them.

The district's kindergartners jack up Apple iPods during class to help master vocabulary. In all grades, English as a second language students use the devices to learn the language.

"They beg for it," said Katie Stemmermann, a kindergarten teacher at Country Place Elementary. "They don't think of it as homework. It's a good connection between school and home, taking the classroom home."

What started in August as a pilot program in five schools could extend to all 27,000 students as part of the district's plan to use leisure technology to engage kids.

The district already has programs that give computers to families. It also lends PlayStations to elementary students for math games.

"It's a good way to break down those classroom walls," said Andy Berning, the district's chief technology officer. "Plus, it's inspiring and relevant to the kids, using tools that they use."

Carrollton-Farmers Branch is one of a handful of districts across the country finding ways to use iPods in schools. The idea came from Duke University, which gives iPods to all incoming freshmen.

The district bought 100 full-size iPods in August as part of a $31,000 pilot program involving two middle schools and two high schools. A private foundation bought 16 smaller iPod Shuffles for three kindergarten classes.

At Country Place Elementary School, ESL and native English speakers take turns bringing home 16 iPods. The iPods play 10 sing-along songs with familiar tunes but altered lyrics, such as "Hippo Hop," which is sung to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle."

Henrietta Hippo and Harvey too, went to the hop at the Zippity Zoo. They wiggled their hips and their tummies too, as they danced the hoola hoop at the hullabaloo.

"Phonemic awareness is the No. 1 tool for reading success," Ms. Stemmermann said. "Playing with the language is so important, being able to manipulate words."

There's no consensus in Ms. Stemmermann's kindergarten class on which song is best. " 'Marvin the Monkey' – it's so good," said Leo Cortez, 6.

Benito Otiniano prefers "Apple Annie." It helped him learn such words as apple, alligators and astronauts, he said.

Students do agree on one thing: "It's good homework," said Nicholas Omar, 5. "I feel happy when I take it home."

As the students progress, teachers change the content. The kids pick up the new vocabulary quickly but struggle to comprehend one of the rules.

"We have to tell them, 'You have to bring it back,' " said Lisa Stewart, another kindergarten teacher at Country Place. " 'You're borrowing it. You have to bring it back so your friends can use it, too.' "

The pilot program includes four other teachers at two middle schools and two high schools. Most of the iPods are used for English language learners.

At Newman Smith High School, a French teacher loads lessons onto iPods for his students, demonstrating Dr. Berning's goal: Get every student access to course lessons on MP3 files – the sound files used by iPods and other music players.

The idea is to get siblings and parents involved so that learning becomes a family affair. There's no way to monitor the content, so students could download other music files. But that's fine, so long as kids are also listening to the lessons, Dr. Berning said.

hey everyone, ive been gone for a while but im back. say does anyone here like john mayer at all? his new songs sound a lot like SRV and it sounds awsome.

slanshroom...it wasn't you with the operation...right..did I miss something?

big bad moon..welcome back....

Captain Steve - correction, Australia beat England in the one day series and were unlucky to lose the Ashes after losing the 2nd test by 2 runs, which would have given them a 2-0 lead. Also the English weather delayed play quite often!