Joe--My curiousity about you is boundless. Everything I have learned about you so far--what you say in interviews, what Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Morse or any other musician says about you is so amazing, inspiring and enriching. I want to play my guitar every day with all my heart and learn, learn, learn--give and receive! Ry Kihn does you proud!

Your love/generousity is palpable and I am thankful!

Satch fan for life,

I posted some videos of me playing Satch songs. I used the backtracks that Maritime gave the link for (thanks Maritime). but they are only viewable to people on my friends list. And I can only record up to 2 minutes of video :'( so anyways There's: Crushing day, If I could Fly, There was Super Colossal (but I noticed a HUGE error and deleted it) Crystal Planet, Revelation and I just uploaded Ten Words. But I can only record the first 2 minutes of each song, so that sucks. anyways if you want to see them, you have to be my friend on facebook. Matt Schoenbeck, got a picture of me playing guitar and doing the Satch Scream. add me and tell me who you are so I don't delete you.

and If you do see the videos I kinda messed up on Crushing day, nothing major, my finger slipped and made a weird note, and in If I Could Fly one note didn't ring out the way it was supposed to, but other wise they are just my slightly modified versions of the songs ENJOY!

The question in the office today is "what's a store-bought woman" Neil Diamond?

Alexandre, big congratulations on your news, your whole world is about to change :) And happy birthday poppa!! Next year you'll have a lil "helper" to assist you in opening presents, lol....or at least watch from his momma's lap and gurgle happy noises at you :)

Chelle, glad u had fun watching A do all the work...bet he just looooooooooooves snow days, eh? :)

slan...there are definitely times I prefare stun guns... tasers....etc. They do come in handy, LOL! And oh, I saw that whole movie Ghost Ship....naaaaaasty part, that was....

Millie, sorry, if I could send Cali some rain I would. Right now we're just cold...with little bits of snow here and there. Things are getting tough all over, between the weather, the economy, loss of jobs....so many troubles out there. No wonder I come home and go straight to my room.

Wonder how Mc is faring with the German peoples.....

Cube, I'm thinking Al is over in Germany making part II of this vid. That's what I'm thinking anyways...

Skippygirl, thousands of homes here in the states with no power due to the ice storm that just blew through. Kansas got hit hard! It sucks to be that hot or that cold. Rafa - ohh-la-la!

GGirl, Al is working on a song, but it's the one I posted to Cube above. lol!

I spent the last 7 hours or so on the sofa with a bitchin' sinus headache. It feels like somebody is standing on my face with a high heel digging in right above my left eye. Some ppl never get headaches. I think I get their share :- /

Ahh well, I prefer a headache over being giddy in the belly any day.

OH, some good news before I go to bed - my pop has been "dismissed" by 2 of his doctor's, and won't be needing another round of chemo like they thought he would. His scans and blood work came back pretty good, so for now he's good to go. The other doctors told him they'll check him again in a year, and the doc he saw on Tuesday said he'll check him again in 3 months. YAY!

Michelle - oooh sounds ugly - at least if your power goes out here in a heatwave you go to the pool or the beach, if it's cold it's bloody hard to warm up unless you light a fire or go out and ski.

Dang it's hot tho - I have to keep re-tuning the guitar to practice.

Alexandre - Congratulations....hope you love your gift!

Hugs Satriella xx

Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either, just f---off and leave me alone.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a flat tyre.

The darkest hours come just before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbour's milk and newspaper, that's the time to do it.

Sex is like air. It only becomes really important when you aren't getting any.

Don't aspire to become irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

Remember, no-one is listening until you fart.

Never forget that you are unique, like everyone else.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

If you think nobody cares whether you're dead or alive, try missing a couple of mortgage payments.

Before you judge someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you judge them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

If at first you don't succeed, avoid skydiving.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Have you ever lent someone $20 and never seen that person again? It was probably worth it.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Some days we are the flies; some days we are the windscreen.

Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time.

Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

There are two theories about how to win an argument with a woman. Neither one works.

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much if your lips are moving.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

When we are born we are naked, wet, hungry, and we get smacked on our arse. From there on in, life gets worse

29 ways to annoy people

1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 7 inch paper, 99 copies.

2. If you have a glass eye, tap on it with your pen while talking to others.

3. Sing along at the Opera.

4. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up".

5. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think".

6. Practice making fax and modem noises.

7. Highlight irrelevant material in scientific papers and cc. them to your boss.

8. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.

9. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.

10. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the cartridge across the room.

11. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

12. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way".

13. Staple papers in the middle of the page.

14. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.

15. Honk and wave to strangers.

16. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.

17. TYPE ONLY IN UPPERCASE.

18. type only in lower case.

19. Buy a large number of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

20. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?", "What?", "Never mind, it's gone now".

21. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

22. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce, "No, wait, I messed it up" and repeat.

23. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.

24. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage".

25. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

26. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.

27. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble the answers in a notebook. Mutter something about psychological profiles".

28. Tell your friends 4 days prior, that you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.

Some things are so stupid that they make sense

This makes a lot of sense.................

Drafting Guys over 60

----this is obviously written by a Former Soldier----

New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60!

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.

For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.

An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical S-of-a-B....

If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in combat and didn't see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.

***How about recruiting Women over 50 ...with PMS !!! You think Men have attitudes !!! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!!

Michelle--Thanks for setting me straight about Al! lol!

Maritime--I promise I will not send you into a rant again about religion, spirituality and what you consider nonsense. Spirituality gives me comfort--that is another story. You could always put your lawyer in touch with my lawyer and take me to the International Criminal Court at the Hague where I would have to argue my case for a religion/way of life I was raised in, however, you may not like hearing what I have to say. Anyway, I have a new assignment--finding out who this Dr. Clogs is and joining him for a cup of Joe....uhh....espresso...Viennese...dutch style! ;-)

Tracie--I don't feel like doing much outside my room either...I just want to play my guitar and find out what I can do for musicians who have given their all for fans like us.

Ozzy_Fud--I like your attitude! Have you ever met an 18 carrot wabbit or are they mostly into 14 carrots? They would be stupid for not sharing with you! That's greed for you!

Maritime--Who is this Dr. Clogs character? Have I met him somewhere?