Jayzus Webby!! Only 4 years of photos to catch up on? Hope you have somebody to do yer laundry!

Thanks Mark!

Webmaster Mark, thanks! But the 'photos' link is broken ;-((

Hello everybody!!!

Hope you all are doing well. I got off work early because I was getting close to overtime so therefore, I can finally get caught up with most of you Satcheroos. All right, some green from Webmaster. AWESOME!!! Thanks Mark.

I ran in the cold last night with my running group and I did about six miles (in deep snow). Later, a couple of us did crunches and man did that hurt. Now my stomach and neck feels all weird. I have two races coming up on February the 8th and 14th. 5K Runs in each of them.

SuperDaveMcCarthy: How are you doing man? Hope you and your family are keeping warm. Keep in touch, bro.

js1200js1000 & death cube k: How are things going with you both up there in Canada? I just realized that in about a year from now, you guys will be hosting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. YOU CANADIANS ROCK!!!

Joe Satrini: Phil, how are you holding up, bro? I hope things are looking better. Every new day starts fresh my friend. Prayers to you and keep in touch.

Satriella: Satriella, how are things going with you? I hope you are doing well. Like those posts you put up. Keep in touch.

alexandrecaetano: Happy Birthday!!! Sorry it was a little late. That is actually the same day as my nephew's birthday and he turned six. We will celebrate his birthday over the weekend because a lot of us work. Congrats as well on becoming a father.

mikesb: Rascal, sorry to hear about Billy Powell. He was a great piano player for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Any news from the autopsy report?

Skippygirl: Hey Skippy, how are you doing with the guitar playing? I have been running. I have two races coming up in about a couple of weeks. One on Feb. 8th and one on the 14th. Both are 5K runs. Hey, if I come down to Australia and do a run, would you come and watch me?

Guitarman77897: Yo Matt!!! I have not heard anymore about the Coldplay thingamajig. All I know is that the Grammys are coming up on February the 8th and Coldplay is up for I think six, seven, or eight Grammys (don't know for sure). I'm kind of hoping that they don't win any, if you know what I am talking about. How's the guitar playing going and school?

michelle: How are you doing over there? I hope the weather is not becoming a problem to you and your loved ones. Good luck to the Steelers. I might be working on Super Bowl Sunday, but I do not know for sure yet.

Cheese 101 & GoldenGirl2: How are you both doing? I don't want to sound rude, and I know you both are busy, but I felt left out by you both because I write to you and you don't answer back. I hope you both are doing well with your family, jobs, etc.

Do The Stu: Long time since I have heard from you. I hope you are doing well. Keep in touch!!!

slashroom: How's everything in Spain going? Good luck to Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open. I think he has a chance of winning all four majors this year. What do you think?

keniko: How's everything going with you? My races are starting up soon, in about a couple of weeks. I am thinking about doing a marathon, so Chicago & Detroit are my best bets for now.

Blue_Moon: Hi Alan, how was Spain and Berlin? Where is a place that you can get cheap alcohol? As for me, I am going sober for a full month, for now. Until I get these two running races out of the way, then maybe I'll have a drink or two. Great video of you playing All Alone. I just glanced at your website and left a message in your guestbook. AWESOME!!!

Igneousiceman: How are things going with you? I have that one race (I told you about) coming up on a Sunday and another 5K Run on Saturday (same week as the first run).

cosmic ape, fatape, maritime, castle49, JS_JS, ibanezplyr, Ozzy_Fudd, and everyone else: What's up with all of you? My work and running is usual for me. Keep in touch you all.

i love it when the camera just sticks on joe.

A Train Of Angels - LIVE 18/04/1998 USA

hi Joe, please I just wanna know, waht hapens whit the SATCH ZONE??? because, my number of credit car y unavialable, I dont now what hapen.

Chadley, there's a 4 year waiting period to get pictures posted. Get in line for the splurge of new pics being sent and overloading Webby's email. LOL!

Skippygirl, I think I'd rather be cold, I'm not sure. I get really short tempered when I get that hot. I can't breathe, and then I wanna hurt people. Sad but true. Don't really wanna freeze either, but at least we have blankets and - if all else fails, kerosene heaters. We actually don't even have one of those, so we'd be pretty damn cold.

anibur, Glitz, yep, my pop is holding steady - thanks!

edit - woweewoowoo! Check out the VERY NICE photos from CodePoet in Atlanta!

Glitzy - due to the air con at our office exploding with the extreme heat I stayed at home today and got a luxurious 4 hrs of guitar noodling in. I read and practice the CAGED system and learnt all the notes on the 4,5,6 strings, and did fingering exercises.

Then I googled some songs and tried Cherry Cherry (too hard) Solitary Man (too hard) and hit on Leaving On a Jet Plane which was OK despite being hard to switch between G and C. My C is getting better too.

Also learnt some sections of "Brain Damage".

Have you been chanting out loud your verbal goal for your race? Keen to see if you notice an effortless improvement in your times. Good luck in any case and if you do ever run in Australia I would definitely come to watch :0).

Michelle - yes you have a point there. Perhaps it is easier to warm up than cool down. I still find it hard to believe you guys function, go to work, school etc in snow - how would I get around in my high heels?????

Good on Obama clever politics or not, that took balls

WEBMASTER - JON - Good to see some green- I Can't seem to get into the photo's you were talking about???

enjoy!

Ozzy-Fudd - that's bwilliant that post about the military...vey logical too...I agree!

Hideous puns for all you lexiophiles (lovers of words)

1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

2. What's the definition of a will? It's a dead giveaway.

3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

4. A backward [or dyslexic] poet writes inverse.

5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

6. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

7. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

8. Acupuncture is a jab well done.

9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.

16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

17. Every calendar's days are numbered. [In more ways than one.]

18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.

19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

22. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

29. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.

Feel free to groan now.

Hi glitzman - I is good....not sure what will happen about the divorce/finances now though as my ex has just been made redundant!

New words to think about...

TESTICULATING - Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.

BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS - The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

CUBE FARM - An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)

MOUSE POTATO - The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs - Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

STRESS PUPPY - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

XEROX SUBSIDY - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" needless paperwork and processes.

404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')

WOOFies - Well Off Older Folk.

CROP DUSTING - Surreptitiously farting while passing through a CUBE FARM, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.

The Ultimate Guy Quiz. How will you score?
1. In the company of females, intercourse should be referred to as:
a) lovemaking
b) screwing
c) the pigskin bus pulling into tuna town

2. You should make love to a woman for the first time only after you've both shared:
a) your views about what you expect from a sexual relationship
b) your blood-test results
c) five tequila slammers

3. You time your orgasm so that:
a) your partner climaxes first
b) you both climax simultaneously
c) you don't miss SportsCenter

4. Passionate, spontaneous sex on the kitchen floor is:
a) healthy, creative love-play
b) not the sort of thing your wife/girlfriend could ever agree to
c) not the sort of thing your wife/girlfriend need ever find out about

5. Spending the whole night cuddling a woman you've just had sex with is:
a) the best part of the experience
b) the second best part of the experience c) $100 extra

6. Your girlfriend says she's gained five pounds in the last month. You tell her that it is:
a) impossible - she looks too gorgeous!
b) not a problem, she can join your gym
c) a conservative estimate

7. You think today's sensitive, caring man is:
a) a myth
b) an oxymoron
c) a moron

8. Foreplay is to sex as:
a) appetizer is to entree
b) primer is to paint
c) a line is to an amusement park ride

9. Which of the following are you most likely to find yourself saying at the end of a relationship?
a) "I hope we can still be friends."
b) "I'm not in right now, please leave a message at the beep."
c) "Welcome to Dumpsville, population, YOU."

10. A woman who is uncomfortable watching you masturbate:
a) probably needs more time before she can cope with that sort of intimacy
b) is uptight and a waste of time
c) shouldn't have sat next to you on the bus in the first place

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Score 1 point for every answer "a"
Score 2 points for every answer "b"
Score 3 points for every answer "c"

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Skippygirl, you wear your boots to wherever you're going, then when you get there, you pull yer pair of heels out of your bag, and stash yer boots, and BAM - yer as cute as a bug once again.

Slan, when I saw that press conference on TV where Obama was talking about Wall Street, I wanted to stand up and cheer. Those a-holes have big brutha watching them now!!! LOL! I really hope he curbs all the excess bullshit they've been getting away with for years. All those corporate pukes too! The gov't gave them billions to bail them out. What did they do, they made sure they got their HUGE bonuses! I'm talking one bonus pay for one guy is more than I will ever see in a lifetime of working. They didn't put the money back into the companies for business purposes like they were supposed to, they put it straight into their pockets - and WE paid for it! We paid for the company cars, the huge vacations they take - not just one guy goes - he takes 12 members of his family, the company jets, the "business dinners - and we're losing our jobs, homes, health care, savings, and the American dream goes right down the toilet. As long as it doesn't effect jokers like Bush and the good ol' boys - it's business as usual. They refuse to see what their greed has done.

Ohhh, now I gotta go walk it off! lol!

Glitz Man--I've been busy playing my guitar, working, taking care of my Steve, keeping the house up and tryin to keep me healthy. Sorry if I haven't written to you of late. So much goin on.

Webmasters Jon and Mark--Thank you for sending us your message about the pictures. So much in life to do and so little time. I mean, we all need our sleep and quiet times.

Maritime--You are between England and Deuschland, with only the North Sea between your country and England. That's quite a unique place in this world. You have had to get along with so many people from so many different countries over the centuries. If you want to bring me before the International Criminal Court for my silly upbringing (could be a crime that I was born) and any other crimes I may have committed over my 52 years on this planet go ahead. I stand before you a naked faced woman (yes....no makeup and no earrings (no piercings) and simple clothing (T shirts, jeans and ECCO shoes (no high heels, at least I want my feet to be comfortable after all these years) and will stand with my lawyer and face you and your lawyer for whatever wrongs I have done, starting with a hearing.........a woman in mourning! (What ever happened to the REAL girl with the pearl earring?)

Michelle, Tracie and McKenna--You three are a great comfort to me. So many songs to be written.

I am learning these chords Am, C, D, Em, E, G and G7. My guitar is so kind to me. My fingers are slowly yielding to practice. I am also learning to play in both directions with my right hand. Up, up, up, up.....down, down, down.

What is going on with the new group? Joe ...Sammy Hagar, RHCP drummer, and (agh!) Michael Anthony?

Sad to see Joe in such a commercial band. I would much prefer to see Satch continue to put out solo instrumental albums.

DManStrat--Joe is an experiental, instrumental, virtuoso guitarist who does what his [heart] tells him to do.

Maritime--Who is Geert Wilders? Why does he want to ban the Koran from the Netherlands? The name of the article I got this from is "Totally Tolerant, Up to a Point" in the New York Times, Friday edition. Another case or cause for the International Criminal Court in the Hague, right? Let's figure this out together. We still occupy planet earth together! What about intolerance stopping here like "the buck stops here!"