maritime - trouble is there are nopt many gals on this site...so its far far far easier for a gal to get a guy than the other way round...

Not that I was looking at the time..it all kinda started as friends... I think cheese101 is single...not sure about the belgium, irish etc though...lol...or if she is looking for anyone.

Michelle, Tracie, Cube, McKenna;

I just want to give my blessing to A McKenna and M London and hope they can enjoy time together whether it be at a tea house, pub (such as Rosie McCanns in Santa Cruz or San Jose) or other meeting place of their choice.

Maritime--I am enjoying Marc Resch's book. I am now reading about the great engineering projects built over the last 5 or 6 centuries. The Netherlands is like California only the opposite when it comes to water abundance/scarcity. I think Cali could learn from Holland about how to manage water and engineer waterways according to our scarcity and drought conditions.

Joe--Why do I think I can take on more than is physically possible for me? That's how I set myself up for failure and deepen my depression. I know you are a musician and not a psychiatrist, but I know you have been through so much in life and may have some idea. I can only wish Tuesdays Child my best wishes and hope she and her children are well. Also, don't go the road alone....please accept help along the way.

Slanshroom, The Boleskine House sounds pretty interesting. There are plenty of places in Scotland, Ireland, and England that would be great for paranormal research purposes. Ireland and Scotland however would also be fun for me to trace my ancestral roots. I have traced my family on my father's side back to the 1500s and they were mostly centralized in Ireland with a few in Scotland.

I'd just like to go and walk where they walked and try to picture things as they may have been when my family lived there which at it's most recent was the early 1900's. Like I said I'm a bit of a history geek but history is so much more interesting when it involves people you are related to. I'd like to trace my mother's family back that far but it's been pretty rough so far. My dad's side was fairly ethnocentric, my mom's side has a big mix and it doesn't help almost everyone on my mom's side having large families. Oh well.

mikesb--What a great looking family you have. My very best wishes to you all. Tough times, yes......we are all in this together and if there is anything we can do for each other let me know.

They say the happiest days in life are the day you buy a boat and the day you sell it! Well, here's a good boat story!!

Joe and John were identical twins.

Joe owned an old dilapidated boat and kept pretty much to himself.

One day he rented out his boat to a group from out-of-state who sank it!

Joe spent all day trying to salvage as much stuff as he could and was out of touch all that day and most of the evening.

Therefore, Joe did not know that his brother John's wife had died suddenly that day.

When Joe got back on shore he went into town to pick up a few things at the grocery store. A kind old neighbor woman mistook him for John and said, "I'm so sorry for your loss. You must feel terrible."

Joe, thinking she was talking about his boat said, "Hell, no! Fact is, I'm sort of glad to be rid of her. She was a rotten old thing from the beginning. Her bottom was all shriveled up and she smelled like an old dead fish.

She was always holding water. She had a bad crack in the back and a pretty big hole in the front, too.

Everytime I used her, her hole got bigger and she leaked like crazy.

I guess what finally finished her off was when I rented her to those four guys who were looking for a good time.

I warned them that she wasn't very good and smelled bad. But they wanted her anyway. The darn fools tried to get in her all at one time and she split right up the middle!"

Hiya Maritime--I hope you're feeling stronger day by day. I want to visit Amstel-dam and the Hague when time and funds permit.

Blue_Moon--Whatever feels natural with ya and yer geetar is best. Don't pick up something that's to big or small or doesn't feel like it belongs to ya! Rock on, brother!

lluuuuuuuuucccaaasssssssss:

I think that's just a bit annoying.

I logged on and thought some major news had happened, but I was wrong, someone just thought it was groundhog day.

so anyways...

I loved Steve Irwin. You could see the passion he had for wildlife in everything he did. He wanted to make the world as passionate about critters as he was, and he made learning fun. He was a great dude and his life was cut way to short. His job could be dangerous, but lots of jobs are dangerous. He died way to young. I think he would have been the same guy if he was working for free. He was born to learn everything he could about animals and teach as many people as he could reach. It was in his blood. Any dangerous job has it's risks, and people take them every day to try to make the world a better place. Any one second lapse of judgment could kill any one of us at any time. Fux sake man, bad things happen to good people. He deserved to die a happy old man.

1 hour of posts = 14 pages ffs!

Lucas

damn dream theater are coming to the uk but only to southampton and leeds, both miles away from birmingham :(

if theres any Pink Floyd fans here you may enjoy a band called porcupine tree :)

that is all, hope youre having a better week than me......

CHECK THIS OUT!!

This is on the new Mike Portnoy In Constant Motion DVD i recently got.

Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, Billy Sheehan, Paul Gilbert, and Gary Cherone performs Amazing Journey and Sparks in tribute to The Who.

They feckin kill it! Check out the reproduction of Keith Moon's kit. So very odd, and yet, it turns out to be the shit. LOL!! I'd give my left nut to have seen that show!

Here's Mike's take on Keith Moon

ROO:- Not sure if you got the link i posted regarding vibrato,so here it is again.

Me,just dickin' around at my mates house!

I think this is worse than the brain dead Coldplay fan you guys had to fight off. For the record, if I had known you all better I would have helped you bash him but I think you did a great job.

Anyway what else is going on?

OZZY Thanks for the vid on Australia...You know I was considering a surf vacation package on the Gold Coast until I saw those Great Whites. Don't care much for the snakes either. I think if I visit OZ I'll skip the surfing.

prolly not.....

That is the reason I removed the statement I made yesterday, I saw that I had drawn a response and could only imagine 1000 responses so I removed it. I don't remember who it was but I am not being rude in not responding and I respect your opinion. I just don't feel it would be right to have Joe's site bombarded with that.

what is the secret......

wanker x 2