Castle48: Nice to see you, hope life's been good to ya

Ibanezplyr: Hi Randell, How's things? Night Ranger, used to love em.. Have you talked to Steven W lately? please let himknow he's still in my thoughts & prayers.

Do The Stu: Hey Austin! Nice all-american lunch...Wish they had In-N- Out on the East Coast.

Slashroom: Hi Roy!! hope all's well with y & family. thanks for the history lesson on Ireland, kuul stuff!

Cappy Steve: Cheers mate

Satriella: Thanks for the emails! Loved hearing about your CF show with Dave. I'm off this week, wrapping things up Dr's ,movers etc so I'll get back to yah....you'll be needing to make a pot of tea. ;-)

Clarky: Hope the tours going well...Miss ya!!

Happy 4th of July USA! the party still continues tonight with Fireworks in the area. Hope it's a safe weekend for everyone stateside & our Troops overseas.

My life has been like a Texas Flood since I popped in after 2 CF shows....caught up in a whirlwind, but it's all good! The CF shows were just incredible. Took me a few days to recover....then had to prepare for a job interview in Boston the following week. I had a really good feeling about it.... Sunday, the day b4 we looked a house (foreclosure) Nice 3 bedroom Ranch, hardwood floors etc only 10 yrs old on 1/4 acre corner lot. We didn't' know how much the bank wanted but it was perfect for us. 6/8 my interview went great!! Beautiful new Radiation Therapy dept yet to open....7/1 the 1st pt was to start. The people are just so nice, looking forward to being part of a great team. By Friday I had accepted the official offer (+ negotiated some great bonuses) and started the pre-approval mortgage process for the house. There were a few other offers but I got to counter-bid and on July17th my offer was accepted!! So much paperwork involved but that's okay. Looking forward to finally being with my husband, 6/28 was our 9 month wedding anniversary. we'll be together for our 10 month. 8/24 is my last day at work, been there for close to 11yrs. Been busy getting estimates from Movers & wrapping things up here.... it'll be wonderful to have my stuff back from Storage. Hallelujah! I start my new job 8/3 btw; I'd taken my new CF CD on the drive up to Boston, was sitting next to me in the sun......all of a sudden it MORPHED... the cover appeared from out of the black! I didn't know that it was heat sensitive. Very cool. he-hee!

Mikesb: Chad totally kicks ASS! He was so funny....must be Will Farrell's twin, even has the same funny bone! lmao I got to meet Sammy & his bud Emeril Lagasse at the NYC show... I went to the ladies room & got locked in. I had to leave out the "back way" and as I was Sammy & Emeril were just leaving ..... Emeril was hot about something, I said "Hey Emeril, BAM! (stupid I know..) he just looked at me, kept talkin to Sammy and their wives. I went up to Sammy & told him "Great show Sammy!" He gave me a big hug said "thanks darlin"& asked if I was with them and coming out....I stupidly said "no, I came up from Philly but I will see him tomorrow night at the show". I think my husband wouldn't of been very happy if I went out partying with them. I probably wouldn't of made it to the show in Philly either...Sammy was hurting, he didn't have his usual "Beer Bucket" it was H2O instead.I'd taken the train in & caught the next to last train home as it was. I got the setlist from Michael Anthony's tech Dougie after the Phiily show. Nice. Will you be coming down for any shows?

Skippygirl: I was front & Center for CF NTC & PA gigs! I got to sing into Sammy's mic ("Oh Yeah" in NY and "Highway Star" in Philly) You can see it on the clip u posted (can't realy see me tho).Totally awesome! you can see the back of my head & my friend John in the CF drumstick holder clip the Michelle posted, It's when she climbs up on stage. What an incredible night...actually lasted 2 days. lol

Gotta have Joe: Congrats on Graduation & the scholarship Kayla!! Awesome.

axeshredderjc: Hey Joe!! Can't wait to see ya at the next CF show....won't be long now! it was so awesome sharing CF with you, one incredible night!! Can't wait to do it again. you'll get to meet my husband @ the HOB show. His Bday is the night b4!

Michelle: Was so great to see you @ the CF show!! So glad I could help out with the sticks and umbrella. (one was an awesome catch! lol) looking forward to rockin out again with you in AC! HOB does not allow photography of any kind. Unfortunate, they can be real nasty bout it.Don't know if they've changed their policy...hope so. Sorry to hear about your son. Hope he's feeling better & you're having a good 4th too.

WAKE UP!!

I just heard "Soap on a Rope" as the outro to a commercial during the Wimbledon mens Final!...I like that!

YAY! I just took my son's temp and it was NORMAL for the first time since last Sunday! He hasn't taken any Advil today either, so it was a true reading. He says he's feeling better today, so hopefully the swine is leaving the building!

Read that the ginger kid from Harry Potter just had the swine flu too, but his was a mild case and it was over in a few days.

Lawd, lawd, lawd I hope the rest of us (or any of you) don't get sick.

Now on another sunny note - our fridge compressor sounds like it's on it's last leg this morning. *sigh* My husband is getting ready to operate on it. Seems they hooked up the ice maker water pipe right into the main water pipe with no shut off valve - just in case you want to unhook the fridge water pipe. He's looking for tools - a blow torch, stuff like that. It's gonna be a long day...especially with the extra added bonus of a slight hangover. LOL!

What's a Luini magnet? It's a picture of young Jon sitting at a desk, working on a big old desktop computer, and looking back over his shoulder. The caption above it reads "World's Best Webmaster" He also has a lovely chai mug with the same picture on it. lmao!!!

HEY JOE Check out this vid someone made of Learning To Fall

Michelle....---"I'm bored out of my effin mind and the rest of the community is partying it up :-/

Me no likey quarentine on my favorite day of the year."

I take no pleasure in hearing you are bored and your loved one(s) are ill. I take no pleasure in raging and acting out here or anywhere.

It grieves me to hear you are in such a way. ;-( I hope your situation improves.........especially since a common parent/adult responsibility is to care for, watch with and heal the sick. I have NO DOUBT you are up to this important task.

Sammy Hagar is so right when he sings that we need a new view of the world (Get it Up and The Future's in the Past)......healing the sick isn't boring to me.....it is challenging, not boring and it shouldn't be burdensome when lifted out of my own silly, sorry self-interests to a larger, brighter view. As a human I struggle (as I'm sure all of us do at times) with demons that would dash my hopes, dreams, life prospects. Yet, I know that a wider, larger, brighter outlook will prevail......in the end.......which is only a part of the journey along the unending road.

To those of you who are interested, my inspiration is music, poetry, The New English Bible (Scottish Bible?) and other translations, Bill Moyers' Journal and various writers in Salon.com and the New York Times.

Listening to Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Allison Kraus album on CD.

Ahhhh.......Just saw your most recent post......good to hear your son is feeling better. I hope your important kitchen appliance is repairable so ya don't have to part with hard-earned cash to buy a new one.

The middle income ppls and low income ppls are in the same income/cost bind.....food, shelter, transportation costs drain what little we earn and have saved. We need to hold President Obama's and congress people's feet to the fire........what the heck is government for anyway???

Hope ya all have a good Sunday.

Millie, as long as I know the illness is temporary - it's just a blip on the screen. It's the long term ones that suck hard. Best to you and yers.

Cappy, my daughter wanted me to pull a minivan out of my ass so we can move her stuff back up to college NOW instead of waiting for my friend who owns said minivan to get back from vacation so we can borrow it. Money is hard enough to pull out of yer ass, but a minivan - that's gonna take a bit of work.

Speaking of long term health/medical conditions, my Steve had 2 recent blood tests and they were mishandled in the lab,.... they called it an accident ;-(. Now he has to go back yet again to Stanford for another blood draw.....yeah, it sucks!......I hope one day the doctors will level with us and just say there's nothing more that can be done. Then we go back to Steve's primary doctor who can treat some other probs he's having that were put on hold. Also, the neuropsychiatrist takes over and we get to talk with the best psychiatrist at Stanford and get his progressive course of treatment. He is one of the most compassionate people I have met.

RedJeanette--Welcome to T2J. In answer to your question about Joe's other albums, my first were Crystal Planet and Engines of Creation. My favorite album is Crystal Planet because to me it is the best of Joe Satriani--just my opinion. He has a lot of good ones including Is There Love In Space and One Big Rush......give 'em a good listen before you decide.

wolf2--Are you taking seratonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs)? I'm taking one and have found over time they stop working....Then it's back to the doc to find something else.....endless medication loop.......SIGH!!! ;-/

Listening to ... Reunited - track 2

I'm tellin' ya, the guy that wrote this is a genius!

track 3 - even more gad damn genius!

ibanezguitars - Thanks for that Bron Yr Aur link...that's just about all of the song I've worked through so far, so it's nice to know that I'm doing it correctly. I like how it's filmed...I haven't seen a lot of instructional videos, but this is the first one I've seen that's shown upside-down (from the player's point of view). More videos should be like that.

Here is a video of a kid playing the song...this is actually the one that made me want to learn it. I figure if he can do it, why can't I? ;-)

If the whole thing will look like the Revelation video that we first saw, I can see it taking a LONG time for the director to get it right. Or, since a lot of people here didn't like that style, maybe Joe decided to scrap it and start over? I think it's more likely to be already finished, though...

Any plans to see (or have you already seen) Aerosmith on their current tour?

Just had a family listening party to my son's bands first cd! My husband & the kids recorded it in the basement, and my hubs mixed it, and now has to wait for the cover art to be done to send the whole shebang to Cali. to make copies.

We're all excited.

Yep, if only he had more songs...