Ozzy, so sorry to hear your news....you hang in there, k? I know this is the absolute pits right now and it prolly feels like life will never be happy again....you will eventually come out the other side of this, but it will take time, and if you need to vent, we have lots of ears...and shoulders... here.

Burly, how's yer daughter?

I guess it's officially pouring. Now my mom is sick and had to go to the ER. They're doing chest x-rays now. Dunno if she has pneumonia or what?

This is as good a time as any to say it. Fuck!

Funny The Way It Is

Hang in there Ozzy, no matter if it's one or 20 years, it's never easy to go thru such a big change, the one thing I can suggest is do not go thru it alone. Friends, family, lean on them and move on.

mikesb:ah the beauty of facebook

Damn Ozzy!

Joe - when you first picked up the guitar what was the order of things you learnt over, say, the first year?

I know you were 14 and probably had 23 hrs per day to play but generally, what did you learn first, second, third etc?

Michelle - Things have got to get better for you.

hey axe; cool beans, good luck with the new band and post some vid or audio when you guys get going!

A few good tweets from today so far -

StephenAtHome glad U.S. never accepted any statues from scotland. who wants laddy liberty?

jimgaffigan Exactly what is the difference between an anchovy and a sweaty eyebrow?

RevRunWisdom The emptiest people are those who are full of themselves

Now...Let's Dance!

C'mon peeps,we can do the Philadelphia Mummers strut to Led Zeppelin :-)

Jayzus, what a freakin' week!

Quote of the day...

"There's a toggle switch to get you into WAH 2 mode"

Is YOUR toggle switch in the right WAH mode?

These and other questions answered tonight at 11:00.

You daren't leave here for 5 minutes or the pages just fly by..

Slanshroom - lmao mate... next youtube video I post is definitely going to have this - safety net bedroom guitar video chopisity - in the description! Your stuff is awesome, much like that Pacifica. Was it a weight thing that made you hack off the bottom end, or access or bored of how it looked lol?

Cheese - what's the latest on pops? It was sounding pretty positive. Has he had that milkshake yet!?

Michelle - firstly, so sorry for the loss of MA. We're all here for you, whether we're short or tall.... but f**k me is it raining in here or what at the moment? How's your mum now?

Realitybites - hi, presumably you've seen the video of you getting hauled up on stage that's on youtoob? The denver show I think?

Skippygirl - late happy birthday from me! Was it a good one? Sounds it. Did you obey the rules and NOT play Stairway to Heaven in the guitar shops?

Fatape - those guitars look NICE!!!

Ozzyfudd - sh** man, that's really sad. Some good vibes coming your way from me

Burly - hey there, how's your daughter doing?

Nothing much to add from me... nothing too interesting going on (yet) but I do have the Mr Big vids up on my Youtoob if anyone wants a gander... will link them later

Hello Mister Satrini. I must say that you are the greatest modern guitarrist. I´m from Argentina and I´D like to ask you when are you going to come here, all Argentina is waiting for your visit!! Continue doing excellent music and fasciniting us with marvelous medolies!!

My heart and thoughts go out to all who are having hard times right now...and for those who are experiencing joy and good times, keep it up!!!

Been reading the board as I can, can't answer each person individually, no time and it would be a huuuuge post, lol...but thanks again for all the good thoughts for my dad and family.

Quick update, he's off the vent permanently as of Monday afternoon...when I walked in to see him after work and said hi, not expecting much more than a wave of his hand, he raspily said "Hi" back to me and I about fell over...and of course I cried. He was off the vent and could talk again! There have been other improvements, some large, mostly small, and we're celebrating every one of them. He's also taken a bit of a step back in that his heart started acting up, so is on a couple medications to stabilize that. Still has the feeding tube because his swallowing muscles/mechanism got quite lazy while he was on the vent and kept unconscious, so now he needs to do speech therapy to get that muscle back in gear. Once that's solid, they can take the feeding tube outta his nose (he can't hardly WAIT for that!!) and then he starts eating food by mouth...so THEN will come the chocolate milkshake. That will be a big milestone and something to celebrate, that milkshake!!

He's been moved technically out of ICU, he's in the last possible room that's still in the ICU area but the acuity is very different...instead of him having a nurse to share with only one other patient, he hasta share his new nurse with 8 or more...so won't get as much TLC from them, but then again, it's a sign he doesn't need as much care. U know I'll be there picking up the slack though, lol! Yesterday I shaved him as no one on the floor had time to do so and he hadn't shaved for at least 2 weeks...I had to tell him that he was like a lawn...first I needed to use the weed-eater (sideburn trimmer) on him to cut some of the length down, THEN I could mow with the regular shaver head :) He felt better once that was done. Baby steps.

They also got him out of bed for the first time yesterday, just to stand and take a coupla steps, but it's a start. He sez he's tired today and doesn't wanna get out of bed, but I hope they can convince him to do so, as every time he gets up is another step towards coming home.

A ways to go yet, but looking forward to the day they spring him from there. He's good for another round yet :) I like to tell the nurses he's very strong, but that actually it's his stubborness that gets him through, which of course he denies being stubborn, LOL!!