Anibur - I love the NASA site, just tweeted a beautiful pic of Andromeda last night.

Thanks for the congrats on the 1000 everyone!

Pip - I had a fab weekend thanks what did you do to celebrate your birthday?

Joe - still working on "Overnight Skippy Blues" lol!

Glitzy - glad you didn't exclude cake have a lovely day tomorrow.

Does this interview contain some irony, or is it just the way I'm reading it?

Did an easy 5-Miler out in this cold (that felt good).

Thanks Skippy. I was in the chatroom earlier today with Jamie. Wish you can join. May not be having cake, but at least I have you and the others here to chat with for my birthday.

Watching the Olympics now. Ice Dancing should be pretty good. Go Belbin & Agosto and Davis & White of the United States. Virtue & Moir of Canada lead going into the final dance. Hope we get two medals in this competition. It would be really neat if it was a "North American" sweep in Ice Dance.

Pip - sounds perfect when do we hear the riffs ?

Glitzy - would love to chat with you and all the peeps but need to earn a living and when I can get 10 mind to chat most US ppl are fast asleep - mostly Ive chatted with rayon, Joan and dream3 - however - maybe we could have the Great Mass Satch Chat and set a day/time to login???? Harks back to the Great Mass Satch Jam I would still like to organize :).

You in?

Sure Skippy; let me be the first and count me in. It might be a challenge to chat with you despite the time differences, work, etc. If I had a laptop or my own computer, then I would chat with you easily. I'm an early bird, night owl, or some watchamacallit.

so to set the record straight..as so many prefered to gang up on my comments....so heres the proof

http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30

alcohol kills over 80,000 a year....weed-0

"5. This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.

5 years? personal issues? what are you on? yer a pissy little man I caught texting about me on yer phone over yer shoulder at the Chickenfoot show. I'm sorry you live in the past with all that baggage, but it's yers, not mine. I'll be back tomorrow. Maybe you'll be done ragging by then. Hope you get it all off yer chest little man.

Sincere apologies to everyone else.

What an Ice Dance Competition. Virtue & Moir of Canada gets gold and Davis & White of the U.S. gets silver. Belbin & Agosto, who were 4th going into the free dance, finished 4th; not bad at all for the defending Olympic silver medalists. The Russians take the bronze. No offense, but in my opinion, it should have been a "North American" sweep.

What was awesome is that Virtue & Moir and Davis & White are not only best friends, they have the same coaches (they train together), and they go to the University of Michigan. WOLVERINES BABY!! How cool is that!?

Darn, I don't know the lyrics from the National Anthem of Canada (just some). Sorry Canadians, I better start learning.

Congrats to all. Now the ladies will skate.

Dream3: Yes Jamie, my birthday is on the 24th. Thanks mate and G-day to you. :)

Skippygirl: Count me in when you get started on the chat mass. :)

Later everyone, I have work at Red River tomorrow morning.

Hey joe... Love your music.. I love what you are doing, i have watched all your pod casts and love how down to earth you are.....I never once saw you getting pride full of all the success you have had in the music industry.You are a massive influence in my guitar playing

The really bad thing about your music though...Is that I cant pick my favorite song...There all just perfect.

Thanks for doing what you are doing

so much drama on here....axeshredderjc thanks for sharing your pics of the Jeff Beck / Eric Clapton show , wished I was there.

This may sound strange but I was thinkin' about Michelle when I read this article from the New York Times....date line Harrisburg, PA, 2/20/2010 "Falling Further Behind" by Bob Herbert......This article is about how Pennsylvania is suffering due to this stinking, sinking Great Recession or whatever ya wanna call it that has devastated this country. How the schools/infrastructure of PA is running into the ground! We are in such a sad state in this country.....it's hard to hold our heads up and keep goin'..........We need NEW infrastructure.......NEW energy sources.........NEW bridges......NEW roads.........NEW rail lines........and so much more to keep this country a developed one. How many times do we have to learn lessons about renewal and that we need to join the rest of the world in standing up for each other's well being and getting REAL healthcare reform with a public option. Americans on here and peoples around the world know what it's like to be cut loose from an employer and left hanging by a thread........every state in this country including California where I've lived all my life has enormous troubles with rising costs of something as basic as healthcare........I am feeling ill and sad and want peace on here just like Jon Luini said.....Let's all embrace each other in a collective hug....

Love,

Whomever posted the Up in Smoke link will soon owe me 10 bucks...now I have to buy that DVD!!

elpp...hehe was me, dont shoot i,m not armed... i say get all of the SOB.s shitfaced, give em a slan party bag...includes- nicebig ol grass joint laced with a powdered E & 40 fresh picked celtic shrooms for mid day plus bottle o Tequila...t go....that load would love up the dark lord himself!!!

Back t reality....I dont see the big deal about smokin a lil weed, helped me a lot in my younger years working through boring repetition of scales etc although i,m with Ethn in that i prefer now not t be around any of it, especially spiritual ego stoner types "hey man lets say a prayer to the tractor man" has me runnin t the bar!

Ah the usual virtual bloodshed on T2J. Must be all the spacecake.

Anyways: video interview with the virtuoso David "Fingers" Haynes, the amazing fingerdrummer! Check it out, he's a lot on Youtube too. But first time he shows and explains some of his technique.

Dream3 - thanks!

Glitzy - OK so you're in Indiana right? So you're 16 hours behind Melbourne and so is New York.

LA/San Fran, Oregon etc is 19 hours behind Melbourne.

Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Barcelona are 10 hours behind Melbourne.

London and Dublin are 11 hours behind Melbourne.

So........by my calculations

Melbourne 8:00am =

New York/Indiana/PA 4:00pm the day before
LA/San Fran/Oregon 1:00pm the day before
Europe 10:00pm the day before
London/Ireland 9:00pm the day before

I think. How does that sound?

Say "aye" if that is a possibility for you for the Great Mass Satch Chat and then we can pick a date.

Well nighty night world.

My name and description in yer phone. My friend saw it too. Maybe you were to high to remember, but I bet yer just not man enough to admit it. Whatever dude. Move on.

Anyways, happy Tuesday people! It's gonna be a great day! Finally getting some rain instead of snow.