Cuthbert - The parenting thing didn't really hit me until we took her home. That was when I started to get nervous. The saving grace I guess was that I am a lot older than my siblings and I went into automatic pilot. There were stil times I was digging around looking for the owners manual though. lol

Yoda - That grat thing about music is that it is part of who you are regardless of what you do. To work in the industry would be awesome. Best of luck to you.

Steve T - Guitar Center Tigard (or Beaverton) , Oregon $3000.

2297 Where you at!!

Off to school.

Miss Cheeky - Wassup!! Long time. How's things? I've missed your tactlessness. :0 Stay in touch and post a link to video of the routine.

Mr Nick - I have a tape with Dark Side on one side and Wish You Were Here on the other. VERY COOL!! And I don't even smoke the ya-ya anymore.

Happy B-Day Ovation!! Now you can drink legally.

Michelle - That whole story is funny. Who da thunk ole L. Minelli would so into getting her swerve on.

Cuthbert How's Oregon land use treating you?

Slash Rose - I see you're from Guanajuato. My sisiter went down last year and did two terms at the university. It was amazing to hear her almost non-existent Spanish blossom into an easily formulated conversation. She said the city was great with the exception of the altittude sickness. I was just down in Oaxaca. Can't wait to go back. I really want to work with kids more and help with education so that the children can be better off than the parents. Isn't that what every parent wants?

Do the Stu - People that I know at school are into Sim City. I hang with transportation and planning people. I myself have never really got into it. I do play around with the other software called VISSIM. It is a modeling program for trans and planning. It's fun especially since I didn't have to pay the 20 grand for it.

Arafat - It's not surprising that there are many different sides to the feelings on Arafat's life. Was he a hero? To some Was a terrorist? To others. It all comes down to were your perspective. It also comes down to the fact that of all the people in the wolrd the ones that teach tolerence (insert religion here) seem to be the ones that are the most intolerent. The circle of intolerence between the Muslims, Jews and Christians. Many of the problems in the middle east could be solved if there wasn't this underlying hatred for someone else only on the basis of religion. It is truley stupid.

Got to go more later.

Steve T, Travis - This is one of the things that has always made me wonder. People are always saying things about that sweet Marshall tone that Joe used to have, but didn't he use the Boss distortion and the amp for power only. I may be wrong, so someone clear this up for me. I personally would love to get an H&K, but for now I have an old MP-1 that works pretty well. It ,as many solid state products, lacks a bit of the tube warmth. It works out well though because my other guitarist has a Marshall and you can easily hear the difference in the two guitars. I think it helps the songs fill out a bit with different tones.

Michelle - You're slippin'. That's an easy one. Creepshow.

Zinc - State of Euphoria is a great album. Anthrazx was the first Heavy group to make the crossover with a rap artist w/ I'm the Man. Great tune.

Noppa - I got turned on to the Dregs a long time ago. That was a great band.

Delfino - You crack me up!! Nice work.

Rico Thanks for the Steve Morse heads up.

Cuthbert Noah's flood was an old, old tale. There may even be new evidence showing how the Med. Sea over flowed it's banks and flooded the area around the Black Sea. This would explain the tale of the flood as well as some anamolies in the make up of the Black Sea. Remember the Bible is just a book. As is Star Wars.

Clarky - Sing w/ me

Whooooooooo lives in a pineaple under the sea? SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS! who's yellow and porous, absorbant is he. SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS! If nautical nonsense is something you wish, then drop on the floor and flop like a fish! SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS! SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS! SPONGE BOB ........SQUARE PANTS!

Michelle- Holla' back !!

Cuthbert - The JS compared to the Lotus is like Moby Dick compared to Dick and Jane. One might be better than the other, in a literary sense, but they serve a different purpose and yes they are still both just books.

Chris of the Fla. - one thing that many musicians for get to do is to treat their hands as a runnuer would treat their legs. We do very repetitious and precise controlled movements that require strength and stamina. This means there should be warm-up and cool down sessions as well as stretching. It sounds strange but it really should be done. I feel this as important as good hand position. As for the pain you may need to build up to those longer sessions or on the other side you may need to give you hands a rest. Sometimes the only answer to " It hurts when I do this" is, "Don't do that." I have a bit of tendonitis in my hands and periodically need to reduce my playing to nothing because it just hurts. My wrists, forearms, and elbows. The doctor told me that if it starts to hurt, there is some inflamation. Give it a few days and it will be ok for a while. Long winded answer to a question not posed to me, but good luck with it.

A SAD DAY FOR THE BRITONS - Time to put away the riding suit and get rid of your Beagle

The years-long debate over outlawing a sport opponents see as simply cruel has been highly charged and deeply divisive. Scotland has previously outlawed hunting.

The chamber invoked the rarely used 1949 Parliament Act to force the ban into law despite the opposition of the unelected House of Lords. After the Lords rejected one last compromise gesture, to postpone the effective date until 2006, Speaker of the Commons Michael Martin announced the bill had been passed. The formality of royal assent followed within 45 minutes.

Proponents of fox hunting pledged to go to court to fight the ban, which takes affect in three months. "True civil disobedience is now on the horizon," John Jackson, chairman of the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance, said as the House of Commons voted.

Several hundred whistling, banner-waving hunting supporters gathered Thursday night outside Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II (news - web sites) was staging a banquet in honor of French President Jacques Chirac.

"There are a lot of angry people here, people of all ages and from all backgrounds, who are fed up with being ignored," said Ian Agnew, chairman of the Surrey Union Hunt.

Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), who had vainly promoted a compromise to regulate hunting, agreed with both sides in predicting that the battle would quickly move to the courts.

While it will still be legal to shoot foxes, the legislation bans all hunting with hounds, including the pursuit of rabbits and deer.

Before Thursday, the 1949 Parliament Act had been used only three times: to lower the age of consent for homosexual sex, to allow British courts to try Nazis suspected of war crimes and to change the electoral system for selecting representatives to the European Parliament.

PART II

The hunting issue sparked an enormous protest in September 2002, when 400,000 hunting supporters marched through central London in what was billed as one of Britain's largest protests in 150 years.

In September, five hunting enthusiasts stormed onto the House of Commons floor as lawmakers debated the ban. Some 10,000 protesters massed outside Parliament that day and some clashed with police in riot gear. Opponents of the ban have vowed to defy it.

Opposition Conservative Party environment spokesman James Gray called the ban proposal a "disgraceful, prejudiced and ignorant little bill" and promised the Tories would repeal it if they win elections expected next year.

Opponents of hunting with hounds say it is unacceptably cruel since the dogs kill foxes by tearing them apart. They also deride it as a mainly aristocratic pastime — Prince Charles and other royals are among the most prominent participants.

One of the most prominent from the past, writer Oscar Wilde, once labeled the activity "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."

Supporters argue hunting with hounds is humane because the prey die quickly. They say it attracts fans from all walks of life, not just the upper classes, and is central to rural Britain's culture and economy.

They fear a ban would put up to 8,000 people out of work, employees of about 200 hunts as well as saddlers, blacksmiths, grooms and stablehands.

The debate over hunting, which has dragged on for years, has been a political headache for Blair, whose government tried unsuccessfully at the last minute to postpone the ban's start date until 2007.

Lawmakers opted instead for July 2006, but for procedural reasons the standoff between the Commons and the Lords means the ban must takes effect in February 2005.

Michelle - Not to worry, I'm a different bird, but not a freak. When you said that there was a pic of you on site I wanted to see how close my mental image of you was to the real you. Well... not even close! Anyway, just to make things even here is me. Second row on far right. Bet you didn't imagine the bald dome!! Hope that puts you at ease a bit. I will tell you that the wifey and I were talking about going out to visit some friends in Pittsburg. When we get a firm date I'll let you know and we all can split a bottle of the Capt'n. Have a good one.

Matt

Michelle , Steve T - Hell it will be cold and rainy here until August!! No sympathy from me. lol

Happy 2000 - Funny story about the chair. Was its name Semore?

Cuth Congrats. We'll be looking for your posts from 2-4 in the morning!!

People in Liffie Land - Had someone tell me that one of the worst things you can call someone in Dublin is a GEE BAG (spelling). Just wondering if it is true and if so what the hell is it!!

Anyone know anything about the S470 DX QM. I saw one at the store the other day. The best part that I liked was the trem system. Very beefy. Any words?

Clarky - C'mon now, you're going to get Cuth and GGG all fired up again!!! No usaully what happens is a go back home all excited to be with the familia for the holidays and after being there for a few hours I remember why I left in the first place!! Hey, you were in Dublin recently, what's up with a Gee bag? I heard it was a major insult and well... I'm always up for more ammunition. All help is welcome.

Clarky - There's a chick I know that went to Dublin and told me that she was told the worste thing to call someone in Dublin was a gee bag (hard G like in gut). Anyway, I am always trolling for a good new insult, personallity flaw I guess. Just thought you might have some insight.

Just saw the pics of EVH. What the hell is up with his lettuce. That is one effed up duu.

Steve T - We love up here. We are originally from the SF area. We came up here to go to school ten years ago and never left. We also don't see leaving, unless we move to Ireland, which has been dicussed. Where are you now AZ?

Midterm update. - All went well. Got the Impact problem and both problems with relative motion containing Coriolis accelleration (the acc. that makes water spirial down the sink). The one I did miss was the Impuse problem. Impulse is just the the integral of the sum of the forces in a system. I forgot that the integral is just the area under the curve. Since I had a graph this was a 30 second problem that I choked on. Always the litlle things. However, as long as I don't have to retake the class I'll be excited.