It seems these days that everyone has a cell phone clipped to his or her belt.

New Books

- Walking to School, the First Day Back by Misty Bus

- The Day the Car Pool Forgot Me by I. Rhoda Bike

- Can't See the Chalkboard by Sidney Backrow

anibur, hiya stranger! Nice to see you back here in the old neighborhood. lol! Hope your family is well.

As for Katrina's devastation, today's paper says they fear 10,000 deaths will come from this. There are so many dead bodies in the streets, in the houses, everywhere. Cops are committing suicide, and I'm sure many citizens have too. On the news this morning, one officer thought his wife and kids were dead. He couldn't bare the thought, and he shot himself. Turns out...his family was fine. The devastation is just sickening. A day hasn't passed where I can watch the news without crying. God Bless them all.

Chee-toes, my weekend went by way to fast. My headache went away when my neck went out. lol! That's finally starting to feel better too - now that the beautiful weekend is over and I have to go back to work. lol! Figgers! Went to a picnic yesterday, but laid off the beverages. The bees in my sisters neighborhood are all alcoholics. They were all up in my sisters batch of wine punch, so I wasn't. lol! She had the punch covered, but the bees were in all the cups that had punch in them. eeeuuuwww!

mari, I don't know what happened in my neck, but it hurt like hell. lol! It was all in my pecs & traps, and up into my neck. It happened before a few times. I think it's time to up my dose of Geritol. LOL! My son's first game is Thursday. I'm taking the night off work. It's an away game, and it's pretty damn far away! lol! It wouldn't suck so much if it wasn't also my daughter's "meet the teacher" night. Did I mention my husband is also on call that day? lol! It should be interesting to say they least.

Captain Steve, glad to hear your surgery went well. I had to laugh when I read that you were "one handed" also. At least I'm not the only one. I'm so right-handed it's not even funny. I catch myself holding everything in my right hand, while my left hand is available for door opening, child herding, or whatever? lol! I even had bursitis in my right shoulder when my kids were little. I would have my purse, diaper bag, and child all on my right side, and my left hand would be for holding on to my other child and opening doors. LOL! Hope your therapy goes well, and your "other" hand learns to do it's share. lol!

hey guys, patruci js , heres a guitar solo for u

cube, I have to agree with the point in carson5150's post. I think the dude is a pole smoker. CrunchBull should change his name to AssMunch. Steve would never, ever talk that way about Joe to a anyone, yet a dillweed like him. I doubt the whole story ever happened. Ya know those stoners sometimes get stuck in a time warp. Maybe he's thinking it's still 1978?

My opinion is that if either one were that big of a pothead, they would still be living with their parents. I'm sorry but your not going to get to where they are success-wise, and smoke an ounce a week.

Good Morning Satchland...... How was your Holiday weekend?

Captain...... Glad everything is ok with the operation. I'm also glad that paper work situation is back in your hands(not on your hands I hope) OH ! ! ! it's a good feeling knowing you can take care of your own paper work.

Mari...... Thanks for the Steven update. Right On...... to your post to Cuth. I'll send the DVD. I keep forgetting. Sorry......

Michelle....... Glad you're feelin' better. Ever get that message' I was talkin' about?

JustJoan...... Thanks for the email.....It was great hearing from you.

kagirl...... How are you? How did you do in your downhill bike race?

Where's Nola ?

Hi Joe... Hope all is well. Hugs to everyone.

MARI- So sorry we missed your call- think you are right though, you miss off the "0" from the bit that starts "0208." Hope we get another chance to speak! Phrydom is probably right though about if you're dialling from a cell phone to hold the 0 down. Take care!

PHRYDOM- Shame you can't transfer OU courses over there, maybe that'll change though. - Also those bug stories made me laugh, I hate that when a git of an insect escapes its doom! :)

BADMAMAJAMA- Not sure if you post on here or if you are only around in chat, but I played Matt your track and he loved it too!

DEATHCUBE- Have just read the John5 interview again properly, thanks again for posting it! Do you know if he'll be touring the UK soon btw?

Mari- thinking about it again, I think it should be 011-44-208*******

SteeveT - the thing I'm wrestling with in the mixing is the rhythm guitar level and eq....

get it wrong and the orchestra is buried...

get it wrong the other way and the guitar vanishes into the mix and the power is lost....

also - too much top and it's fizzy, too little and the definition is gone....

really tough.....

the mixing is going ok.... slow and painful...
but once I crack the first song I'll be on a roll..

Phrydom, re. the bugs... thought you might find this fun reading:

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/gagarden/msg0711362212952.html

Tracieeeeeeeeeee, I love you man!! Thanks for the pressies!

Keniko, I gotta look back and see what the message was. lmao! I think I got it, but I wanna make sure. Gotta run now, but I'll check after work :)

Have you hugged a guitar today?

Clarky, time to start externalising different instruments to see if you can keep the power and defnition without loosing the spread.

This is something interesting to note if you play an old Joe album on a surround sound system, and then put ITLIS on afterwards. Even though neither have been mixed in 5.1, the new recording is more spacious and you can easily concentrate on just one instrument, but when you choose not to, it doesn't remain dominant in the mix. 3D mixing is cool.