What made you smile today?

Very funny, shewolf.




Walter is returning to Chicago in June

a call from a colleague

he'd like permission to use one of my New York photos as the basis for some artwork

he wants to photoshop some of it, leave some of it as is, base a sketch on a portion - then somehow put it all together, frame and display it in his office

he asked if he could come by after it's done to get me to sign it



I've inspired him to get back to his art school groove. His wife is happy and wants to thank me.

and

Wow, ehBeth that's great. You must be thrilled. Congratulations.

I'm not often left speechless, but that phone call just about did it.

Well, sometime I just might drop a dime on you just to hear you speechless.

So, Im looking at our bank account.

Yeah, kinda piddly if I say so myself.

19.47 in available funds.

We are hurting to say the least, but we are making it.
And happy as can be...

So, Jillian (as I posted before) breaks her nose.
Here come all of the co-pays.. ug..

someone shoot me now.

Today, we went to Ians mothers house to look at some of the stuff his father had.
As much as it hurts him, we have decided to sell 90% of the things Ian has inherited.

Going through the guitars, I find what I think is an ugly old heavy guitar with someones dumb ass name on it.

Chet Atkins

blaahh.. who cares.

Ian says the same thing. Bleuuch. Its ugly.
But it plays well! No denying that!

So, we pack it into the car, bring it home.
I start taking pictures of it and notice a rather odd looking serial number stamped into the wood on the back of the head.


Now we have TONS of guitars, and some of them are Gibsons.. just like this one, yet none of them have a serial number stamped in the back of the head.

Hmm.. Step one-

google it-

I find a few links but nothing that LOOKS like this guitar.

Step two-

Google some more..

humph. . damn google.


Step three-

Contact Gibson.

Apparently we have a Chet Atkins CEC 1999.

Well.. aint that fancy.

"What ever dude " im thinking while looking at the info Gibson sent.
"its still an ugly mo-fo"

So, now I have an actual brand name, year date, model number, serial number AND production number..

And THIS is what I find-

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2004/Chet-Studio-CE-CEC.html

Did you read that?????

"""The Chet Atkins Studio CE has standard nut width of 1.75 inches. MSRP: **$4,214.** The Chet Atkins Studio CEC the classical nut width of 2 inches. MSRP: **$4,322.** ""


OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!




---Just in case you didnt see that piece of information, let me post it again !----



""The Chet Atkins Studio CE has standard nut width of 1.75 inches. MSRP: **$4,214.** The Chet Atkins Studio CEC the classical nut width of 2 inches. **MSRP: $4,322.** ""


OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD

Merry Christmas.

I'm smiling about shewolf's timely good news.

Merry early Christmas, Shewolf <smiles>. Thats really, really great

And eBeth, thats quite the story as well!

Thrilled for Shewolfie, and also thrilled for ehBeth, very cool.

Nice one Shewolf (lucky bitch).

I have cheek-ache from all the smiling / laughing I did watching Borat at the cinema today. That's some funny ****.

x

Oh, that's great, shewolf!

Outstanding, Shewolf!

I guess you'll be going very carefully through the rest of the inherited stuff!
I hope there are more treasures yet to find.

Yay shewolf!

So I went to pick up my kid at school. As I was parking I saw this car come up the street, liberally festooned with blue and yellow. As it came closer I saw that there were people in it wearing yellow afros leaning out the windows and being generally, um, inflammatory. In front of an elementary school!! As I started to get out of the car I tried to decide how to react. Yelling "**** Michigan!!!" seemed out because of the whole elementary school aspect. (For those who don't follow college football, the hoohah was about the OSU-Michigan game coming up -- HUGE.) Flipping them the bird also seemed like a bad idea. But they were pissing me off.

So I settle for my most intimidating glare at the driver as he goes by (he flinched), and then... a policeman on a motorcycle comes out of nowhere. HA! He got his siren going and lights flashing and was shaking his head at them in a "oh no you don't" way as they looked for someplace to pull over.

YEAH!

I wish life always meted out such justice...

the very first time in recorded history that there WAS a cop around when you needed one...

Yeah, I saw that same kind of hooliganism the week before the
MIT / Endicott College game. Disgraceful!

Hungarian boys know how to charm - from when they're very young. In the fancy coffeehouse of Corinthia Hotel, a little boy, not yet of speaking age, totters around the vases and tables. Upon coming across the table next to me, full of chattering Japanese girls, he stands in wonder and stares. And stares. They giggle and grin and he watches them intently, or perhaps absent-mindedly, but with something of wonder. Eventually he wrests himself away from fascination - but there will be a reprise. When the family leaves, the boy sat in his stroller, the father makes a goodbye-stop at the Japanese table. The kid smiles, and all the Japanese girls wave at him. The father softly says something to the little boy, perhaps in Hungarian, perhaps in Russian or whereever they're from (you cant make it out), and with a gesture of flourish the boy, shy until then, lifts his little hand to his mouth and throws them all a kiss. They erupt in adored giggles.

That evening, later on, I leave the 24/7 supermarket and come across the group of girls. They recognize me when one calls out, "Corinthia!", and all wave at me too.

Pretty impressive video, made by a friend of a friend with his digital camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxXpEiVXHc

Brilliant!

Slappy, your friend of a friend, REALLY looks like Roy Keane (Keano - a Manchester United legend).

http://glam.ie/roy+keane+02l.jpg

Made me smile Slappy