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Neither sappy or sad.   I was waiting at home for mom and dad to get back from Yuma when instead my sister called and told me they'd been in a car wreck and dad was gone.  Every day I am grateful that I have no regrets about not telling him anything.  I don't have any "I wish I would have said..." moments.  I got 40 good years with him, and I'm thankful for every one of 'em.

I think you'd end up with three different dudes doing the same thing.  It is human nature that allows that to happen, not any one individual.   They didn't come to power in a vacuum.

I'd go back to St Louis, 1804 and try to get onto the Lewis and Clark expedition.

I was in Orlando most of last week, and my wife texted me.  All it said was "Can we see Avengers when you get back?"

Which is odd, because I had to drag her to Iron Man, and saw Hulk and Thor on my own because she hates them movies (preferring ones with kissing and love and stuff.)

I am buried in cell phones all day long.  It's the business I'm in.  The cell phone is ceasing to exist, instead becoming a mobile personal computer.   It is going to end up like in the old Star Trek TV shows where you just say "Computer!" and get an answer.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd never look at one again.

The proof in how it sounds.  If it sounds right, it is right.  I wouldn't limit myself to "proper books" as they can get it just as wrong as someone on the internet.

No, there was a group of us down in the basement.  I can't remember who was playing the harp. I tried to get him to track it separately but he didn't want to.

OK!

I have been buried at school so I haven't had a lot of time to work this.  I managed to scrape some free time tonight, and just rendered this one.  The kid singing is not only a great song writer and singer, but a great human being to boot.  A man and his ukelele....

http://soundcloud.com/jerome-oneil/youre-the-one

I volunteer for Wintergrass every year, and I usually take that time to plan out all the other local bluegrass festivals that I will attend, but never do.  I did the Telluride Bluegrass festival in 2004, and it was fantastic.

I've done pretty much every festival held at the Gorge at some point, including Sasquatch, Warped, Lilith Fair and Ozfest.  I also used to do Lollapalooza way back when Janes Addiction still played it.

The trick to that song is to learn the G and D shapes really well.  You never really come out of it.

Here's the dirty little secret for those.

It's the same scale pattern.

Play C major in the open position.  Play it from C to C.  Note where your fingers land.  Now start that exact pattern but start on the D, and end on the D.  Congratulations, you just played the Dorian scale.   Now play E to E.  You've just played Phrygian.

And Aoelian is just another way to say "minor," so you probably already know that one.

It's not about scales, it's about scale patterns.

The kids rule is an easy one.

"You can pick the channel, and I'll pick the volume."

Problem solved.