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I'm kind of 50/50 about it, but today's my last day of vacation from 12/30. Going back to work tomorrow, will meet my new boss for the first time, and see how much catching up I need to do. Because of staff shortages, its likely no one worked any of my caseload unless something major happened, and if they did, I would still need to input information in the subject's folder on my computers hard drive. But none of that even gets started until I wade through two weeks of emails. On the upside, I will be starting what will probably be my last year of work before retiring after 28 years in. A long, strange trip, indeed

Yeah, I told a friend I'd be happy just to win a smaller prize. I'd have the $, no one would know it, and I'd be off the radar. You'd have a HUGE target on your back if you won the jackpot. Seriously, you'd have to go into hiding. I think you can remain anonymous; you don't have to be interviewed by the news media and so forth. But yeah, it would still be hard to keep it under wraps, it seems like. Illinois requires jackpot winners to take part in a press conference. Other states vary, I believe. Wisconsin only requires that your name and city of residence be on their official list of winners. No press conference required. I'd do like a Marshawn Lynch press conference. Every answer would be 'I'm just here to get my check bowss' Straight cash, homie.

I think you can remain anonymous; you don't have to be interviewed by the news media and so forth. I think It depends on the lottery rules of the state involved, and most states want to publicize the winner. I know Texas has an opt out clause where winners can remain anonymous, but I'm not sure if it applies to the multi state powerball rules. Nor am I sure if other states have an opt out.

Tim Rose-Hey Joe (the 12 string version, not the sh---y Jools Holland one)

So many choices, but had to go with Stanley Clarke. Other non-list faves: Percy Jones (Brand X) Phil Maggini (Shadowfax)

Ow, ow, OW! Sadness prevails today. Will most remember for, as mentioned above, giving SRV his shot. RIP David. Let's dance!

Can be summed up in one album: The Six Wives of Henry VIII. OMG, I remember first opening that gatefold, seeing that sick layout Rick was playing, and getting a little dizzy. A masterwork from start to finish.

"The core 7" (DoFP-SS) get a regular workout in the Bear den, as does War of The Worlds. A VHS tape of Royal Albert Hall is somewhere in the house also, but I definitely need a copy of the Red Rocks concert.

Witnesses don't come around preaching like Pentecostals or anything, though. In my experience, they're very positive. I had a couple of them one time earlier in my first marriage come to the house....fortunately, i was cleaning this... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Me%20stuff/SampW%20.44%208-38%20barrel.jpg my wife and I were about to go to her Mom and Dad's place just outside of town, and when we got out to the parking lot, a whole bunch of them were conversing, and one of the guys that was in our house pointed at us as we got in our car, and the whole bunch of 'em moved immediately AWAY from us.....LOL Bwahahaha, guy must have remembered, and probably thought you were packing in the car!

And stupid critics. "Critics, can't even float, just stand on the shore and wave at the boat." Ben Sidran

The goddamn JW's banging on my door this morning. Good thing I wasn't hung over, I'd have had a mind to put Rocky on a leash and bolt out the front door.

The fact that due to a part of our contract that forces me to reduce my vacation time, work doesn't see me until 1/13/16! :laughing guy:

Well done, toymaker. Happy holidays!

My wife and I took a trip out to the west coast and Washington this year. Love, love, love the country in Washington and actually considering retirement there. But it sounds like the people can be kind of....rednecky. And that's something similar to Michigan I want to avoid. Any suggestions? If you want to avoid the necks, avoid Eastern WA & Eastern OR. Lots of anti-authority type necks there. Seattle, Portland, or the Pacific coast is better. West coast of Oregon is wonderful.

so....'fat bottom end'....'penetrate'....me thinks there's some other type of attraction going on. I think you're the one fascinated by phallic symbolism. ;) "Ever wonder why a guitar is shaped the way it is" is an old guitarist's joke. Right up there with "I'd like to play an old Chinese melody called Tu Ning."

Love all sorts of instrumentals and jams. Picked keyboards. Nothing beats somebody working a Hammond B-3 for all it's worth. Loves me some synthesizers and Mellotrons, too.

Sock It to Me Santa-Bob Seger & The Last Heard. Any of the parodies by The Bob Rivers Comedy Corporation e.g. " I Am Santa Claus" to the tune of " Iron Man."

F--k the Whores of Rolling Stone Magazine Music Hall of Fame.

In no order: Home Alone 1 A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim-forget the rest, nobody even close) Scrooge (Musical Christmas Carol, Albert Finney as Scrooge) Scrooged Die Hard 1 & 2 Bad Santa: "You got some lip on you, midget. "Oh yeah? Well last night these lips were on your wife!" White Christmas The Polar Express #1. A Christmas Story.

That's a strong choice for #1. Scut Farkas and the Bumpus'es smelly hound dogs! "Ra ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra." "You'll shoot your eye out." Priceless.

I used to dabble in bass, but never applied myself enough to it. There are some runs Ged does that are other worldly. YYZ Driven Red Barchetta Overture & Temples of Syrinx from 2112 Working Man (esp. DS Disc 3) A lot has to do with playing technique, whatever works for the player. Bass God James Jamerson (Motown's Funk Brothers) got by with "the hook", plucking the strings of his P-Bass with just his curved forefinger, but it damn sure did the job.

I could imagine Alex playing two hands all over the guitar,a'la the late Michael Hedges.

The rash of commercials that make it clear they are insulting the consumers intelligence. A car with "room for 5". 5 of me at 6' 4" and 280? NGFH, riceburner.

I'm waiting for the anti- commercial of somebody buying a Toyota that's a lemon, then going to the dealer lookin to beat the shit out of Jan.

Much as I love Ged's work, Oakley's opening on the live version of Whipping Post is THE baddest ass bass riff of all time! Talk about a riff that will give you a hand cramp. Yeah there's a workout. Even wilder was watching the video of Alan Woody strumming the riff on that insane Modulus Graphite 18 string bass, which I saw (both the video and the axe) at The Big House in Macon.