Yeah, what exactly are you using hide glue for, LIese? I thought these were cigar box guitars!

I was an alto in middle school, but I sang first soprano in college oratorio choir. I was one of the few non-music department people in the choir, and hte other sopranos occaasionally gave me dirty looks I didn't understand.

I know, right? Again, I blame Matt. I'm using the hide glue to attach the fretboard and the bracing for the underside to support the neck where I'm attaching the magnetic pickups. I know, it's all gotten a little out of control, and we're not even to building the preamp yet!

But my blues hero, and the guy that taught me, just complimented my (mission) work on my cigar box nation profile, so I'll be happy all day, even if what happens next is a gluey irreparable mess!

I don't want to be a cranky old loner, but yet? Maybe.

I am totally okay with being a cranky old loner. I have people in my life who are important to me, like all y'all, and I don't need every person to like me or for me to like them. And I have other cranky old loners to hang out with, like the dude I'm building the guitar for. Which I realize is not how that stuff is supposed to work, but it does, so.

Zen,

she is going to give you a raise or promotion!

I am so cross eye'ed it is pathetic. I've been working in MS Project all day making tedious edits. If I had built this schedule it wouldn't be so tedious but no...I took it over and this thing is MASSIVE and has very odd logic built in. Almost done and ready to send to the client. I hope.

Remember my BFF whose husband had sexually abused their daughter, they got divorced, then her eldest son beat her (my BFF) so she moved back to Berkeley and is now in a relationship with an old high school buddy? Well, in added Jerry Springer type news, the eldest has now gotten a girl pregnant. I'm trying to figure out timing cause she is supposidly over 12 weeks pregnant but I thought he was in jail through 12-21-12 for beating his mom. Crazy cakes. My BFF will be out here in June and MAN are we going to have quite the catch up session.

Someone who is following the Vatican/Catholic Church more closely than I:

what kind of clusterfuck are they in? A senior cardinal in the UK just resigned and there seem to be problems cropping up for all kinds of other cardinals (the one who stepped down in Los Angeles is in a world of hurt). I can't believe the cardinal in Ghana was saying that gay priests and pedophilia are White people problems.

WTF is going on?

Among these reasons: is this why the conclave has been moved up?

is this why the conclave has been moved up?

Maybe? I haven't read too deeply, but the Grauniad is reporting (from an Italian newspaper) that there's a cabal of senior Vatican officials who have been engaging in homosexual activities, and getting blackmailed over it. The claim is that the report documenting this was initiated as a result of the Vatileaks scandal (the Pope's secretary was selling information), and the day it was given to Benedict XVI was the day he announced his retirement.

I have to admit that it's all a bit too breathless and scandalous for me, like something out of a Dan Brown novel. Just seems kind of unlikely--but then I would have thought a sitting President getting blown by an intern in the Oval Office was unlikely, too.

Shows how much I know.

what kind of clusterfuck are they in?

The just-resigned Pope had a report drawn up on an enclave within the Vatican of apparently gay Bishops and Cardinals who've been having indiscreet sex, and are now being blackmailed. Most think this is the reason he resigned, because at 86 (or whatever he is), he just doesn't want to deal with the shit storm that's coming. So...there's a lot of fallout coming and there's probably a lot of backstage shenanigans right now as various parties are engaged in damage control and protecting themselves etc.

Holy crap you guys.

There were THREE major fires in and around San Antonio today. The SMALLEST one, in an apartment block, had my usual route home completely blocked off by police and fire trucks. The smoke was so thick you could only see the lights.

It didn't help that Texas has had major windstorms today. I was on a support call, and the front door of the office I was talking to blew open!

Yipes, chrismg, stay safe!

Also I am a bit appalled at the soprano bashing going on here. Like Jilli, I used to sing soprano in HS. Unlike the rest of you, I didn't realize there was any social significance to whether I was in the one group or the other, probably because I sang in a small a capella group, not a full size choir.