Happy Thanksgiving!

[HeeBGB]

Don't eat too much! Your tummy might get too big and you'll nic it with the soldering iron!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[dartanion]

Happy T-Day to all!!!

Instead of watching the tube, build something with tubes

[LeftyStrat]

Well, my other passion is cooking. This year I am smoking a twenty pound turkey (with pecan wood) on the rotisserie to free up the oven for my wife's creations. Her peach and sweet potato casserole is da bomb.

My oldest daughter (eleven, just got a 4.0 GPA and asked if girls could go to MIT , thinks Britney is stupid and Janis Joplin is "totally awesome" ) is a vegetarian, so we're making an Apple/Sage vegetarian sausage cornbread dressing. Oh, and she can read resistor codes!

I really can't imagine being more blessed than I am right now with three amazing kids and a wife that loves me regardless of the fact I look at her bread pans and think "tube chassis."

I am a lucky man, and love this board, and I appreciate both the people that ask questions and the people that answer them.

Bless you Omar and the people that make this board special. And forgive me for starting the whole Thanksgiving cheer a bit early.

But my inebriation is only partially due to the spirits. I finished my third Wreck tonight, and it is the sweetest one yet, and strangely, the darkest.

Thermionic goodness to you all, may your fragile harmonics dance in a happy vacuum.

[drhulsey]

Happy Holiday to all my brothers and sisters in Tone
I have more blessings than I can count, but certainly many have come from this forum. I hope that one day I will have given more to the forum than I have received, but it's gonna take a while
Blessings on you all

[mchauck]

I was going to post this on my other thread, but it didn't belong there, so I moved it here. I just wanted to share some of my life here so that you may know me and my family a bit better. I feel so blessed and simply wanted to express a bit of it.
I must say that it has been a quite rewarding experience for me to participate in musical adventures with my Son. He is not at all like me. He is not a sports guy and isn't a tinkerer at all. His original Dad (who died) didn't really spend much time with him doing Dad stuff and Erik grew up a bit isolated in that respect. He had some learning disabilities that involved a lack of physical coordination. He also has a difficulty with depth perception. So he tended to gravitate towards video games and things that didn't rely upon running, jumping, etc. Shortly before I came on the scene, and after the death of his father, a family friend gave him an Ibanez guitar starter kit with an SG (right handed) and a small practice amp POS. He had trouble playing the guitar righty and asked if it could be converted to lefty. His Mom, seeing he was enjoying the hobby in spite of the loss he was feeling, was eager to have it converted for him.
What happened next was truly amazing. Erik began to play riffs he had heard on records since he was born. Beatles, Led Zep, Clapton, Who, Dillon. It was cool. He was accurately playing the riffs and even duplicating the tones the best he could with that little amp. I became part of the family shortly after. I am not much of a player. I have made the usual amount of money growing up playing folk clubs and the like. But I am not gifted in that way. I am a gifted builder however and I began to participate with Erik in the only way I could keep up. The partnership has been extremely rewarding. I build em and he plays em. I wish he would play some songs with me from time to time, but unfortunately he is not interested in playing with the Old Man. I guess I'm just not cool enough!!! I am learning to be content with that. He has become a local "star" at the local School Of Rock (a program I highly recommend!!!!!) and continues to grow as a musician. I just wish I could get him to like school a bit more, but hold on....only one miracle per family!!!!!

I just wanted to share this with you all on this day of Thanksgiving.

Regards
Brian

[Omar]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

What I am thankful for is all of you for making the board a great place. I never thought that when I started this back on Yahoo it would grow into the monster it is. Yes, it's been trying at times but there have been way more ups than downs.

Thanks again and don't each too much!

Omar

[drhulsey]

....only one miracle per family!!!!!

Brian, maybe it's more like one miracle at a time

[Lonely Raven]

Happy Thanksgiving All!

Remember to be thankful for what you have!

[mchauck]

awwwww I'm not greedy

[Allynmey]

mchauck, good story! Happy Thanksgiving!

[jurgen]

top ten reasons for building your own tube amps


10 cant' burn your fingers enough at your day job

9 your JCM triple Boogifier sounds like kak

8 plenty of extra goop in the basement

7 middle aged eyes can't read the numbers on the ICs anymore

6 love the smell of de-fluxer in the morning

5 no longer need to practice guitar

4 restores ozone layer a few molecules at a time

3 semiconductors are unmanly

2 apartment too small for Zen Garden

1 ken and howie didn't make enough to go around