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well, no updates as there’s nothing to tell as yet. I have to call the hospital tomorrow I think to see if there’s any update on my handling, Dr Simmons is the man to speak with now and I need to chase him up to see what is going on.

Physically I’m feeling fine, *really* tired most of the time and having a real lack of energy thing but a lot of resting is needed and chilling out etc.
My head is a little tender still, I keep getting a slight ache from the top of my head and I’m not 100% sure if it’s just a hangover from the op or not.. hope so!

Still, I’m still around and living so to me that’s the good thing
I’m heading off to work tomorrow, at least for an hour or so just to get a change of scenery and try to get myself back into “work” mode and start living again..

The new/latest Dream Theater album dropped through my door Monday so I am sat here in hospital having a good listen right now - quality stuff!

Paul and Jo went to see them the other day, I was gutted I couldn’t make it but hey.. They bought me a t-shirt and programme, bless them - I was quite surprised and choked up, realy nice thing to do
If you buy the Special Edition of the album you get a 90-min bonus dvd of the making of the album, I haven’t had time t have a good watch of it yet but from the snippets I’ve seen it looks COOL!

Cor, 35 - how many times in the past couple of years did I think I wouldn’t make it this far! We had a party last Saturday, 50/50 for my birthday and just an excuse for a get together for friends and family.

It was pretty cool, most of my friends turned up and all the band was there too. It is really hard, there are too many little groups for me to make it round to talk to everyone, much as I tried. But hey, you cannot complain about having too many friends and family!

Amanda approached me about playing guitar in a Motley Crue tribute band, to play at her 40th birthday party next October. Of course I said yes, how could I turn down playing some seriously quality tunes? Carl will be playing drums, I’m not sure yet if they have approached Richard and Andy to do bass and vocals respectively but it will be a killer line up! The Crue were ripping up my car stereo on the way to work this morning, and are currently queued up in WMP to listen to at work.. the question is, which songs to play? Of course I have my favourites but I’m not sure if Amanda wants to pick the playlist or not - if so that’s entirely cool, there aren’t any songs I don’t like, just some that are odd tunings or needing more than one guitar which could cause problems.
My choices would be along the lines of (in no particular order):

• Wild Side
• Red Hot
• Dr Feelgood (dropped d tuning though)
• Girls, Girls, Girls
• Looks That Kill
• Kickstart My Heart
• Primal Scream
• Hooligans Holiday

There are a lot of others, some more mellow stuff but we’d have to look and see if they could be done with just one guitar.

Right, back to work - guess who didn’t get round to booking the day off for their birthday :p

.. is the latest album by guitar shred-meister paul gilbert and if you like some decent guitar playing, check it out.

I haven’t heard much of his lastest stuff, more so the earlier racer x recordings and this is a welcome release from listening to the same albums recently - if you fancy a change but not too much of a change then grab a copy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Out_Of_My_Yard