sonoman,
You need a vacation from your vacation. Hey, hope it wasn't your Wah-Wah pedal foot.

Wow...I started this topic with with nothing but affection for your presence on this forum Sonoman, and despite the little distraction in the middle of the thread there, it is clear many share that feeling. Sorry about your medical adventures. You seem like a tough minded dude...I am sure you'll be back to full strength in no time. Best of luck!

Philco

thank you all for your concerns. Yeah, it was like a bad screenplay, crossing Groundhog Day with the Book of Job. From September 1 until September 10, every day was worse than the last. Dick Cheney's jet (we called it the dickmobile) was on the tarmac at Jackson Hole airport the whole time we were there (with six or eight full camo apache attack helicopters on the other side of the airport. Dr. Strangelove, I'm tellin' ya!). So, I'm blaming the whole episode on Cheney vibes. Brrrrrrr. But, now I have felt better three consecutive days, I can play as well as I could before (which ain't all that and a side of fries), my family still loves me, all four Collings and the Alien sound....well you know, and Jackson Hole is still the most stunning place on the face of the earth. I have a gig Saturday, and I'm gonna be there. Sitting, but rockin' nonetheless. thanks again, friends. tom

Still good reading, as always.

Welcome back and get well ASAP,

Johnathan

Hey Tom.....Sorry to hear of your misfortunes.
Best Wishes for a speedy recovery
Doc

well, the best to you from here in the east as well...drink some good sonoma wine while your mending. i'm sure it will help one way or the other.

michael

My gratitude, friends. The whole grotesque experience may make for a "One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest" or black humore MASH-esque short story or screen play. It's the kinda stuff you can't make up, and wouldn't want to. It was Murphy's Law meets Thelma and Louise, minus the estrogen. If there be such a thing as a comedy of errors, this was dark comedy. Very dark. But it's behind me now, mostly, and once I get a gig under my ample belt, I'll consider myself resurrected. again, thanks . tom

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Dick Cheney's jet (we called it the dickmobile)

you may call it that. but we don't. stick with the music, man and please keep it clean. my daughters read this page.

Okay. Air Farce Two. But the man's name fits. Sorry. He was my US congressman, too. Semper fi. I will expunge any political content from my posts. The first amendment is pretty much shot anyway. My Collings sounded better at about seven thousand feet, I have to say. I'll leave it at that, and beg the mercy of the court for any content that may have blurred the line between G and PG.

sonoman:
it sounds like your body took quite a beating on this vacation. how did your CJ fare? as i recall, you have a calton case for it. do you have any tricks for getting a guitar from point A to point B safely, or are we all at the mercy of the airlines?
btw, i hope you're feeling better. i've had several of the aforementioned infections in the last few years, with high fever, and i know it's no fun.

Do you think Calton could make a custom Sonoman-shaped case?

Homer: It's called a casket. I'm holding off on that, thanks. As far as the CJA, it came through unscathed. I did have a chance to watch the baggage handling at Salt Lake, where we had a layover between the flight from SF and the flight to nirvana. Ain't but one gray large Calton case per flight. They threw the thing a couple feet in the air onto the conveyor belt, where it bounced, rode up into the belly of the beast, and disappeared. The airlines care just about as much about your luggage as they do about you: six stale peanuts and a half a generic soda. And legroom for a midget, or a height challenged person, or whatever short person noun is currently acceptable and inoffensive. How about ultra compact? Anyway, do not, I repeat, do not trust those gorillas with a TKL or other "hardshell" case. You'd find out the hard way the shell ain't that hard! thanks, tom