Nice goodies, all of you.
Brent, one of my nephews got one of the flying orb things...didn't fly it yet, although the boys
were flying a more conventional RC copter that one of the other nephews got. (It has a camera built in, too.) And the evil/juvenile part of me would like to take an MP3 of your didgeridoo sample and play it loudly while using someone's guest bathroom at a party. Probably get some interesting looks from folks as I walked out.
No woodworking goodies under the tree for me this year, but I did use some of my Christmas money to buy a guitar lesson this evening. Spent about an hour and a half with a very good LA studio guitarist (Gary Cook) who's originally from here but has been playing on and producing records in LA for the past 20 years. He also spent a number of years as a factory rep/demo artist for Roland and Yamaha. Very versatile player in many different styles. He's in town for the holidays, and tonight ended up working well for both our schedules. He used to watch our band play in the '80s, then later played with my bass player after I got out of the business, so our meeting was sort of a mutual admiration society, but he's got a lot more experience than me now, and was able to give me a number of good fresh ideas to work on in my own playing. This was my first actual lesson - as a paying student, anyway - in maybe 35 years. Now it's time to do some serious practicing to learn to apply what he showed me.