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Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 9:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
War the school doesn't rent instruments?

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Geez, War, I'd send you my old guitar, but I can't get it there by Monday.

It's an Aria concert guitar (classical style) which means the neck is wider than folk guitars. That can be hard for a beginner. The upside is the strings are a bit further apart.

It's not a pricey thing, but it would do ya till you figure out where he's going with this!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Pamy, we think renting it for the year will most likely be more expensive than buying just a basic guitar for him. And nope, the school has none available.

Kar, thank you. See even more reason to be mad at the school for not letting us know a few weeks ago!

We figure if we still haven't heard from the Craig's list guy (and sent him another email today trying to get in touch with him) by tomorrow we'll start shopping. Check the second hand stores here in town and then off to the mall, music store, walmart and kmart (if target and walmart has them, kmart might too right?) He has to have one by Monday morning or it starts to effect his grade and I won't do that to him if I can help it.

LOL, on the plus side when Dakota gets to jr high if she decides on taking a music elective we'll be prepared!

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
that is until she decides she wants to play flute!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 8:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
oh yeah renting that long isnt worth it..I was just thinking renting til you could get the one at craig's list or Kar's list :-)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 9:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh no Landi, Dakota doesn't want to play anything quiet like a flute, she wants a drum set.

So I got an email from the craigs list guy this morning, sorry he hadn't been on line, going to church, give me your phone number and I'll call you when done. By this afternoon when he hadn't called I said screw this. I had to go to the grocery store then to my aunts, figured when I was done we'd head out looking. We went to Walmart to pick up a few things, checked, no guitars in store, and on the way home Caleb was telling us he wants to join the anime club. I told him I didn't know about that yet...he's doing cross country (2-3 days a week after school) and I don't know if he'll have to put after school time into guitar or not. If he doesn't, then fine, join anime, but if he does, I think three afterschool activities (which would keep him busy at least 4 days a week) would be too much.

He said well check the letter from my guitar teacher. What letter? Oh, I forgot to give it to you. Oy. It didn't say rather he had practice after school, but did say he doesn't have to have his guitar til Wednesday. Tomorrow both Darren and I have plans in the afternoon/evening, so our plan now is to go shopping Tuesday after work/school to find a guitar. If craigs list dude calls, great, if not too bad.

Hehe, I told my sister about our trip to the Mexican grocery store and how if I didn't know Darren's buddy better I'd swear he was pulling our leg and she told me when I first asked her about it she kept thinking she had seen guitars somewhere weird and couldn't remember where and as soon as I told her that, she knew it was at the Vallarta. They've got another store here in town and one in Palmdale so I'm going to call tomorrow and see if they have any. I'm gonna laugh my butt off if I find a guitar at the grocery store!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 9:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Sucks you didn't find one at Walmart. Was in there today and of course we had to go by the toys so hubby could check out the NASCAR crap, and the one we were at had a student guitar for $43.88. Looked pretty much the same one as I had when I was in 7th grade. Too shy to take lessons, even from my mom's best friend's sister.

Hope you find one before Wed.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 10:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh we'll find one before Wed. but we may end up paying more than I really wanted to right now. Ah well, if we do get it now, won't have to worry later about replacing a used, repaired one right?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
That is so true War!

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 11:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Question: I saw a bumper sticker today that said: Honk if you understand punctuated equilibria.

Needless to say, I did not honk.
Can anyone tell me what this means?

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 1:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
It's an alternative theory of evolution. Something to do with evolution being made in sudden leaps (punctuated) rather than gradually. It's a weird thing for a bumper sticker!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 6:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
LOL, Wargod. Guitar in the grocery store?!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Yep, Color. The only thing I could figure (and sis said the same thing) was because it's a grocery store that caters to Mexican food/parties, maybe because of mariachi music.

Chewpito
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01-04-2004

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chewpito a private message Print Post    
war, I feel bad cause I have a guitar in my closet that is exactly what you need, I think... all it needs is a couple new strings and to be tuned. I dont want to sell it, but I would totally loan it to you...UPS or somthing.... its in a case and - well let me know.
would Caleb take care of it...I dont know how much shipping is, but I get off at 2 thirty,.. like I said it needs some string work but otherwise, fine..

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Kitt...thank you.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh don't feel bad Chew! We'll have one by tomorrow. Thank you though.

I feel so rushed with this...normally we'd take our time, talk to people who know something about playing guitars and finding exactly what we need, and shopping around for a while for the best deal.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
War, upthread I mentioned a very decent acoustic guitar I had for a while and gave away. I wish I still had it to give / ship to you. Would have been happy to. I got it at a charity auction. (I didn't need it. Thought I'd learn. Yeah, right.) It was autographed by some "names" you'd recognize from Chicago groups in the '60s (some still going...). Some of those names would be recognized nationally I believe. And Deana Martin (Dean Martin's daughter) happened to be there that day also so she autographed it too.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 12:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thank you all for the help and advice this past week. I'd planned to wait for Darren and the kids to get home and go shopping later but I was sitting here feeling a little sad and decided to combat it with retail therapy (anyone who knows me knows how very strange that is!)

I called a couple of the thrift stores...they didn't have any, so went and stopped by Kmart, no luck there unless I'm buying a guitar for a toddler. Finally said screw it, I know Target has it and went over there.

Walking through the parking lot I had this little nagging doubt in the back of my mind....there's still other places to check, might find one cheaper than $99, may find a set (guitar, bag, picks, strings) for not much more than that if I keep looking, consider this for a second. Decided I wasn't in the right frame of mind to shop around, I'm pretty frustrated over the craigs list guy, and I just want this over with. So I went into target, went straight back and grabbed the box and took it to the guy and cashed out.

As I was waiting, the guy cashing me out told me it was a great set, he'd just bought it for his kid, nice guitar, good bag...I said there is no bag. He said, uh, yes there is, it's a whole set, guitar, bag, electronic tuner, picks, strings, even an instructional dvd. $108 and some change later I damn near danced out of the store shouting WAHOOO!!!!!!! Inadvertently, cuz I really thought it was just the guitar, I found the whole set for $40-50 less than I've seen on several different websites. Can't beat that I guess. Especially since I won't have to worry later on about getting something better (unless he really really gets into music) and wont have to worry about finding a gig bag.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Woo hoo! Good Job Wargod!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Oh that sounds great, War.

Debra
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11-20-2003

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Debra a private message Print Post    
I love happy surprises at the cash register!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL I might try shopping more often if I had happy surprises like that more!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Don't you just LOVE it when that happens??

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 5:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
It was certainly a nice surprise.

LOL, as soon as he opened the box he wanted to tune it and put the strap on and me and Darren just looked at each other. Their teacher taught them how to use the tuner the other day so he knows it's out of tune, but not sure how to get it in tune. The strap, we know it hooks on the bottom, but no idea where to hook it up top. I finally told him I'd drop him off at school early in the morning and he can go to class and have his teacher help him and show him how to do it all himself. That's Caleb's homeroom/1st period class and the teachers been early every day to help the kids coming in with their instruments.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Glad it worked out for you Wargod!

We are heading to the US for the weekend and while there would like to try to find a few TV series on DVD that are either elusive or too expensive up here. Can someone give me the name of a chain or two that deals in DVD's in the USA? Already have Bestbuy and Circuit City on my list but am looking for a store that specializes a bit more.