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You should get redirected to the mobile version of the site if using an iPhone- directly within the browser.  If not, I'm not quite sure what the link is.  Try scrolling to the bottom of the main page and see if there is a link to use the mobile version of the site?

I won't say my age.  If you don't already know, then it won't be much of a contribution to this "old guy" thread anyway.   

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!

Glad to hear it's helped you to fell better NELA!  Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!!!  So sorry we overtook your thread with fish stories a little!  You're always in my heart friend!!!!!

I didn't even know people ATE crappies!  We always throw them back, along with the Carp (yes, even the 12 pound carp although I hear some people eat those too).  Actually, I can honestly say the only local fish I've ever really enjoyed was a pan fried Perch.  We have bullheads and catfish pretty huge too, but they taste like mush to me.    Need a good southern cook around here I think.

I'm glad you got the money back.  I feel bad for the seller, he's out the money and the guitar.  BUT... they SHOULD have been more careful with something so expensive. 

Hmmmm... what are you going to buy now??? 

hA HA HA!  I thought about this a LOT... and, I think you may all be right.  Jim badly wants a Gibson and has since I got my Martin.  Only, he wants one that's in the $3-4K price range (we need a furnace cheaper than that... so I don't think he'll see his dream yet again this year despite the fact that I keep telling him to put one on layaway and just pay for it over time).  Since I changed my strings, he's been grabbing my guitar a lot and commenting on how these strings belong on the guit and how nice it is to play... blah blah blah.  So, I think that I'm feeling guilty and that he's feeling jealous (I think he is, doesn't mean he is of course, it was my dream after all).  YES, he does believe it getting out bigger hammers.  I've seen him do it (NO!  You can't use THAT sledgehammer on the ice on the steps!  You'll knock the darn steps right down!!!!).  It's amazing the size of hammers and wrenches this man owns for doing ironwork.  They look like something Paul Bunyan would have used!  Maybe he needs to be cuddled and called baby a little bit more too.  He's been sick, and since I was sick first and he treated me like I had the plague instead of coddling me, I decided to dish it back.  I might give him a cuddle once he's done making weird sick person noises.  As for special mushrooms... I've seen them in person but never tried one.  They look kinda scary.  If you could smoke them though, that might be something!  I have a cigarette machine to roll my own cigarettes and I believe it would make other lovely rolled smokeable things. 

Thank you for sharing that story with us Joe.  Accept the help, you need it and clearly you have good people around you willing to offer it.  No doubt it is because of your kindess to them, and the stranger. 

Spike, I understood what you meant, Roger's explanation is confusing.  So yes, there must be a major difference between US and UK explanations.  LOL!  I can read music and plunk it out on a piano, but haven't learned the fretboard yet.  I don't pick out notes, so I really can't help you.    Strumming chords, now that I can do.  I don't think it would matter much though, just whatever is easiest for you.  If you're picking out notes I think they'd sound the same up or down.  Maybe it's just a theory because it's easier to keep a rhythm if you're going up and down.

Welcome Mitter!  You've got a few months to learn.  By then you will surely be able to play a couple songs.  I still play some of my FIRST songs ever learned.  Tom Dooley is a super easy one... just A7 and D chords through the whole song (great if you already know the song of course).  Learning to play on a Martin, you are soooo lucky!!! 

Ok, next Q... does this seem to happen when you are running one program in particular?  Or once you open up a 3rd program or 4th?  Or can the fan just decide to start spinning like crazy for no apparent reason?  Something is upsetting the balance between ram and processor and causing heat and the fan to turn on it sounds like.  Blowing dust out like was suggested on FB is a easy possible fix if it's a manual thing, but it could be a program.  If you've installed ram and the puter isn't recognizing it, it could be the "wrong kind" of ram, or it could be that your computer will only take so much and the card you put in puts it over.  I've got a 2GB DDR3 SODIMM.  Not sure how old your puter is if it'll take DDR3 or not.  But think about this... newer ram doesn't use as much power, therefore doesn't put so much strain on everything, therefore not getting everything so hot.  You're running newer programs that use more RAM on an older machine... it's going to get hotter faster.  So I guess I digress again to the whole "blow it out" theory, make sure the chill pad's working on the hottest portion of the laptop, and try to make sure you're utilizing all available space to upgrade RAM.

I plan to bring my lil Zoom recorder to FL too. 

You said you paid with PayPal?  They REQUIRE a signature for delivery of anything over $250.  The buyer did not do this (regardless of if you wanted it or not, and I'm guessing you didn't tell them you didn't want it).  Open a claim with PayPal.  Item did not arrive.  It's on them.  Sorry for them, because clearly they are out the guitar and the money if your claim is approved.  Either way, someone is going to be out and it doesn't sound like YOU did anything to deserve this.  I understand the excitement of a Martin Experience being gone now.    Sad.