I'm so proud of my parents. Regardless of the fact that I already love them--they got me everything I had asked for Christmas. That's not the miraculous part--the miracle is that they got it all correct. For example--I use certain a brand of guitar strings--I wanted a certain hard drive--I wanted a certain Archos 20 Gig Jukebox Recorder MP3 player with USB 2.0--they even got me a USB 2.0 port. They didn't miss. I helped a little--I gave them the ISBN numbers for some of the books I asked for--like the Dover book of Beethoven's Symphonies 1-4 in full score.

This break is great. I've been able to relax and practice, and record. I got a B.B. King guitar pick which will look good in my guitar pick collection (it's a less-expensive hobby than collecting guitars). I'm almost done working on the project I've been working on since last December [2001]. I'll release a link to the website for it shortly.