Finally, Hello all

[jimk]

I have to say to Jim k, I hope and pray when you finally get your Rick it is absolutely stunning and perfect. You, by far, have one of the best attitudes I've ever seen for someone waiting so long for his first Rick. You give such positive and enthusiastic support for a guitar you have never played by a company you have never dealt with. John Hall himself should bring it to you personally, IMHO. It's wierd, I feel I want you to get your guitar as badly as you do.

Awwww shucks........

On another note, I've kinda taken a notion that I'd like to meet Mr. Hall someday and shake his hand. From his infrequent posts over at corporate, he seems like a real, stand-up sort of guy.

Hopefully the guitar will arrive the middle of this coming November.

P.S. Welcome to the forum.
JimK

[bitzerguy]

Hi Mike. Glad you made it over from corporate. Welcome to the best stop on the net bar none.

[scotty]

Hi Mike. Glad you made it over from corporate. Welcome to the best stop on the net bar none.

+1

[rikk]

Hey Mike, Welcome. It's always interesting around here.

[wints]

Welcome Mike!

Enjoy it here...

[jingle_jangle]

Welcome, Mike! Happy to see you here!

[drkatherine1]

Mike welcome. You will have a blast here. The combined knowledge you will find is fantastic. Everyone is so welcoming, funny, and great sports. Enjoy!

[johnallg]

Great first post - welcome aboard the Rick bus, Mike!

And jimk, go to SoCal 2008 and you'll no doubt get to meet and talk to the man himself. Your notion of how he is is correct.

[jimk]

And jimk, go to SoCal 2008 and you'll no doubt get to meet and talk to the man himself. Your notion of how he is is correct.

Sorry John, summer's all booked up. How's about '09, eh? Hopefully, I'll be able to bring my bright, shiny, new FG 360/12 with me.

JimK

[kenposurf]

Welcome Mike...Hang on!

[doctorwho]

Welcome, Mike!

... I am a few short years later approaching my 5000th post ...

I thought you'd have passed by me already, Brian!

What I can't figure out is that my greatest number of posts are in the bass section, and I'm not a real bass player!!!!

[jps]

Closet bass player!

Welcome, Mike!

[twangs]

Hi Mike - Welcome to the forum. I wonder if your problem with the avatar is the size of the photo you are trying to upload- Go to http://www.jpegwizard.com, and register for free. Once you are in there, put 50 in the Max W&H pixel down in the thumbnail section - upload your photo, and they will email you back a resized image that will fit the avatar size constraints.

Hope this helps

[ram]

Hi Mike, welcome to the forum - you will enjoy it here I think. You could try what Tony said or try this:
http://bluefive.pair.com/ (get the PIXresizer) or let the master (Peter) perform the magic... anyhow maybe you could post a couple of pictures of your Ric's when you have a little time. The resizer is helpful for that as well.

[Rickygirl]

Yea.... Hi Mike!!!

That was a really neat post. I felt a right idiot to start with, but I am now accepting my affliction as an idiot and I can't get my avatar thingy to work either!!

Someone kindly pasted my pictures for me and kindly told me to look at the bottom of the screen where it said in big letters "click here idiot, if you want to post a piccy" I have been too embarrassed to tell anyone I can't get the avatar thingy to work. Yes, it tells me the file size is too big, but I don' t understand