Going to The Lutherie, a guitar repair shop, is a lot like going to the dentist and the auto mechanic at the same time.

“You haven’t been flossing, have you?”
A high-quality acoustic guitar needs to be kept at a high level of humidity. We are on our way out of one of the driest years we’ve had in a long time. (I have no data to support that, it’s just a hunch.) I’m not very good at keeping my guitar humidified. It is a discipline (keeping the humidifier wet, storing it in a humidified room) that I just haven’t gotten myself into yet. It’s a lot like flossing. You get yelled at by guitar guys when they see how dry your guitar is. A dry guitar is a fragile, weak guitar. Mine now has a wonderful crack on the top “face” of the guitar because of it. It costs a lot of money to have that repaired.

“I just found 12 other things that need to be done while we’re at it.”
A well made, well played guitar needs to be well maintained. This is the first time in my 3 years of owning the guitar that I’ve taken it in to get looked at. It needs six new frets, a new saddle, and new nut, among other things.

“That’ll be $350 to get her back in top shape…”
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Just so you all know, this hype (nonsense) that is being paraded all over television about Jesus bones having been found is National Enquirer style tripe.

I might not have a lot of credibility when it comes to this topic, if you are a skeptic, but Michael Spencer has an excellent writeup and links to resources as to how we know.

A few telling items:

1. It’s James Cameron that is espousing this idea.
2. It’s being touted by Discovery
3. James Cameron
4. This burial site was actually found in 1980, and was said to mean very little back then as well.
5. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were extremely common names back then. (seriously.)
6. James Cameron

So, why all the hullabaloo? Well, a chance to prove, once and for all, that the most profoundly meaningful event in all of history, having the highest amount of moral and personal implications for each individual on the planet, is false, is a huge deal. IF those actually were THE Jesus Christ’s bones, I’d be the first one off the bandwagon, into… what? Who knows. A meaningless existence, I guess.

I’d like to welcome our good friends Mike and Kristin Wesner to the world of blogging on mikeandkristin.org. They are coming out of the gates hard with Kristin posting a wonderfully geeky and clinical explanation of why one should humor one’s spouse in novel activities (like blogging…).

Nice work guys, welcome to the blogosphere ;)

Chris Tomlin is being featured on Yahoo Music. This doesn’t happen very often for the worship “genre” of music. Go check it out.