Tubes for my 78 Fender Super Twin

This amp is a bear!  It weighs 98lbs (thankfully my guitarist has to lug it, not me), pushes 180watts per channel and takes six 6L6 tubes!  This is one of the most insane sounding amps, only seconded (in my opinion) by the Super Reverb.  Oh yeah, I installed a super reverb box in this puppy (my guitar player doesn't use it but, oh well, it's there).

My gripe: it needs new tubes so now I'm out a whole lotta cash to get this thing up & running again.

This thing:

Needed 6 of these things:

To blog or not to blog

Well, I've been toying with the idea to start a blog (one that I'd actually work on on a continual basis).  I guess I've started.  S, here it is.  Great.  Wowwy!  What the hell to write about?  There's a lot going on right now but I don't think I need to go over all of the details of familial life, though I may dabble in that in the future.  Right now I want to talk about something that I hope I'm not alone in: Being a born Jew who was not raised in *ANY* way as a Jew.  There has to be more people like me out there.

I'm going to skip around a bit, sorry.  I'm new to blogging and my mind works in a stream of consciousness way.

It's amazing.  Here I am going to be 34 (tomorrow.  yay me!) and, though I had interest in Judaism growing up (and always identified as a Jew), it wasn't until my wife and I found out we were pregnant that I really got interested.

I went to a conservative temple a few years back and the rabbi scared the shit out of me (as do most people of authority).  I think the whole situation scared me though.  A three hour service where the whole congregation knew Hebrew, knew the songs, knew the Jewy-lingo, knew each other, etc...  I felt like a stranger in a strange land.

A while back my wife and I went to a Unitarian church which was nice enough but there was no direction. No spirituality.  Half the time I went there it felt that people were there more for feeling like they were in a support group than in a house of worship.  I guess churches & temples can have that AA feel to them but still, I needed G-d in my worship not poetry slams and movie night.  I'm not making fun of what they were doing, it just wasn't my bag is all.

Anyway, when I knew we were having a kid, I finally got the balls to really pursue Judaism and, I have the Unitarian church to thank for that.  They had my now rabbi speaking on Passover.  I was hooked!  He was so engaging.  Long story short, my wife and I have been going to his temple ever since.  It's been almost 3 years now.

In those 3 years I've started to learn Hebrew, took a two year Basics in Judaism course, became a Bar Mitzvah and found a spiritual home.  My wife has too and she's in the conversion process now.  Interestingly enough, I feel like this whole process has been like a conversion process for me.  I'm so jealous of our congregation.  Most of them grew up singing the songs, reciting the prayers, celebrating the holidays.  I'm still learning (though I feel much less a stranger than I did in the past).  In these 3 years of being a super jewy-jew, I have yet to find anyone who has a similar story...  The nicest thing though is, because I *feel* like a convert, I can connect with my wife on this.  That feels good.  We're both learning how to be Jews and, how to raise our daughter as one too.

That's all for now I guess.

Cheers, until next time...