I have a lot of work to do. I’m going to completely revamp pittmans.net, including journal.pittmans.net, and redo Nicky’s craft website, bluebrit.com, as well. The projects are long overdue though.

Meanwhile, I got a new bass and wanted to post a sample up for you to check out.

Here is what it looks like:

And here is what it sounds like:

In one ear, you hear me playing chords on the bass, and in the other ear I’m groping for solo and melody ideas to use over the chord progression. About a minute into the song, I favor the magnetic pickup on the solo line so as to give the bass more of a jazz tone.

By the way, here is my favorite photo of the bass:

This is the bass before it wash shipped from its builder, George Furlanetto of Fbass.

The player is a very prominent and amazing bassist by the name Alain Caron. Apparently he came in to check it out before the bass shipped.

The bass is called an Fbass fretted AC6… and the “AC” is for Alain Caron. This is his signature bass, but it is extremely rare for one to be made with frets, which is why he went in to check it out. In fact, I’m pretty sure my bass was the first ever fretted AC6.

Cool, huh?

Here is a quick sample of the basses in the photo below. To help give you an idea how each bass sounds, in one ear you hear a familiar slap riff, and in the other ear is a fingerstyle riff.

Click the play button to check out Emily Pittman singing an early version of “Freeway Flirting,” a song written by her father, Tom Pittman, and his friend Elton Luz.

By the way, this song was written to be sung by a male, but 12-year old Emily is who we had on hand at the time, so she stepped in to do the first ever vocal track.

Also, this is a very rough draft of the song; it is not a final draft by any means. I post it because Emily wants her friends to check out her recording.

You HAVE to see this video; it is the most amazing and articulate statement of why the strategy the UK and the US have been trying to employ to end the recession is brazen idiocy.

There are a lot of incorrect assessments out there of how this recession occurred; most of them fathered by people with deep roots in either the Democratic or Republican parties: the holders of the bi-opoly of power in our country. However, if you misdiagnose the problem, then not only will the treatment not work, but it could cause another serious problem.

The problem is not liquidity of banks, or job creation, or the collapse of Freddie and Fannie… the problem is and always has been debt. Personal debt in modern society is so high, and savings so low, that almost no household, business, or government entity can weather a storm such as a cyclical drop in real estate values. Those resulting foreclosures merely started the dominoes falling, dominoes laid out by decades of unwise practices and policies of leaders of government, businesses and homes.

Had the US and UK saved money for a rainy day during the prosperous years of the Clinton and Bush eras, THEN maybe spending money to stimulate the economy would make sense. However, that isn’t the case. In reality, we are borrowing money in order to stimulate an economy dangerously overburdened already by debt.

“You cannot borrow your way out of debt!” What about that statement is so hard for politicians and VOTERS to understand?!

I heard a member of congress today say that Obama’s proposed budget incurs more debt than the combined budgets of every president of the United States from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Remember, Rome wasn’t conquered by an outside power; it collapsed under the ineptness of the leadership of its own leaders. It was a financial collapse that ended the empire.

At any rate, here is the must see video.

Jessica gave birth to twin girls at 3:09 a.m. this morning, Mother’s Day (11 May 08).

On Wednesday, May 7, 2008, the day of her baby shower (and the day after Karl and Jessica’s 3rd anniversary), Jessica went into labor. The next several days were spent in relative boredom at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, trying to avoid giving birth at just 30 weeks.

But Jess got sick, and Saturday night her coughing may have triggered things because her water broke. Before long, a foot appeared!

Both babies were breech, so a “c-section” was performed, and at 3:09 (then again at 3:10 a.m.), Karl and Jess were parents.

Camille was born first (3:09 a.m.). She weighed 3 lbs., 8 oz (1605 grams), and was 16 inches long (40 cm).

Shaylee was born second (3:10 a.m.). She weighed 3 lbs., 4 oz (1480 grams), and was 16.5 inches long (42 cm).

Mom is fine but very tired.

The twins are in intensive care right now. They are so skinny but are doing well.

At a time like this, it is hard not to be so grateful for our Heavenly Father’s goodness to us. What a blessing to live in a time and place where our granddaughters can have such assistance as they start off their new lives here on earth. They were born 11 weeks early.

That makes May a busy party month for the Johnsons: Karl’s birthday, their anniversary, Mother’s Day, and now the twins’ birthday.

Thanks to everyone worldwide for your prayers and kind words.

I’m not saying Tom was excited, but he wore two signs (one in the front, one in the back) all through church.

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right now I am  with Sabrina right now. and we are about to leave on the scooters so i’ll be fast well i wanted to tell my readers that i and now bffeaef ya so we lockets and a bout to get pics
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I love Addie, She a cool a some dog , I think that when i am existed she is.

Me and Sabrina call ourslefs crazy one and two

My name is Sam Pittman and our family bought season tickets to the Utah Flash.It started out just being the parents then I wanted to go too. That’s when they got season tickets for the whole family.

These games are normally on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00, but lately they have been jumbled up. These games are really fun and they throw free stuff and we have caught t-shirts, beach balls, pizza coupons and more.

The players are WAY cool as well. After each game, I line up to visit with a couple of them and get their autographs. We were sad when they traded Michael Cuffee; we really like him. Michael was the first player who I had autograph my hat.

Below are some photos I have taken at Utah Flash home games, here in Orem, Utah.