Here's the story:  A few months ago, my friend "sold" me his guitar (Ibanez RG42-DX).  He said I could pay it off when I had the bucks.  As it turned out, I infrequently had the bucks ;)  It's so bad that, until this morning, I still owed him 600 bucks or thereabouts.

The other part of the story is that, a few months ago, I borrowed Francis one of my G3 DVDs as well as my Brett Garsed instructional DVD.  Both great DVDs.  So great that I haven't seen them in months.

The third part of the story is that Francis had a rough year and needed bucks.  He also had recently bought this UBER cool Korg PX5D that I absolutely love but had little use for it.  As soon as I'd tried it out, I decided that I wanted one.  So he suggested that, once I'd paid off the Ibanez, I could get the Korg until I had the bucks to pay IT off.  That was his way of motivating me to pay faster but, alas, it was a rough year for us all so, while it did help a little, it didn't get either one of us what we really wanted...  Francis: his bucks months ago; and me: that Korg months ago :)

(Oh, by the way, a few months back I sold my guitar (Ibanez RG470) and amp (Roland Cube 30))

So skip to this morning when Francis proposes that he gets to keep those DVDs and I get to keep the Ibanez (ie: it's paid off).  The Korg then comes to it's new home and I get to actually PLAY guitar again! 

Woohoo!  I'm so stoked.  This thing has so many awesome features.  You can record short clips of yourself, you can plug it into the USB port of your PC and record as long as you want, it has MIDI backing tracks which sound awesome, you can change their key, tempo or remove parts out of them (bass, rhythm, drums, etc).  You can use the phrase-trainer feature to nail a REALLY hard legato run.  And it just sounds so damn awesome!

I'm officially the happiest man on earth :)  I just had to share this with the world.  Yippeeeeee!