No, MY concert tickets weren't $8000. I can't afford that. LOL The best seats are selling for $8334 EACH. Crappy seats are selling for $500 or so EACH. This is from brokers. I could still get some nose-bleed seats from Ticketmaster, but I'm not sure it's worth the trip to Jersey to sit in the nosebleed section. I'm pretty much a "ticket snob" and want to be upfront at all the shows. So, I still haven't decided what to do. Actually, I'm probably just going to go see Keith Urban somewhere down South within driving distance instead. ;)

My Weird Al seats, which were great, were only about $60.

I'm not sure where this belongs, but please have pity on a rather unadept computer user! I'm not sure I want to use an avatar, but I need more instruction in how to get one and upload it if I choose to. Can anyone give me a tutorial? Please feel free to private message me, as I'm sure the 'professionals' posting here would rather read something a bit juicier. I use a mac at home, in case it matters. Thanks!

labrat, happy to help. Someone else asked the same question & the answer starts here in the troubleshooting forum, then just scroll down. PM me if you have any problems. http://houseofwhining.com/viewtopic.php?p=5874#5874

Argh. It's only the third day of school and I already have over an hour of homework!

Yeah. School. Heh. It's ruining my online social life! Maybe when I get the feel for the semester.........

saara...thanks so much for the offer of help. I'm trying a few things pic wise. Is there a test mode to see what the avatar looks like before "going live"? Can you tell I suffer from performance anxiety? javascript:emoticon(':?')

Just to give a big "Whooooooooo!" - HHoW is one month old today. :-)

And now for a big "Awwwwww." Madeline L'Engle died. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?hp I always wanted to have Meg Murray's attic bedroom.

*'Wooo's for HHow and "Awww's for M L'E*

Wooooo!!! for HHOW on a different topic, why is it that on those cooking shows with a live studio audience(like Emeril, which is on right now), the audience gets up and cheers whenever some ingerdient is mentioned. Just a few minutes ago Emeril mentioned garlic and I swear the audience reacted like those peope on Oprah when Oprah gives away things. It's garlic. He's putting it in a dish. No need to get up and cheer

It's called the Applause Sign...they are prompted to clap and cheer. Speaking of Oprah, I was at Fort Campbell when she came and helped give away an assload of free stuff to half the female population of FC. Anyways, the audience prompters were basically telling these seven, eight, and nine month pregger women in the front seats that if they didn't cheer they would put other pregger women in their seats. and if anyone wants to know I have a good story about telling off one of Oprah's staff...you may be in charge in Chocago but you are on MY TURF now

Tell away, TC.

ooooh bring it on TC. I love some good celeb dish.

I put it on my LJ because it ended up being longer than I expected it to be I seem to have a lot of bashing heads with celebrity handler stories. http://romeo46.livejournal.com/