Putting this up on Craigslist soon. It’s a Line 6 Variax Acoustic 300, Steel string version. Very gently used because after I bought it new, I hardly ever used it. I even have the original Guitar Center receipt.

Cons: Two small blemishes on the back side of the cutaway, and the large plastic plate that holds the battery compartment (on the back) is missing one of four screws. It’s around here somewhere. This doesn’t cause anything to be loose in any way, as the black plate fits in very tightly – and in fact barely fits in the defined spot. Line 6 cut that one close, I guess.

I have a Line 6 power supply to go with the included “XPS Mini” direct/power box that comes with it.

Honestly, I’d love to fetch a full $450 for it.

Let me know what you think. Humans: Use the contact page.

You can see this new, with reviews, on Amazon. It comes with a working Line 6 XPS Mini DI/Power box (example seen here) for powering over a TRS cable (rather than batteries). I also have a Line 6 Power Supply (optional), if you don’t have one.

Note: To use the power supply and XPS Mini DI/Power (instead of batteries) you’ll need to use a “Balanced, TRS” cable, instead of a regular “mono” style guitar cable. Something like this.

For my non-developer readers: This is a technical post, and it might make your head explode. Be careful.

TLDR:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 is very different from the flavors of Linux that I’m accustomed to working with (Debian/Ubuntu), and I ran into quite a bit of trouble getting Django installed. I can’t install packages myself, so it was even more slow going as every time I discovered I was missing something, I had to have a sysadmin do it for me.

Here’s the quick list of the packages that will get Django up and running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. Notice I’ve included MySQL. The database package you need may be different, and I’ll leave it up to you if you use something other than MySQL.

• python-mysql
• python-devel (Necessary for setuptools/distutils/easy_install later.)
• python-imaging (The “PIL”. You may need this later.)
• mysql-devel (For getting an up to date MySQLdb module, should you need it.)
• python-xml
• pyxml

For reference, here is the full package listing for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2.

I wrote this just in case someone was unfortunate enough to have to go through this same process. Hopefully your search engine of choice will guide you here, and the next few hours of your life will be slightly less stressful than they could have been.

Read the details of my adventure “after the break”… Continue Reading…

Hey, Lighthouse family! It’s me, Tommy George!

This message was too big to post on Facebook, so here it is!

You may have heard that we’ll have a presence at this year’s International Goat Days Festival (http://www.internationalgoatdays.com/). The praise band will be playing on stage on Saturday, as well as at least 3 other Hands Team/performance groups, and I believe our Royal Rangers group will be participating in a camp-out (I’m fuzzy on those details).

Goat Days is September 10th and 11th (Friday, 5pm to 10pm, and Saturday, 7am to 10pm).

Lighthouse will have a booth at Goat Days with information about our Church, Revelation House, and even handing out some free water during the day on Saturday. The booth is *covered* and has electricity – so if it’s hot, there will be at least one electric fan blowing!

I’m trying to schedule some people to just be available at the booth on Friday, Saturday, or both, so that people can easily swap out, take breaks, go eat, leave, etc, without leaving the booth alone.

In addition to manning the booth, there is a need for volunteers that could periodically sweep through the Goat Days “Sit-a-spell” area (covered seating for elderly, eating, and just hangin’ out) and straighten chairs/remove garbage from tables. This is just a bonus,  but if you’re interested, that would be especially awesome, and the City of Millington will be very grateful. =)

If you know of a specific time slot (as few as 15 minutes) that you will be available on Friday and/or Saturday, please get in touch with me!

Also, feel free to pass this along to anyone that might be interested.

You can contact me via Facebook (send me a message!), emailing goatdays@tommygeorge.com, or by phone at 901-213-8669. If none of that sounds good, call the Church office at 901-873-3000 and let them know what time slot(s) you’d like to fill.

Thanks so much, I’m excited to see you there!

Tommy George