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    My pirate name is:

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    Dirty Jack Rackham    </div>

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    You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate.    Arr!

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I guess I should start writing in this thing; although, I am not sure anyone cares.

I seem to have developed a guitar fetish. I now own six and another is on the way. 2 acoustic dreadnoughts, 1 acoustic travel guitar, a Les Paul copy, a Squier Vista Series Jagmaster, and a Strat copy that my parents bought me in high school. The one that is on the way is a Gibson ES-335 knock-off.

I played around with the guitar a little in high school, but never really applied myself. Apparently trying to recapture my youth, I picked it up again about 6 months ago. Since then I have acquired the above listed menagerie of equipment.

I have actually been practicing 30 minutes to an hour per day and am actually seeing some progress. I still have not really figured out why I am doing it.javascript:insertSmilie('', 'insertTarget');
ARRR!!!