Awesome job Shelly. When I begin to think the whole world is full of fucking assholes, things like this give me hope for the future. Good on you for helping to inspire her.
My deepest condolences Al. Never met her, but it sounds like she had a wonderful life. And having met you I know she was an amazing Mom. I will toast her this evening.
I've been contemplating going with an OptiBay and replacing the DVD drive in my MacBook Pro with an SSD. Throw the OS on a 40 GB SSD (Intel's are about $100) and use the 500 GB HDD for storage and such. Probably Bootcamp too as I don't give a shit how fast Windows is. I only use it to be a slave to the man at work.
Last night was just her and acoustic guitars, save one song with her sound man on trumpet. 80% instrumental. She was very talkative between songs, very funny. And very obviously gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Because she had a good time, we had a great time.