Hello,
 
Once again I find terminology native to this site that is unfamiliar to me, being so new. Paul TBO was grateful enough to shed some light on the whole stockings thing. Could someone be so kind as to explain Senior Management. Are these the wives to whom we're referring or do Alembic owners tend to take their work home with them? I'm assuming it's the former. Where's the Official Alembic Club Dictionary? And is there a secret handshake that some one will teach me one day?
 
Appreciative as always,
 
Jonathan

hey my friend this is the official alembic dictionary, this very web site is where you can find out anything about alembic and its terminology, history etc,,,read all of the threads & you will be fed all of the alembic food that your brain can handle!

I think I started the 'Senior Management' thing! In my case, she's called Jacqueline and a picture of her can be seen in the 'Alembic Basses & Guitars' section, in the thread entitled 'The Day We Went To Holland'. The Dragon's Wing doesn't look too bad on her either  ;-)
 
Cheers,
 
Roger

Sorry, you have to have 100 posts before we can trust you with the handshake.    
 
Sam

Sam...80 and counting!
 
Jonathan

Brother Jonathan, brother Rog,
 
without being picking on details but Brother Paul the good one came up with that (or Brother David T the loud one) in the early 2003.
Senior Management is Alembic slang for saying that your wife has something to say in what you do and don't in your life. Especially in buying basses instead of a new dish washer, or painting the walls of the hall, or going on sun-tan trip, or .... well ....you know.
 
 
Paul the bad one

I can't take credit for Senior Management that must have been Brother Paul(TGO) or Rogertvr, but who ever came up with it, it's true, but in my house, I'm the Senior Management, but me wife is the CEO and carries the check book, I really need to get permission to want, but she's been my CEO for 25 years this May and I wouldn't change anything.
 
David T (TLO)

My Senior Management (Janet) introduces my Alembic as and I quote,My new bathroom......I think I'd better get the pipe wrenches out before we talk about a Further hmmmmmmm?

Senior Management in my house refers to my Alembics as the other women in my life.  Jeezz, and all this time I thought that she was refering to my mother and my sister. Go figure!
What? You want to buy a fretless? How many basses do you think that you need?  I'm sure she was asking a rhetorical question, right?
Brother David (TLO), I share your thoughts.  she's been my partner for 26 years, and I wouldn't change a thing!.
 
Ellery (Lowlife)

Hollis, in line with your new bathroom, Debi has been wanting a Lexus RX300 for some time now.  I had been looking at Warwick Thumbs so we made a deal, if she gets the Lexus, I get the Warwick.  She finally broke down and bought the Lexus.  Guess what I have sitting next to my Epic?  That's right.  The sad, lonely Fenders are in a corner behind the door.
I'll agree with everyone else.  I never had it so good.  We're coming up on 7 years and the only itch I'm feeling is named Gallien-Krueger.
 
Sam

Senior Management of the Ford household once promised that I'd get my airplane (I'm already a pilot) if she could get a kid and a horse.  We've got 2 kids, a dog, 4 cats, 8 fish, a frog and two goats, but no horse yet (and consequently no airplane).  I keep trying to trick her into getting a horse, but she's not buying it, so to speak.  I do have her sold on James Martin's Alembic trade-up policy though, which is a good thing.  This is Senior Management's 16th year with the organization and I've got too much resources invested to warrant trying to train a new one..
John (the mid-level manager and motor pool attendant)

OMG, Sunday we take delivery of a pony.  It's not a horse, so this means I get to at least *build* an airplane (Pietenpol aircamper?) as soon as I get the garage cleaned out.  I'm trying to figure out just exactly where this puts my bass kharma...
John

Good for you.

Thanks Hollis.  We've been patient for 12 or so years.  Dropped out of our careers to go back to school and raise a family near our relatives.  It's been a long time since we've been able to simply purchase things we want without doing any financial planning.  Now we're slowly getting to a point where we can consider buying things for reasons other than pure neccessity.  It feels good, but something purely for my enjoyment (a new bass) is still a little farther out than something which can be shared (like a two-seat airplane).  The airplane is going to be significantly less expensive too (maybe $5k over 5 years), since I will be doing all the labor.  Within a few years the kids will probably be playing my current basses, so it will be MUCH easier then for me to justify getting a new one for myself.  By then hopefully I'll have ebayed my way up the chain far enough to not lose sight of the dream..
John the trying to plan like an adult one

My father (God rest his soul) had a wonderful saying about Senior Management. It went something like this:
 
I am the head of this family, but your mother is the neck. And wherever the neck turns, the head follows!
 
After 19 years of marriage, I think I now realise where he was coming from.
 
Be good.  
 
Rob